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by whyenot 9y ago
I was a very strong supporter of Mozilla in the early days when it was a scrappy nonprofit dependent on donations of time and money from its users (I proudly gave them both). Today's Mozilla by comparison comes across as bulky and wast
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by whyenot 9y ago
> This is categorically false. some counterexamples: iMacs without floppy disks and with USB, MacBooks with only USB3 ports, the original iPhone, the touch bar (like it or not, it's pretty cutting edge), ...
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The importance of dumb mistakes in college(nytimes.com)
127 points by whyenot 9y ago|97 comments
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by whyenot 9y ago
While I am also skeptical, there are watermelon-like species native to the southwest, for example calabazilla (Cucurbita foetidissima) that could have been the starting point for selective breeding. Native Americans selectively bred other c
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by whyenot 9y ago
> All while it's getting late for you to get rich too. It's easy to get on the train, much harder to know when to get off. I still remember the anguished posts four years ago on HN from people who put their life savings into bi
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by whyenot 9y ago
I tend to agree with you about the problem although I am not sure that it has been an issue in other countries with free college education. Maybe the solution would be to emulate some European countries and also pay for vocational training,
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by whyenot 9y ago
When I was a grad student I worked deep in the Amazon of eastern Ecuador. The following wild foods could be found at the market: white-lipped peccary, spider monkeys[1], woolly monkeys, paca, parrot, macaw, iguana (I think, might have actua
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by whyenot 9y ago
Amazon seems to almost always be the target of these articles, how about highlighting someone else for a change. For example, drive along El Camino Real next to Stanford University and you will see a long line of campers parked along the ro
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by whyenot 9y ago
In other words, gambling should be allowed because it only harms the under-educated? I'm not sure that's a very compelling argument considering the current state of K-12 education in the US.
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by whyenot 9y ago
This is what screwed me over as a herbarium curator (a herbarium is a type of natural history museum for plants): Excel completely corrupts dates before the year 1900. It just boggles the mind -- if your spreadsheet has dates for 10,000 yea
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by whyenot 9y ago
That survey is more than 5 years old. A lot can change in 5 years.
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by whyenot 9y ago
If you were in a car accident, chances are that the day care would waive the fee. The fee doesn't exist to be needlessly cruel, it's there to encourage parents to pick up their children before closing. As far as passing out in you
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by whyenot 9y ago
I seem to remember that in some pools you had to initiate a payout to your wallet through the pool website. Payouts weren't automatic.
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by whyenot 9y ago
My Favorite is Dan Janzen's paper "Yes?" that was published in Biotropica in 1978. Here it is in full: Yes? No. Acknowledgments: This study was supported by NSF DEB77-04889, and grew out of discussion wi
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‘Gene Drives’ Are Too Risky for Field Trials, Scientists Say(nytimes.com)
3 points by whyenot 9y ago|0 comments
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by whyenot 9y ago
What a shame. There was one right next to the San Jose State University campus. They were forced to move when construction on new private student housing began where their building had been located. After a lot of hardship and pleas for don
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by whyenot 9y ago
> So you want to make them more rare so that people have a strong incentive to harvest from the wild? No. I think them being illegal to posses is working to reduce field collection. This strategy is used for many other endangered plants
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by whyenot 9y ago
Both are vey slow growing. It can take 25+ years for a plant to be large enough to produce flowers. This has led impatient jerks go out and (illegally) field collect them to the point where both species are considered threatened. For that
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by whyenot 9y ago
I'd be on the lookout for a hookah-smoking caterpillar
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by whyenot 9y ago
who are you quoting?
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CDC scientists pursue deadly monkeypox virus in Africa(washingtonpost.com)
100 points by whyenot 9y ago|21 comments
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by whyenot 9y ago
I'm not sure it's a good idea to take away local control of zoning and other planing just because the result is something that YIMBY groups don't like. There is something very undemocratic about doing that. More housing and m
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by whyenot 9y ago
The public also benefit if municipalities can charge fair market prices and use the income to fund projects that more directly benefit residents, or lower taxes. Forcing local governments to charge below market rates is little more than cor
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by whyenot 9y ago
At the same time, salary information for all California state employees, from the governor to university groundskeepers is publicly available online for anyone to use. transparentcalifornia.com
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by whyenot 9y ago
OP linked to a news article that presented a pretty good summary of the report along with some additional context. It was not "some pundit blithering about it." I don't think there is anything wrong with linking to a news art
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by whyenot 9y ago
Maybe there hasn't been any recent good news from Tesla. It looks like Tim Higgins also writes stories on other things related to cars and tech[1]. 1. https://www.wsj.com/news/author/8483
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by whyenot 9y ago
"Internt for people, not for profit" This is a great slogan, but actions speak louder than words. Why hasn't FF implemented basic privacy protections and block trackers like Safari does? If Firefox is really "for people,
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by whyenot 9y ago
I owned a Smart car for two years. It's not unpleasant at all. It was my daily driver. I drove from San Jose to Los Angeles in it and up in the Sierras over 9000 feet. The interior is plastic. What were you expecting, Corinthian leathe
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by whyenot 9y ago
The Smart EV already does.
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by whyenot 9y ago
I bought a MBP in July and rebooted it maybe ?twice?. It's never had a problem with crashing. Great machine, but the touchbar sometimes annoys me.

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