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by a-priori 13y ago
Of course. It was the phys.org post which invoked Sagan's quote, and I was merely reusing it for rhetorical effect.
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by a-priori 13y ago
It doesn't matter that fertile hybrids are unusual. For evaluating this theory, it only has to be possible to produce a fertile chimp-pig hybrid. Then, given a large number of chimp-pig... interactions, you can then assume that event
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by a-priori 13y ago
So colour me skeptical. As they say, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and this theory is making several extraordinary claims: 1) A hybridization event indeed occurred in the relatively recent genetic history of homo sapi
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by a-priori 13y ago
The most interesting part about this, to me, is this: "After lengthy discussions with produce suppliers around the country, Coudreaut managed to add one new ingredient to the McDonald’s arsenal: the English cucumber. That might not see
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by a-priori 13y ago
Are you talking about War Plan Red? If so then it's not new: the plan was created in the 1920s and 1930s, and was declassified in 1974. It did cause some hubbub then. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red But
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by a-priori 13y ago
I'd say the reverse: that selective abortions are (maybe, in some cases) similar in practice, but not in spirit to eugenics. The difference is that eugenics had an imperative to it. They wanted to 'improve the human race' t
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by a-priori 13y ago
In Canada, marriage equality started being a major issue in 1995, and things started changing in 1999 when the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples are entitled many of the rights of marriage. In 2002-2003 most of the provinces' a
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by a-priori 13y ago
Part of the problem is that you need to decelerate at the end. Maybe it's possible to use a gravity assist to decelerate from 0.1c inside the destination solar system, but otherwise you need to turn around and thrust the other way at
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by a-priori 13y ago
For those not interesting in watching a documentary about the incident, the summary is that McDonalds served a woman, Stella Liebeck, coffee which was approximately 85C. Most coffee shops, at least at the time, served coffee about 60C. Afte
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by a-priori 13y ago
The cost is fine, about what it costs to fill a gas tank, give or take. But what about this: " Drivers who choose to swap must reclaim their original battery on their return trip or pay the difference in cost for the new pack. " T
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by a-priori 13y ago
This sounds like about the same situation as in Canada, for what it's worth: metric for everything except human measures (weight, height, clothing sizes) and some cooking.
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by a-priori 13y ago
No doubt they would use buses as makeshift shelters. But that's a silly reason to not do a no-payment system. The solution is to improve the city's welfare system (e.g. shelters) since apparently it's inadequate. The homeless
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by a-priori 13y ago
Indeed, you can get a general idea of the relative budgets of the CSEC vs. the NSA by comparing their headquarter buildings: CSEC: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Tilley_Bu... NSA: ht
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by a-priori 13y ago
It's already illegal to use a cell phone while driving in Ontario, Canada. Hands-free devices are still okay, however (I disagree with that part). http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/safety/distracted-driving&#x2
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by a-priori 13y ago
I don't blame people for downvoting michaelwww because their comment is an ad hominem attack on Rand Paul. Paul's attitude on abortion has no bearing on the PRISM lawsuit.
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by a-priori 13y ago
Atomic I/O operation support can be taken a step further, though, by adding asynchronous I/O (AIO) support. The nice thing about the Linux AIO interface (which is not generally acknowledged to have many nice aspects) is that it a
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by a-priori 13y ago
This may be true. But there are also be factors that may cause people to increase their income. Perhaps the extra money lets them invest in education (everything from skills training to a university degree), relocate to somewhere with a bet
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by a-priori 13y ago
I've been thinking a lot about basic income schemes lately, which do exactly that for everyone (not just the poor, though they'd benefit the most). You calculate how much it costs a person to pay their basic living expenses: food, a decent
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by a-priori 13y ago
I think tcpdump is the better solution since it's less intrusive into your production environment. Even if the tool suddenly crashes, it will not interrupt the flow of requests to your servers. Something similar, like using libnetfilter_que
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by a-priori 13y ago
By 'non-optimal results' do you mean heap fragmentation? If so then yes that's a major concern with dynamic memory allocation in real-time environments. These systems must be designed to run continuously for years at a time and have limited
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by a-priori 13y ago
Maybe there are tools that will do that. My knowledge of the industry is about 5 years out of date, and I was no expert even then. But we had no such solution and, in fact, didn't use dynamic memory allocation at all nevermind newfangled gi
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by a-priori 13y ago
I'd argue that in a real-time system, the GC should be tuned such that it should never need to 'catch up' (i.e, in each round of collection, the collector always collects all garbage produced since the last round). If it does, that should b
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by a-priori 13y ago
Sorry, I don't follow.
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by a-priori 13y ago
Depends what you mean by 'deterministic' I suppose. Basically the system they're describing assigns a fixed time slice to the collector. In that way, yes it is deterministic in that the application is guaranteed to have the remaining proces
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by a-priori 13y ago
What jjs says is true: this 'time stealing' is non-deterministic, which makes it a no-go for hard real-time systems. For soft real-time systems, it would be a good idea. It would improve the average-case performance and/or power consumption
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by a-priori 13y ago
While the "Metronome" has very predictable behaviour that makes it probably the best GC collector for real-time purposes, it still has a maximum GC load before it gets backed up. If it gets backed up too far... forget about timing guarantee
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by a-priori 13y ago
How deep do you mean? I once did a project that involved: 1) a kernel module to do packet-level manipulation (intercept, hold, modify, inject packets) of TCP streams in real time 2) a user-space daemon to control the kernel module (Python)
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by a-priori 13y ago
It also depends what kind of neuron you're talking about. Plenty of neurons have unmyelinated axons. In particular, most of the neurons in the grey matter on the surface of the neocortex don't have myelin sheaths. It's the fat in the myelin
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by a-priori 13y ago
This was the case when I lived in Switzerland as well. My address was just my name at the building's address. There were 12 units in the building and I don't believe they had numbers. The occupants attached their names to the mailboxes outs
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by a-priori 13y ago
I don't know what altitude they'd fly at, but this quote from the Wikipedia article on Airships says: "In November 2006, the U.S. Army bought an A380+ airship from American Blimp Corporation through a Systems level contract with Northrop Gr

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