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by the_rosentotter 11y ago
Ever since reading the referenced op-ed from the New York Times, I have been curious about the effects of low dosages of lithium. If a large dose can counteract bipolar disorder, it seems reasonable that a low dosage would have at least som
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by the_rosentotter 11y ago
Blood = health. There's no question running a startup often takes a toll on your health to some extent.
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by the_rosentotter 11y ago
> They were offered three billion dollars that they turned down. That's called balls.
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by the_rosentotter 11y ago
Indeed, Snapchat seems to be doing well. Facebook, not so much: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=facebook Snapchat and Instagram was born on mobile whereas Facebook have been scrambling to adjust their offering t
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by the_rosentotter 11y ago
For a web interface, try TeamPostgreSQL[1]. Beats phpMyAdmin, imho. [1]: http://www.teampostgresql.com
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by the_rosentotter 11y ago
> In modern Java EE there's no reason whatsoever to avoid EJB. I don't see much reason to use it, either. The only exception is for distributed transactions, where session beans serve as nice abstractions as entry points and ma
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by the_rosentotter 11y ago
Unless you come in through Google: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%09Eurozone+Finance+Ministers+Contempla...
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
> I appreciate the sentiments of this community, its unquestioning reverence towards Patrick I honestly don't. I mean, nice guy, sure, and a great writer, but I don't see that he has built anything I consider particularly inspi
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
> they should have split their market into two, one focusing on high-end workstations and the other game and home computing. That's exactly what they did (and very successfully), with the 500 and 2000 models. The main problem for ma
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
The .Net/Visual Studio ecosystem has been looking increasingly compelling these last few years. But, I am old enough to remember evil Microsoft, so I will almost certainly never go there.
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
I based this on the rules in the countries that I investigated some time ago (among them Sweden and Denmark), according to your link they seem to be the only ones to charge such high fees for non-residents. Thanks for the correction.
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
Musk has been known to embellish his academic record, it was detailed during the court case against Tesla's original founder Martin Eberhard: http://evworld.com/pdf/eberhardvmusk.pdf According to court documents h
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
Competitive college sports is pretty much non-existent in Europe.
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
I get an astroturfing vibe from Meteor. Coming from the consulting world, I have seen this too many times from entities with vested commercial interests. For this reason I always withhold any opinion until real world experience checks in fr
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
What an interesting wikipedia article. The scholars of the Islamic period are so under appreciated.
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
Hipster level: Running Red Star 3.0 Linux
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
A shame the website is so utterly horrible though. Sorry, but it's true. Huge walls of text, stock MS Office clipart, "news" a year and a half old. It looks amateurish and smells of abandonware.
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
Don't forget Israel, they are known for very active spying operations against European countries. In neighboring Denmark it was found that Mossad had been wiretapping the parliamentary overseer for years.
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
> for merchants who accept them Which now includes Microsoft. If you didn't know, Microsoft has chosen to accept bitcoin through their payment provider (otherwise that option would not appear). So I guess I don't understand w
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
I think people are very tired of the extremely preferential treatment Israel is getting in general. Can I say that without offending anybody?
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
Coverage of this has been very confusing. The ESA live feed at most times show people in some kind of control room staring at screens. There is no apparent way to see any highlights, unless I want to try scrolling back and forth through the
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
Probably 'just' the achievement of catching a speeding comet and landing on it. The comet itself doesn't seem all that interesting.
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
W. T. F. Why am I reading pulp romance novel on Hacker News.
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
> so far they haven't done anything really malicious with this data ... that we know of. Remember J. Edgar Hoover's FBI? He controlled the most powerful politicians in the country, because he knew intimate details about their
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
Yes, I meant getting sick while traveling. Going to some third world countries you can get a stomach infection so bad that you have to go on antibiotics.
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
This is in Denmark, the brand is Paraghurt: http://www.actavis.dk/dk/products/ParaghurtA07FA01.htm Now that you mention it I haven't ever seen it abroad. Apparently the common alternative is Lactobacillus aci
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
We use something similar when we go traveling, basically tablets made from feces (active ingredient is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterococcus_faecium ), as a probiotic to prevent stomach infections and diarrhea. They
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
It's probably even worse than that. I've worked on bank systems. They collect all the things you mention, but also details of your personal finances, where you usually receive money from and how you spend it, guesstimates about yo
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
Wikipedia has casualties between 129,000–246,000: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_an... Casualties and losses: 20 U.S., Dutch, British prisoners of war killed 90,000–166,000 killed in Hiroshi
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
Yes. According to documents from Roosevelt's office, the Japanese had previously offered surrender on roughly the same terms that the U.S. ultimately accepted after the bombings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=839

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