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by soundwave106 1mo ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK62376/
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by soundwave106 1mo ago
Um... really? When I Googled life expectancy by ethnic group in the United States, it gave me the following numbers: Asian: 85.2 years Hispanic: 81.3 years White: 78.4 years Black: 74.0 years American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN): 70.1 y
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by soundwave106 3mo ago
Some of the shakier dot com companies did, though. And the dot com bubble collapse of Nortel and Worldcom shows that even well-established companies with significant non-bubble investments are vulnerable if the companies make poor economic
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by soundwave106 3mo ago
From my perspective it's more of a "stay away" type of stock (short or not). The price is not supported by business finance fundamentals, and seems to be pushed upward via the retail market, driven by Elon's gift for sel
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by soundwave106 3mo ago
Or you could mitigate the next dot-com style crash (which wiped out nearly 80% of the NASDAQ composite). Back then, it was "day trading" that was one of the warning signs that a bubble was ensuing. There are certainly shades of th
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by soundwave106 8mo ago
This is a much longer running issue than the Obama administration. Market distortions favoring heavy trucks include: * The Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE), enacted in Congress in 1975 under the Ford administration in reaction to the A
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by soundwave106 8mo ago
One of the problems with nuclear is, um, it's ability to cause an "extinction event". Sort of. In that: * Nuclear power plant failures can be very, very nasty. As in, "producing uninhabitable land for eons" nasty.
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by soundwave106 1y ago
If you think of authoritarianism as more of a "spread" and not as a black-or-white thing, you can see where the problems with "Trumpism" are. Using the terms of The Economist's "democracy index", I see the
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by soundwave106 2y ago
Clarification: I am guessing you are using the liberal term from a "classic liberalism" sense (e.g. how it is used in Europe) and not the US version of the term, which generally refers to social liberalism and is often associated
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by soundwave106 2y ago
You may want to look up under whose presidency it was when the United States Justice Department sued Microsoft in 1998. :) Musk was far, far less political (at least regarding his public persona) even 10 years ago; his persona was more heav
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by soundwave106 8y ago
The Atlantic headline is IMHO bad though -- I would agree that applying the "Rap Legend" title is questionable when it doesn't even appear that Dr. Rapp cut a commercial release. Typically in music and art, individuals that g
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by soundwave106 8y ago
Generally speaking these days, whenever I see a non-minor / specialist article in need of correction, I tend to rely on the talk section to make points that maybe an editor can apply better. That's what I did for Wikipedia's
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by soundwave106 8y ago
I do disagree with the lazy "Buzzfeed is left wing therefore your result are automatically invalid" conclusion of the poster. :) But I do believe that bias could be a genuine concern here. Both the Buzzfeed article and the Stanfor
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by soundwave106 8y ago
In the above news article, there is a direct link to the magazine with the study. The direct link to the study is here: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaau4586 The study appeared to correlate two
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by soundwave106 8y ago
Thanks for the clarification, I have corrected the text.
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by soundwave106 8y ago
I don't think we have any document released yet that describes any full picture. We do have this statement (and a little more detail inside) in a report by a joint report by the US Intelligence Community (regarding Russian interference
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by soundwave106 8y ago
I think the gist of that statement is that there is no "easy" money anymore, if there ever was. I'm pretty sure it would be quite difficult get rich by simply importing commodity Chinese products and marking them up in FBA --
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by soundwave106 8y ago
From my perspective the "extra" came about when commercial interests started targetting the web, using base emotional tactics to get clicks and likes. Social media outside of the big networks (and thus less targeted by commercial
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by soundwave106 8y ago
It's more the "reaction to diversity" that's the issue, in my opinion. Some areas unfortunately are not terribly friendly to non-white or non-Christian people. This sometimes is reflected in certain laws and may reflect
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by soundwave106 8y ago
It's not a terribly useful study to me as a result. Granted, the parent piece from a libertarian think tank, so this type of report - an advocacy document - is what to expect. That's fine. But you can also find advocacy from the o
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by soundwave106 8y ago
There's a level of fame, the more superstar type level, where simply walking by yourself in public is much less feasible because of the tendency to get mobbed or attract unwanted attention. This is probably the level where problems lik
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by soundwave106 8y ago
Based on a comment wesd linked to above ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18535748 ), and applying that comment to all the large corporations behind ad-tech (because IMHO large corporate political problems are fairly sim
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by soundwave106 8y ago
The first point is valid IMHO in a way. Like a lot of small towns in Massachusetts, Charlemont uses an open town meeting style of government, which means all residents have a vote in determining how the town is run. I would personally bel
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by soundwave106 8y ago
Several years ago I was able to revive a "dead" SSD simply by updating the firmware to the latest version. I haven't had a dead SSD problem in a while though, so I don't know how common firmware issues are now.
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by soundwave106 8y ago
There are many forms of "news" out there (we're on a site called Hacker News after all :) ), which is probably what my complaint about that article would be. To me, more specialized news sources sometimes definitely can be re
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by soundwave106 8y ago
I didn't downvote, but it did take me only a couple of Wikipedia clicks to bring up the article on Neapolitan Novels ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neapolitan_Novels ). Per the article "the series has sold 10
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by soundwave106 8y ago
What I will say about lossy MP3 audio is that in a blind ABX style test, I imagine I would not be able to point out which is which if the bitrate is high enough. However, if you play the lossy audio and lossless audio back to back in a good
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by soundwave106 8y ago
Depends what you mean by "safe". Gold is considered a commodity investment, and shares the high volatility that is common in this class. ( https://view.ingwb.com/sector-and-volatility-commodities ) Gold does have un
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by soundwave106 8y ago
It's more than a porn ban, though, it's an "adult content" ban. IMHO because Tumblr chose to make the ban broad instead of focusing on commercial pornography, this made the controversy a lot stronger than it needs to be.
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by soundwave106 8y ago
Offhand I actually don't know of too many DAW programs that can record the individual tracks in FLAC format. Reaper does. Checking the Wiki ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hardware_and_software_... ), it loo

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