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by mkempe 9y ago
There are no such retests going back 50 years. "The IOC can hold the bottles for up to 10 years, and can thaw the urine for a retest any time during that window." [1] After that window, it's gone. https://www.usato
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by mkempe 9y ago
There were no Olympic Games in 1967.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Still, they've only been banned from the 2018 Games, not from Winter Olympics in general.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Both. First any cheating athlete of course, and second the IOC having to ban an entire nation. I'm sure there are many current Russian athletes who had nothing to do with the doping scandal. I'm going to miss the Russian ice-hocke
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by mkempe 9y ago
Title should say Russia has been banned from 2018 Winter Games. What a stain on the competition and elite sports! Reason: state-organized manipulation of urine samples in Olympic testing labs during the 2014 Games in Sochi. The facts were m
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by mkempe 9y ago
To the down-voters: please explain what difference it makes in one's life whether one spends an hour or more each day to absorb "the news".
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by mkempe 9y ago
I prefer not to. Think about it -- is your life better if you hear about new disasters or daily political twists in the world? does it make a difference whether you know about it or not? I quit watching tv. I no longer read newspapers, whet
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by mkempe 9y ago
That's relatively high, but local conditions vary. Note that many Montessori schools offer access to financial help. The key benefits are said to be derived between the ages of 3 and 6. My daughters both started at age 2, still going,
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by mkempe 9y ago
Supply and demand? also, cost of materials. Montessori-trained guides devote years to training, want to make a decent living, and the excellent ones are in short supply.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Not in Switzerland -- as long as you are neither US citizen nor US resident.
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AT&T’s Cautionary Tale for Net Neutrality(tracinskiletter.com)
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by mkempe 9y ago
The key word here is "burning." If Uber's quarterly losses were caused by productive spending they could have a chance. Since their mounting losses are mostly caused by consumption the company is not going to survive. They re
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Original “blue box” designed by Steve Wozniak in 1972, marketed by Jobs+Wozniak(bonhams.com)
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Analyzing software requirements errors in safety-critical embedded systems(blog.acolyer.org)
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by mkempe 9y ago
Thanks. I'm dealing with hours of interviews per day.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Would you mind sharing which MT-based service you're using for podcast transcription?
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by mkempe 9y ago
I've been looking for, and testing, various automated transcription APIs over the years and never found one that was high-quality for videos of interviews (background noise, people don't talk in full sentences, people use filler
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by mkempe 9y ago
I don't see you having submitted the "better" articles to HN -- can you provide a list of such articles you have found so frequently, let's say for the last 12 weeks? Incidentally, your comment seems rather hostile towar
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by mkempe 9y ago
How many PG essays have been published and/or discussed here in the last 12 months?
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by mkempe 9y ago
PG's excellent essays and the attached discussions were a huge positive. They drew a good audience and helped elevate the discourse. The new leadership is less intellectual, less inspiring, more inclined to politics. O tempora, o mores
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by mkempe 9y ago
Thanks, that makes sense, the family is the center of love. Good background and perspective. I still think for the sake of storytelling there's a lot to be gained by the inclusion of romantic interests. There was just Hector. Look at w
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by mkempe 9y ago
It's an example of manipulation. Facebook removed an important item from my "news feed."
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by mkempe 9y ago
For now you may think facebook merely facilitates regression. Eventually we'll see them enable repression. The gap is narrow, when one decides to manipulate people by manipulating the news feed they see as well as selling screen space
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by mkempe 9y ago
Apart from the fun plot-line, the cultural awareness, and the entertainment value -- the animation work is great (skeletons don't walk like live humans, for instance). [spoilers] I would not say it's our favorite Pixar movie. My t
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by mkempe 9y ago
Universal Basic Income is not a new idea, no matter what new phrases one uses to promote it. At root, to be honest, it's based on this ideal: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." (Karl Marx) I
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by mkempe 9y ago
Yes, that part is a major problem. I don't think there is a simple path for quality localization -- you definitely want multiple people fluent in the target languages to review the UI, with expert knowledge of the domain. Watch out for
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by mkempe 9y ago
Concur. I had a decent business selling software dev tools, gave up in the late 90s. The market shrunk, and today it is extremely limited. Even very profitable companies developing embedded systems (which used to be a goldmine, e.g. medical
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by mkempe 9y ago
Same as any other localized software -- pass every translatable string through a dynamic call to a localization function (e.g. `tr` in Qt [1]) and load localization files for the translated strings. [1] http://doc.qt.io/qt-5
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by mkempe 9y ago
The widespread belief in astrology, and the respectful tone of this NYT piece, are evidence that we don't live in a truly modern, reasonable society. We're surrounded by superstitious fools. My lesson from such an article: The sci
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Leaning on the Stars to Make Sense of the World(nytimes.com)
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