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by SCAQTony 10y ago
The three Vitruvian values of architecture would be the standard for any software we would ship: Quality, Function, Beauty. I know that "serving no wine before it's time" is a dated strategy but that's the way we would r
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by SCAQTony 10y ago
The last sentence shows an extraordinary goal set: "...He predicted that heavy industry would move off the planet and “earth will be zoned residential and light industrial.”..."
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by SCAQTony 10y ago
We pretty much put a price on our morality. Looking at the bond holders graph, it appears we owe about a 1/2-trillion dollars to oil producing nations. It's no wonder we tolerate tolerate gross human rights violations therein. Sor
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by SCAQTony 10y ago
CDC: Zika Transmission Risks: Through mosquito bites, From mother to child, Through sexual contact, Through blood transfusion. "... Anyone who lives in or travels to an area where Zika virus is found and has not already been infected w
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2 Mount Everest climbers die of altitude sickness, 2 others missing(nola.com)
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by SCAQTony 10y ago
I think you nailed it but I also think that people who don't want to learn how to code, or learn a software suite, or create something important or beautiful and simply prefer to look at a computer as a source of entertainment and comm
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by SCAQTony 10y ago
Since China is adding no equity to the phone (read as chips, screens, optics) and they just assemble them, it appears that China may be a "paper dragon" in that their industry can easily move off shore or be replaced by robots I a
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by SCAQTony 10y ago
The author even back-peddled on the unions argument bringing up French unions as example. "...Others have argued that labor laws governing infrastructure projects drive up costs. Gordon and Schleicher are dubious of that as an explanat
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by SCAQTony 10y ago
My sorry attempt at wit: Was Vermeer a painter or a photographer who traced ? Is it not the product and/or result that counts; not how you got there? Vermeer traced his subjects using optics; it was not painted freehand: http:/
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by SCAQTony 10y ago
I am very suspicious of this report; most notably after President Obama's polite remarks to Nordic countries regarding their leadership abilities. Also the assessment that an A-10 Warthog can presumably out perform an F-35 for close ai
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by SCAQTony 10y ago
Open water swimmers will be swimming in dirty water, sailors all ready have been. The Guardian wrote: Rio 2016: 'Chance of infection very likely' after tests show extent of pollution... Maybe the tourists won't swimming in st
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by SCAQTony 10y ago
I have to agree! The bad floats with the good and likewise. From the New York Times: "Actually, Prohibition Was a Success By Mark H. Moore; Mark H. Moore is professor of criminal justice at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.&
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by SCAQTony 10y ago
"All out" is relative. "All out to an Olympian means the "brink of death" or (220+ heartbeats per minute) and none of these people went all out for a whole minute; it was 20-seconds, three times. Reading what they
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by SCAQTony 10y ago
I wish you the best. I have gone through a "container ship load" of depression/anxiety but mine has been situational.
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by SCAQTony 10y ago
Caveat, I am not a doctor or psychologist, definitely not qualified to answer but here goes: how about math tutoring? You can set your schedule and it pays well.
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by SCAQTony 10y ago
General Colin Powell warned George Bush before the Iraq war, "You break it, you buy it..." Two months before the invasion of Iraq, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell warned President Bush about the potential negative consequences
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Apple blocked from selling iBooks and movies in China(mashable.com)
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
"...At the time of the survey, Berkeley had two women to 17 men, while MIT had three women to 11 men. At Harvard, there was only one woman compared to 12 men...." The amount of working female astronomers at a given institution see
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To Save the Great Barrier Reef, Move It – It Worked for Dubai(thedailybeast.com)
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
The good floats with the bad and vice versa. Politics are regional. Living in Los Angeles with a highly diverse population with both legal/illegal immigration and free speech as its the raison d'etre would be unacceptable to Germa
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
I suspect Monsanto will "have to Science the shit" into these potatoes and create new GMO strains to fight the cold, the radiation and low water availability. I would rather have another James Webb telescope or send a few hundred
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
"... If they grow successfully, the potatoes will then be planted in a simulator that factors in the atmospheric conditions on Mars. ..." Will it also simulate the cosmic rays Mars has to endure and can these rays be duplicated?
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You can own NASA's Lunar Rover prototype [They see you rollin', they hatin'](autoblog.com)
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Why the CIA won't waterboard, even if ordered by the president(csmonitor.com)
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
The poor are really pro at spending money. Then can turn trickle down into firehose-up and given the chance.
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
I have to agree with you, I have no high school diploma (ADDHD, dyslexia, deafness in one ear) and it was social capital and extroverted behavior that allowed me to meet upwardly pointed people in the arts that mentored me.
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Those sites that serve up malware scripts and call them ads, perhaps ad-blockers should rebrand and start calling themselves malware-blockers?
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
The handle "Pink Dinner" was created 15-days ago; about the time Alexandra Elbakyan hit the news hard. If you view the comments posted by this user one might consider them agenda driven toward this sort of topic? ... YMMV
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
If it somehow blew up would the CIA have taken full responsibility or would they have conveniently blamed terrorism or ISIS?
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
If this happens I bet they did it for trademark purposed only.

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