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by lvs 10y ago
This article reminded me of the RAF banter sketch from Monty Python. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myIB1TrPpTE
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by lvs 10y ago
That may not be true. Fi works with (and was marketed with) the Nexus 6 which is EOL as of this month (Oct 2016). That means the OS version will be halted at Android 7, as I understand it. They may still receive security updates, but I d
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by lvs 10y ago
Yes, but the switch on my saw looks just like a fun red pushable button, and my bleach looks like a milk bottle. It isn't a straw man. The question is how ultra-safe you'd like your society to be. My argument is that we have dan
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by lvs 10y ago
There are many things your kids shouldn't eat. Like a bottle of bleach or my circular saw. We don't need to ban them all. That's really too silly.
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by lvs 10y ago
The methyl ester is converted to the free acid and methanol, which you further metabolize into formic acid.
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by lvs 10y ago
Yes, so they're both unproductive pursuits.
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by lvs 10y ago
Snore. We can find the price without them, and so much of that function is fully automated anyway.
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by lvs 10y ago
It's getting ridiculous. In my neighborhood alone, there are 8 "trendy" burger places within a few blocks, at last count. The majority of them are indistinguishable in food quality from mcdonalds despite all sorts of ingredi
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by lvs 10y ago
There are a disturbing number of new accounts being formed to comment idiotically on this thread. Mods should lock. The troll brigades are landing. The real target of this misinformation campaign is very likely to be the site Media Matte
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by lvs 10y ago
We need to target those with a financial incentive to lie. There are many unscrupulous people who gain financially by increasing the size of the consumer market of misinformation, and their source of revenue is advertising.
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by lvs 10y ago
Sort of. I meant caching apps, of which AppCache is an implementation.
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by lvs 10y ago
You can see what service workers are registered here: chrome://serviceworker-internals/ Frankly, I'm tempted to label the whole notion of a remote-installing auto-updating local proxy as a misguided antifeature, but I ho
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by lvs 10y ago
Nah, it wouldn't be that hard to jam the inbound signal, especially within cities. The sat can't really focus a beam in the way you're imagining.
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by lvs 10y ago
They can always jam whatever bands it operates on. They can make it illegal to tx/rx in those bands.
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by lvs 10y ago
Wow, OK. This article is awful and shouldn't be propagated. First of all, nobody serious is promoting any Lamarckian theory of evolution. The claim that mutation rates are too slow to explain phenotypes is completely bizarre. Nothin
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by lvs 10y ago
For the new post-Sony US-market Vaio laptops, they're apparently "inspected" in Japan, but the manufacturing is now finally taking place in China -- like pretty much everyone else.
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by lvs 10y ago
If true, this implies that they have a porous material in a place they shouldn't.
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by lvs 10y ago
On your first question, I think the issue is that Americans have gotten accustomed to the loss of manufacturing sector jobs, but the argument had always been that we were slowly switching to a service and/or "knowledge" econo
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by lvs 10y ago
> I would love to hear arguments I wouldn't. Face it, this class of SV "startups" are the new pump-and-dump investment vehicles. They burned $3B in funding to build a chat app, and Prince Bin Talal needs to cash out with
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by lvs 10y ago
He had a shrewd perspective on cubicle politics in the 1990's that implied he possessed some deep rationality and insight about human nature. I suppose people change, or else I misinterpreted Dilbert.
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by lvs 10y ago
HN should really avoid this old jingoist tendency in tech. Nearly all devices are made somewhere in Asia at this point, so this should not be noteworthy.
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by lvs 10y ago
... or rather, her estate has.
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by lvs 10y ago
Except it also generates CO and methane in nontrivial amount (something like 5-10% apparently), one of which is a highly toxic pollutant and the other is a much worse greenhouse gas than CO2.
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by lvs 10y ago
That wasn't really the issue that was raised, speaking of intellectual dishonesty. Plenty of companies withdrew advertising from the RNC over Trump. Business partnership is a contractual relationship between equals, not a hierarchical
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by lvs 10y ago
Why does he keep referring to PNAS as "PPNAS?" It's clearly the former, and I don't know what the latter stands for.
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by lvs 10y ago
It has another related downside: it's not a strong driver of economic productivity, as the President recently pointed out [1]. [1] http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21708216-americas-pre...
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by lvs 10y ago
If they've really put so much science into the formulation, shouldn't crop-dusting index (CDI) be one of the metrics by which the formula is optimized?
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by lvs 10y ago
Also, how long can this possibly be centrally hosted before questions of business model come into play? This seems like something that will go dark in a year tops.
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by lvs 10y ago
Yes, sadly, the Bezos Post is just a shade of what the Washington Post once was.
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by lvs 10y ago
Yes, I'm sorry, you're correct. Growth in productivity is slowing, concomitant with the "IT revolution." The argument still stands that Gates's claim that the IT sector can be viewed as a driver of productivity is

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