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Kapow··on Chemical clears Alzheimer's protein and restores memory in mice
Wow, talk about cherry-picking. And those both resulted in jail time. How about the "unfortunate history" of falsified research in other countries?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_misconduct#Notable_...

Do you feel the same way about US scientific research?

Kapow··on How to destroy Bitcoins?
Like how you can't use paper money that was printed before 2010? That makes sense.
Kapow··on f.lux for iOS is no longer available
Do you really think everyone who finds a post entertaining is compelled to reply with "LOL"? This place would be full of substanceless posts like that, you'd have to wade through them all to find any actual discussion. It's considered rude to post when you have nothing to say.
Kapow··on Gerrymandering and a cure for it – the shortest splitline algorithm
>When one of these "modern, established democracies" manages to maintain a stable government (or even survive) for as long as the United States has

"Has" up to what date? Is there some set length of time they have to surpass? Or are you suggesting the US can't learn anything from other countries until after it collapses and is outlived? Seems like a moot point by then.

Kapow··on Google OnHub Review
If you're partway through the article, you've already taken the clickbait. The point is to confuse you with possibly misleading terms, so you click to read the article and see what they really meant.
Kapow··on OpenSSL Security Advisory

    /* Remember how many untrusted certs we have */
    j = num;
Flawless.
Kapow··on Three hundred programming interviews in thirty days
And if you had a choice between a below-average licensed surgeon and an unlicensed surgeon?

There's no process that can guarantee above-average practitioners for everyone, it's a paradox. That doesn't mean minimum standards are pointless.

Kapow··on Super Mario Bros. 30th Anniversary
This was also the only way to play Goonies in the US, they only sold the sequel for consoles here.
Kapow··on The Man Who Broke the Music Business
CBR 128 still gets that weird underwater warbling distortion on cymbals and other high-end sounds. You need to go at least 192 to make that inaudible.

With today's bandwidth and storage capacity, there's no reason to use anything worse than -V2.

Kapow··on The Illusion Machine That Teaches Us How We See
There's also Naya's Quest, a free browser game by the creator of VVVVVV. It uses a diagonal isometric view and lets you rotate the camera around to see where the platforms really are. Even with that, it's tricky.
Kapow··on TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?
Notice the added functions like IsNonSysPartitionOnSysDrive and ResolveAmbiguousSelection, and all the unrelated minor changes like the comment line in Common/Volumes.h. Looks a lot like they based it on current pre-release development code.
Kapow··on A New Codecademy
There's an interactive website for "How to Think Like A Computer Scientist", it lets you edit and run code samples right there in the browser. Very convenient for beginners, I can't recommend it enough:

http://interactivepython.org/courselib/static/thinkcspy/inde...

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