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by jobu 11y ago
And now it got crossed off the front page of Hacker News... sad. @Dang - was this flagged by users? Seems crazy that it had 30 points in 20 minutes and now it's gone. Zuckerberg's statement on this seemed really well written. The
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In some cases I think it would be useful to see a count of results with one of the terms removed, but there's no way it should override _my_ search terms. That just seems broken.
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It amazes me that SSD drives still (mostly) conform to the same drive sizes as spinning disks. My most recent computer build used an M.2 slot SSD, and plugging that tiny little card into the motherboard seemed like the future. No cables req
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And only a single FRB source at that. These only happen a few times a year, and this is the first time they were able to pin down the source. It will be much more interesting once we know the pattern of the sources (assuming there is one).
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There doesn't seem to be any information about her views on Copyright or the DMCA, but she's definitely been a vocal proponent of privacy rights: As ALA President in 2003-2004, Dr. Hayden was vocal in her public opposition to the
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Dr. Carla Hayden Nominated for Librarian of Congress(whitehouse.gov)
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It also works great with kids once they reach a certain age. Two years ago we asked the grandparents to give experiences instead of toys. Archery lessons, horse camp and climbing lessons have been the biggest hits so far. The other thing to
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That was a great episode - no one cared about Snowden or privacy until he explained to them that it meant government officials could see every dick picture they had sent or received.
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Mars is actually a pretty bad planet to try landing on. It has just enough atmosphere to burn up a spacecraft that enters too quickly, but not enough to use for air-braking (skimming or parachutes).
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There was one recent study that seemed to indicate exactly this, but I can't find it right now. As I recall they found that salt exacerbated inflammation related to hypertension, but found no difference in healthy individuals.
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Yeah, after fifteen years of C/C++ I can say most of those complaints are minor, have easy workarounds, or can be ignored when doing general-use programming.
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On his death bed, Werner Heisenberg is reported to have said, "When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first."
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If you read the text on some of those dialogs it states pretty clearly what they're going to do to your computer when you click accept: ...collect your IP address, URLs of the pages you visit and other personal information including t
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Has anyone reproduced (or tried to reproduce) the rat studies by Robert Ader or Manfred Schedlowski?
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He's had enough interest in the project that he decided to run a Kickstarter for it : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/202664225/the-jolly-rog... Unfortunately a self-hosted option doesn't appear to
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Yeah, the diamond industry has done a pretty good job of portraying manufactured diamonds as fake and worthless, so most jewelry and diamond dealers won't deal with them. When my wife lost the diamond from her ring a couple years back
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The razor also has a corollary in Clark's law, which states that "any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice".
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They keep calling themselves a "media company", but they've done such a terrible job at delivery (of media and vision) that it wouldn't surprise me if most people working there don't even know what the company is ab
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It's never made sense that H1B Visas are awarded by lottery instead of salary. In a lottery system a company can game the system by applying for thousands of visas. If they were to do it based on highest salary it would offer U.S. work
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It's difficult for people like you specifically because of the H1B flooding. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/11/us/large-companies-game-h-... "Many of the visas are given out through a lottery,
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> Everything too expensive? Good, don't live here, eventually enough people will leave to drive all of the costs back to other market norms. That's a rather nonchalant way of saying something that will likely be a very sharp,
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> we're getting to the point that it doesn't make sense to upgrade your phone every year or two The biggest reason for this (in the US at least) is the decline of 2-year mobile phone contracts over the last year. Many people
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Does anyone know why the APNG format was rejected by the PNG group? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG ) It seems like a great replacement for animated GIFs.
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Obligatory xkcd link: https://m.xkcd.com/1235/ "In the past few years, with very little fanfare, we've conclusively settled the questions of flying saucers, lake monsters, ghosts, and bigfoot. "
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> This article is written from a scholarly point of view and has a lot of conjecture but I definitely don't think they had any boots on the ground to make the conclusions that they did, particularly with regards to saying the epide
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Not only that, but most lithium ion batteries don't function very well below freezing: http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/charging_at_high_... This past weekend the high temperatures in large parts o
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"Tesla takes 0.15% while losing about $4,000 per vehicle." Other sources claim that Tesla is making 25% profit per Model S, and similar for the Model X. Is this article cherry-picking numbers?
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"Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have proposed requiring that about 90 colleges with endowments of $1 billion or more spend about 25 percent of their annual earnings for tuition assistance — or forfeit their tax exemptions." That seem
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While I get that sometimes journalism is more about a noble cause than profit, it seems like losing money is a source of pride for the people at The New Republic: “The New Republic has been a money-losing proposition for 100 years,” said J
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"A first-ever robotic mission to identify, capture and redirect a near-Earth asteroid to a stable orbit around the moon, where astronauts will explore it in the 2020s." Wow! That's pretty awesome, but I'm hoping they p

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