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"UN scientists have concluded that the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster is unlikely to push up cancer rates in Japan. Some scientists remain sceptical of this claim, as the findings of the UN’s Scientific Committee on the Effect of A
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What a huge loss for the RDU tech community. A very decent guy by all accounts and a huge legacy in the open source world. It's very difficult seeing his handle still logged into a number of freenode channels, where he was so active
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It's a not a valid point, it's a silly point dressed up to sound reputable. First he tried to minimize the accomplishment of having 40% of consumption coming from PVs by saying that it was from a very small percentage of the total
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You were wrong and you got called out. Now you're moving your goalposts, and your response still stinks since (unless your point was to note that France had to import electricity to meet heating needs from Germany, thereby externalizi
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by 3am 13y ago
The submitter is the founder of the site hosting the post, so I don't think any of this passes the smell test.
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Hardly even feels like a real story, but I'm not unsympathetic to the client absent more details (how much of a premium does the author's charge, scope of the project in question, nature/timing of phone calls). EDIT: has anyo
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by 3am 13y ago
"Wantrapaneur" I love this term. How did I not know of it before?
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by 3am 13y ago
This is not a new phenomenon.
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Maybe they just don't care to resist US influence in this case as much as you would hope they would.
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Like lupatus mentioned in the other response, there is considerable variability in the risk from terrorism. I would guess - while tragic, and my profound sympathies to anyone reading this who has been touched by either - that SIDS and inf
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Are you joking? Do you know the cumulative cost of policing US roads, prosecuting offenders, and jailing the felonious vehicular offenders? I bet it's a lot more that 1% of the NSA budget. Also, I'm going out on a limb and assum
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by 3am 13y ago
"Decade" is a very convenient window. How about 15 years (or even 12)? Also, smoking is an awful example because - due to the dishonesty of the cigarette industry and the real health risks - there was massive federal regulation o
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What a bonehead I am. This is what happens when you say to yourself, "that was about 2 years ago" and you base it on 2012. My only excuse is that I was working on a system config & management product and that I'm having
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If someone can't get over the Ansible startup costs, then they have no business managing a system... I can't speak for Salt (last time I tried to use it was in 2010, and it was atrocious then and I haven't gone back).
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Are you agreeing with me, or not? Sending me that link without any other kind of comment, as if I were one of the few dozen people on the internet that are unfamiliar with the ad hominem fallacy, is a bit patronizing. My point is that atta
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by 3am 13y ago
There are many times that people test positive for pregnancy tests but are not pregnant. Basic Bayes theorem. The odds are very poor that this persons thesis is correct in the first place, and the odds are not improved based on: unsubstan
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They're both wrong. Global warming is caused smartphone batteries. And don't give me the old, "That's obviously stupid" response. I demand a good faith refutation that treats my central thesis seriously, even though my predictions have a
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Dear god, how pedantic would you prefer that I be? It's a pain to type out monosaccharide and disaccharide all the time. Also, chemists will typically not use the term, "infinitely recursive". Outside of that, your point is totally valid.
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It's the same molecules. Like everyone else has noted, 1 sucrose molecule = 1 glucose + 1 sucrose. The proportion of glucose to fructos is just slightly different in HFCS vs table sugar (55/42 or 42/53, versus 50/50). To your correlation/
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by 3am 13y ago
Someone leaked top secret information that may have led to the death of a high level North Korean administrator that was a US intelligence asset. 1.) Should the person be prosecuted 2.) Should the journalist who facilitated the leak of that
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"Rosen, who has not been charged in the case, was nonetheless the target of a search warrant" From the article. So in spite of not reading the article, their comment was correct. You do know that it is believed that someone died as a resul
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Why be mad at anything? At most be mad at car makers for running so leveraged that they had liquidity problems at the same time that all the major lenders in the financial system ran into solvency problems (and feel free to be mad at the f
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This is a serious, developing disaster. Best wishes to anyone with family or friends in the area.
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Devastating tornado hits Moore, OK
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Mother Jones & ProPublica belong in that list, too.
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As someone that works primarily in Python lately and a terrible hack guitarist, I always think of the namesake behind the Django framework: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Reinhardt I won't recap, but read up on the terrible burn inj
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http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=TSLA+Key+Statistics Usually data from there is just parsed from the variety of forms that a public company has to file with the SEC, all/most of which are available to the public via a tool they have called
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I'd be happy to try to explain anything. This doesn't even get into the little "unhedged" word's complexity :) That's when you start getting into options and derivatives, which are (theoretically) priced on a 5 variable differential equati
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A couple of interesting statistics about stocks that are easily available are related to how many people are shorting it (ie, someone borrows a share, sells it, and makes a profit if they can re-buy it at a later date to close the short pos
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Gold and guns would both be much better decisions that Bitcoin in a raging civil war. So would food, and transport to safe haven. Bitcoin would be insane. Even if you had extra money, that's what Swiss bank accounts are for. edit: to be

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