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by srl 15y ago
It seems the writer just started blogging in English (from french) this month.
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by srl 15y ago
Upvoted, even though you're wrong. You seem to be saying, in essence: allowing gays to donate doubles the number of instances of transfusing HIV while only increasing the number of lives saved by 7-10% (or 20%, or 2% - it doesn't matter). B
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Israel to Get Electric Car Battery Swap Stations (technologyreview.com)
66 points by srl 15y ago|16 comments
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by srl 15y ago
_Personally I think their leaks harmed things, and helped nothing._ I agree. At least, I think that's probably true - I haven't extensively researched it. And yet, I nevertheless support wikileaks. News organizations aren't tasked with "hel
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by srl 15y ago
Amen. More disturbing still: because those people who are learning to program /now/ - in this decadent era of webapps and mobile devices - learn the brain damage that is modern web development early on. And it turns out (sorry, no evidence
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Winners of EFF Pioneer Awards(eff.org)
3 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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by srl 15y ago
How'd I end up in hogwarts again? /reddit For some reason, I find that one mildly creepy.
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by srl 15y ago
No single crew has been in the ISS, without other non-radio human contact, for 520 days. In fact, no single person has been in space for that long, period. The record at the ISS is 198 days; at MIR, 437[1]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis
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by srl 15y ago
Those submarines would have 50-150 men on them. This petri dish had 6. There are major psychological differences - in the former, you might not even know everybody; in the latter, you'll know them too well after about a month.
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by srl 15y ago
I suspect they'll repeat in a few years with a capsule in orbit. If you're in orbit for 520 days, something's almost guaranteed to go wrong, so it'll be a good bit more realistic. (I'm actually pretty sure I read about plans to do this arou
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by srl 15y ago
On the other end of the wealth spectrum: this lets folks have large windows open without risking annoying bugs flying in (although birds might be more problematic). No window screen or net. Imagine the possibilities: you could install them
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by srl 15y ago
He's saying that aging is a major contributor to cancer and heart disease (or at least, that we think it is). This is true. "Curing aging" means a dramatic reduction in the overall rates of cancer, heart disease, etc.
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by srl 15y ago
The fewer unknowns there are in a system, the more easily the rest can be reverse engineered.
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by srl 15y ago
A map projection issue could a) easily be fixed, and b) would have been noticed and fixed already, as it would manifest in more places than just china.
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by srl 15y ago
A map projection issue would show up in other places on the map, and would have been fixed by now.
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by srl 15y ago
Really, I think it's just interesting miscellany that acts as a /very/ partial history of many of the growing pains wikipedia's had. It's amusing, and exactly the sort of thing many in the HN crowd love.
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by srl 15y ago
I hate this sort of article. Every month or so, another "look at this evil bill that will destroy our liberties" article comes out, and everybody gets all worked up about it. tl;dr - The judges sitting on federal courts and the supreme cour
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by srl 15y ago
Unless this model doesn't apply to the human population. While I'm sure it does in the general aspect, it seems likely that once the overshoot has begun, we'll be able to stave off the decline (starvation, disease, and therefore war) more e
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Reposturgeon: Version Control Powertool(catb.org)
3 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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The Dangers in Classifying the News(eff.org)
3 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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by srl 15y ago
c--; /* to echo a sentiment expressed on g+ */
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by srl 15y ago
I actually read this the opposite way from the way the rest of you ([ ] appear to be [ ] are ) reading it. No language dodges all of these checkboxes - or even 70% of them, really. I mean, just look at the "Unfortunately, your language (has
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by srl 15y ago
Now very OT, but: _I have compared Swedish media with BBC and NY Times since 7-8 years_ Neither of which is, in my experience, particularly reliable (although there's less of the blatant bias/censorship that you described). Comparing them a
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by srl 15y ago
Doesn't recognize firefox nightly (10) on arch - so it gives me Xs for everything. Excellently done.
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by srl 15y ago
[Jewish American here] From my perspective (in my ultra-liberal enclave in the east), a large part of the criticism isn't that Israel's policies are objectively bad - one can hardly expect a country surrounded by its worst enemies to have a
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by srl 15y ago
That's funny - living in the U.S. (and having almost not contact with Brits, and too much with Aussies), most of these are still true to me. (In fact, most of them I've used or heard in the last week, intended in the British sense.)
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by srl 15y ago
Yes. Because the sort of person who hurtles through space in a giant metal tube for a living is the sort of person who cares about customs. (Pun intended - if that even counts as a pun.)
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by srl 15y ago
Just to say: my MBP runs linux (arch) well better than any of my friend's business-class laptops. (Also, I think you meant to say "function for form".)
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by srl 15y ago
Because it's a reminder of the presence of a government that has, at least in theory, the ability to make life suck harder for a long time through sheer stupidity. Those of us in the U.S. have the privilege of knowing that nothing will actu
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by srl 15y ago
I know, right? It says right on page 673 of the manual not to click that button twice without at least six intervening seconds - and it's even in bold! More seriously: yes, what they are complaining about is that the IRS is finally trying t

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