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by jdnier 11y ago
You followed one random link, and what? The statement seems to reflect the abstract.
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So why/how does an animal evolve to survive hard vacuum and lethal ionizing radiation when you can't experience those conditions here (on Earth)?
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You’re Worrying About the Wrong Bees(wired.com)
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Brazil warns against pregnancy due to spreading virus(cnnphilippines.com)
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Hmm, that's much more specific, and seems to go beyond simply establishing that there's a permissions problem and they can see data they shouldn't. I still think cutting off the Sanders campaign from all their data, even afte
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The fact that every search, export, and page access is logged, and that the Sanders people knew everything they did would be traceable, do you think they really would have tried to hoover up a bunch of Clinton data? The VAN CEO is emphatic
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My understanding is that the DNC contracts with VAN to manage the voter files for all fifty states. It's a shared database, with candidates able to build up their own data on top. All the campaigns can see the underlying voter data, bu
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by jdnier 11y ago
Here's an interview the Sanders campaign staffer who was fired gave explaining just what you describe: http://www.msnbc.com/thomas-roberts/watch/fired-sanders-camp...
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My understanding is that it's not the lead level in the water that's the problem, it's the increased corrosivity of the water coming from the river, which is leaching lead from the pipes. Most homes in Flint still have lead p
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Your Face Is Covered in Mites, and They’re Full of Secrets(wired.com)
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CBDRILONCWRC: The Most Stupendous Acronym from the Paris Climate Talks(theatlantic.com)
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tl;dr In short, they're thinking magnesium salt or ammonia-rich clay, but... "As of this week, Dawn has reached its final orbital altitude at Ceres, about 240 miles (385 kilometers) from the surface of the dwarf planet. In mid-Dec
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New Clues to Ceres' Bright Spots and Origins(jpl.nasa.gov)
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This is an updated and longer adaptation (just published) of an article from The New Yorker in 2008. Previous HN discussion on the previous article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9017542
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The Kitchen Bladesmith (2015)(craftsmanship.net)
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Japanese Spacecraft Gets Rare Second Chance to Visit Venus(phenomena.nationalgeographic.com)
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Pieter Hintjens is the creator of ZeroMQ, for what it's worth.
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Ten Steps to Better Public Speaking(hintjens.com)
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If you're looking to describe document structure in a markup language, especially where mixed content is involved (think think running text, not database results), XML is great.
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Life on the Train(nytimes.com)
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There's another well-written obituary that's also worth reading here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11997024/Robert-C...
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Are you aware of anyone working to add Python as a target language? Will Ragel 7's intermediate codegen language make that easier?
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Parasitic fungi and the battle against coffee rust disease(phys.org)
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Dark Matter Deniers: Exploring a Blasphemous Alternative(discovermagazine.com)
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I've done both. I found kombucha really easy to maintain. My biggest problem was getting over-ambitious and moving from a one-gallon glass container to a two-gallon container. The larger container made too much and got to be a hassle t
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Milk-based kefir (I have no experience with water-based kefir cultures, but imagine they'd be similar) is fun to make. The grains are easy to handle. It's similar to kombucha in difficulty, but grows faster, and you make smaller b
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A great example of what computer "Engineering" can look like is the On-Board Shuttle Group (Lockheed/NASA). http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff [1996] "This software never crashe
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Thermonuclear Art – The Sun in Ultra-HD (4K)(youtube.com)
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'Bubble piano' plays bubbles in sync with Beethoven symphony(phys.org)
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Stars so weird that they make black holes look boring (2010)(io9.com)
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