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by rcurry 11y ago
Why would he keep his AOL disk in the cup holder?
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by rcurry 11y ago
I'm less concerned about the hacker, and more concerned that the Director of the CIA not only has an aol.com email account but also uses that account to transmit sensitive information. I'm not just saying this to be a jerk - this
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by rcurry 11y ago
We have berry trees in our front yard, so every year when they ripen up we get hordes of finches and other little birds swooping the buffet. In the fall, we get about one dead bird every other day until the trees have been stripped clean.
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by rcurry 11y ago
And yet, no difference today - nothing wrong with killing an inconsequential specimen for the sake of science. The front plate glass window on my house kills more birds than that researcher, every week. Thump. Thump. Thump. I don't hav
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by rcurry 11y ago
This is like the fourth or fifth article on Theranos making the front page of HN in the last week or so. It's kind of like living on the San Andreas Fault and noticing your dog is starting to get really nervous...
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by rcurry 11y ago
I think this whole thing is kind of ironic, e.g. consider John James Audubon: "He shot and killed every bird he painted. Audubon was a noted hunter and taxidermist, and much of the money he made during his lifetime was from selling ani
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by rcurry 11y ago
Think of the main spring as the battery, and the balance wheel as a kind of resistor. The balance wheel is manually tuned to oscillate at a specific rate, releasing the stored energy one little beat at a time. You are right that a mechanica
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by rcurry 11y ago
This provides a good description of how the balance wheel works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_wheel It is manually tuned, via weights and spring tension, to oscillate at a precise interval.
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by rcurry 11y ago
I always wondered about that - it seemed like a great invention.
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by rcurry 11y ago
Theranos, in my opinion, is a self-licking ice cream cone.
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by rcurry 11y ago
Yeah, I think a big part of this is that the current conflicts have been in open/desert areas where the range of engagement is simply further than the .223 was originally designed for. A .308 or similar caliber makes a lot more sense w
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by rcurry 11y ago
"Do you know why the current calibre for most nato guns is 5.56mm? yes partly because its smaller, partly because there is less kick, but also because its less lethal." This is actually a myth - the .223 was not selected because i
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by rcurry 11y ago
I just tried San Diego, CA vs Dallas, TX and the site tells me that the cost of living is "about the same" - which is nowhere near accurate. It also says that living in Des Moines, Iowa is 18% cheaper than living in Tokyo, which s
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by rcurry 11y ago
The more I read about this company, Theranos, the more I get this feeling that one day I'll be reading an article in the WSJ or NYT titled "The Greatest Diagnostics Company That Never Was", or something along that line.
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by rcurry 11y ago
One of Feynman's funniest lines, I thought, was during a talk where someone in the audience asked if we'd ever be able to develop an anti-gravity device. Feynman gestured at their chair and said something along the lines of "
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by rcurry 11y ago
Is it just me, or is this a good example of how not to present content on the web. I could hardly read any of that article - the animated background thing took forever to load, and was incredibly distracting. There's a story in there s
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by rcurry 11y ago
"And your wider point is wrong. There's no evidence that people with a mental illness pose a risk of harm to other people or to children." And yet I keep hearing about this need to prevent the mentally-ill from acquiring fire
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by rcurry 11y ago
Ah, getting mugged for your candy on Halloween - an annual tradition in my neighborhood.
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by rcurry 11y ago
I really think we are way past the point where we need a serious regulatory adjustment on all of these large data service providers - I don't think any of them should be allowed to facilitate targeted advertising based on our browsing
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by rcurry 11y ago
I think they're great - they remind me of what the internet was like before the marketing departments showed up.
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by rcurry 11y ago
There's a great movie, called "Man on the Train", that I always remember because of a scene where a school teacher and a gangster are in a cafe and they get hassled by a coupe of local punks. The gangster, who is - by cinemat
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by rcurry 11y ago
Oh lord, Krav Maga and their knife disarms. You know what happens when an unarmed guy tries to fight a guy who is armed with a knife? He loses. Period.
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by rcurry 11y ago
Oh, you're going to love this - I worked for a firm that developed electronic trading software, back in the late 90s. They "encrypted" their incoming connections with a simple XOR scheme that used a "key" which was,
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by rcurry 11y ago
"Why do you think a martial art such as Aikido is nearly non-existent at the highest level of competition such as the UFC?" Because it falls within the realm of "grab my wrist... no, the other wrist..." type martial arts
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by rcurry 11y ago
On SQL Injection, I usually rate myself a "5;DROP TABLE USERS;"
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by rcurry 11y ago
"The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stones and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil." – Ahmed Zaki Yamani (Saudi & OPEC Minister for Oil) I think oil is just one of those resources that we're never
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by rcurry 11y ago
It's pretty easy to stay anonymous if you're just doing something for comedy and not breaking the law - use a dedicated laptop for your fake persona, only post from random public wifi connections and you're done. You might wa
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by rcurry 11y ago
It just depends on the person - I spent a lot of years working on trading floors (open office, lots of noise, elbow to elbow with other developers) and you just learn to tune out the distractions and be productive regardless.
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by rcurry 11y ago
C++ is the monkey's paw of programming languages. Sure, it'll grant your wishes, but you'll end up paying some terrible price for it in the end.
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by rcurry 11y ago
Finding a doctor is like finding a good mechanic or a hair stylist - it's kind of on you. There is no shortage of terrific doctors in this country who really care about doing their best for you, but it does take some shopping around an

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