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Magnetofossils from Ancient Mars: A Robust Biosignature in Martian Meteorite(aem.asm.org)
3 points by yasp 8y ago|0 comments
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Gender Differences in Reading and Writing Achievement [pdf](apa.org)
2 points by yasp 8y ago|0 comments
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by yasp 8y ago
I don't doubt that there are some US spies in the hacker community. Certainly not inconceivable that there wouldn't be foreign spies in it too.
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by yasp 8y ago
I don't disagree. There is good evidence that the FISA system was weaponized against the Trump campaign through Carter Page. That's what the present battle to get sections of the Page FISA warrant declassified is about.
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by yasp 8y ago
When a FISA request is granted, the government is granted the ability to spy on people within "two hops". E.g., spying on their contacts, and on their contacts' contacts. This is on the presumption that they all could be spie
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by yasp 8y ago
FISA surveillance is intended to go after spies. If government shouldn't target journalists at all , won't spies just become journalists?
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by yasp 8y ago
What kinds of places were you told not to look? (I'm guessing you couldn't physically point it at targets on the ground, so I assume certain sections of the sky.) Who was it that was commanding you not to look?
578.
by yasp 8y ago
Would that entail a Blackhawk helicopter and this veil of secrecy?
579.
by yasp 8y ago
Do observatories usually have hundreds of pounds of mercury?
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by yasp 8y ago
Longer article at https://www.alamogordonews.com/story/news/local/2018/09/07/s... Anyone have speculations on what this could be?
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by yasp 8y ago
I wish the EU would, so that it stops damaging things for the rest of the planet. Eventually the costs of complying with the EU's decrees will get high enough where it will make more sense for companies to block European traffic than c
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by yasp 8y ago
Most immediate way around this: block European traffic and/or don't do business in Europe.
583.
by yasp 8y ago
Ostensibly if you adopt a digital currency you are no longer using the US dollar.
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by yasp 8y ago
Such risks as "being able to devalue one's currency" ? A public ledger provides greater protection against money laundering and other criminal activities than a paper currency does.
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Deadly fire exposes wealthy man’s secret underground tunnels(apnews.com)
3 points by yasp 8y ago|0 comments
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How have we let scientific study become hate speech?(unherd.com)
5 points by yasp 8y ago|0 comments
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by yasp 8y ago
Why are schools implicit childcare centers?
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by yasp 8y ago
Maybe a violation of Terms of Service, you'd need to check. But Google has anti-scraping measures and will block you if it detects bot-like behavior.
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Ask HN: Does Twitter intentionally break certain tweet threads?
1 points by yasp 8y ago|0 comments
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by yasp 8y ago
I'd be interested in trying kava were there not so many people addicted to it and trying to quit. (The same is of course true for benzos, hence why I'm looking for an alternative.)
591.
by yasp 8y ago
I've experimented a bit recently with a few adaptogens, namely maca root and ashwagandha. Not technically an adaptogen but something I've also recently experimented with is theanine. I admittedly didn't realize until just now
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by yasp 8y ago
Tell that to the people that invested in the Nikkei in 1989.
593.
by yasp 8y ago
Saw the same listicle. Unfortunately most of those roles would be way too dull IMO. Wish it were possible to make being a developer low stress.
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Ask HN: Which types of tech jobs are best for people that can't handle stress?
189 points by yasp 8y ago|162 comments
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by yasp 8y ago
Incidentally, if there is a crash, how is the Fed going to respond, since interest rates are practically as low as they can go? Will we see negative interest rates and asset purchases of equities and perhaps even real estate?
596.
by yasp 8y ago
Alternatively, it means that Amazon is able to underpay because workers are able to go on food stamps.
597.
by yasp 8y ago
How do you prove that you deleted something?
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by yasp 8y ago
Berkowitz's Allocation fund is heavily cash at the moment, too.
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Ask HN: Should an individual looking to invest wait for a new financial crisis?
3 points by yasp 8y ago|3 comments
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Avoid News: Towards a Healthy News Diet [pdf](dobelli.com)
2 points by yasp 8y ago|0 comments

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