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by pchivers 14y ago
>If heroin really is "so good," why does it have such a tiny share of the illegal drug market? Marijuana is more than 45 times as popular. One possible reason is that people are squeamish about needles and uncomfortable consuming drug
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by pchivers 14y ago
-how to exit Metro apps -how to shut down the computer
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by pchivers 14y ago
I don't know if it's possible to figure out which is the chicken and which is the egg in these cases. Semco, a Brazilian manufacturing company, has been using a "boss-less" style of management since the 1980s. From what I understand they w
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by pchivers 14y ago
Obligatory Thomas H. Benton link: Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go http://chronicle.com/article/Graduate-School-in-the/44846
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by pchivers 14y ago
Richard Feynman on reproducibility in science: "When I was at Cornell, I often talked to the people in the psychology department. One of the students told me she wanted to do an experiment that went something like this--it had been found by
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by pchivers 14y ago
Link to previous HN discussion from yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3857119
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by pchivers 15y ago
I believe that tDCS is used with the same head placements as the 10-20 system used for EEG. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10-20_system_(EEG)
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by pchivers 15y ago
The U.S. government has already shut down non-U.S. .com domains (PokerStars, Fult Tilt Poker, Cereus). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Scheinberg
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by pchivers 15y ago
On first look I thought it was a rainbow penis sticking out of the ground. It took a second or two before I realized what the picture was.
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by pchivers 15y ago
Which distros work like that? (speaking as a Ubuntu user that has never tried any other distros)
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by pchivers 15y ago
I agree with the last suggestion. The "Talk to me at: (email address)" part looks strange.
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by pchivers 15y ago
Link to previous discussion on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2882301
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BattMan II: Build a Computer Controlled Battery Manager(stefanv.com)
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by pchivers 15y ago
I think there is a spelling mistake in the article: "That worked very well for many years, but recently it hasn’t been the slam dunk it has been in the best." Should this be, "it hasn’t been the slam dunk it has been in the past"?
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by pchivers 15y ago
In Canada there is zip.ca ( http://www.zip.ca ).
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by pchivers 17y ago
-/etc/fstab --> needed to get secondary hard drives to automount during boot -/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist --> needed to install my wireless card
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by pchivers 17y ago
The article says these tests can be "at a cost that is as much as 80 percent less than going through a doctor", what can explain that kind of discrepancy besides rampant corruption in the "official" medical lab work market? The difference
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by pchivers 17y ago
So you made $18,525 in profits, and figure that worked out to $125-$150 an hour. That means you worked somewhere between 124 and 148 hours over the entire year , or less than 3 hours a week. Is this correct? If so, then it is very impre
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by pchivers 17y ago
I think you overestimate the ability of the average person to understand the mathematics of risk.
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by pchivers 17y ago
The "Stop emailing yourself" headline looks funny to me. It had to look at it a second time because when I first loaded the page I thought it was an ad and subconsciously skipped it. I don't know why that is. I think maybe it's the font,
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by pchivers 17y ago
The title of the document is not correct English. Instead of "To Be a Consultant, a freelancer or an independent contractor", I would change it to something like, "How To Be a Consultant, Freelancer or Independent Contractor".
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by pchivers 17y ago
As a Canadian who visits the United States often, I can definitely say the portion sizes are a lot larger in the United States. Every time I go to the US I go into a state of shock when I see the portion sizes. You would think that after 2
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by pchivers 17y ago
Mostly the style of offense. Teams are much more content to keep the ball around the outside and shoot threes all night than to a) drive into the paint and make something happen on the inside, or b) score points off of fast breaks.
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by pchivers 17y ago
A Malcolm Gladwell quote from the article: The consistent failure of underdogs in professional sports to even try something new suggests, to me, that there is something fundamentally wrong with the incentive structure of the leagues. This
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by pchivers 17y ago
Seed: You describe children as being “useless on purpose.” What do you mean by that? Obligatory Onion article: http://www.onion.demon.co.uk/theonion/other/babies/stupidbab... A surprising new study released Monday by UCLA's Institute F
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by pchivers 17y ago
Take away quote from the article: "My hypothesis is that most children are emotionally damaged by [growing up in a dysfunctional family]. But a small percentage, whose brain chemistry and wiring is set for resilience, come out of this wit
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by pchivers 17y ago
I realize that a lot of people on Hacker News might consider this to be pseudoscience territory, but what about something like The Biology of Love by Arthur Janov? http://www.amazon.com/Biology-Love-Arthur-Janov/dp/157392829... His theo
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by pchivers 17y ago
I think this blog post (linked from the original article) is more interesting than the article itself: Antidepressants, Placebos and the Failure of Psychiatry http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2009/03/antidepressants-pla...
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by pchivers 17y ago
Interesting article. There's a type of psychotherapy called EMDR ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMDR ) which claims that moving the eyes from side to side during the recall of traumatic experiences can help reprocess the trauma in a benefi
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by pchivers 17y ago
The author has written a follow-up article here: Just Don't Go, Part 2 http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2009/03/2009031301c.htm

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