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by jws 11y ago
Is attribution required by that license? The copyright notice has to stay in the software, but I don't see an attribution clause. License: https://github.com/steipete/PSTCollectionView/blob/master/LI
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by jws 11y ago
In 2012 the FDA was busy doing the science and projecting their risk assessment for arsenic in rice should be published in 2014. Any limits and associated testing would come after that. I don't see the assessment published or an update
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by jws 11y ago
Why would you have a trial if you already knew the truth? Edit: I appear to have been overly vague. My point is that you can't reward a prosecutor for producing a "truthful" outcome unless you know the truth to compare with.
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by jws 11y ago
As stated in the article, this is an example of a veridical paradox under Quine's classification of paradoxes. Which, a quick link following reveals as… A veridical paradox produces a result that appears absurd but is demonstrated to
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by jws 11y ago
Yeah, the numbers are funny. They claim they will pay for themselves in energy savings in a year, but that seems to be against some unnamed alternative in their "up to 70% more efficient" claim. High pressure sodium lamps (apparen
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by jws 11y ago
Similar to mine, but we both actually failed. Real numbers are accepted and we did not test that.
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by jws 11y ago
That is the case. But I think the word "surge" is confusing people. If it said "up 52%" I'd assume year on year. But somehow "surge" implies a change in continuous state.
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by jws 11y ago
The CDC requires drinking water to have less than 4mg/liter fluoride. There is a guideline of less than 2mg/liter. Fluoridation for dental health is done at 0.7mg/liter. The only health effects observed at 4mg/liter are
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by jws 11y ago
Seems to check out with the numbers. 6200 HIV adults and a stable population says something like 3100 are female and with 30 child bearing years and two children over that period about 200 of them should give birth each year. A 1% probabili
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by jws 11y ago
Curious: How would you observe a difference in two months? (HN being what it is, I'm half expecting you to tell me you were assaying your mouth bacteria with an electron microscope you made and some OpenCV hacked together on…)
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by jws 11y ago
Hmm, this comment needed more text, but I was about to step on stage using my phone, sorry… In the creation of Apple Music, Apple didn't not require any musician to create more music. Apple did have to develop their delivery system. Ap
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by jws 11y ago
I suspect mostly because I started making music in an age when duplicating a CD was not possible and MP3 hadn't happened. I view my music projects as producing something and then working to get it into customers' hands. Radio stat
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by jws 11y ago
I don't think you understand how music usually works… 30 years playing in and recording with independent bands. Dong just fine on understanding up front investments.
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by jws 11y ago
The labels costs are already sunk. The direct costs of the trial are all apple's.
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by jws 11y ago
This whole "pay nothing" idea is strange to see on HN. Apple developed the software, is footing the server, power, bandwidth, and ops bills for three months all for free. The labels are chipping in their content for three months
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by jws 11y ago
United States tax complexity isn't because of the shape of the tax(income) function. That function is the most important part of tax to most Americans, but the complexity comes from two other places: 1) Some people will game the syst
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by jws 11y ago
Do not open the teapot. There is currently a tempest in there. Apple can not legally bind you by sending you an email and using your public RSS feed. Anyone doing business who does not understand this needs to learn some law right now .† A
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by jws 11y ago
ASN.1 is so ludicrously complex that it has led to a number of severe internet exploits.
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by jws 11y ago
Where free means: Orders under $35 are just $5.99 per order for Prime members.
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by jws 11y ago
You might believe that if the worlds largest, most sophisticated searcher of the Internet has scoured all vendors and displayed the exact item you want, and they have a buy button on the best price, that it is the best price. You'd p
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by jws 11y ago
This isn't about the normal theft of someone's tax refund by fraudulently filing a tax return. This about the IRS itself divulging the sensitive data required to fraudulently file tax returns. Someone tried about 200k times and
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by jws 11y ago
Retina quality 27" displays need to wait for the next Thunderbolt or similar speed bump. The display requires > 20Gbps to feed. That means waiting for Intel to pop out ThunderBolt 3 with the newly announced DisplayPort 1.3 38Gbps co
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by jws 11y ago
But then they couldn't mine your wasted time for business information.
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by jws 11y ago
Headline disorder: The researcher is quoted in the article: "I would not say we gave birds snouts.”
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by jws 11y ago
According to the companies involved, none of the accidents were the fault of the self driving car. The Delphi car was stopped at a light, in manual driving mode, when another vehicle lost control, crossed a median, and hit the delphi car. I
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by jws 11y ago
Drier skins are tighter. This is before air conditioning and you could have lots of humid weather.
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by jws 11y ago
Or a vapor reaching an open flame. Common source of human immolation.
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by jws 11y ago
Does your insurance company allow you to keep one liter of gasoline in your garage? It has the same energy content as the Powerwall, is insanely flammable, is frequently implicated is home fires, and regularly causes human deaths. (Ok, a bu
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by jws 11y ago
The 12 number comes from energy storage capacity. Voltage conversion and DC to AC is handled by your inverter/charger which is a separate item.
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by jws 11y ago
Meanwhile, in lead acid battery land, a Trojan T-105 is ~$150 for a 6 volt, 225 amp hour battery, which you might comfortably cycle 0.9kWh each day for 5+ years. Use 12 of them to match the 10kWh Powerwall and it only costs $1800, replace t

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