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541.
by jobu 11y ago
> But until I see one after a few thousand hours in a high speed motor Add some load to that as well. It seems pretty unlikely any indentations will last very long under stress. I've replaced bearings on trailers and vehicles and th
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by jobu 11y ago
"First of all, some studies are just poorly designed or hopelessly biased. Second, even the best individual studies have their flaws and limitations. This isn't because all science is bad or untrustworthy. It's because it&#x
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by jobu 11y ago
> Frankly I don't see why the HN crowd would upvote a site like this -- I'd bet it was ring votes that got it to the front page. Or maybe it was just the snarky domain, who knows. My guess is it struck a chord with people simil
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by jobu 11y ago
I think the point chernevik was trying to make is that the officer appears to be shooting the attacker when the attacker is between the officers. Unless that bullet hits a bone it's going to pass through the guy and hit the other offic
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by jobu 11y ago
Most people view the term "Military Industrial Complex" from the view of the primary definition of complex - "consisting of many different and connected parts". It seems however, that Eisenhower intended that phrase to u
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by jobu 11y ago
It seems like the ubiquity of small recording devices that nearly anyone could own and use (like a cellphone) will have a larger impact on corruption than anything else we could do. You may not have any direct power over the cop that just s
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by jobu 11y ago
Hopefully that's true, but auto dealers are huge contributors to elections (even bigger than auto manufacturers - https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=T2300 )
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by jobu 11y ago
Here's an older, but much more well-written article about this case: http://www.law360.com/articles/592866/tiversa-attacks-labmd-... Wallace (the whistleblower) claims that he created some false information t
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by jobu 11y ago
The article makes it sound like Tiversa hacked LabMD deliberately in order to blackmail them. While that is possible, the article doesn't mention how, and it doesn't mention that the files were supposedly found on LimeWire. Terrib
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by jobu 11y ago
Also, diesel engines have problems with carbon buildup over time, which reduces the combustion efficiency and causes the notorious black clouds of soot. ( http://www.bellperformance.com/bell-performs-blog/blog/carbo
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by jobu 11y ago
My kids have been able to infect our computers with some really nasty adware and spamware by trying to install Minecraft mods. One computer is a Windows7 PC with UAC disabled (unfortunately), so I had to do some deep dives into the registry
552.
by jobu 11y ago
Wow. Blast from the past. I remember being so thrilled when gcc finally added support for precompiled headers. The compile times for the program went from hours to minutes on the same hardware.
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by jobu 11y ago
"Like the 21-foot rule, many current police practices were adopted when officers faced violent street gangs. Crime rates soared, as did the number of officers killed. Today, crime is at historic lows and most cities are safer than the
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by jobu 11y ago
> The last thing I'd note is that the focused act of programming is becoming a smaller and smaller part of the gig. Unfortunately it took over 5 years as an engineer to learn that being able to communicate effectively is the single
555.
by jobu 11y ago
The WellMed system described in that article was interesting. Most doctors (especially primary care) do want to spend more time helping fewer patients, but the financial incentives push them in the opposite direction. If the ACA's Pay-
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by jobu 11y ago
The legal complications around malpractice and malpractice insurance are unfortunate, but they only reinforce the already perverse financial incentives that doctors have for ordering more tests and procedures. The theme for the article was
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by jobu 12y ago
This appears to be what you're talking about: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/9359212/Obese-an... The research was done by a think-tank called The Institute of Economic Affairs ( http:&
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by jobu 12y ago
The risk of death (from overdose) is pretty significant compared to drugs such as marijuana
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by jobu 12y ago
"The Leprechauns of Software Engineering" is a fun read that takes a look into the origins of some of the software engineering folklore: https://leanpub.com/leprechauns/read
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by jobu 12y ago
This is an interesting counterpoint to an article/thread from earlier today: "Why Cell Phones Can’t Cause Cancer, But Bananas Can" http://mitchkirby.com/2015/04/22/why-cell-phones-cant-cause-...
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by jobu 12y ago
"Most recycled materials should be cheaper than virgin commodities" Surprisingly this just isn't true. It takes a lot of work and chemicals to clean inks and glues out of paper for recycling. Penn & Teller looked into t
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by jobu 12y ago
Some people think it's clearly a bad thing because it dislocates poor people from these gentrifying neighborhoods, but there's a lot more to it. There was a report last week on NPR that talked about how difficult it is for people
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by jobu 12y ago
No idea where it came from, but we've been told that up to one hour alone per grade level is a good rule of thumb.
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by jobu 12y ago
> These were doctors prescribing these, not the pharmaceutical industry, and I believe that the doctors were trying, something, anything, that they believed might work. It wasn't until I was a parent that I realized a big part of wh
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by jobu 12y ago
My previous company hired and trained college interns and new grads, but they made the mistake assuming some sort of loyalty and didn't bother to give them a significant raise after the first full year. It's crazy, but a developer
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by jobu 12y ago
There's a bit of science and chemistry involved, but most of the info about these nootropic supplements is simply anecdotes. The problem with studying these supplements is not everyone reacts the same way to them and things like diet a
567.
by jobu 12y ago
In my limited experience with hackathons it's usually the most polished looking entry that wins - technical merit has little to do with it. If they built a cool site without a line of code then who the hell cares! Were there rules or a
568.
by jobu 12y ago
> 1) What is the nature of hackathons? Many are pitchathons. It's even more basic than that - What is hacking? Take a look at the MIT Gallery of Hacks for one perspective: http://hacks.mit.edu/ To me it means build
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by jobu 12y ago
They've also done two other great episodes on patents: 412 - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/10/23/163480928/episode-... 551 - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/
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by jobu 12y ago
They need a bonus level for flossing. Every kid is different, but brushing teeth has never been a huge problem for my kids. However, getting them to floss is pure hell.

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