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by zizee 12y ago
Made me think of this story: But Demikhov became even more famous for another crazy transplant experiment: Dog head transplants. Following a first successful transplant by his colleague Professor A. G. Konevskiy at the Volgograd State Medi
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by zizee 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_Light_tree (sculpture).
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by zizee 12y ago
> Your jaw gets stiff from underuse I had not heard of this side effect. I would have thought that regular talking would have sufficed. Very interesting!
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by zizee 12y ago
money quote from the article: Perhaps the main difference between Soylent and drinks like Ensure and Muscle Milk lies in the marketing It's amazing how taking an old product and repackaging it for a different purpose can be a source
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by zizee 12y ago
I find it annoying that whenever Soylent is discussed, people always take such an extreme view of it. Why do so many people frame the discussion with "you will replace all meals with it". It's similar to stories about electri
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by zizee 12y ago
Rhinehart is not a fan of farms, which he refers to as “very inefficient factories.” He believes that farming should become more industrialized, not less. “It’s really the labor that gets me” This seems a little ignorant to me. Farms (at
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by zizee 13y ago
I am curious to hear your thoughts on which sportsperson is a more appropriate analogy?
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by zizee 13y ago
Being born deaf in one ear is rarely a cause for "laughing out loud" I think it was quite clearly intended as sarcasm. the "lol" adds nothing to the first sentence I can agree with you there though, but mostly becaus
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by zizee 13y ago
People are doing just that to take advantage of off peak pricing: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/the-10...
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by zizee 13y ago
if you make consumption more efficient then you effectively make it less expensive and so people do it more Will that really be a big factor in petroleum use? My driving is not dictated by the cost of Petrol (not yet anyway). I am not goi
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by zizee 13y ago
From Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs, the individual inventor is a hero in our popular imagination Am I reading this incorrectly? Are they promoting the idea that Steve Jobs is an individual inventor?
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SpaceX CRS-3 Mission scheduled Tues April 15(new.livestream.com)
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First VR Headset with a 2.5K Display(roadtovr.com)
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Heroku working to fix Heartbleed(status.heroku.com)
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by zizee 13y ago
Heroku is working on it, but as of 07:02 UTC (30 mins ago) they have not released a fix: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/606
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by zizee 13y ago
Got links?
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by zizee 13y ago
85,000 people is a tiny amount of people all things considered. Australia had 129,250 placed for skilled immigrants in the 2011-12 period and that's with a population of around 10% of the US. I'm not saying that the US is not a po
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Teen thinks he can save the US government $400m(startupsmart.com.au)
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by zizee 13y ago
Sorry, I wasn't trying to be condescending! What I was trying to say (not just to you) was the best way to change what is on the front page is by voting visiting the "newest" page and for stories that are interesting. I think
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by zizee 13y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hotel chains like Hyatt ... the vast majority are owned and operated by third parties. I think that is slightly wrong. The vast majority are owned by third parties, but Hyatt operates the hotels.
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by zizee 13y ago
Because it was voted there. If you want different sorts of stories checkout https://news.ycombinator.com/newest and vote for the ones that you want.
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by zizee 13y ago
Disappointing! As many would know, this launch will include the testing of firing of the booster's engines as retrorockets to return the launcher to earth in a controlled manner. Landing gear will also be deployed before the booster di
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SpaceX CRS-3 Launch delayed(new.livestream.com)
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by zizee 13y ago
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/516156/a-popular-ad-blo... From the article: A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry Millions of people use the tool Ghostery to block online tracking technology—some
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by zizee 13y ago
I'm actually in the process of writing an app to do this. If you'd be interested in seeing the MVP when it is ready, feel signup to our mailing list: http://launch.renewalmonitor.com/
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by zizee 13y ago
You are right, they didn't spend a cent on lobbying to protect Brave. They'd already bought and paid for their extensions across all their works already, now and into the future. Pretty good investment that.
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by zizee 13y ago
Because Intellectual Property is fundamentally different from Physical Property? Society grants IP rights as an exchange. Exclusive access granted for a period of time to allow people to profit from their work - then it goes public domain s
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by zizee 13y ago
Copyright is not a divine right, it is granted as part of an exchange. Part of that exchange is that the copyright is granted for a limited time, after which the public can use the IP how they want. If Disney and friends can change the deal
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by zizee 13y ago
And how much do they spend lobbying in order to cheat their way out of releasing their works into the public domain?
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by zizee 13y ago
I've long thought that this sort of thing would be awesome for virtual reality applications. Add independently moving motorized ball bearings to the tips of each column and you could have an multi-directional treadmill with the ability

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