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by Blahah 12y ago
http://app.net
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by Blahah 12y ago
That's what made it a joke? A 17 year old can contribute to world peace just as much as anyone. What's a joke is a warmongering president being awarded a peace prize.
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by Blahah 12y ago
parent might have been referring to their own comment
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by Blahah 12y ago
Beautiful idea, not dissimilar from dat [0] (if you haven't already, you guys should talk). I find the Django relationship to be an odd choice - the vast majority of people working with data are not using Django. Why pair the two? [0]:
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by Blahah 12y ago
Ah OK, in that case I can see both sides. From Damien's perspective, AnkiWeb is a free service, so development/support time and server load have to be considered for any new feature. From the user perspective, web clipping tools w
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by Blahah 12y ago
AnkiMobile developer here. Are you referring to the mobile app or the desktop app? Because the desktop has API endpoints you can hook into with extensions [0]. If you're talking about the mobile app, I believe we originally decided not
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by Blahah 12y ago
'weary' is perfectly valid. You're welcome. You're welcome .
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by Blahah 12y ago
You're right about the relative similarity (and that's the key point), wrong about the number of chromosomes being involved in the 25% calculation. It's about the proportion of bases (letters in the sequence) that can differ
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The Rap Guide to Religion Kickstarter(kickstarter.com)
2 points by Blahah 12y ago|0 comments
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by Blahah 12y ago
When I sign in I just get returned to the home page and invited to sign in again. Anyone know how to reach the good stuff? Edit: from the JuliaBox README [0]: - Not recommended to host on the public internet just yet. - Security is mostly a
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by Blahah 12y ago
It's not necessarily a bad thing if the soil is covered in mould. At least not for the plant...
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by Blahah 12y ago
Natural does not mean common. It's just as likely that it's an uncommon biological phenomenon as it is as uncommon physical phenomenon.
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by Blahah 12y ago
I thought the light in the sky was well explained by the seismic phenomenon.
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by Blahah 12y ago
Nobody seems to have considered a biological explanation. What about a tide of bioluminescent bacteria or algae? Typically these emit blue light and are known, in the case of bacteria, as the 'milky seas effect'[0]. But algal tide
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by Blahah 12y ago
Is there something inherently wrong with fat people in black t-shirts that makes you think they're feeble minded?
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by Blahah 12y ago
> Try to stick to fresh, unprocessed foods, if you can - it's healthier This is a sweeping generalisation that I'd like to see evidence for.
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by Blahah 12y ago
Hidden Markov Models are also an important tool in computational biology - we use them to represent and search for motifs in sequences, such as DNA binding sites, protein domains with a particular function, etc.
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Calling All Hackers: Help Us Build an Open Wireless Router(eff.org)
850 points by Blahah 12y ago|138 comments
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by Blahah 12y ago
> you could buy it in a store from a person who you could sue if they caused your wrongful death It's vanishingly rare than anyone is capable of suing after they've died. (I agree with you on everything else).
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by Blahah 12y ago
no, I didn't say it did. But there's also no convincing evidence that either of the synthetics I mentioned does cause negative long-term effects (let alone serious ones).
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by Blahah 12y ago
At high altitude you boil water in a pressure cooker. That takes a long time - perhaps that's what he's referring to.
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by Blahah 12y ago
herbicides: pelargonic acid (Scythe) and acetic acid are famous examples, but glyphosate (Roundup) and imazaquin (Image) have higher LD50s than table salt. insecticides: Bacillus thuringiensis Cry proteins (used both in organic agriculture
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by Blahah 12y ago
Herbicides are a sub-class of pesticides, so benign herbicides definitely count.
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by Blahah 12y ago
Transgenics are absolutely not "seriously and obviously bad for us". Almost the entire debate around GMOs is about transgenically modified crops, and to date nobody has clearly demonstrated harm from transgenics in even a single c
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by Blahah 12y ago
People in this thread seem to be under the misapprehension that organic farming doesn't use pesticides or 'chemicals'. Everything is a chemical, and organic farming in particular uses some nasty ones (rotenone, copper sulfate
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by Blahah 12y ago
If my life was at risk I'd probably not restrict myself to one source of information about possible sources of impending death.
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by Blahah 12y ago
While distribution and many social factors are important, production is also crucial. Farmers in Africa and south-east Asia have production problems. In those places a 1% yield increase really does equate to 1% more people fed. Distribution
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by Blahah 12y ago
You've highlighted important problems (spoilage, everyone wanting to eat meat, economics, warfare). But unless you know of some solution to those things on the horizon, you've not made a useful point. Genetic engineering is a tool
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by Blahah 12y ago
> There is more than enough food in the world. Starvation happens because of infrastructure and economics, not insufficient yields. Norman Borlaug's green revolution would have happened with or without GMOs. Norman Borlaug's
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by Blahah 12y ago
Plant geneticist here. For the vast majority of Monsanto-licensed crops grown, the seed itself is the crop (e.g. maize). The farmers aren't throwing it away, they sell it as food. For most of the remainder, although the seed isn't

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