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by tgb 8y ago
The poster is probably referring to their avoidance of sin investments like arms and tobacco.
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by tgb 8y ago
Just turn it in to the police anonymously, let them look at the drive.
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by tgb 8y ago
Comparing them is what this article is about. By the measure of all-cause mortality, exercise is more important than not smoking, according to these researchers.
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by tgb 8y ago
How can Apple let people accidentally make purchases? Wouldn't anything charging to your credit card need an Apple pop-up with the listed price/rate to appear and you to accept it? I know people click "OK" to anything, b
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by tgb 8y ago
I think that's the only excerpt from the blog post suggesting that companies will do this research out of good will. The reality is that this work is largely being done by academia and government research groups for now and it's u
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by tgb 8y ago
Largely unrelated but MPEG of mp3 fame has just released MPEG-G, a compressed file format for genomic data. Predictably, it's on track to be saddled with patents. Imagine needing proprietary software to view your own genomic data - or
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by tgb 8y ago
This doesn't seem like it would be that hard to happen - doesn't the US already mandate requirements that certain DOD purchases to be from within the US? The DOD probably buys enough to make it worthwhile for there to (continue to
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by tgb 8y ago
Do note that the purchaser was not present at the time. They were bidding over the phone through an employee of the auction house. So no one recoiled over the money they themselves had wasted.
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by tgb 8y ago
What does "in terms of width" mean in this context?
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by tgb 8y ago
Why would you expect a step effect from abortion legalization? It depends upon current criminals dying off or aging out, which happens gradually.
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by tgb 8y ago
The intention, I imagine, was that the wet shirt keeps you cool by evaporative cooling.
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by tgb 8y ago
You seem to be quite mistaken: https://www.fire.nsw.gov.au/page.php?id=327
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by tgb 8y ago
You're probably right given who it was that it wasn't a call for attention. However, the more respectable, more established someone is, the worse it makes this. It's hard to brush off the claims that the left wants to take aw
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by tgb 8y ago
I don't think arming teachers is a good idea but I do know people that literally do. And Betsy DeVos has apparently been floating the idea of using federal funding to purchase those guns. [1] On the flip side, I've seen an op-ed i
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by tgb 8y ago
I don't think genre literacy counts as a workaround: I think it's really the definition of what is or is not 6/8. The 6/8 time wheel gives a heavy bass drum on the four count. I don't notice such a thing in the walt
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by tgb 8y ago
Hm, not sure I like the example for 6/8 time. It's so much slower tempo than 3/4 time example that it's very hard to compare the two for me.
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by tgb 8y ago
Yeah my guess is that perfect timing-awareness and 200ms reaction time looks a lot like 0ms reaction time. Just start the action 200ms earlier - that'll work in enough cases that you'll look like you have perfect timing.
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by tgb 8y ago
I see how that could mean that the borrower might not know who owns the loan, but surely the payment servicer knows? Would they simply not tell you, even if you asked?
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by tgb 8y ago
The idea is to compare this round of applicants between the ones that were originally accepted and those that were "accidentally" accepted.
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by tgb 8y ago
Is advertising cannabis legal in anywhere in the US? I haven't spent much time in the states where pot is legal but I certainly haven't seen any. Contrast this to traveling in Germany where the cigarette ads shocked me as an Ameri
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by tgb 8y ago
What am I looking at?
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by tgb 8y ago
Yes, I'm just saying that the drone was not involved in rescuing someone who was already drowning and there was no difficulty alerting the life guard because she was exhausted and out too far rather than unable to easily breathe. The d
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by tgb 8y ago
The "drowning is silent and discreet" fact isn't very relevant here - no one was drowning, they were just at risk of tiring out and starting to drown in the near future. A flotation device delivered by drone would have to get
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by tgb 8y ago
I recently started working in a related field (RNA sequencing) and none of the other responses have really captured "what" it is that's going on here - and that's kinda necessary for the "why". When we say that
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by tgb 8y ago
There was some decent discussion about that earlier on HN [1]. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17739631
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by tgb 8y ago
That's only part of it - sweat not being able to evaporate is another part. I'm not sure which is the bigger effect.
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by tgb 8y ago
I don't doubt that the bad dynamics would happen regardless, but Facebook is just such a terrible way to have this group. First, it's private so you can't view any of it without joining the group which is a little icky though
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by tgb 8y ago
If anyone's reading the first of those two, make sure to go straight to the last chapter or epilogue or whatever it was. IIRC, it's basically a talk turned into a chapter for the layman. This might only be the in the more recent e
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by tgb 8y ago
I'm glad to see him go, but we're at the point where large tech companies essentially control what information we have access to and are beginning to engage with regulating the content for real, but we do not yet have legal or soc
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by tgb 8y ago
Thank you! I feel like everyone forgot their middle school civics lessons, the amount I hear that line trotted out these days.

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