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by travisp 14y ago
Really? NYC seems to have some great internet options. I get reliable unlimited 50Mbps down/20Mbps up, and many parts of the city can now get Verizon's 300Mbps down/65Mbps up service, if you're willing to pay extra for it (I wouldn't becaus
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by travisp 14y ago
Wouldn't this argument justify almost any government law or control? It's true that Facebook should follow the law of generally free or democratic nations. That doesn't change whether or not the law is good or bad, and whether or not they s
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by travisp 14y ago
23andMe works by testing only a subset of all genetic SNPs ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-nucleotide_polymorphism ). It's not full DNA sequencing. The newer DNA microarrays contain a greater number of SNPs that they test for.
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by travisp 14y ago
It depends what you mean by "results". The genetic results are very accurate (a >99% call rate and >99.9% reproducibility rate). However, medical knowledge isn't at a high enough level for these accurate genetic results to translate
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by travisp 14y ago
Given the massive scale of Gmail and the infrastructure of Google, it's highly unlikely that the entire audience of Hacker News sitting and pressing F5 every second would hurt Google's ability to bring it back up.
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by travisp 14y ago
>At the end of the day, everything boils down to "eat fewer calories than you expend". Sure, if you stop eating you will lose some weight, but, you can die of starvation while obese. In animal studies, that Taubes cites in one of his bo
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by travisp 14y ago
This surely has nothing to do with the security problem, even if it's not exactly REST. It's not even that unusual for browser focused APIs: For example, many older browsers don't support sending the DELETE method, so Ruby on Rails applicat
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by travisp 14y ago
It's an effective ad, but I've wondered if it wasn't misleading by implying it was basically a backup service: Google+'s auto upload feature doesn't save the full resolution of the photos. Somewhere out there is a disappointed father or mot
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by travisp 14y ago
Even though this is Wired, this is typical of financial reporting: to take a single day of price movements and write whole stories about them, completely ignoring larger price movements or alternative explanations. I've even seen news artic
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by travisp 14y ago
I can't wait for the day that someone implementing two-factor authentication doesn't call for a Hacker News post. It's a little frightening how easy it would be for major damage to be done to a business or individual with just a single stol
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by travisp 14y ago
Nobody patented "a human cell". What can get patented is the method for creating this cell line. Here's the classic (and controversial, but for different reasons) patent related to the Mo cell line (T-lymphoblasts): http://www.freepatentso
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by travisp 14y ago
In the United States, you are required to pay taxes even if you trade your services as a dentist for the services of a doctor (barter transactions are fully taxable, although some obviously fly under the IRS radar). Every sale you make with
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by travisp 14y ago
Measurements of CPI during that time point are of more questionable accuracy, CPI measures many different types of goods (not all go up together), and a doubling of CPI over that many years is relatively low inflation. I didn't disagree the
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by travisp 14y ago
I agree that some inflation occurred (my original comment noted the inflation that was ultimately experienced near the end of the 70 year period), and I agree that the article contains some interesting information about contracts and vendin
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by travisp 14y ago
>In 1886, a bottle of Coke cost a nickel. It was also a nickel in 1900, 1915, and 1930. In fact, 70 years after the first Coke was sold, you could still buy a bottle for a nickel. Without getting into a huge argument about the causes
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by travisp 14y ago
This is an important question to raise. One of the only reasons that credit cards were able to take off was because the credit card companies promised to limit your liability if your credit cards were stolen. Similarly, there are countless
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by travisp 14y ago
Conversion without asking is actually against credit card merchant agreements (and I assume the debit card agreements too, although I actually can't find this anywhere). I wouldn't be surprised if you could complain to your bank if what was
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by travisp 14y ago
>the other 20% allowing for athletes and development cases Chicago is not known for letting people in because they are athletes... >80%+ of people who are admitted into the University of Chicago know how to write a decent essay Actu
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by travisp 14y ago
I somewhat agree. But, I personally vastly prefer the experience of reading on the Kindle to a physical book (instant dictionary definitions, easier on the subway because I can hold on in the subway and still turn pages, the ability to choo
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by travisp 14y ago
>Indeed, studies in medical malpractice have shown that doctors and hospitals that promptly admit fault and apologize are less, not more, likely to be sued for malpractice. There's a huge context difference here. These studies are deali
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by travisp 14y ago
You're almost certainly not the "only one." But, most of us don't bother because it doesn't provide any additional security (and might mislead you into thinking you can make your network less secure). See "Why Non-broadcast Networks are not
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by travisp 14y ago
Putting aside the problems of accurately figuring out diets, your charts show very little different consumption in total carbohydrates per day. In 1909-19 it shows 487g carbs per day, and in 2004 is shows 481g carbs per day. The carbs in 19
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Today’s Software Patents Look a Lot Like Early Pharma Patents(truthonthemarket.com)
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by travisp 14y ago
I would guess that because the appeals court decided that granting the injunction was decided by the judge on improper grounds, Apple doesn't have to lose the bond amount. Apple's claims were not proven wrong, but the judge made the wrong d
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by travisp 14y ago
Absolutely true and one of the reasons I would be hesitant to live somewhere like Singapore. I wasn't arguing that Singapore was better , but simply discussing the surprise that the original commenter had in learning about such restrictive
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by travisp 14y ago
A lot of nations have hideously terrible regulations in some area, and comparing such regulations in an index like this is of course subjective to some extent. It's also not a measure of all freedoms (otherwise, Singapore wouldn't be so hig
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by travisp 14y ago
>If all stores were owned by car manufacturers, that would be a significant barrier to entry of new automakers. Is that a barrier to Tesla? It appears a big potential barrier to Tesla (a new automaker) is in fact the dealerships and the
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by travisp 14y ago
Under most rankings of economic freedom, the United States barely manages to be in the top 10. The Heritage Foundation places Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Canada, Chile, Mauritius, and Ireland all above the Uni
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Apple Phone Patent War Like Sewing Machine War Minus Violence (bloomberg.com)
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by travisp 14y ago
This seems overly ambitious. Is "FarmLand" really needed to create a viable "Hackert0wn"? Perhaps they should focus on doing one thing well first (such as an educational center or hackerspace) before adding in side projects that don't real

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