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by jobu 11y ago
Agreed. It would be very impressive to see an autonomous car that could handle blowing snow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHWNQVVY-LI Have any manufacturers even fixed cruise control for icy roads? That should be trivia
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by jobu 11y ago
If we're making feature requests here I'll add mine: Please add the ability to undo/change an upvote or downvote. It's very easy to accidentally vote on something when scrolling on a mobile device.
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New Campaign to Help Surveillance Agents Quit NSA or GCHQ(wired.com)
4 points by jobu 11y ago|0 comments
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by jobu 11y ago
There have been some predictions in the last few years that China will peak economically in the near future due to population controls (one-child policy) http://wallstreetflaneur.com/forget-china-how-population-cha... The o
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Assisted Death Laws Won’t Make It Better to Die in the US(wired.com)
1 points by jobu 11y ago|0 comments
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by jobu 11y ago
All of these blockers use SFContentBlockerManager which only blocks ads for Safari and any apps that use SFSafariViewController (basically none). Does anyone know if it's possible to do ad blocking through the NEFilterProvider classes?
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by jobu 11y ago
Yes it is slave labor, but it is legal to an extent. From the article: David Ball, an assistant professor in criminal justice at the Santa Clara University School of Law, says inmate firefighters are part of a long history of prison labour
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by jobu 11y ago
Sadly this is very common. The freight companies own the rails, and if there's ever a route conflict their trains get priority over passenger trains. This means long delays in shitty railyards, and you have no way of making an itinerar
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by jobu 11y ago
> Perhaps the latter will actually become reality. How far is it from the reality now though? I buy cars with very high reliability (usually Honda) just so I don't have to deal with it. I grew up fixing cars, motorcycles, and snowmo
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by jobu 11y ago
> They're willing to put up with ads and reduced quality for just $10 a month. I see two reasons for this: 1) Free is huge. Most people are willing to put up with a lot of bullshit for free. 2) Netflix. We pay $7.99/mo for esse
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by jobu 11y ago
"The same diet may have different effects on different people" This is a very key point. We're just beginning to scratch the surface on how genetics and diet interact.
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by jobu 11y ago
Agreed, especially the part about his son - that had me in tears. Once you have kids, stories like that hit you in unexpected ways.
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by jobu 11y ago
Nursing is a _hard_ job, and tired/stressed people make mistakes. I would be interested in seeing data on patient outcomes before and after this change.
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by jobu 11y ago
"Because it consisted of a board with a digital display and a tiger hologram on the front, the teacher recommended he hide it from the rest of the staff. " Anyone know why the teacher had him hide it? Are they restricted from hav
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by jobu 11y ago
We recently bought an older home that needs a bit of work, and I've started going to the DIY site to get answers : http://diy.stackexchange.com/ It's a bit sparse for existing Q&A, but so far people have been
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by jobu 11y ago
The wikipedia page doesn't say much about Pu-238, but there is this under the "Proliferation resistance" bullet: "...LFTRs produce very little plutonium, around 15 kg per gigawatt-year of electricity (this is the output
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by jobu 11y ago
uBlock didn't allow the new site design at all, and I didn't really like it either. Here's the link to their "classic" view of the article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment&
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by jobu 11y ago
The Maps app has been a miserable experience as well. Fortunately it seems a bit improved in iOS9, but it's taken 3 years! It wouldn't be so bad if there was a way to set an alternate app as the default handler for maps/direc
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by jobu 11y ago
Interesting stuff, but unfortunately the title is linkbait (The birth of a black hole, live). The subtitle on the page would be a lot better: "Scientists hope to use neutrino experiments to watch a black hole form."
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by jobu 11y ago
The movie (and television) industry hasn't really faced anything that made piracy easier than paying before. This is their Napster moment. One can argue that Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, etc are easy, but those are different sites/app w
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by jobu 11y ago
How is that wrong? The government decided not to tax these college endowments because they were considered a public good. That decision had a direct effect on the government's budget - a cost.
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by jobu 11y ago
First world problems... Seriously though, how much of this is a result of new players in the content industry (Netflix, YouTube, Amazon, Hulu), and how much is simply a pendulum swing back from all the unscripted "reality tv" crap
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by jobu 11y ago
Alice v. CLS Bank wiped out a bunch of silly "do it on a computer" patents. Hopefully a sane judge will look at this and decide it fits under that umbrella. Otherwise we'll end up waiting a decade for the Supreme Court to com
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by jobu 11y ago
From the Article: "You can’t claim to be a data-driven company and not release more specific numbers on how many women and people of color apply, get hired and promoted, and stay on as employees. In the absence of meaningful public da
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by jobu 11y ago
Is the delayed vesting for 401k a common thing? All the companies I've worked for either had no match, or the match was immediately vested.
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by jobu 11y ago
True, but Amazon supposedly rewards their employees well to compensate for the high productivity expectations. The Amazon 401k isn't terrible, but it definitely isn't great. (It's ranked the lowest in the top 50 on the S&
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by jobu 11y ago
"The paper is a tour de force, according to Evan Rosen, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School who was not involved in the research." That's some pretty high praise. Also, it wasn't entirely clear to me if t
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by jobu 11y ago
I'm pretty sure it would be impossible to work as shown in the video. E-Ink needs a layer of electrode "pixels" to change the color, and that kind of implant would require all sorts of government approval. Interesting concept
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by jobu 11y ago
This video does a pretty good job of explaining consent for those that don't think AA's description sounds like rape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQbei5JGiT8 (Tea Consent)
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by jobu 11y ago
"The remedy for misleading speech, or speech we do not like, is more speech, not enforced silence," Winmill declared. Very well said.

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