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Tech and the Fake Market tactic(medium.com)
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> Maybe in 1987? (Edit: this is in reference to the grandparent post which mentions selling heroin to infants ) Nestle still does the milk formula trick at hospitals and maternity courses, where try to get babies addicted to milk formula
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> not sure if I'd call it terrorism unless the goal were to terrorize other people One of the things we've been working on in our office is learning empathy. So we take the characters in an incident narrative, reverse/flip
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> Assuming the facts of the case are as reported, simple second-degree murder to me Second degree murder is: 1) an intentional killing that is not premeditated or planned, nor committed in a reasonable "heat of passion"; or 2)
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"Srinivas Kuchibhotla, died of his injuries in a Kansas City hospital. He is said to have left behind a wife who is five months pregnant. ... His bereaved wife and his family are trying to raise money to send his body back to India fo
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> So he yelled that and then shot them? Nothing else was said? How sure are you about that? Because most news sites are reporting that the police have stated that Adam W. Purinton went out that night with a plan to murder brown skinned p
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> Ah but did you witness it? I am curious about your question. I read Fowler's post, and then subsequent posts,articles,tweets,comments by other women and men indicating that the observations approximately matched their experience a
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> I find it kinda lopsided to read an article that only mentions the good things without giving a proper/full picture. Did we read the same article? Here's some points the author made that seem to contradict your claim. 1st par
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> It's also a total dump. Very disorganized 3rd world country. Thailand in contrast is an order of magnitude more developed, especially Bangkok. > before you all go Woah, Nepal is so awesome I am curious what triggered you to wri
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" Occasionally, problematic managers who were the subject of numerous complaints were shuffled around different regions; firings were less common." Same strategy exhibited by certain religious organizations. Problematic individual
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> I'd also surmise that they're just as prevalent (if not more so) outside of tech/startups in the Bay Area. I would agree with you that certain industries and areas would have equivalent if not higher prevalence. Investme
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> The problem is that there seems to be a terrible, unbelievably toxic culture pervading nearly every department at Uber. I wonder if such things are limited to Uber or more widespread than we believe it to be. I have a fear that these i
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> will not be enough of a problem for the most-polluting humans to care about I live in the country that pollutes the most per capita. I'm ashamed to say I haven't significantly changed my behavior and consumption patterns. But
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> topped $15 million last summer. UC’s, paid by Caribou, have passed $5 million. So a $20 million boon for lawyers and who knows how many hours the researchers lost being distracted by legal issues. One wonders how we could rework our le
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I agree that it is very likely to be the third. Just have a read of some of ESR's articles. Eg: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=129 " American blacks average a standard deviation lower in IQ than American whites at abou
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> The Linux kernel is at the very heart of Android's update problem - not because of "modularity" but because it lacks a stable ABI. What are you referring to when you say the Linux kernel ABI is not stable? I ask because
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"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism." That's an odd thing to say given our history of how we treated (and currently treat) the only truly non-hyphenated Americans: Native Americans.
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> the USS Vincennes incident took place Summary for those who like me didn't know about the incident. Our guy shot down a passenger flight, murdering 290 human beings, we gave him a medal but we then paid USD$213,000 in blood money
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> non-immunocompromised person will fight off basically any upper respiratory infection without a problem. I am curious if this is true, ie: does medical science hold above as an accepted fact by general consensus? I ask because my under
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> It just sounds bizarre and German seems to be the real victim. I have no idea since both stories seem plausible. That said, this portion stood out to me: " In January 2016, a postdoctoral researcher reported that German asked her
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> purportedly in the interests of promoting innovation in the pharma space Why the purportedly? Do you have reason to believe he has any ulterior motives? I didn't know anything about this guy before this so I googled him. http:&#x
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> I'd be very impressive if they got an e-ink screen to redraw that fast. There are loads on youtube, some as old as 2007. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na3EkqhOa-A , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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> A quarter of the entire US population didn't suddenly catch a disease and become obese. Please explain how your statement of fact is true considering that this cited paper is stating that there is such a disease and possibly some
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Would be nice if we could find out what percentage of the total Linux Foundations donations, payments from member companies and members actually go to the people making useful contributions to Linux developers and related technologies/
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I'm not sure the Y axis in either chart gives any truly meaningful implication. The first one gives USD$ millions spent and the second gives just the number of publications. Lets look at the first one. Lots of article state that the ef
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> we rolled our own FPGA based driver and were able to get small region update down to about 20ms. That is very impressive. 20ms latency from the time a pen hits the display to the point that a pixel is drawn on an EPD is twice as fast a
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> I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. I meant that for pretty much all current e-paper devices you aren't able to get access to run your own code unless you find a security hole that you can exploit to gain access. Ok. That helps
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> it's an i.MX6SL, I thought we mentioned that on the web page. Your website only says: "Processor 1 GHz ARM A9 CPU" > Two from freescale for the imx6 and imx7 Ok, but you are using imx6. > There's also another
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> we don't intend to release the magic sauce that makes the latency goes down. Ok. > what I meant with hackable is that I've wanted an e-paper device which I could run my own code on, without having to look for security hole
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> no, we don't use Android, unlike pretty much everyone else. Most companies making EPD products use the base OS provided by their SoC vendor. Based on your spec which says 1GHz ARM A9 , I'm guessing you're using the NXP (

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