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by akshayB 8y ago
This is not just happening in Central Asia but a global phenomenon. I have visited Athabasca Glacier part of the Columbia Icefields after long time and you can see retreat which is happening at an alarming rate.
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by akshayB 8y ago
The tick is to keep a small rectangular buffer zone around you and just go with the flow. Since no one follows any rules or traffic laws you keep an eye open and always be prepares to adjust based on what others are about to do.
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by akshayB 8y ago
There can be forms of life in universe which we may not even understand. For example - Think of yourself an ant living next to a river. The ant would have no prospective or understand of what is going on in the river and all the fish inside
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by akshayB 8y ago
It sounds like government needs to adjust the laws so it encourages the homeowners to rent rather then Airbnb.
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by akshayB 8y ago
I have used perl in lot of projects many years a ago and personally I was a big fan of it. I used perl to do lot of flat file and log processing, also had fun time building CGI based apps too. But I guess perl didn't transitioned from
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by akshayB 8y ago
One of the biggest factors I think affects the outcome of an interview are implicit bias in first few minutes. It can be related to gender, ethnicity, age, religion or nationality. This can heavily influence the interview process.
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by akshayB 8y ago
Is it easier to colonize asteroid belt since water and minerals are easily available? Gravity still is a problem, but all the resources needed to build colony and sustain life are easily available on lot these asteroids. Also water is great
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by akshayB 8y ago
plus ports and peripherals too
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by akshayB 8y ago
Apple have created a mess by providing multiple options between Airs and Pros. If you upgrade the RAM to 16GB on Air it surpasses the base model of Pro and similarly other storage options. At that point you should rather buy a Pro over Air
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by akshayB 8y ago
The reason why I thought about this was because whenever you look at any world war timeline shipwrecks, it is totally overtaken by aquatic life. I am sure those ships had enough toxic things on them maybe radio active stuff too but somehow
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by akshayB 8y ago
Is it worth sinking them in areas where they can boost aquatic life ecosystems or attract scuba diving tourism. I have read many times on how old shipwrecks turn into a house where lot of aquatic life flourish.
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by akshayB 8y ago
There can be a strong co-relation between sun-light and biological cycles or even metabolism in different living organisms which we may not have discovered. I have noticed that my neighbors dog would go insane during solar eclipse and would
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by akshayB 8y ago
Yeah land subsidence is also big in so many places and can cause permanent structural damage to the building or infrastructure.
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by akshayB 8y ago
Ground water depletion is a big problem. The issue generally is whenever lower level ground water is cannibalized without giving it enough time to replenish water level tends to go deeper. This turns into a vicious cycle and destroys the ec
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by akshayB 8y ago
Google went after Freebase, did all the knowledge transfer to their graph and discontinued the project. Wikipedia now became a vitally important source of information and it is great to see big players trying to keep open knowledge base fun
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by akshayB 8y ago
One of the reasons why I like to follow generative algorithms its extremely unique and wildly diverse at the same time. It is a combination of geometry, design, art & programming that tries to mimic nature.
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by akshayB 8y ago
In case of using AI for drones and warfare I am glad that people decided to standup against it. Although there is a big moral question here the technology is there even some of the tools are open sourced. Google employees decided to raise t
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by akshayB 8y ago
Dynamics are definitely changing in India, now more women finish school & college and are becoming contributors in household income. This although is happening in major cities and metros but in rural area women are still not able to rec
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by akshayB 8y ago
Naturally Helium is produced due to radio active decay of radio active elements but all nuclear reactors also produce Helium as a by product which can be captured (worse case most expensive scenario). I am also bit confused by the fact that
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by akshayB 8y ago
That should be good for everyone because CEO's and company executive walkway and no one is held accountable.
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by akshayB 8y ago
There is lot of equations and geometry that are hiding under the hood along with some clever programming. Personally one of my personal favorites is Fractal art which involves lot of recursive programming.
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by akshayB 8y ago
I think its about time US passes laws that any company that suffers a data breach is mandated to give a identity theft protection for 1 year to people who's information was compromised.
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by akshayB 8y ago
2008 financial collapse showed how important it is to have a career and also showed how important it is for women to get educated and move forward as contributors in household finances. There are lot of other factors at play here like stude
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by akshayB 8y ago
This is so counter intuitive when patents like this are awarded. So if someone wants to make a drone that delivers tea/coffee they pay royalty to IBM but is it ok if they deliver paper supplies or food? In future this has total implica
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by akshayB 8y ago
Recently there has been lot of interesting research in field of NLP. Lot of new models, algorithms and techniques have been developed along with lot of research papers published. Personally I feel that NLP is now heading in direction where
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by akshayB 8y ago
Apps stores are work great if you are a small company and can get access to big audience for 30% cut. Apps stores essentially acts like middleman who does payment processing, can advertise and also provides fraud protection. But when you a
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by akshayB 8y ago
Just a question, is there any reason why whenever we detect frozen water its on the north pole or south pole of any circular object in solar system? I guess ones of them is sun heating up everything in the equator region.
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by akshayB 8y ago
1 hours is an extremely unrealistic timeline to remove or taken down content. This specially is externally hard because lot of social networks depend on people reporting something and then an action is taken. To add complexity there can be
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by akshayB 8y ago
During last couple of hundred years Europeans colonized good portion of Asian countries and lot of history and art of taken back to Europe. Now lot of European countries hold these things in museums. It is a source of income for these count
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by akshayB 8y ago
This technology can prove useful for public safety since there are WiFi almost everywhere these days and all entry points in malls or schools can be covered very easily. There is a chance this can be misused as well.

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