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Health Insurance Exchanges are now Online (Affordable Care Act)(healthcare.gov)
19 points by yapcguy 13y ago|31 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Devil's advocate here. > "the Note 3 CPU locks into 2.3GHz mode, the fastest speed possible, and none of the cores ever shut off." Good! I want to know what the maximum performance is from a benchmarking app. I don'
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Let's keep track of what technology related services get shut down. Please reply here. For animal lovers out there, contrary to reports, the National Zoo's PandaCam is still operational (as I type), so enjoy while you can! http:
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Hat tip. A good read.
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Sometimes they don't use the actual headlines and come up with their own so the policy is not consistent. This story was on the front page and heading to the top, but now it's sinking fast. Well done moderators.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Shameful guerilla marketing... or real-life 'Trading Places'? > "Option #1: I will give you $100 in cash. Option #2: I will return tomorrow with a basic laptop and three books to learn to code. I will then come an hour ear
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Smartphones are just one more thing to rob, along with cash and jewellery. With smartphone penetration on the rise, it's pretty obvious that more robberies would involve smartphones, but it wouldn't necessarily mean that smartphon
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> Oakland needs help, robbery and crime in general isn't going to drop until someone starts to care. This. Why have moderators changed the headline? Oakland is #1 for robberies in the country. People need to know this. To accept i
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Blackstone Group: U.S. is "in the middle of an epic credit bubble"(pevc.dowjones.com)
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> upsell the power version to the power users The problem is you then have to have two versions in the App Store, Acme and Acme Pro. Each version will have to go through the torture that is the App Review process. What if one gets reje
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Tech has made San Francisco homeowners millionaires(sfgate.com)
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Research shows chimpanzees are ahead of humans in complex memory tests(theguardian.com)
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by yapcguy 13y ago
"We urge member states and manufacturers finally to introduce a universal charger, to put an end to cable chaos for mobile phones and tablet computers" http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/de/news-room&#x2F
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Apple should be forced to conform to a standard charger, say EU politicians(macworld.com)
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by yapcguy 13y ago
That was 5 years ago for the 25th birthday, but the message is still true, and quite well explained for love technology but perhaps less technically inclined.
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Latest update: http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2013/09/26/video... Maybe this is real... Maybe this is just some perverted marketing for Nitrous.IO whom I have never heard of until now..
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How I taught a homeless man to build an app in a week(dailymail.co.uk)
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ThinkPad 9, world's thinnest Ultrabook, with 3200x1800 resolution touch screen(translate.google.de)
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Stephen Fry video message: Happy (25th) Birthday to GNU(gnu.org)
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BoingBoing and PopSci kill comments on articles, NYTimes scaling back too (dailytech.com)
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by yapcguy 13y ago
From the blog post it looks like the non-profit will be "recommending" the Raspberry Pi for children while the commercial arm reaps the rewards. This is no different from Microsoft pushing its products in schools. What if a bette
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Kenya attack: Hostages found 'hanging from ceiling' with 'eyes gouged out'(mirror.co.uk)
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I hope Dolphin can take a look at iOS 7 and see how complete Apple's implementation of OpenGL ES 3.0 is: > OpenGL ES 3.0 includes as core functionality the features of many extensions supported in OpenGL ES 2.0 on iOS. But OpenGL E
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Discussion on the main World Cup Slaves story here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6446077
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by yapcguy 13y ago
I think this is new to many people and thus well worth reporting. Also, homosexuality was decriminalised in Russia in 1993. The recent law bans distributing material about non-traditional sexual relations to minors. It does not make it il
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Thank you for sharing your experience. I wonder how many expats would be in Qatar or Dubai in the first place if it weren't for the 0% income tax. Speaking of Dubai... "Norwegian woman sentenced to prison in Dubai for the crime o
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Wow, only 6% of the labor force is made up of locals. Basically the Qataris sit back and let workers from the rest of the world do 94% of the country's work. Which begs the question, what exactly do Qataris do all day?! >"Un
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by yapcguy 13y ago
They are/were looking at making artificial robotic clouds. http://edition.cnn.com/2011/SPORT/03/25/qatar.flying.saucers... > plans to develop giant artificial remotely controlled "clouds&q
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> This summer, Nepalese workers died at a rate of almost one a day in Qatar, many of them young men who had sudden heart attacks. It was always a stupid idea to have footballers running around in temperatures of 100-120F, let alone ma
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Revealed: Qatar's World Cup 'slaves'(theguardian.com)
214 points by yapcguy 13y ago|140 comments

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