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by parfe 12y ago
>The investigation found no evidence to support the claims against Tom and his wife of sexual or gender-based harassment or retaliation, or of a sexist or hostile work environment. However, while there may have been no legal wrongdoing,
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by parfe 12y ago
NPR just ran the story "Study: Half Of Jailed NYC Youths Have Brain Injury" The study found nearly 50 percent of both boys and girls reported traumatic brain injuries that resulted in a loss of consciousness, amnesia or both. And
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by parfe 12y ago
>* Block ciphers in the default mode ("ECB"). You can plainly see the problem ECB causes in this example image: http://legacy.kingston.com/secure/image_files/Figure2_ECB.jp...
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by parfe 12y ago
Google wouldn't want to face the anti-trust hearings. Apple doesn't have any goals to spend half their cash on hand (Other than the iphone 6 being 11% larger/smaller/whiter/lighter) Buffet isn't a fan of tech s
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by parfe 12y ago
Thanks for the link. Looks like the OpenBSD devs enjoy their work.
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by parfe 12y ago
Browsing other messages at the submitted link, did OpenBSD just start tearing apart the guts of OpenSSL since Heartbleed? Looks like OpenBSD lost all respect for the OpenSSL devs. "But apparently the OpenSSL guys could find no objects
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by parfe 12y ago
>How would swapping actresses help? Using many actresses would allow the investigators to see if an individual receives a different response compared to the overall group. But it looks like you actually meant say the babies knew the tes
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by parfe 12y ago
Simple enough to swap the actresses around to remove the individuals as confounding variables. On a related note. HN gets pretty obnoxious nit picking about experiments. Guaranteed half the posts about a social science experiment come fro
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by parfe 13y ago
From the study's abstract: Differences in taste among individual players, along with differences in playing qualities among individual instruments, appear more important than any general differences between new and old violins. Anoth
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by parfe 13y ago
>The point is that Eich was lynched for his political or religious beliefs. Eich caused an uproar due to his actions, not his beliefs. Pretending he sat on the side lines silently nodding in agreement with Prop 8 ignores the reality. H
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by parfe 13y ago
Run Cyanogenmod which includes Privacy Guard and you'll get exactly what you want.
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by parfe 13y ago
>People change. What did Eich do which made you think he reconsidered his position that same sex marriages should be annulled and banned?
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by parfe 13y ago
What about the 18,000 couples he funded a campaign against? He just gets a pass for working to dissolve their families?
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by parfe 13y ago
Barack Obama's full quote: "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it jus
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by parfe 13y ago
>My thought is that it's not because they mean to be rude. It's because they pattern match. I've noticed when folks see the same pattern over and over it's difficult to see outside it. Awful lot of words you used to a
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by parfe 13y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joMK1WZjP7g Frontal offset crash test between a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air vs 2009 Chevrolet Malibu. I know which car I would rather ride in.
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by parfe 13y ago
I hope Microsoft decides to target Google Now instead of Siri. Google Now provides so much more depth than a voice interface; Siri offers so little in comparison. Siri works well as a voice activated personal assistant (that I rarely see
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by parfe 13y ago
The minute Google took open street map data hacker news would explode with submissions chastising google for taking without contributing back.
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by parfe 13y ago
A legally created nation came into existence three years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sudan#Independence_.28201...
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by parfe 13y ago
There are now substantially more than the 19,000 Model S vehicles on the road that were reported in our Q3 shareholder letter for an average of one fire per at least 6,333 cars, compared to the rate for gasoline vehicles of one fire per 1,
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How Obama Officials Cried ‘Terrorism’ to Cover Up a Paperwork Error(wired.com)
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by parfe 13y ago
>It is sheer folly to trust cryptographic software without source code. Do we need to fall prey to another RSA fiasco again? This software does not encrypt anything and thus the user does not care about the correctness of the implementat
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by parfe 13y ago
>Why not turn over the source code? They do not want to and don't believe the state has the power to compel them to. What more reason should they need? >Since this is partially cryptographic software and also software that can b
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by parfe 13y ago
Yeah none of that has to do with android. You can easily install third party apps or entire other marketplaces. IOS on the other hand does have that issue.
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by parfe 13y ago
Not large at all. One thermostat per room. With electric heat you have to put a thermostat in line between the circuit breakers and the heating element (radiant panels in my case). Centralizing the house on a single thermostat, like you
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by parfe 13y ago
This makes me happy. I have a house with electric heat and eight thermostats pushing Nest costs into unreasonable territory. I'd love to be able to remotely set all my thermostats to 55 degrees or get certain zones to react based on
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by parfe 13y ago
Written for Bash 4.0 so OS X will not run without additional work because Apple refuses to ship GPL 3.0. Otherwise really cool project. I love bash software (when other people do the coding).
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by parfe 13y ago
As an example, my high school class of 310 students had several original bands which easily surpasses the 1% mark for creators. Considering the context of internet posting, "good" or "famous" really don't come int
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by parfe 13y ago
Just because people can create and publish does not mean they want to. Prior to the internet, physical media like books, newspapers, and music certainly had a similar distribution. Consuming takes little effort, provides stimulation and enj
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by parfe 13y ago
If the end user can receive aereo content then the bandwidth exists for the cable company to deliver the same.

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