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by jobu 10y ago
Really doesn't seem like a huge deal to me. People are complex and sometimes have allergies or reactions to foods that they don't even know or understand. A neighbor of mine has an allergy to MSG and it took him years to realize
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> *And you can't connect your iphone, your iphone headset, ... This my biggest issue with the MBP. WTF are they thinking here?! Why didn't the iPhone7 port get switched to USB-C from lightning if they knew the MBP was going to
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If you continue reading, he's making an argument that comes together at the end: "After this scientific milestone is achieved, I predict that the whole discussion of commercial applications of quantum computing will shift to a ne
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> It really gave me an appreciation for how hateful and deplorable some people can get when they can remain anonymous. Back in 2004, Penny Arcade wrote a comic that articulated this better than anything else I've seen ( https:&#x2
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This comment made me think of Chipotle. I haven't eaten there since all the food poisoning problems. Chipotle is a big chain and got national attention for the poisonings, but in the age of Yelp a few people getting sick can tank a sma
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> But I didn't even apply. Perhaps this was a mistake on my part. I just had a feeling that my history of developing successful products for Google wouldn't count for much - that instead I'd get logic puzzles, quizzes abo
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They talked about that at Yosemite as well. Before they were driven out, the Ahwahnechee would periodically start fires that cleared out the undergrowth and made the valley much more open. Here's a drawing from 1855 of Yosemite Valley
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> I am confused why Disney is even in this conversation at this point. Same here. There are a few companies that I could see a good fit with Twitter, but definitely not Disney. Facebook is an option as their mission is to connect every
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> We have a Samsung refrigerator. Worst purchase ever. Interesting. I thought the same thing about a Samsung dishwasher. We bought it because it was very quiet, but it took two hours to do a half-assed job cleaning any dishes. Nearly u
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The digestibility of the carbs in sweet potatoes is highly dependent on the way they're cooked. Boiling them leads to a fairly low glycemic index and glycemic load, whereas baking them essentially turns them into candy: http:/&#x
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They will tell you, “you know the cost of litigation is this number”. Which I unfortunately know the cost of litigation is like that. “All we are asking for is a percentage of that cost and then the risk of punitive damages will go away”
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If you haven't seen the short (15min) documentary "Humans Need Not Apply", then I highly recommend it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU A hundred years ago 'horseless carriages' replaced
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> Although goto fail; had another vibe to it. It was really strangely placed and hardly explainable. Plus it made possible to perform some pretty nasty MiTM attacks over a network. The goto fail looked very much like a bad code merge.
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There was a fair bit of discussion about the New York Times article on this topic last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12480733
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As the most technical person in my network of friends and family I'm often the one they go to for computer help. For years one of the first things I do if I touch their computers is install uBlock. Lately a couple of them have gotten n
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test-tube research by the Ghannoum-led team found that the three work together (with the E. coli cells fusing to the [Candida tropicalis] cells and S. marcescens forming a bridge connecting the microbes) to produce a biofilm -- a thin, sli
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Skype really went down the toilet when Microsoft bought them. At one point (~5 years ago) they were the best video chat and VOIP product by a long shot. Text chat and user search were clunky, but at least the notifications were reliable. It
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"It has long been Mobileye's position that Tesla's Autopilot should not be allowed to operate hands-free without proper and substantial technological restrictions and limitations," said the company's most recent st
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Does anyone know who signed that? Those signatures are impossible to decipher. There are 22 members of the committee ( https://www.govtrack.us/congress/committees/HLIG ), but I count 23 signatures. Did Paul Ryan or
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Usually I try to resolve disagreements by asking questions. Either they end up poking holes in their own arguments or I learn where I made a mistake. Telling someone they're wrong is useless. After that they can only think of reasons w
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Much more informative article at The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/08/einstein-... Stays cool for 6 days, recharges in an hour, and "was inspired by an invention devel
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Last year, the Justice Department implemented new guidelines that call for linking individual accountability as part of corporate investigations. It's ridiculous that this is only being done now - everyone in the US has been screamin
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That is impressive. It seems like they're getting to the point where they can use a speech synthesis engine to train a speech recognition engine.
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Exactly. It always amazes me when I come across articles articles or comments about Jira being so terrible. Try using Bugzilla for project management, or Gemini by Countersoft, VersionOne, OnTrack... There are some truly horrible products o
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Based on the title I was hoping for more actual data about the trends, but this is mostly a political puff piece about Obama's efforts toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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It was definitely possible a couple years back - https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36569 We describe how to disable the LED on a class of Apple internal iSight webcams used in some versions of Ma
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“Saturn has a hexagon at the north pole,” said Bolton. “There is nothing on Jupiter that anywhere near resembles that. The largest planet in our solar system is truly unique. We have 36 more flybys to study just how unique it really is.”
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> And also one of my peeves about Apple phones is that the chassis is so strong that you don't need a cover, but only a few people I know don't use a case If Apple would stop making their phones so damn sleek and slippery I w
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There are still apps in the store I made years ago for a company that no longer exists. They still kinda work, but not very well since the company's servers went offline. It seems like these things might resolve themselves in a lot of
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There was another post about this the other day, but this writeup had a really interesting take on it - permafrost caused the current from the lightning strike to spread out through the wet topsoil.

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