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by wfjackson 12y ago
I guess you haven't read the HN threads on hospital costs in the US. Here's a sample https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6838269
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by wfjackson 12y ago
Many signs point to the viral load not being highly infectious at the beginning. Duncan was sent back to his home by the hospital and lived with his fiance who was taking care of him for two days before being readmitted. She wore no PPE ye
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My non-technical partner tries Windows 10 for the first time(hanselman.com)
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by wfjackson 12y ago
Why do academic institutions need to have sports teams?
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by wfjackson 12y ago
Anecdotally, I haven't seen an issue around me with malware on Windows either from 2010 (except one person complaining about the Ask toolbar bundled with Java/Flash). I guess you haven't been looking at the news about Android
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by wfjackson 12y ago
That makes as much sense as Google making Chromebooks run Windows to sell more of them. There is not much money to be made in the Android OEM market unless you're Samsung(and even their profit is falling precipitously). I think the wor
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by wfjackson 12y ago
It's been $19/yr for over a year now vs. the $25 one time cost to get into the Play Store. Also free for students and MSDN members. I believe the fee is there to prevent a malware propagation problem like we have on Android.
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by wfjackson 12y ago
>It's fascinating to me that the iPad is flat and being effectively cannibalized by the iPhone iPad sales were flat or dropping even before the bigger iPhones landed. http://hyderabadjunction.com/wp-content/uplo
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by wfjackson 12y ago
http://boingboing.net/2007/09/14/new-ipods-reengineer.html
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Drinking pop daily can shorten your life: Study(torontosun.com)
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Bay Trail PC is the size of a thumb drive(techreport.com)
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by wfjackson 12y ago
I wish the government or charities helped these people out by educating them about the various ways they can be frugal and the typical ways they get fleeced by holding free seminars and giving out flyers/books. Perhaps the tips in Redd
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What 9,000 years of breeding has done to corn, peaches, and other crops(vox.com)
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by wfjackson 12y ago
For $40 more you can get a new Xbox 360, although games might not be as cheap as on the Play store. That Xbox is just a 4GB one, but I don't see Google Player local storage mentioned in the linked page.
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by wfjackson 12y ago
>Get your apps on Google Play, or rent a movie if your app doesn’t have what you’re looking for What? Are they exclusively targeting movie content with this? It doesn't make much sense to rent a movie if store apps don't have a
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Using a Surface Pro 3 full time for two months(hanselman.com)
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by wfjackson 12y ago
Btw, it's a she, not a he.
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by wfjackson 12y ago
The Linux partition and all the data will also be wiped if the battery runs out while the Chromebook is in sleep mode. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8261156 https://plus.google.com/1110491682801590331
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Molecular Origins of Eating Disorders Found in Gut Microbe(neomatica.com)
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Announcing key advances to JavaScript performance in Windows 10 Preview(blogs.msdn.com)
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by wfjackson 12y ago
The edit link goes away after an hour or so of posting the comment.
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by wfjackson 12y ago
Lenovo is doing good and getting better. http://www.cnet.com/news/lenovo-earnings-soar-on-solid-pc-sm...
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iPhone 6 Plus easily bends permanently with force(recode.net)
13 points by wfjackson 12y ago|3 comments
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Google may face $6bn EU anti-trust fine(theguardian.com)
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Google will stop supporting climate change science deniers, calls them liars(arstechnica.com)
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New D-Series of Azure VMs with 60% Faster CPUs, More Memory and Local SSDs(weblogs.asp.net)
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Swedish voter uses JavaScript code as write-in candidate(arstechnica.com)
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by wfjackson 12y ago
Here's an article with more details. http://www.dailytech.com/Appalling+Negligence+DecadeOld+Wind... Looks like they were still using Windows XP embedded instead of moving to Windows 7 embedded.
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PayPal goes after Apple pay in a full page NYT ad about iCloud hack(pando.com)
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by wfjackson 12y ago
A browser used by 58% of web users is not relevant at all? Talk about living in a bubble.

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