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by jobu 11y ago
"The second issue is with how we manage audio sessions. If you leave the Facebook app after watching a video, the audio session sometimes stays open as if the app was playing audio silently. This is similar to when you close a music a
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by jobu 11y ago
Agreed. My first thought when I saw the article was: "Yay, scientists are finally able to do some legitimate research on marijuana"
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by jobu 11y ago
What I got from this article is that Google is making money every time I open a web browser on a desktop, type in "facebook", and click on the top search result. Now on mobile devices, there's an actual app for Facebook, and
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by jobu 11y ago
Even in job interviews, Amazon touts itself is an intense, high-energy place to work, and that was exactly what I saw in the NYT article. Some people can't handle that, and they were fired or left disgruntled. The fact that many of th
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by jobu 11y ago
The full text of the study is paywalled here: http://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/abstract/S1535-6108%2815%290... Fortunately the summary there has some useful information: "rVAR2 (recombinant malarial protein V
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by jobu 11y ago
In the fall of 2002 (after the dot-com bubble burst) I was laid off and looking for a job. One of the more memorable job postings had a requirement of 5 years .Net experience.
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by jobu 11y ago
Flaxseed oil contains mostly the omega-3 called alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), whereas fish oil has a more balanced profile of omega-3s, specifically EPA and DHA. Many people can convert ALA into other omega-3s just fine, but some people have
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A large company with stable growth can afford to lose and retrain 10% of its workforce each year. It's also a lot more difficult to get fired from a very large company, so some forced fat-trimming is often necessary. Twitter is not tha
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by jobu 11y ago
This kind of material might fall within the domain of the Google Books Library Project. This would mean very little cost (if any) to the libraries themselves.
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It's not clear what the "Pro Features" in-app purchase includes. Is this something that's required for true usability?
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by jobu 11y ago
It's likely GeorgeHahn means KeeFox - http://keefox.org/ "KeeFox connects Firefox to KeePass Password Safe"
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by jobu 11y ago
NAD?
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"[Whole milk] was banned from school lunch programs." Most schools don't even have 1% milk, but they all have chocolate milk with tons of added sugar. Great healthy choice there.
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by jobu 11y ago
I definitely get a high from exercise - lifting weights as well as running. Exercise also tends to increase my appetite, especially when lifting weights. I wonder if this is related to the endocannabinoids.
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This was my thought as well - I've heard metallic mercury is relatively safe. However, a little bit of googling turned up this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_poisoning#Elemental_me... The issue with metall
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by jobu 11y ago
Is this a legitimate article? There are few factual errors mentioned here in other comments[1][2] that have my internet bullshit detector primed, and then I see this quote from Ohler highlighted in the article: “I have a good friend, a Ber
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by jobu 11y ago
What is Enkodal? Google only turned up a few German pages that didn't seem to translate well. From the article: “After World War II, the Americans who captured Morell translated the word ‘Eukodal’ as ‘Enkodal.’ They thought it was a l
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by jobu 11y ago
The BBC is funded by a government tax on TVs [1], and to an outsider this looks an awful lot like government funding. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Un...
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by jobu 11y ago
A few years back I was in the Phoenix area for New Years eve, and the local police were using ShotSpotter. There's a tradition in parts of the city to fire shots into the air in celebration, but those bullets come back down and have ki
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In my experience this is pretty common unless your degree is from a top-tier school. The good news is a developer with a degree and 1-2 years experience is worth a lot more than one fresh out of college. Put in a year and see if they give y
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Awesome that they actually put up the "Scream into the void" site: http://screamintothevoid.com/
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Most of these went off patent years ago though. Why is it so hard to bring a generic drug to market? The drugs already have studies proving their efficacy, so the only issue should be a clean manufacturing process.
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Exactly. They put extra sugar/sweeteners in absolutely everything these days. You have to look at the ingredients and calories on anything you buy. Even super healthy-eeming things like granola or dried fruit usually have sugar added.
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Apple’s Clever Tech Makes the iPhone 6s Nearly Waterproof(wired.com)
3 points by jobu 11y ago|0 comments
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This is the key part: Microorganisms in the worms' guts biodegrade the plastic in the process The question is whether we can harness these bacteria to break down plastics in landfills.
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There definitely are some shady endorsements happening here, but I really don't see a problem with this one: “Sometimes only the real thing will do when it comes to soda, so I am a big fan of the new Coke mini can! It is real soda cla
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> Related to App Store removals: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/30/apple-remo... That seems completely unrelated, but it also seems a whole lot shittier. Why would Apple remove an app
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This article does a better job of explaining Project Fi than than google's own page ( https://fi.google.com/about/network/ ).
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Google’s Cell Service(wired.com)
1 points by jobu 11y ago|1 comments
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New Campaign to Help Surveillance Agents Quit NSA or GCHQ(wired.com)
176 points by jobu 11y ago|90 comments

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