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Yes. Oklahoma has cut public education more than any other state in the country.

This will, of course, raise the cost of solar equipment and washing machines in the U.S. I can understand the GOP wanting to raise the cost of solar power in order to increase the use of fossil fuels, but why washing machines? Did Maytag make a large campaign contribution?

The Tesla Model S weighs significantly less than most pickups and large SUVs on the road today. Tesla's heaviest, the Model X, is significantly lighter than the GMC Yukon, for example.

I don't see the logic in this argument. Electric vehicles are not going to destroy the roads.

There will be better autopilots, but never perfect ones. Aircraft have been using imperfect autopilots since their inception. Most planes have a prominent red button you can press to disable the autopilot whenever it misbehaves.

I'm not sure why this post routes through facebook, but here is a link to the article: http://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/model-s-on-autopilot-crash...

It's hard to believe so many people consider the use of shortened URLs a security measure. It is not, and was never intended to be. A URL is exposed, by definition, whether long or shortened. A shortened URL is a convenience, not a security tool. Some people misuse base64 encoding for "security" as well, but it does not mean we should get rid of base64 encoding.

It's risk/reward. Whether a VC fund, NYSE, or government security, you can risk more for greater reward. This does not mean, as the article implies, that you should. It depends on the individual and the purpose of the investment. I can probably make a lot more money investing in a riskier company, but I am also more likely to lose some or all of my investment.

If I am considering investment in a fund that expects a 40% annual return, I should remind myself that if it was a sure bet, then enough people would be investing in it to drive the price up and the return down. There are plenty of investors as smart as me, and many of them are willing to do more research than I am.

This is typical of software development in recent years. The emphasis on newer platforms and technology (in the case iMap) results in new user interface limitations, as well as bugs, for existing users of older technologies (i.e. desktop, keyboard access, and Pop3).

I've found eM Client to be a good alternative to Outlook and WLM.

The references are a nice touch.

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt

As a matter of fact, I do live in a small town with a median household income of less than $30,000. There is a Walmart store. Most Walmart employees do not qualify for food stamps, but they do get health and other benefits not available at many local small businesses. There are relatively high paying jobs at the Walmart store -- much higher than are typically available at local small businesses. And, if a Walmart employee is willing to relocate, there is even more advancement potential.

I cannot imagine anywhere in the lower 48 United States where there could be a community in which people have to drive three hours to get food. If there is, the demand would certainly justify someone from inside or outside the community opening a grocery store. A large capital outlay would not be necessary.

If people in a community have to drive three hours for food, then there will be enough demand that someone will open a grocery store. When there's an economic vacuum left by a closing superstore, other, possibly smaller, stores will come back and fill it. It's simple economics.

When a company such as Walmart opens or closes a large store, there seems to be a mass of news articles explaining how the opening or closing is destroying the community.

When a large store comes in, people rarely consider that the new jobs will have benefits and advancement opportunities not found in the traditional mom-and-pop stores. When a large store closes, people rarely mention that it will leave room for new mom-and-pop stores to open.

The fact is, large stores have a pluses and minuses. Their opening or closing is more a result of local economic conditions than the cause.

The raw images are available without Javascript. There are thousands, complete with img tags:

http://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=1197&camera=MAST_

'<a href="./?rawid=1197ML0054561950503142E01_DXXX&s=1197"><img src="http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/01197/mcam/1197... alt="Image taken by Mastcam: Left" width="160" hspace="0" vspace="0" style="border: 3px solid #FFFFFF;"></a><br>'

I agree. Microsoft, Apple, and Google have the ability to modify user behavior without much downside. The rest of us are better off making the user experience as fast, efficient, and simple as possible.

By coincidence, I just put a 301 redirect on my personal site to go from www.xpda.com to xpda.com two days ago. If I could only get ctrl-enter to submit https://domain.com instead of http://www.domain.com in Firefox, I'd be happy. (There was a bug that prevented this last time I checked.)

"In 2015, we stepped up our efforts to fight phishing sites, blocking nearly 7,000 sites as a result." One of the 7000 "phishing sites" they blocked was a page on my personal site (http://xpda.com/f18ebay/) that has been there more than 10 years and has nothing to do with phishing. It's not an important or high-traffic page, but it was irritating nonetheless to be falsely accused by Google and, as a result, a several other web institutions.

I'd settle for a universal shortcut key that activates the hamburger menu, just like the F1 key is used for Help. Ohh no... someone killed F1 AND Help when I wasn't paying attention!!!

This is true, and is often overlooked. Many startups are internally funded, and grow through profits. These companies are typically more conservative in their business strategies, because people tend to have less risk tolerance with their own money, because there are no outside investors pushing for accelerated growth, and sometimes because of more limited finances.

Advances in desktop CPU speed have been minimal over the past few years. If I could get a reasonably priced PC that's 50% faster than my two-year-old system, I'd buy it today. Instead, the best performance gain for me is a PCIe SSD.

The headline is not correct. The article is about how light is processed, not how it travels.

Wastewater injection wells, contrary to popular press, are not used primarily for the disposal of fracking fluid or other drilling waste products. Produced water is, by far, the largest component going into wastewater injection wells.

When you get oil and gas out of the ground, a lot of salt water comes with it. Sometimes, especially in Oklahoma, there can be 10 times as much water as oil. This "produced water" is used for injection into other wells to displace oil, but there's enough left over to require wastewater injection wells for its disposal.

http://energyindepth.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Wastewat...

There is some debate as to whether Bach intended equal-temperament or well-temperament. These terms were not well-defined in his day.

https://books.google.com/books?id=yZ95L8Xohs0C&pg=PA4

Traditionally (recent tradition), each note in the upper couple of octaves of a piano have been tuned slightly higher because it's supposed to sound better. Electronic pianos and other instruments don't seem to be tuned this way, so acoustic pianos are now being tuned this way less often.

NPR doesn't give much credit to the SW airlines ads of the 1970's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR7JApjgIGw

I have a project on SourceForge that I haven't touched in 2-3 years. Its SourceForge listing says it was updated within the past month. Weird. The files have not been changed.

I was programming Pascal and Fortran in 1982, and I take exception to this. Real programmers drink Diet Coke, NOT coffee.

Why is there only one "beginning of life" on earth? If life is likely to form in earth-like conditions after a few billion years, shouldn't there be more than one "last universal ancestor"? Does this suggest that life on other earth-like planets may be very rare, or that ours is a unique life form for our environment?

It's obvious in hindsight that the hobbyist market moved, and Radio Shack moved in a different direction. The hobbyists went to Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and quadcopters. Sales of electronics components, wired phones, and Radio Shack PCs dried up almost overnight. Radio Shack went with their remaining big sellers: Cell phones, sound systems, and other consumer electronics that dropped in price and appeared in Walmart, Best Buy, Staples, etc. In the past few years, there was not much to be found in Radio Shack that you couldn't find at Walmart.

I would love to use LibreOffice instead of Microsoft Office, but there are still minor things lacking that I require. For example, I need to search and replace manual page breaks. This is not possible in Writer, yet seems a simple and obvious task. There are a few other simple omissions that keep me stuck on MS Office. Maybe 4.5 will rock.

A Google data center near my home uses the equivalent of 1.5% of a nearby coal-fired generating plant's output to produce nothing but zeros and ones. To be fair, Google spends extra money to get electricity from renewable sources, and I'm happy to have them because I like their service. But that's a lot of electricity! Amazon, Microsoft, and other large data centers are similar.

5% of female sterilizations fail? That certainly doesn't sound right.

This article is weak on many levels.

"I learned it from an extraordinary mixture of people I met on my travels." Is this more credible than modern science?

"It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned" is incorrect. There have been laws in the U.S. against some drugs since the 1860's, and various laws in Europe and the Middle East for a few hundred years.

Even the headline, "The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered..." is faulty in that it implies there is only one cause for any addiction.

Even without the causation argument, this article is largely empty of credible science. It's disappointing to see this type of pseudo-science on HN.

Wow! There are five times as many dumps if you zoom out. That's an interesting way to implement map panning.