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by tristanj 10y ago
You posted a lot of links in your post and I've read your post multiple times yet I'm still not really sure what you're going for. Most of them are links to other articles that support the facts from the original article, but
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by tristanj 10y ago
This was a very engaging, high effort piece of journalism from an org I've never heard of before. Content like this is not cheap to make which gave me the something's not right here vibe, so I tried to find out who paid for this
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by tristanj 10y ago
Well, if his actual intent was to help patients who couldn't afford his drug, then he could just sell it to them cheaply. I don't think people would consider that abuse. Instead he chooses make roundabout tax-deductible contributi
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by tristanj 10y ago
> [Shkreli says that for most people,] Daraprim is given for free That's his PR pitch. Shkreli says he's giving drugs away for free, but really he's not. What's actually happening is his company makes a tax-deductibl
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by tristanj 10y ago
This is fake, the author can't name a single person or give a specific example. When called out on this by multiple google employees, he posted a followup, which has gems like this: Because I do. I have communications. I have documen
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by tristanj 10y ago
Makes sense. The pair seem to know what they're doing, so they probably checked city law beforehand to make sure everything is alright.
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by tristanj 10y ago
> Side note: the view of the hills and mountains from the reactor room is gorgeous. Agreed. The twins' fusor.net profile says the they live in Berkeley, CA, a suburb across the bay from San Francisco. At 1min into the video I&#x27
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by tristanj 10y ago
A video of their reactor setup, including a part where they prep and run it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92M5qcjDkaU
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by tristanj 10y ago
Nope. The Galileo spacecraft only carried 7.8 kilograms of Plutonium. That blue smudge is about the size of planet earth. There's no way that amount of plutonium made a cloud that big.
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by tristanj 10y ago
You're right, the other comments aren't incorrect (I wrote that word earlier), it's just in this spot there's federal restrictions on building height that prevent certain developments. I edited my comment to remove that
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Most of the other comments are off base for Mountain View/Sunnyvale shoreline area. Google and Linkedin can't build tall buildings here because their campuses are next to Moffett federal airfield and the surrounding area is subjec
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by tristanj 10y ago
For the record, the crossed out and updated section was added two days before you posted your comment. At that time, the author added a link right at the top to a newer, more accurate article. The author also added the word "[Updated]&
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by tristanj 10y ago
> That's like claiming artificial diamonds are as good as natural ones. Really? In my comment I never claimed anything of the sort. There's only one claim in my comment, which is that a similar feature does exist on Android.
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by tristanj 10y ago
I wouldn't pay for this ... on iOS it's very simple to spoof your location with Xcode. Xcode even has a feature where you can upload a list of GPS points and it will "walk" your device along the path over a period of tim
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Italy’s teetering banks will be Europe’s next crisis(economist.com)
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Quoted from the part of the article the author crossed out and rewrote because it's inaccurate. And the title is a quote taken out of context.
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> Tesla has now reviewed the logs This is an extremely misleading interpretation of the article. The article says Tesla has only reviewed the basic crash logs, which don't contain information about autopilot state. The detailed cr
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How remain failed: the inside story of a doomed campaign(theguardian.com)
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> Edit: I wonder why this submission was flagged? Too contentious? That, as well as the clickbait title, plus it's missing a (2007) tag. When it was submitted back in '07 the article received several hundred points and a live
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Tesla Eyes Shanghai as Front-Runner for China Production(bloomberg.com)
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by tristanj 10y ago
My Economics 101 professor in university taught this in class, and told us that if we only remembered one thing from his class, it should be this.
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Elon Musk Has Two More Secret Master Plans(tomraftery.com)
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by tristanj 10y ago
Not me personally, but Imgix uses Mac Pros in their datacenter for graphics related work. http://photos.imgix.com/racking-mac-pros And not directly what you asked, but a thread that comes to mind is this one, where an unnam
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by tristanj 10y ago
Part 1 and Part 2 of the series are also worth reading http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-s... http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-s...
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by tristanj 10y ago
Youtube has an auto-generated transcript feature. In the video description, click More->Transcript. Edit: actually don't use the YouTube transcripts, there's a human-curated transcript here http://conversationswithbi
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The I.P.O. Succeeded. Who Was Rewarded? (2004)(nytimes.com)
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How Big Pharma Uses Charity Programs to Cover for Drug Price Hikes(bloomberg.com)
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by tristanj 10y ago
YC is building a research facility similar to Xerox PARC. No specific goals, but I'd assume researchers would be looking at projects 10-20 years out. There are a lot of similarities with this and PARC, they have Alan Kay (former PARC),
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by tristanj 10y ago
Which report is this? I've seen the Facebook press release, I've seen Tom Stocky's post, but I've never seen this report. Source? And the biggest issue I have, is that as far as I know, from January 2014 to present, Face
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by tristanj 10y ago
Since you're keen on giving advice, I'll bite, how would you describe NAWAPA to others? The way I see it, no matter which way I described it, I knew there would be commenters who would have a visceral reaction when they learned ab

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