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evacuationdrill··on Guy tries to sell chinese watch Z3 as his own work
For what, rebranding?
evacuationdrill··on Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing
You could have four of these (maybe more?) with the top edges glued to a stick (side view: +). As you rotate the stick, you'd see 10 frames per sheet, then focus on the next one. I'm not sure if that would work.
evacuationdrill··on Scrap the Welfare State and Give People Free Money
Come to Houston, where most of the departments operating here earn lots of income from neighborhoods. Your HOA pays the departments to guarantee periodic patrols or even guarantee an officer present somewhere inside 24/7.

This is not the same as off-duty police being hired; they pay the department toward officer salaries. Just because they're sworn to protect doesn't mean they can't prefer to protect certain areas.

evacuationdrill··on 25 years ago I hoped we would extend Emacs to do WYSIWG word processing
Has he given his reasoning for that? Does it tie into his privacy concerns? I have read a little about how his computer is air-gapped and such, but I don't remember specifics.
evacuationdrill··on The scariest part about the Internet of Things
I agree, but ideally they'd be wired in. Perhaps new homes at one point will have Ethernet ports behind your stove, microwave, etc.

It's interesting that you chose 6 months, because that's how often you have to change the time. :D

evacuationdrill··on Europe approves use of in-flight electronics during take-off and landing
Oh, I realize how weird it is to fly on only one engine. I'm not rated for multi, but I've had some training.
evacuationdrill··on What is wrong with this message?
Yeah, Wikipedia didn't make sense, so I searched and thought WordPress, then finally figured it out.

Part of it is probably that I've only ever seen one person use one.

evacuationdrill··on New antibiotic kills off persistent infections
"Pursuant to their agreement with Blumenthal the IDSA guidelines were reviewed by an independent panel subject to strict conflict-of-interest guidelines and vetted by a medical ethicist. The panel supported the original IDSA guidelines, finding that "chronic Lyme disease" and "post Lyme syndrome" lack clear definitions and convincing biological evidence. Further, the report emphasized that several prospective clinical trials of prolonged antibiotic therapy for persistently symptomatic patients uniformly showed evidence of harm without convincing evidence of benefit.[22] Nonetheless, some groups have continued to criticize the IDSA guidelines after the 2012 review.[23] [24]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectious_Diseases_Society_of...

Also, see your sibling post by me with info from the CDC. It doesn't seem like they're dismissing the symptoms, they're just saying that antibiotics don't help.

evacuationdrill··on New antibiotic kills off persistent infections
Hm, that's interesting.

"Approximately 10 to 20% of patients treated for Lyme disease with a recommended 2–4 week course of antibiotics will have lingering symptoms of fatigue, pain, or joint and muscle aches. In some cases, these can last for more than 6 months. Although often called 'chronic Lyme disease,' this condition is properly known as 'Post-treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome' (PTLDS).

The exact cause of PTLDS is not yet known. Most medical experts believe that the lingering symptoms are the result of residual damage to tissues and the immune system that occurred during the infection. Similar complications and 'auto–immune' responses are known to occur following other infections . . .

Regardless of the cause of PTLDS, studies have not shown that patients who received prolonged courses of antibiotics do better in the long run than patients treated with placebo."

http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/postLDS/index.html

evacuationdrill··on Europe approves use of in-flight electronics during take-off and landing
Two engine planes don't have problems flying on 1 engine. Adding an engine is the best safety feature the plane can have. Multi-engine pilots often joke that you pay for both engines when you train, but you only use one, since during training, the instructors constantly shut one down. By that point, you've already got at least a single engine land certificate, so the only thing they're training you for is that when an engine cuts out, instead of gliding to the nearest field/strip, you fly there a little crooked under power.
evacuationdrill··on Statistics Done Wrong – The woefully complete guide
More revealing than the fraud allegations is the next section discussing the way results had pressure from his and other experiments' results for years, delaying our arrival at a more precise measurement. It reads as though it wasn't so much malice as it was self-doubt that lead to the scientists' actions.
evacuationdrill··on Skunk Works Reveals SR-71 Successor Plan
>the same Lockheed Martin that processes the tax returns

I don't understand this one. Are they behind the IRS's systems or something?

evacuationdrill··on The Prison Guard With a Gift for Cracking Gang Codes
I wish I could, but I can't remember what the thread was about originally. I tried searching, but I can't find it.
evacuationdrill··on MIT Wristband Could Make Air Conditioning Obsolete
Maintaining body temperature takes energy, so being in a cooler environment would help, but it would be minimal, I'm fairly sure. Air has a much lower specific heat than water, and I remember reading a reddit discussion about drinking ice water all day to lose weight versus room temperature water. I don't remember what the result was, but it didn't take as many calories to heat the water as you'd think.
evacuationdrill··on Google Reportedly Building More Floating Structures Outside Bay Area
Their patent describes use of wave energy.
evacuationdrill··on The Prison Guard With a Gift for Cracking Gang Codes
In a recent thread on reddit, a former inmate listed what was issued in county/state/federal, and paper with a pencil or a pen with a rubber body was in all of them.
evacuationdrill··on Fury at Facebook as login requests “Government ID”
Don't be shitty, you know the idea is that you CAN set one up and use the same features, or you can freely switch providers. Try that with Facebook. It's like using AOL or something.
evacuationdrill··on Turn your iPhone into a high-power digital microscope for around $10
". . . the iPhone 4S is equipped with a 5x digital zoom, not optical zoom." http://www.imore.com/iphone-4s-8mp-camera-hands

Other sources I looked at said that some phones do have optical, but it's generally tough due to the depth needed.

evacuationdrill··on Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibiotics, Period”
That's not too surprising. People sometimes have ugly face moles and stuff, and it's not too hard to cut it off.
evacuationdrill··on Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibiotics, Period”
Like a surgery center? They do have those.

I worked at a hospital for awhile, and one of the things I found interesting, though, is that the departments balance each other out. For example, our hospital did obstetrics more as a service to the community, since other hospitals were much further, but they always lost money on it. So maybe the reason we don't see surgery centers or things like that as often is that medical institutions are more stable providing a broader range of services.

evacuationdrill··on Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibiotics, Period”
But I'm glad we don't have to make it.
evacuationdrill··on Russian programmer fights Goldman Sachs and wins one round
So if you find out someone is infringing and want to sue, you begin registration for copyright and file suit shortly after. It doesn't say it had to be registered when the infringement happened.
evacuationdrill··on Wikipedia editors, locked in battle with PR firm, delete 250 accounts
Replying to myself: the site loads normally now.
evacuationdrill··on Wikipedia editors, locked in battle with PR firm, delete 250 accounts
None of their pages load for me.

Google cache of that page (text only): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tDxefPp...

Full Google cache (wouldn't load for me): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tDxefPp...

evacuationdrill··on Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out if I can code
Stop sending paychecks, they figure it out eventually.
evacuationdrill··on Ask HN: In an emergency what tools and technology would you take?
I like that hammock shelter. To make a little "base" or home or whatever, you could put your stuff inside and have the ropes over higher branches, then lift it and tie down the ropes to keep out animals. If the emergency is of the apocalyptic or state-ending variety, a bunch of looted cable locks could chain together and even make it locking, making people climb to steal your stuff.

Then again, if this is in a go-bag, I suppose it all fits in the bag, doesn't it?

evacuationdrill··on FlyKly Smart Wheel
With some of the long backups you get at lights around the belt in Houston (the lights are far apart, weirdly spaced, the timing is a nightmare, I'm sure), I get around 18 mph if I coast between stopped cars on divided highways and about half that if I drive like a car.

I obey the other laws, even signaling and all, but I'm almost positive lane splitting like that is illegal on bicycles (I know it is for motorcycles).

The drivers are also much worse the further out you get, since there aren't bike lanes or sidewalks (illegal but better than getting harassed), and people don't seem to know you're allowed to own your lane. My commute is mostly in a manufacturing area, with lots of dump trucks and 18-wheelers. I've been yelled at and pushed off the road by angry trucks and trailers several times.

Having something like this to get me up to the flow of traffic quickly would keep people from having to go around as much maybe, but I'd rather get one of the small gasoline engines and tanks for about half the price.

evacuationdrill··on Windows 8.1 now available
Well, that was one of the chief complaints.
evacuationdrill··on See Your Folks
You might show what format the form expects, e.g. mmddyyyy.

But now that I think of it, I would probably have to count pixels to tell if I switched month and day. The effect of seeing that is still neat.

evacuationdrill··on Ask HN: What's your linux distro?
Heads up: "Please note Docker is currently under heavy developement. It should not be used in production (yet)."

https://www.docker.io/learn_more/

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