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Dharun Ravi's conviction overturned, will get new trial(mycentraljersey.com)
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by slr555 10y ago
What I find interesting is that truffle oil is often denigrated for not containing actual truffle based solely on this lack of authenticity. I have eaten white truffles in Italy, black truffles and dishes with truffle oil. From an anecdotal
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by slr555 10y ago
To the contrary the analogy is apt because when one takes the socks you are not harming the next consumer (sure the cost of shrinkage is passed on) and there are lots of places to get socks. But the party that is well and truly fucked the m
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by slr555 10y ago
The "economics" here are interesting. One of the sources attributes the piracy to a "market failure". This is not accurate. As price falls to zero and supply is infinite (piracy) there is nothing to restrain demand. Sure
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by slr555 10y ago
Nitroglycerin has a fairly short half life and doesn't love being exposed to air. Aspirin like any drug has a shelf life but not an unusually short one. Masks etc are going to have an expiration but unless the package is damaged are li
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by slr555 10y ago
There are several sources for comparable US data. Examining page 6 of the PDF below demonstrates that the suicide rates for middle aged to elderly Caucasian males in the US is higher in 2014 by a factor of ~3 or in cases more compared to wo
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by slr555 10y ago
I have to agree with Sokoloff below. The problem with flying cars is, well....they fly. Which means dealing with an object in 3 dimensions, pitch, yaw, roll and all that in a product that's supposed to replace a Prius. Even in highly s
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by slr555 10y ago
All this talk of traction and moving forward is great but one of the most important things to remember about 4WD or AWD especially in snow and ice is that is doesn't enhance your ability to brake. It is easy to feel fearless being able
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by slr555 10y ago
A Love Supreme. Blue Note recordings. I marvel at them today. Yes, a major loss.
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Rudy Van Gelder, Audio Engineer Who Helped Define Sound of Jazz, Has Died(nytimes.com)
124 points by slr555 10y ago|26 comments
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Your point is a good one but in medicine the issue tends to be that a lot of studies with varying controls and endpoints are being lumped together and presented as a coherent whole. In reality the distortions (and in some cases biases of t
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by slr555 10y ago
Meta-analysis: the non-study, study that says, well, anything you want it to say. I am so tired of second rate journals running rehashes of other researcher's work and pawning it off as a "ground breaking examination of the data&q
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by slr555 10y ago
In the US virtually all public places and people are fair game for photographs. One has no legal expectation of privacy in public place in the US. That said, I am more qualified to be on commenting on petapixel than Hacker News. On photo we
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by slr555 10y ago
I am reminded of Foucault's referencing of Borges' fictional Chinese encyclopedia, Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge. Which divides animals into 14 categories: Those that belong to the emperor Embalmed ones
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by slr555 10y ago
The dearth of Macbook Pro releases may not represent an obstacle or even a nuisance for everyone but for devotees of the Mac such as myself whose work falls under the general rubric of "creative", it presents real challenges. The
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by slr555 10y ago
The malware known as PowerPoint has infected millions of systems worldwide and has cost businesses, NGO’s and governments untold billions in lost productivity. PowerPoint files seem to be self-spawning and capable of infinite replication in
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by slr555 10y ago
It is interesting that that within the last few days the NY Post has published an article on the food supply that continues to promulgate this myth. The book author they cite is also blaming olive oil for the tragedy in Spain. It is unfortu
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by slr555 10y ago
For me the best thing about HAM is that it makes you learn before you can play. For a non-engineer such as myself, having to learn the electronics, physics, antenna design, FCC rules etc. forced me to acquire knowledge I probably wouldn&#x2
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by slr555 10y ago
I have so much respect for foley artists. Artist being the operative word. People don't appreciate the hard work and creativity that goes into making the perfect sound.
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by slr555 10y ago
AI that produces sound through analysis of a source video is impressive. Fooling humans is not. Since most of us have grown up on a steady diet of film and television many of the sounds we have in our memories are the work of foley artists
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by slr555 10y ago
The title of this article extremely poorly chosen. The DSM-5 criteria for PTSD defines this condition in terms such that a great number of patients meet the criteria who have never been exposed to blasts of any kind. Yes, there may be signi
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by slr555 10y ago
I am much more of an artist than a technology person and the rendering inconsistency the author refers to is one of the coolest aspects of the video. This is the kind of happy accident that gives work originality and makes it more than a sl
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by slr555 10y ago
I'm not much of a finance guy so please tell me how this is different than a Ponzi scheme.
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by slr555 10y ago
This will be awesome. We will have a whole new generation with real life experience with intermodulation distortion, picket fence noise and host of other quirky radio anomalies.
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by slr555 10y ago
Perhaps Mr. Balashov is thinking of the great urban centers of Europe like Moscow. Where it can take 2.5 hours to go 20 blocks and where the mass transit system embraces multi-culturalism and internationalism by only having signs in Cyrilli
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This statistic gets bandied about every now and then and is completely indefensible. Extrapolation is hardly proof and the CDC statistics don't begin to validate this nonsense. If it were true it would mean that for essentially every p
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by slr555 11y ago
The Chinese characters for the word gullible have also been removed from all Chinese dictionaries and public documents.
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What is interesting to me is the intersection of all these perspectives about code and the user experience. I have taken quite a few photoshop classes through the years from the perspective of a photographer (as opposed to designer) and wha
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That makes sense but there are so many transpacific routes that spend huge stretches of time over open water that I am not sure it is even feasible for all commercial flights. CIA SAD/SOG operations likely have a much broader risk enve
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The range of a Gulfstream V is about 6500 miles. Given that fact the jet could have easily flown without entering UK airspace at all. The Gulfstream V also has an initial cruising altitude of 41,000 feet with a max of 51,000 feet. 45,000 fe

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