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mvidal01··on The Predator That Makes Great White Sharks Flee in Fear
They learn all sorts of stuff - https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/the-lege...
mvidal01··on How to Steal 50M Bees
There's a few companies selling gps trackers for beehives.

https://findmyhive.com/ http://www.save-bees.com https://www.thebeecorp.com/qgps.html

mvidal01··on Vice Media: A Company Built on a Bluff
David Carr of the NYT (RIP David Carr) had some nice words for Vice - http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2011/01/david_carr_puts...
mvidal01··on Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desktop, mobile, terminal
Is it possible to export a note? Are notes sharable?
mvidal01··on Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k maintenance costs
What about Consumer Reports?
mvidal01··on Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in prison
I found something here - https://www.casino.org/news/eddie-tipton-lottery-fraudster-r...
mvidal01··on Cirque du Soleil acquires Blue Man Group
It's an old idea. In the silent film days audiences didn't know the performers real names so that they did not become too independent or powerful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_system_(filmmaking)#Begin...
mvidal01··on How to find a trustworthy VPN service
Australia gets a low score if you read the report on that country - https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2016/australia Maybe Eff or someone else has a better resource.
mvidal01··on How to find a trustworthy VPN service
Because you live in a purple or yellow country - https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/freedom-net-2016
mvidal01··on Filing Taxes in Japan Is a Breeze. Why Not in the US?
This is a very interesting story about a Stanford professor that tried to get California to pass a law to make paying state taxes easier.

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?story...

More: https://priceonomics.com/the-stanford-professor-who-fought-t...

mvidal01··on Ask HN: When do ISPs begin selling your data, and is a VPN all that's needed?
Will the VPN in Opera prevent this tracking? How long before Chrome and Firefox offer this?
mvidal01··on J.S.G. Boggs, artist and trickster, has died
The NYT also has an interesting obituary which includes this quote.

“He was just short of being a con man, but no more than anyone in the art world, or for that matter in the world of finance — which, of course, was his whole point.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/arts/design/jsg-boggs-dea...

mvidal01··on American chestnut trees are “technically extinct”
If you want to help the Chestnut tree join The American Chestnut Foundation - http://www.acf.org/. They do research into developing disease resistant varieties of Chestnut.
mvidal01··on Robot Crop Pickers Means Fewer Farm Workers
It would have been nice of Bloomberg to mention that Brad Goehring is a politician. https://www.facebook.com/pg/Brad-Goehring-118538778165929/ab...
mvidal01··on Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI’s Do Not Call List
I wonder who else is on this list?
mvidal01··on Update on Oracle Layoffs
Do you have a link?
mvidal01··on A love letter to s7 Scheme
What other games use Scheme as an extension language? I know of Little Wing Pinball. I dont know if end user code can be used in it though.
mvidal01··on All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
I'd be impressed if a self-driving car could cross Ho Chi Minh City during M-F.
mvidal01··on Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop
I was just about to consider a Lenovo laptop. This is such a turn off that I'm putting it way down the list now.
mvidal01··on Pesticide link to long-term wild bee decline in 18 year study
Which species of bees are you referring to?
mvidal01··on 1M People Use Facebook Over Tor
I wonder how many of these accounts are sock puppets?
mvidal01··on Software “detects CEO emotions, predicts financial performance”
Maybe Psychopaths CEO's will be even more common in the future.
mvidal01··on East Germany thrived on snitching lovers, fickle friends and envious schoolkids
This fear is why William Binney did what he did.
mvidal01··on Electro Gyro-Cator
Someone in the military did a technical evaluation of the Electro Gyro-Cator. http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a138283.pdf

Pretty interesting.

mvidal01··on How Eddie Van Halen Hacks a Guitar
Tom Scholz from the band Boston has 34 patents to his name.

https://alum.mit.edu/news/AlumniProfiles/Archive/Tom_Scholz_...

mvidal01··on Why do Americans not drive diesels?
I'd love to get one of the Subaru Diesels that are sold overseas.
mvidal01··on Privoxy – a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities
Is there any way to get updated filtering rules?
mvidal01··on Greek Yogurt’s Dark Side
Some people run thriving startups based on whey. http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=2964...
mvidal01··on Ask HN: How do I send video output of a program on one Mac to another Mac?
Maybe http://syphon.v002.info/
mvidal01··on Design That Solves Problems for the World’s Poor
Are the the "hobbit houses" that Michele Bachmann always talks about?
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