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by RK 18y ago
As the OP said, there is demand, and the demand comes from perceived added value (on all of those drinks).
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by RK 18y ago
If people want to get upset because of the production energy/resources, they should be more concerned about beer, wine, milk, soft drinks, juices, etc. Water is practically free compared to those things. I've never understood that part of t
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by RK 18y ago
I started a Twitter blog not that long ago. In contrast to something like Facebook (at present), I can have a public micro-blog and be anonymous if I want to be. I only tweet about technical stuff I'm working on, rather than what I ate for
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by RK 18y ago
I remember doing this experiment as a physics undergrad. We had to set up the torsion balance and leave it for 24 hours to let any vibrations damp out. The problem was that anytime someone would close a door in the lab more vibrations would
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by RK 18y ago
A doctor friend of mine told me about removing contraceptive IUD's from Chinese women who are living in the US and now want to have more kids. The IUD's are designed to be permanent (not the same as US IUD's) and the women are forced to ge
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by RK 18y ago
You can find US physics data here: http://www.aip.org/statistics/
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by RK 18y ago
Funny, I get so few voice mails these days that I always listen to them. I guess they're almost special... On the other hand, I've disabled SMS on my cell phone starting about a month ago. So far it's worked out ok. I've had to explicitl
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by RK 18y ago
I know that you can charge what ever you want for Linux and that the per unit price might be x dollars, but my gripe is that the New York Times article makes it sound like The Linux Company sets the price at $3/copy without any kind of ex
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by RK 18y ago
Netbook makers have turned to Linux, an open-source operating system that costs $3 instead of the $25 that Microsoft typically charges for Windows XP. I think I owe somebody $3! Seriously, what an odd statement/error. Maybe someone is ch
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by RK 18y ago
Ignoring the effect of McColo, I wonder how the recession has affected spammers. Are they making more money or less? People "down on their luck" might buy more dubious crap. Businesses in more desperate times might use less "palatable" mark
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Microsoft and TomTom settle patent fight(reuters.com)
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'Open cloud' plan sparks dissent(news.bbc.co.uk)
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by RK 18y ago
Try this link for the spring 2009 lecture videos: http://cm.dce.harvard.edu/2009/02/22872/videopage.shtml
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by RK 18y ago
Last weekend I was at a hotel and saw a small seminar with a bunch of mostly older people. The sign read GOLD4CASH. Is this the other side of Cash4Gold's business? I have actually heard some dubious ads on the radio about buying gold rece
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by RK 18y ago
Their current setup appears to be very low yield, whatever they are doing. Of course what they've built barely qualifies as proof-of-concept (assuming they are really seeing fusion). An energy production system proof-of-concept would prob
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by RK 18y ago
The point is that even with institutional access (including interlibrary loan, shared databases, etc.), a lot of electronic information, which is readily deliverable, is not readily accessible. On top of that, many people do not have instit
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by RK 18y ago
I think it might be in part due to the frustration caused by now ubiquitous availability of articles, but large barriers to actually access those articles. Google lets you see tons of articles online as search results, but even institution
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by RK 18y ago
Please tell me this will finally kill SMS, at least in that an incoming SMS can just be routed to my gmail and I can designate an outgoing email as an SMS... Of course I'd rather have end to end mobile email with instant (configurable) noti
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by RK 18y ago
This sounds like something Twitter will eventually do themselves, but will have much better access to the data.
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by RK 18y ago
I really couldn't tell if that ad hominem was a satire of ad hominem or not...
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by RK 18y ago
This film was obviously made before skateboarding took off.
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by RK 18y ago
I'd be interested in the matplotlib code if you could put it on your blog...
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by RK 18y ago
I was once told directly by some faculty when I was in grad school that programs in the natural sciences will often intend for a 30-50% dropout rate for grad students, because they need lots of TA's for large first year undergrad classes, b
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by RK 18y ago
In honor of the time change this weekend, I'll be super pedantic and point out that the YC application deadline should probably be 10 pm P D T on March 18, 2009, not PST. My actual comment is: don't forget the time change tonight (in much o
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by RK 18y ago
I meant students having to revert to TAing after losing research funding. Generally only the first year grad students would TA classes and then join a research group and get paid as a research assistant. I, along with most of the others I
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by RK 18y ago
Like all of the previous discussions about school/no school, it really depends on the person or the field. Some people need the structure of a university environment to learn and some jobs require a specific degree. Other people and other
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by RK 18y ago
Netscape had a weird policy, giving away their browser free for academic and non-profit use, before finally giving it away for free to compete with MS. I actually remember bragging to a friend when I was in college, since I didn't have to
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by RK 18y ago
I do not believe that any legitimate valuable software product has lost a significant piece of their marketshare to free software. The free options HAVE required that the paid software have a true value though. Which browser are you using
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by RK 18y ago
Dropbox?
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by RK 18y ago
And, scholar.google.com is as good of a free, full text search tool as there is. Most journal sites give the googlebot open access to index their content, so it is a great way to find things instead of pubmed, which only searches abstracts

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