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by pcl 11y ago
Wow, that's a great video. The generation-comparison section (0:55) and the outtakes (4:50) were my favorites.
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by pcl 11y ago
It's not that universities are dependent on huge subsidies. The problem is that the federal loan system has enabled them to do some pretty shady things that no other industry can do. Today, universities set the base tuition prices so h
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by pcl 11y ago
I really hope this doesn't make it through Congress. We need to reform the education funding system, not continue to enable it. The federal government is already basically putting money in the pockets of universities by subsidizing the
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by pcl 11y ago
IIRC, the general rationale behind the 451 RFC was that this provides a means for a third party to communicate that they are censoring the content, presumably begrudgingly. So, in the case at hand, GitHub is using 451 to communicate that a
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by pcl 11y ago
Wow, I wonder what a contract like that looks like, and how many years the payments and deliveries are spread out over. Assuming a massively-discounted price of $25,000 per car, that comes to $2.5 billion!
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by pcl 11y ago
The U.S. is the 3rd largest country by land area (behind Russia and Canada), but excepting Alaska, virtually all of our land is quite habitable. That got me wondering: where does the US sit if Alaska is excluded? Turns out that Alaska is
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Obama, at South by Southwest, Backs Law Enforcement in Fight Over Encryption(nytimes.com)
124 points by pcl 11y ago|2 comments
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by pcl 11y ago
Yes, and more-recent iOS devices have stronger security features than the one in question here. Regardless of the outcome of this case, I expect that trend to continue as a result.
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by pcl 11y ago
Yep. But when something goes wrong and you're 80 feet underwater, panic is not far away, and is really risky, since the panic response is unlikely to be the safe thing to do when deep underwater. So anything I can do to become acclimat
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by pcl 11y ago
Yeah, but taking off my mask still makes my eyes sting, and I certainly wouldn't want to panic 80 feet down. So... despite having done it a number of times, it's heartening to hear that I might be able to get past the sting. If I
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by pcl 11y ago
Did you know that your eyes can adapt to being open in sea water? Wow... I didn't know that. Losing my mask and panicking while diving has always been a concern of mine. I'll have to try this out. Regardless of being able to see
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by pcl 11y ago
The cartels, of course, are adapting to the new reality. Seizure data appears to indicate that with marijuana profits tumbling, they're switching over to heroin and meth. This is a really interesting development. There's always
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by pcl 11y ago
Presumably zbjornson was sending messages from a network within Stanford, using vanilla SMTP. In that sort of topology, Stanford's network could easily intercept, monitor and modify SMTP traffic.
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by pcl 11y ago
The Hippocratic Oath is probably a good starting point, given that the guy asking for the money is a surgeon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath
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by pcl 11y ago
no one in his right mind would want to read a 300-page novel online in any language. Ah, 1998...
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Driverless Cars’ Limits Include Human Nature(nytimes.com)
3 points by pcl 11y ago|0 comments
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by pcl 11y ago
Agreed. The digitization of communication (both public and private) has some fascinating self-censorship impacts.
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by pcl 11y ago
It's my understanding that if a 409A valuation is not in line with market valuations (which pretty much means projections based on funding rounds for startups), the IRS will treat the difference more like an ISO. I've seen this fi
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by pcl 11y ago
That's great! Would you be willing to share the paperwork you used, so others can build off your docs?
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by pcl 11y ago
This article is a decent intro to the concepts and implications of gene drivers. Based on the title, I expected something new; I thought "self-driving genes" would be somehow different than the CRISPR-based developments of late.
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by pcl 11y ago
Oh interesting... so by removing the walls and connectors, they could be net-neutral in mass. Makes sense.
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by pcl 11y ago
Also, I should point out the leaf has had a 25% battery capacity increase in the new model, which should result in a direct 25% range increase since the new battery takes up the exact same space and weight as the old one. How did they pul
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by pcl 11y ago
I started to enjoy watching football a lot more once a friend explained that it's really more like chess than soccer. Really, the game is between two coaches, who have an array of players, practiced plays and assistant coaches at hand.
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by pcl 11y ago
Nice... I've always assumed that that's just the title link, in a different form. Feature suggestion: change the text to 'search' instead of 'web'.
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by pcl 11y ago
I'd love to see the cap tables of some of those companies, to quantify where the differences are between then and now. Does anyone know of any publicly-available repositories of late-90s cap tables?
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by pcl 11y ago
If you download the files to disk, you'll get the right values: $ curl -s https://blog.cloudflare.com/content/images/2015/08/white.jpg > file && md5 file
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by pcl 11y ago
Has anyone read up enough on this to understand how this compares to the IPO process before Sarbanes-Oxley [1] etc.? The article says that the purchaser must be an accredited investor. Additionally, it says that the "RAISE Act also spe
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by pcl 11y ago
I imagine that what the author intended to say was something along the lines of "An individual's political views are the private business of that individual." I think that's pretty clear from the context.
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by pcl 11y ago
I wish the output from git diff used red for new lines and green for removed lines...
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by pcl 11y ago
I think mesh doesn't scale is a pretty valid network assumption, in the general case. So. Maybe an interesting question is: What sorts of applications and protocols will work in a mesh topology? That set might be interesting. For e

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