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> because the specific question is whether the government intentionally added methanol or other substances to alcohol with the intent to poison people who were drinking it during prohibition. "JasonCEC, please cite the lack of evidence you found" is nonsensical

I originally made this point:

1. But JasonCEC hasn't addressed the question in any way. He's claimed to have researched it. That's not the same as having researched it.

I could make a couple more:

2. If you go looking into the question of whether a historical event happened, there are plenty of ways to show evidence that it didn't. People arguing the ahistoricity of Jesus don't say "well, it's impossible to cite a lack of evidence", they do things like pointing out that the non-Christian historians who mention him do so only in known forgeries, and that certain historians who you'd think would have taken note, like one who specifically wrote about religious movements in Asia, seem to have overlooked him, and they compare the state of the evidence for Jesus with the state of the evidence for other notable figures of the same time period. Discrediting the idea that something happened isn't impossible, or in principle even difficult.

3. If one person says "I've looked into it, and I found strong evidence for X", and a second person says "I too have looked into it, and I didn't find evidence for X", that's quite compatible with X having happened. We've all looked for something that was there and not found it.

4. You're calling for applying very strict standards to one side of an argument while implicitly trusting the other side -- based on the word of a guy you don't know who has made not even a token effort to comply with your standards. This doesn't make any sense. If drunken finger-pointing and mumbled arguments are an acceptable attack, they're an acceptable defense too.
There is at least one person on HN who likes open floor plans. I know this because I'm that person. When I worked in one, I never found myself distracted by conversations, and most often didn't realize they were happening.
But be careful, know what you're taking and do your research. Psychedelics are very powerful drugs. If you use them correctly you'll have a good experience overall but in the same light things can and do go wrong
> However, there don't seem to be great books coming from it. Apple probably should have made many demos (instead of just 1) to give educators and the public an idea of the potential interactive homework and textbooks could have on student engagement.

They should have started a textbook publisher, incubated it for a year or two, and then spun it off (even letting it be purchased by an existing publisher if that made sense).
We know that many cancers are a result of this. For example smoking related cancers of the lungs and oropharynx, alcohol related cancers to the oropharynx, gastrointestincal cancers from H. Pylori, Adenocarcinomas of the oesophagus from stomach acid due to GORD, some squamous cell carcinomas of the skin.
Yes it is detectable, to an extent.
But inflammatory markers change on an hour to hour basis, so a one-off test is not useful. And There is no benefit to testing on an extremely regular basis.
Chronic high-level inflammation is easier to detect as there are certain proteins and blood markers that only change over the longer term however these are signs of chronic disease or even cancer itself and thus not really useful as a prevention.
The cellular dysplasia that occurs is a better sign that some pathological process is underway and we utilise this information, collected through biopsy of skin lesions, examination of pap smear cells and other biopsy specimens to work out if we can do some procedure to reverse a potentially cancerous lesion.

But there is no way to work out some global low level inflammation as the insult that causes many of these cancers occurs locally, and you really need to look at the tissues in the areas of the insult (as we already do) to see how far along it is; even if you could perform a blood test that would tell you that 'there is some low level chronic inflammatory process occuring that may lead to cancer' you would need to be able to localise that inflammation in order to work out how to reverse it
Ask HN: Non-US residents using Coinbase?
Ok, I'm a bitcoin noob, but today I decided I wanted to buy some. Maybe I want to tip the odd open source project I like without using Paypal, etc.

I'm based in Germany. This FAQ [1] on the coinbase website states that non-US residents can't verify their accounts.

It then states what coinbase WITHOUT verification CAN do, but it doesn't state what they CAN'T do?

Without ID verification it is still possible to:
- receive and store bitcoin
- secure your funds with 2-factor authentication
- create recurring payments
- manage paper wallets
- send bitcoin to email addresses.

Is it just that non-US residents can't do instant transfers?

Or should I just use bitcoin.de? Advice welcome.

[1] http://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/1392167-can-i-verify-my-identity-as-a-non-us-resident-
It takes no effort to change the name and clone it completely.
This should be banned. Really. I don't want this on the same road as my loved ones. When you are driving, you are driving. Not reading/tweeting.

Even more, mounting "something" to the front window is illegal in a lot of places in the world [1]. At least Netherlands and U.S. In The Netherlands operating a phone while driving (voice operated carkit exempt) gives you a ~$250 fine.

Furthermore, obstructing part of your window is dangerous. You could miss something. And it's distracting (our eyes focus on motion).

What a idiotic idea.

[1]http://www.poi-factory.com/node/34521
in writing pihkal and tihkal he earned the title.
Is there a stomach which can handle aspirin regularly (even in small doses) without the risk of getting ulcers and bleeding?
If there is... where's the line to get one? :)
Looks like the Dreamweaver for the next generation.
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>"temporary" detention

If you can't post bail you could be in jail for months on end, with no compensation if eventually found innocent.
Which for something that's meant to be maintaining consensus is a fairly stupid move.
In which states is it illegal to carry $100K in cash?
The fear of clones diminishing the value of Ethereum seems odd to me, considering we have many alt coins that are derived from BTC but none have come close to supplanting BTC. Once the technology is openly available it might be easy to spool up a clone, but then marketing and gaining mindshare are needed and they are much more difficult.
All (ideological) systems are self-preserving, if they weren't, they wouldn't be stable.
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Flew on a 787 recently, they had a problem with the IFE system and rebooted it; it's Linux. Recognised the default X11 cursor straight away and was even able to move it around with my touchscreen before it disappeared and their UI came up.

That plane had a USB port by each screen too; I didn't have any peripherals to test if it interfaced though.
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I'm fine with them too. I like the hubbub.
IIRC, the legal requirement is to shut down with both conditions are present, some GPS manufacturers simply found it easier to implement each restriction separately.
I worked in biomedical research for a while and few things seem to trigger controversies like Aspirin does. Many MDs believe it's evil and don't condone its use for pretty much anything, but on the other end of the spectrum some medical professionals seem to self-medicate with it religiously.

Personally, I've been taking it for many years, for many reasons. I am genetically predisposed to colorectal cancer and serious cardiovascular problems - both led to the death of many relatives and my father has been battling both for a long time now.

Since my adolescence I've also been a migraine sufferer, which is where I originally "discovered" Aspirin, because it helps lessen the impact like no other substance and over the years I found that regular preventive usage reduces the frequency of bad episodes to below 1/y, which is simply awesome. It's probably important to mention that I got the stomach for it, too, which is something that precludes many people from taking it on a regular basis.

With my anecdotal history in mind and weighing my person risk factors against the known complications (I dread ever being in a serious accident where blood loss becomes an issue), I have elected to take it every day.

Pharmacists are horrified, by the way. "Don't take it for longer than 3 days!" "Wouldn't you prefer Ibu instead? You should."
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The firewalls are going to get very expensive once everything runs on port 80.

Unhappy users are sometimes the only way to get policies to change.
True, but still the question remains which copy the public would adopt.

But I also see it as a a problem that Ethereum presumably doesn't have a huge user base yet.
Good thing I work 30 hour weeks
This culture is somewhat prevalent in the UK as well. There is a self destructive portion of society who tend to see education as a negative thing. Hell some of them dont even have a book in their house. I don't get it myself.

With respect to the parents who care too much, I'm forever making my kid's teachers' lives hard because the education they receive is very variable and I would noy be fulfilling my job as a parent if I didn't raise it every time :)
What does “the experience of a stream of conscious thought” mean?
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Every large web site uses a load balancer, effectively a proxy. I don't understand why Poul Henning-Kamp's experience with that didn't carry more weight in the working group.
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Any idea if this book would be a waste of time if the good parts sunk in easily?
I'm impressed I'm somehow getting modded down for that opinion.

My local network is trusted. Google does not have a local network. But the cables and wires physically within my house or even my office building can be presumed to be secure, since if you can get access to those, then you could also just take the physical machines by any numbers of methods.

You also don't address "large but insensitive data" - which is where YouTube video downloads and the like mostly lies. Encryption is not costless on small devices like laptops/desktops.
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Americans taking credit again... lol.

"MDMA was first synthesized in 1912 by Merck chemist Anton Köllisch" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA#History
So if you have a 3D model of a person, you can make completely fake videos of them doing something?
They're on their way out as well.

On the financial side, I work for a company that destroyed the entire desktop side of things. Within 5 years they destroyed all the competitors just by doing it all on the web and cutting admin and management costs.

With respect to hotels/booking systems, I'm tackling that one myself. All the software already out there is crap.

All the markets above apart from possibly medical are ripe for the taking.
I agree - I came to Python after doing .Net and was surprised at how confusing the time/date handling is - particularly as pretty much everything else in Python is so nice!
55 trackers according to ghostery. What the hell is wrong with theatlantic.com?
I've seen this too.
Despite your safety argument, couples with young children will be by far the last consumers to use self-driving cars.

Parents do plenty of horribly "unsafe" things with their kids, but the point is _they_ do them -- they aren't going to pass the responsibility for their children's lives on to a computer willingly. Heck, I've known people who refused to take their children on driverless trains, they sure won't put them into a driverless car.
Timothy Leary wrote "The Psychedelic Experience" in 1962.
Aldous Huxley wrote "The Doors of Perception" in 1954.
And I guess there are many other books on psychedelics which I haven't read.

But still it's a chemist, who earned the title by writing a book about psychedelic chemical compounds and their effects, but which is not as... psychologically deep as other books (some of which have been written almost half a century ago) on psychedelics.
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Yeah I think a laptop is much more useful. I still don't have a tablet. The biggest use of a tablet I can see is watching videos.
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I wrote the first couple thousand words of a book on an iPad last summer and even using an external keyboard it as painful - you have to keep touching the screen to do things, which is a long stretch compared to using a trackpad or mouse
Thank you for putting into words my same initial concerns about this library.

Naming should be much clearer than this, with the intention to make code sort-of read like English text as much as possible. Arrow is a fine name[0], but the actual class/object names should be descriptive.

Also, not only the fact that .replace() can apply relative time-offsets, the quirky way it signifies it, using singular and plural keyword-parameters, it's a "clever" solution but it's not at all intuitive. When I figured it out, it was more of a relief that at least .replace() does not always apply relative time-offsets (which would have been terrible naming).

I wish it was more pythonic, on the whole, agreeing with the way people expect things to behave in Python modules. It says it's inspired by Requests, which gets that very much right, so I was getting my hopes up a little.

Arrow.get() is totally named the wrong thing. It does more like a .create(), maybe I would've put that functionality into the constructor. A method called .get() should implement something very similar to what most .get* methods do on standard types and in the standard library. Which is, extract part of an object that is a container-type (optionally with defaults, etc). Of course that operation does not make sense on an Arrow object (and please don't try), so it probably just shouldn't have a .get() method.

[0] actually it's not. I've found myself accidentally muscle-memory-typing "Array" a couple of times already. I'd probably have renamed this module early on in the process for that reason alone.
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Many clones were made of bitcoin, but it has a large first mover advantage which keeps it on top. coinmarketcap.com has some interesting stats on the "altcoins"
Was it catalytic converters or government pressure due to health concerns that forced the move? Certainly in the UK, cats came later.
Title should be "How Medium is trying to fake their way to traction"...
Synthesized - yes.

But Alexander Shulgin extensively synthesised, tested and documented - both the process and the psychedelic effects of - thousands of psychoactive compounds.
From a political perspective then your local repo is wrong, always was wrong and owning it an act of subversion ;-)
This is interesting. It's potentially a bridge into "mass" transit.

Sam Altman's insight about his own (high end) car use and the potential cost of replacing it completely with Uber is one legitimate example of how they could expand beyond of the taxi market. I don't think it's impossible for uber to have a few hundred or thousand core users in major cities that spend $10,000 per year on Uber. That only really applies to a small group of wealthy individuals.

But, the real big markets are usually nearer the bottom of the pyramid.
the case for the hovering of a link just triggers the request earlier giving the browser some seconds of advantage, there's no need to keep hovering until the request ends ;)
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Just a quick reference to the matrix ;)
While part of me is fascinated by the idea, part of me is slightly appalled. For one, they seem to be mixing internet UX with aviation UX and hoping for the best on America’s roadways. I’ve flown extensively with both a HUD and an HMCS. Even a missile alert is a small flashing icon, not a giant picture. And this is in a plane where other objects are not usually in your immediate vicinity. All I can think looking at that picture with mom calling, is wow, “I just drove off the cliff because mom called, this sucks, well at least the scenery’s beautiful, and this HUD’s pretty cool.”
I wonder how this will influence the legal problems Uber has here in Germany.
It is not free because you will be investing your time. In fact, the time you will be investing into graduate school is probably worth a lot more than the monetary cost of that education. There is always an opportunity cost. You could spend the two years continue working on your startup, and possibly get a much larger payout than a graduate education will yield over your lifetime.

A question you should ask yourself is: What do you want to do with your life, and how will graduate school help you with that? It seems like your goal is to do a startup. If that's the case then you probably won't benefit much from a graduate education, be it a business or technical degree.

The main resource you get out of graduate school that is directly applicable to startups are connections. Potential co-founders, advisors and early employees. The "quality" of these connections is directly related to which school you will attend. In other words, attending a top-tier school may be well worth it due the connections you will make there, even if the actual educational content will turn out to be useless (which is most likely the case for startups).

The other way to look at it is that graduate school can give you a nice break from professional life. It certainly can be a fun time.

PS: I was in a similar position. I applied to graduate school without knowing whether or not I actually wanted to go. I ended up going because it was "free" (I was paid to do research) and dropped out after a year because I felt like I was not getting enough value in return for all the time I was spending.
Not really. There are no parameters involved in what a Scheme programmer would call a polymorphic program - instead, such programs simply range over all scheme values.

Because the values ranged over in such programs is known rather than being a parameter to the program, they are not polymorphic (in the ML sense).
It's easy to buy and sell $100k of foreign currency on exchanges. Hell, you can open a spread-betting account and 'trade' with massive leverage, so you can effectively be buying & selling most world currencies without even having to pony up the bulk of the cash.

(Not saying that it's a wise idea to start doing this, just that it is possible and easy to do).
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His work is also discussed at some length in Mike Power's Drugs 2.0, it's an interesting read.
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> All that being said, for young children, an iPad is an irreplaceable educational tool.

This has been shown to be true for children with disabilities, but from what I've read nobody could document any educational improvement for the rest.

Isn't it interesting that MIT, in their open courseware videos, shows advanced programming taught with chalk and blackboard? (Of course, those aren't young children, but still...)
Bitcoin already enables a lot of these applications, and of those that go beyond what's possible with Bitcoin none of the hard questions have been answered yet. These are questions about spam and denial of service. It is far from clear how these would be handled.
Original article: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140805/ncomms5579/full/nco...

It seems like they are currently preparing a study comparing the efficacy of computer games and general computer work with regard to reducing elderly depression:
http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01979289
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>They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States

reminded about "almost Prohibition" of 30 years ago in USSR which resulted in many hard-drinking/alcoholics people extracting alcohol from various industrial and domestic liquids containing it, up to and including shoe polish, and moonshiners producing their product from unimaginable things because of limited availability of various food-grade (or at least looking/smelling like it) sugars/starches and adding things like domestic insecticide for better "kick" (or "torgue" as it is said in Russian)

I think looking at the DNA of many Russians today, one can see what was drunk back then by their parents :)
I tried one of his apks : The Verge TV.
It installs an app of the same name. The First Screen is the logo of the website on 2/3 of the screen and a description of the website. In a corner there is a disclaimer button,
clicking on it leads me to a disclaimer explaining that 'The Verge TV is not affiliated with The Verge'.

I find it hard to believe that he did not realize that an app copying the names & graphics of popular websites would get him banned for impersonation. Chances are that some of these websites reported him to Google.
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Traditionally laptops have had far too many moving parts to be durable:

- 1 or 2 fans
- Keyboard
- display hinge
- Hard disk
- CD Drive
- often various flaps or expansion area

Whilst laptops are improving in this area, iPad have not had any of those from the beginning - it clearly makes for much more durable device. Additonally almost all laptops are high maintenance software wise with the possible exception of chromebooks.
Your point? Merck & Bayer have done exponentially more work than that - and they invented it. Reading this article it sounds like he invented it. People have been drinking the bread juice, or eating the mushrooms for millennia and writing about it. Reading this article, it sounds like he started some sort of drug movement. Discos were around before him. Sure, he did a lot of work in the area, but he gets a lot of credit for things he didn't do.

Next you'll be telling me Americans made the first flying plane, or made the first working digital computer, the transistor, or invented the wheel?

This is a misleading article from an academic institution.
I use a tablet for reading books. They're much better than a laptop for that.
This.

In the UK I don't see anyone much bar some specialists playing games on PCs. It's done on xboxes and phones these days.

Even I as an ex-gaming, clan membered top 20 ngworldstats unreal tournament player who attended many a LAN party doesn't play a single game on a PC now and doesn't own a graphics card past an integrated Intel one...
I rather liked the distinction made in the OA: in later years, tablets seen as entertainment device, laptop as for work.

PS: I believe that Apple do actually sell remote management software for iPads.
> And, almost by definition, if the music is loud enough to drown out ambient noise in an open-plan office, it's loud enough to damage your hearing if you're exposing yourself to it 8 hours a day.

In my experience the levels you need to drown everything out (to a manageable level and with closed headphones) is way lower for white/brown noise than it is for music.
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This appears to be the older ARM ones. The newer Intel ones are pretty nippy even with the Celeron badge.
(...) the initial investment of a couple hundred dollars

And learning to ride it :)
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That's not just some thing they happen to do once a day. Its what they do ALL day, in addition to many other things. The purpose of the exoskeleton isn't really to increase how much you can lift. Its to make it so it is less tiring.
Interesting, you mean these devices access Web through school/education authority proxy when used on home wifi?

Not seen that one in UK yet
It would be good if the manual had all the examples that moment.js has (which arrow was inspired by).
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