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by slapshot 12y ago
> made food a lot more dangerous You are almost certainly too young to remember it in the United States, but it wasn't that long ago that food was terribly dangerous. Start at non-sterile meat, bad canning practices (botulism kille
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by slapshot 12y ago
This is a bit of a modernization of a perennial HN favorite: the Chicago Tunnel Company. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tunnel_Company For years, a network of tunnels connected downtown Chicago buildings with a n
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by slapshot 12y ago
> The car itself hasn't changed in any fundamental way since 1950 The form factor of cars haven't changed much since 1950. Everything else has. Seatbelts. Airbags. Hybrids. Automatic transmissions allow more people to driv
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by slapshot 12y ago
Large employers are generally self-funded, meaning that they pay their healthcare claims dollar-for-dollar. Blue Cross (or whomever) serves as a claims administrator and takes a premium for the service, but may not provide any actual &quot
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by slapshot 12y ago
The tip is a metal alloy that is slowly left on the page. It's not actually "infinite" -- it's more like "you'll probably lose this before you wear down the solid metal tip." I wouldn't trust it as
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by slapshot 12y ago
Money is not speech. But spending money is part of the process of speaking. If it is legal to anonymously distribute a pamphlet then it must be legal to anonymously pay to have that pamphlet printed. Otherwise Congress need not ban books
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by slapshot 12y ago
>> it is very easy to cut down an upstart candidate by an entrenched incumbent by just attacking their supporters and intimidating them before the challenger even becomes a threat > Can you cite any examples of this happening? Typi
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by slapshot 12y ago
I think you severely underestimate the fatality and occupational exposure rate in old industrial labs. Here's a classic pre-OSHA example of producing tetraethyl lead with no containment whatsoever (1924): http://blogs.plos.o
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by slapshot 12y ago
From having sat on a criminal jury in the U.S., the opposite seems to be true: jurors wonder why the police didn't DNA test a small stolen object to "prove" it was held by the accused. There was no reason to run DNA (the obj
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by slapshot 12y ago
Fun idea, but holy conflict of interest: the founders want to take an investment from this fund in order to get a personal cut of the fund's returns, but the other common holders (think early employees) want the fund that provides the
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by slapshot 12y ago
> I understand that in Los Angeles, where the busses are awful... This seems to be a common refrain, but it's also outdated. Both the bus and subway networks in LA are massively larger than in San Francisco (which, by the way, has
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by slapshot 12y ago
> The War on Drugs has given us the idea that merely possessing something is enough to get you jail time. Except that's not true either. In many places possession of burglary tools is a crime by itself. I'm not saying it&#x27
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by slapshot 12y ago
But one of the most effective tactics of The Fly was a traditional SWATting based on a false phone call that Kreb's wife had been murdered in the house. 13 police officers showed up, heavily armed, because of the War on What? Murder?
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Let's stop beating up on the nerds of Silicon Valley(sun-sentinel.com)
2 points by slapshot 12y ago|1 comments
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by slapshot 12y ago
Yes and yes. "IBM" doesn't form a word, but it's a perfectly valid trademark and you would be sued into oblivion (quite fairly at that) for trying to sell computer software or hardware as "IBM." Gatorade has
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by slapshot 12y ago
This case is about a trademark, not a patent. Any word or symbol that identifies a source of goods can be a trademark. Hence Apple getting a trademark on using the word "Apple" to sell computers even though people have been usin
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by slapshot 13y ago
> The HN community has always held strong beliefs about political issues, but what did we do about it? The problem is that "the HN community" doesn't have unified beliefs about nearly anything. There are people who are vi
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by slapshot 13y ago
For those outside California, new California registrations are issued in small paper packets that are affixed inside the front windshield. There are no "temporary tags" like in many other states, so it's perfectly normal and
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The Shame Game: Jesse Jackson to take on tech's lack of diversity(sfgate.com)
9 points by slapshot 13y ago|5 comments
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by slapshot 13y ago
How so? If I embed a piece of malware in a website that launches an .exe on your computer without you knowing it, that certainly constitutes access "beyond what was authorized." If that piece of malware mines bitcoins and uses m
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Netflix up 20% in after-hours trading; profit skyrockets(latimes.com)
1 points by slapshot 13y ago|0 comments
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Court Orders Yelp to Reveal Anonymous Reviewers Based on IP Addresses(insidescoopsf.sfgate.com)
2 points by slapshot 13y ago|0 comments
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by slapshot 13y ago
They are anchors of a sort, they're just inconvenient because they change from version to version and often aren't included in online versions. If a court says (in slightly more words) "pages 205 to 207 are overruled" t
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by slapshot 13y ago
Which versions are these? I ask because, to lawyers, pagination matters -- a LOT. Lawyers refer to a case by the book and page number, and refer to parts of a case by the page numbers. It's probably not a great system, but the court
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by slapshot 13y ago
For what it's worth, you're right but not for the reason you expect. Marcus Cole is well known for having grown up in a Pittsburgh housing project (Terrace Village) and having absolutely zero parental support for his college educ
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Protesters block Google bus in S.F. Mission(blog.sfgate.com)
136 points by slapshot 13y ago|172 comments
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by slapshot 13y ago
But doesn't he realize how much free exposure he's missing out on? /sarcasm
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by slapshot 13y ago
The banks sold at $26 to their institutional clients ("building the book"). The banks didn't hold the stock at $26 themselves.
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Why are people so excited about a Bitcoin ATM?(forbes.com)
1 points by slapshot 13y ago|0 comments
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NSA site down due to DDOS attack(rt.com)
8 points by slapshot 13y ago|0 comments

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