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by tacon 11y ago
In the early 1900s, Harvard was on track to be a Jewish dominated university, and they made the (then common) decision to limit Jewish enrollment.[1] In reading that article, I learned that even Richard Feynman was affected by Columbia&#x2
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by tacon 11y ago
When it is the first use in humans, and the main point of Phase 1 is safety, why is there not an exponential turn on of the trial to avoid widespread harm? For example Patient 1 gets medicine for a week (or whatever), then patients 2 &
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RxAndroid and Kotlin (Part 1)(medium.com)
2 points by tacon 11y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 11y ago
This is a really interesting analysis. Has it been expanded into more detail anywhere? Can you suggest references that map onto programmers, founders, product engineers, etc.?
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Captain De Morgan Strikes Again Non-Singular Non-Positives in Non-English(linkedin.com)
2 points by tacon 11y ago|0 comments
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When Altruism Becomes Pathological(everyjoe.com)
1 points by tacon 11y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 11y ago
>For independent dealerships the only cars on the lot that they actually own are previous trade-ins. Unless you are saying the dealer can return cars they bought at auction, I don't see what difference the floor-planning makes to th
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Try the 36 Questions on the Way to Love(nytimes.com)
3 points by tacon 11y ago|0 comments
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Cisco wins U.S. patent dispute over wifi technology(reuters.com)
1 points by tacon 11y ago|0 comments
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Fourier theorems under various conventions(johndcook.com)
6 points by tacon 11y ago|1 comments
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by tacon 11y ago
I have not yet run into having to get a price out of a medical facility for a future procedure, but I read a lot of anecdotes. Alas, these stories lack any real emotion that could be used to turn public opinion for a change. I've alwa
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by tacon 11y ago
The Chinese elite are showing plenty of self-interest. They have an entire infrastructure of purified air to breathe: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/world/asia/the-privileges-...
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by tacon 11y ago
You can further minimize your cell phone backup costs with PTel.com, a T-Mobile MVNO, which costs $5/month (minimum spend) and $.05/minute. I had them for my (lightly used) cell service until recently, when I switched to Google&#
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Can’t Put Down Your Device? That’s by Design(nytimes.com)
61 points by tacon 11y ago|45 comments
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by tacon 11y ago
Learn by doing: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/luontola/tdd-2009/ext/ObjectCali...
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Kickstarter Advice(techpinions.com)
2 points by tacon 11y ago|0 comments
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Why MakerBot and 3D Systems Are Losing the Desktop 3D Market(fortune.com)
2 points by tacon 11y ago|1 comments
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IBM’s Design-Centered Strategy to Set Free the Squares(nytimes.com)
25 points by tacon 11y ago|1 comments
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Google Cardboard's NY Times Experiment Just Hooked a Generation on VR(wired.com)
1 points by tacon 11y ago|0 comments
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Is Customer Development Pseudoscience?(blog.cauvin.org)
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Five Geek Social Fallacies (2003)(plausiblydeniable.com)
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by tacon 11y ago
Distributed hash tables are a recent idea in networking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table#History
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How to Decrypt Ruby SSL Communications with Wireshark(trustwave.com)
2 points by tacon 11y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 11y ago
I have been running exim4 for years, but I'm in the process of moving to postfix, as postfix is considerably easier to set up all the DKIM, etc., machinery that is now required. Inbound email comes through procmail and is mainly read
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by tacon 11y ago
I've managed my own mail server since 1993, and my email address has been the same that entire time. Here are some tips for maintaining sanity: Greylisting still works amazingly well. With a long, long whitelist and greylisting plus
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by tacon 11y ago
Yes, that is about right for a bare MLS listing and the agent withdraws from the sale. How to find such brokers? Just attend one of your local real estate investor meetings and they will tell you who can help. Such brokers might even be
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by tacon 11y ago
"it's a pain to look up what the fair rate is and then draft a competent counteroffer letter." Not that hard these days, viz. https://www.rentometer.com/
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by tacon 11y ago
A recent episode of "Startups for the Rest of Us" mentioned BuiltWith and its new competitor DataNyze: Rob [11:30]: There are two services I know that actually crawl websites and they can actually figure out what stuff is Built Wi
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by tacon 11y ago
>Scott McKeown has identified what he believes are some instances of parties not involved in a case of patent litigation using the inter partes review (IPR) procedure to squeeze money out of patent owners who’ve won court cases but haven
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by tacon 11y ago
The linked reference mentions that the Oklahoma appeals court wrote that finding the same amount of money in the possession of both men was part of their decision to not reverse. Why would anyone say there was no evidence other than the ot

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