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In Pod-Based Community Living, Rent Is Cheap, but Sex Is Banned(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by sageabilly 11y ago|0 comments
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The Immobile Masses: Why Traffic Is Awful and Public Transit Is Worse(motherboard.vice.com)
169 points by sageabilly 11y ago|397 comments
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by sageabilly 11y ago
I don't see how this is an improvement over Glassdoor's salary search. I'm already a user on Glassdoor and they parse much more positions/salaries/cities- what's the advantage for me? Also, NO you cannot have m
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by sageabilly 11y ago
No, it's probably going to turn into the same thing that's happened with liquor laws in the US where some states have state ABC boards and you can only buy the very specific liquors that are on the approved list and only at the st
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by sageabilly 11y ago
I was thinking the same thing, specifically when I scrolled down and it was talking about the safety visor- OK great it's scratch resistant, I'm sure that'll be a fantastic plus when it's out on a job site. Awesome techn
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by sageabilly 11y ago
How is it spying if it's information that's already available to the company, either publicly or as a result of the person being an employee? It's not like they're sending goons to dig through trash cans.
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by sageabilly 11y ago
The meat of the announcement, from Fortune[1]: The therapy, which is being tested in a small number of patients with Type 1 diabetes, implants a small capsule under the skin that is teeming with insulin-producing cells made from embryonic
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by sageabilly 11y ago
My first thought when reading the article and seeing the pictures is that there's no way this design (as depicted) would work in Appalachia without enclosing and insulating around the bottom of the house. Otherwise, your pipes would fr
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by sageabilly 11y ago
Lifespan of a mobile home is estimated at 30-55 years depending on area and on how much upkeep the owner does. There's also a huge stigma around living in a mobile home, and serious logistics involved in hauling the mobile home to its
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Your brain is your key: Brainprints could replace passwords(binghamton.edu)
2 points by sageabilly 11y ago|1 comments
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by sageabilly 11y ago
I used to go to SlashDot, in the same way that I come to HN now- for good tech-related news that I couldn't find anywhere else. The comments used to spawn great swaths of related research but now I might as well go to 4chan. Fortunatel
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We’re Crying Wolf Over Nonexistent Infrastructure Hackers(motherboard.vice.com)
3 points by sageabilly 11y ago|0 comments
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by sageabilly 11y ago
Palantir started as a data intelligence firm focusing on predictive analysis, shopping its wares to the government. They have gotten really, really, really amazing at predictive data and are now moving into the private sector, selling predi
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by sageabilly 11y ago
Never done meth so wasn't sure what it was like. I can see that if you started out on meth and were feeling tweaked-out that having a dreamy sense of calm would be appealing.
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by sageabilly 11y ago
"...overprescription of pain killers" Yup, definitely a problem. Not so much in my county that I saw, but definitely a problem. And then the people who have them prescribed to them are selling them to get money because they have
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by sageabilly 11y ago
I only have my one anecdote in response to this story, which does not translate into data I know. I'm from one of the counties in western NC where overdose deaths have gone from 4-8 in 100K to 20+ in 100K. I graduated from high school
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Revolutionary new graphene elastomer exceeds sensitivity of human skin(phys.org)
1 points by sageabilly 11y ago|0 comments
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by sageabilly 11y ago
You could work at a large soul destroying company Yes, you could. You could also work at a medium-sized soul destroying company with a totally dysfunctional culture. Or you could work for a 5 person start up with a founder who was only ab
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by sageabilly 11y ago
AFAIK it's free. I know that the center in Delaware that I've looked to going to is free. [edit] Yup, the article address this: ...these courses are 100% financed by voluntary gifts from previous students (who are explicitly aske
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A Quarter of People Won’t Make a Single Call on Their Cellphones This Week(recode.net)
3 points by sageabilly 11y ago|0 comments
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by sageabilly 11y ago
You're right, that was a made-up statistic that I guessed on the spot. Government-financed jobs (private and public sector jobs financed directly by the government) make up 27.3% of employers in DC, 29.8% of employers in Virginia, and
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by sageabilly 11y ago
That was exactly it. It was a big flashy up and coming place to work in DC back in 2012-2013ish, so I poked around the careers page and was interested until I read all of the accounts on Glassdoor of how horrid working there was. Later I re
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by sageabilly 11y ago
Money and prestige on a resume, plus the ability to work with really innovative technologies and projects. Plus, at least in DC, morality doesn't come into play for a lot of people when choosing who to work for because there are so man
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by sageabilly 11y ago
Palantir is doing some of the coolest most innovative big data parsing that there is... unfortunately it's directly for the CIA and NSA and the technologies that they have made public are creeeeeeepy, so who knows what crazy stuff they
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Why Is Epic Games Checking Names Against a Watchlist When It Doesn't Have To?(motherboard.vice.com)
5 points by sageabilly 11y ago|1 comments
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A Flaw on EBay’s Site Allowed Hackers to Steal User’s Passwords(motherboard.vice.com)
8 points by sageabilly 11y ago|3 comments
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When the IoT Comes to the Office(securityweek.com)
4 points by sageabilly 11y ago|0 comments
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by sageabilly 11y ago
GFD I had forgotten that.
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by sageabilly 11y ago
Venmo is your new best friend.
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by sageabilly 11y ago
Have you looked into Amazon Payments? Also have you taken into account business that you might be losing specifically because you only use PayPal? Again, just asking out of curiosity- I want to know the reasons why PayPal is still being use

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