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by vmarsy 9y ago
I think the parent is referring to this: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-36772303 > Artificial sweeteners can boost appetite by activating hunger pathways in the body, scientists have found in animals. > In fruit
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by vmarsy 9y ago
What does that heat map achieve? It doesn't make a lot of sense to me to show the raw billions per state. Instead it'd be interesting to see the $/population in those states. Because otherwise you'll obviously see a lot
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by vmarsy 9y ago
Yeah, it could make sense apply it to only "non resident for tax purposes" (i.e. People filling a 1040NR) As other comments mentioned, a tax like this should also affect rich citizens who similarly contribute to vacant houses, so
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by vmarsy 9y ago
Yes that's a nice summary. It's good to see that some of steps have already been taken (led instead of incandescent) and that at that time photovoltaic technologies weren't viable yet thus not mentioned in the video. Also I l
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by vmarsy 9y ago
> The tax applies to anyone who isn’t a citizen or permanent resident of Canada and purchases a home in metro Vancouver. I feel they could simply apply the same tax to non US citizens/permanent residents trying to purchase a home in
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by vmarsy 9y ago
I've never heard of this service before, is bitwarden widely used by people here? I was looking at the FAQ[1] and on a small paragraph they manage to put 3 spelling mistakes. This might be unjustified but I'm less inclined to trus
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by vmarsy 9y ago
"just defeated" but should have a 2016 tag. Paper link for those interested : https://www.omicsgroup.org/journals/genetic-fuzzy-based-arti... (from a June 2016 press article : http://magazine.uc.ed
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by vmarsy 9y ago
gp is right, there was 8/23 wrong classifications of "Bottled vs Soma" vs. 10/23 wrong classifications of "Tap vs Soma" In Figure 6 , the author shows there's no statistically significant difference betwee
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by vmarsy 9y ago
I found the original article that the CBC writer based this story on more interesting and entertaining. I submitted it on HN a couple days ago: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/health/sd-me-bacter...
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by vmarsy 9y ago
Strange to see an academic paper without any context making it on the front page of HN, I didn't know that many people would be interested by Geometric algebra. The abstract was promising: > This paper presents an efficient imp
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How viruses beat a superbug,and saved a man after 9 months of near-certain death(sandiegouniontribune.com)
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by vmarsy 9y ago
Hypothetically, if a bad guy hacks the echo, it could only blackmail people based on their voice recording. If he hacks the Echo Look, it could blackmail people based on some naked pictures/videos of the victims.
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by vmarsy 9y ago
> turn some Samsung TVs into surveillance tools with an implant for recording audio from a TV’s built-in microphone. Who other than the CIA can also exploit this? Is there a place where Dumb TVs still exist?
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by vmarsy 9y ago
> using drinking water to cool our servers seems like an exceptionally short-sighted choice for us to make. In that case "us" is Google, in that server farm specifically. The article mentions there exists better alternatives :
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by vmarsy 9y ago
The VW group owns Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, SEAT, ... If I remember correctly the Bosch cheating software was there for testing purposes but VW asked Bosch to leave it. > Everyone else also uses it No. Some companies optimize their engi
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The Y Combinator in Six Steps(ebzzry.io)
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by vmarsy 10y ago
Related, Trump's executive order from today which mentions H-1Bs : https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/04/18/presi... And a quote from the NYT article[1]: “This does nothing,” said Sena
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by vmarsy 10y ago
Even if you are careful to remove all features you think could tell the race (let's say geographic location etc), it could still be giving harsher sentences to minorities if those are treated differently upfront. For instance, it woul
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by vmarsy 10y ago
For those wondering what exactly is SDF, a summary loading quickly: https://web.archive.org/web/20160828065530/http://sdf.org/?f...
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by vmarsy 10y ago
not the parent, but I can think of the major research labs originally in SV, now major tech companies, and the big universities such as Stanford with great technical talent. Those are big factors in what makes SV technically strong. There&#
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by vmarsy 10y ago
submission title was already too long, Stanford University wouldn't fit, "Leland Stanford Junior University"[1] even less :) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University
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Pharmaceutical company wins $1M in legal fees from patent troll and Stanford(prnewswire.com)
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by vmarsy 10y ago
I think jlgaddis' link[1] is more informative than the theintercept.com article : https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/shadow-broker... I feel the HN submission should point to that instead. The Out
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by vmarsy 10y ago
The R&D being done here doesn't only apply if you run extremely large data centers. Facebook, Google are contributing back to the Open Compute project [1] , and anyone could use this knowledge if they want to build a small data cen
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by vmarsy 10y ago
That's a huge setup :) One questions I have regarding NAS is backups of the NAS itself. If I have a very simple NAS with 2 drives in Raid 1 (let's call it Drive A and B), and I want to make a physical backup of my NAS in a differe
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by vmarsy 10y ago
> The abundance of MPs per salt sample ranged from 0 per kg in the salt sample # France-F (i.e. Country of origin: France, brand F) to 10 in the salt sample # Portugal-N I guess I'll keep buying the French Gros Sel de Guérande from
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by vmarsy 10y ago
Yep my bad for the 7 miles, see my reply to jessriedel below
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by vmarsy 10y ago
The 7 miles per dollar comes from the delta Amex marketing flyer sitting on my pile of mail, but I didn't look at the fine print, I got curious and looked into details : actually it's only 1 mile per dollar for usual purchases, y
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by vmarsy 10y ago
I added a link to my original post, it varies by companies, delta is estimated at $0.012 apparently those days.
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by vmarsy 10y ago
One way normal credit card companies makes money is this way: They charge the merchant a fee (1 to 4%), and in exchange they give a 1-2% cashback to the customer. They make profit on the difference. With a deal with an airline, the company

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