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Flawed algorithms deciding health care coverage(theverge.com)
1 points by klunger 8y ago|0 comments
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by klunger 8y ago
Culture flows from the top. Peter Thiel apparently views women's suffrage and poor people as "tough for libertarians [like him]". Can we talk about, well, how problematic it is that a company that has information on just abou
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by klunger 8y ago
I like this idea. But... you really need to put up more content or content preview so users know what they are getting before signing up.
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by klunger 9y ago
"More than just America's environment and human health is at stake. "Low-paying jobs, like hog slaughtering and breeding, will remain in places like Duplin County, but the higher-paid executive and marketing jobs will be lost
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by klunger 9y ago
Yes. As others said, it could be a mechanical fuse. However, engineered obsolescence is a real possibility. A friend of mine had a product manufactured in China. He said the factory he partnered with asked him straight-up "Where do you
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Children struggle to hold pencils due to too much tech, doctors say(theguardian.com)
1 points by klunger 9y ago|0 comments
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by klunger 9y ago
My friend has one and I got to try it a couple weeks ago. The writing experience is as fantastic as the article describes. But, the rendering of screens is slow and you have to look at bizarro artifacts for a second or two before a new scre
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How Facebook Is Killing Comedy(splitsider.com)
4 points by klunger 9y ago|0 comments
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by klunger 9y ago
Colorado has a similar problem, with their "tax payer bill of rights". I hope other states considering such a measure in the future will learn the lesson of Oklahoma and Colorado.
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by klunger 9y ago
It is roughly 5.4% of exports http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/nor/#Exports Does not compare to oil I guess, but I would not call it chickenfeed. It probably does get oversized media attenti
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by klunger 9y ago
I live in Norway. There has been pressure for some time on the government to do this because of the salmon exports. Fishing is not as big as oil, but it is still an important part of the economy here. Losing China as a customer meant bad ne
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by klunger 9y ago
The Industrial Revolution -- and all of the CO2 put in the atmosphere since then - was basically "climate engineering". It was unintended, unplanned climate engineering, but that is what it was. We took a stick and poked at the cl
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The ‘internet of things’ is sending us back to the Middle Ages(theconversation.com)
3 points by klunger 9y ago|0 comments
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by klunger 9y ago
This guy started with a hypothesis and then set out to prove it by looking for evidence. He then said the evidence was missing (hacked off) but his hypothesis was still true. Really, it is not very persuasive.
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Ask HN: Is it (un)ethical to advise older people to switch to a tech career?
8 points by klunger 9y ago|10 comments
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Thousands of Norwegians log off from God thanks to one-click Web form (2016)(arstechnica.co.uk)
2 points by klunger 9y ago|0 comments
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by klunger 9y ago
I used this as a resource when I was studying geometric modelling, since your page was way more understandable than our course notes ( http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/math/MAT-INF4160/h15/
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by klunger 10y ago
Does anyone know if they will be doing this again? We found out about it too late to do try and apply. I looked through the FAQ on the website, but did not see anything about whether this was a one-off or if they would do it again.
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by klunger 10y ago
Well, it isn't Tizen https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/samsung-tizen-ope...
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On surveillance data shared by local police with federal agencies(aclu.org)
1 points by klunger 10y ago|0 comments
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by klunger 10y ago
American in Norway here. The amount excluded depends on the tax treaty and is different for each country. Right now, if you make above around 100k USD in Norway (adjusted each year for inflation), that amount above is taxed by the US. But,
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by klunger 10y ago
Nope if you open an investment account in the US and make a bunch of money, that will not be reported to your home country (Unless you do it yourself.)
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by klunger 10y ago
In Norway, if you are on a knowledge worker visa, your salary needs to be competitive. This amount increases each year with inflation. As an American working in Norway, I have to say that this is how it should be done in the US . My Norwegi
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Americans and Cybersecurity [pdf](assets.pewresearch.org)
1 points by klunger 10y ago|0 comments
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The View from the Valley(theatlantic.com)
3 points by klunger 10y ago|0 comments
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by klunger 10y ago
>But the laws of physics are not only symmetrical in space but also in time. Can someone explain what this means? It makes sense that physical laws are symmetrical in space. But in time? I thought that would not be the case because of
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by klunger 10y ago
Hmm, I agree that much of the higher level math is not required for engineering work that has extended math requirements for the engineering degree. However, at least for aerospace, it goes a bit beyond 8th grade algebra and excel. I used t
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by klunger 10y ago
Why is China and India the exception here? They keep getting mentioned as an exception in this discussion.
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by klunger 10y ago
For those who prefer audio/podcasts, the Planet Money companion piece covers a lot of the same material: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/06/29/484029238/episo...
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by klunger 10y ago
Did you miss the part where I do not have a way to save for retirement? And why on earth do you assume that I am rich? Because I live in Norway? I barely qualify as middle class. Thanks to student loans and zero support from my family, I st

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