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by alphydan 12y ago
Have you considered polyphasic sleep? This lady: http://www.puredoxyk.com/index.php/polyphasic-sleep-portal/ had lots of sleep troubles and polyphasic helped her sleep more and better. (Of course, if you have a
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Outernet launches in beta(blog.outernet.is)
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by alphydan 12y ago
>> you do not believe that getting a university degree will raise your earnings by at least X% then it probably is not in your best interest to attend university I was unaware that the role of university was to take your salary from X
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70% of people reveal their computer password in exchange for chocolate (2004)(news.bbc.co.uk)
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by alphydan 12y ago
> Solar and wind are causing major issues in distribution networks It's a lot less dramatic than you paint it to be. In Spain, 23% of generation comes from wind and solar and they manage just fine. Of course you need to spend money
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by alphydan 12y ago
> If wiping out a single specie provides enough economic value to save every other specie from their current path to extinction Are you suggesting we wipe humans out?
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by alphydan 12y ago
Maybe because not even snails go that slow (They can achieve about 80 furlongs per fortnight, if no lettuce derails their velocity)
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by alphydan 12y ago
I don't know about the rest of the universe, but our comets are supposed to come from the Oort Cloud [1]. The rest of the water needs Hydrogen (The most abundant element in the Universe) and Oxygen (generated by nucleosynthesis in the
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by alphydan 12y ago
<< After nine years of doctor visits, operations, a lengthy trip to Mexico and a lawsuit filed against various hospitals for alleged medical malpractice, Joan says she and Rick have spent roughly $600,000 in search of relief for Justi
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by alphydan 12y ago
This is news? The technology is 249 years old ... :) http://www.chonday.com/Videos/the-writer-automaton
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by alphydan 12y ago
> Americans are generally a lot more friendly to strangers than the average European Americans include Bolivians, Chileans, Colombians, people in Alaska, New Yorkers ... Is the average a Guatemalan? Europeans include Southern Spaniards,
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by alphydan 12y ago
How about this: If you travel quite a bit (say 10 international flights/yr), would you pay 15k/yr to never have to think about travel? You book meetings on your phone "Jan 20, Calcuta | Feb 23, Tucson, etc | OScon in X, etc&
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by alphydan 12y ago
I'm in! I'll pay with 35 grasshoppers.
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Apple campus from above [video](youtube.com)
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by alphydan 12y ago
Thanks for the reference. I was unaware of Wiseman's replication. Here is Wiseman's peer reviewed paper, http://www.richardwiseman.com/resources/petsBJP.pdf with most of the data at the end. Some data is mis
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by alphydan 12y ago
Note that I didn't mention anything about the independence. I'm pretty agnostic about it. Managing a resource is good, but one has to be realistic about the prospects. I think wind energy is an awesome resource for Scotland too,
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by alphydan 12y ago
> straight-facedly suggest that oil is a curse, because of price volatility, rather than the blessing every other country considers it to be? Easy. the price volatility is a red herring. The real curse is that the UK already rode the
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by alphydan 12y ago
> 20k car and you need to fork out 1400 for tags. If that shocks you, you've never been to Denmark where you pay $36k in tax on top of the $20k for the car [0]. [0] http://www.copenhagenize.com/2012/10/dani
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Entrepreneurship is Juggling – for aspiring entrepreneurs(alphydan.svbtle.com)
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by alphydan 12y ago
The paper was published under peer review. http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_14_2_sheldr... If you look at the editorial board in http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/ the
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by alphydan 12y ago
> Sheldrake has for years been trying to convince people that telepathy is real. To this end, he's done a series of experiments which had the kind of inconclusive results you'd expect. Do you have a reference? The dog experime
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by alphydan 12y ago
There is plenty of evidence, but it would require to change some of our cosmological models (so it's not without controversy). A physicist that has explored the issue in detail is Joao Magueijo: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by alphydan 12y ago
Any references on the volume of paper that is confiscated and how it compares to $55bn/month? In any case, isn't drug money re-distributed into the economy? (I don't know, so I'm genuinely curious)
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by alphydan 12y ago
> > One has its price regulated artificially by creating more of it > Not on these scales. Artificial adjustments to the dollar happen on month increments, possibly days. To give you a sense of perspective, the FED was printing $55
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by alphydan 12y ago
How is it different from the old "The Deadline"? (a startup from the now defunct http://hackfwd.com/ which has been trying this for a few years). They changed their name to: https://www.telety.pe&#x2F
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by alphydan 12y ago
for those interested to see the kind of language that is used to develop her ideas ... here's a taste http://arxiv.org/pdf/0811.2362.pdf , Counting closed geodesics in Moduli space (PDF)
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Basic package manager for elm-lang(library.elm-lang.org)
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by alphydan 12y ago
Unfortunately only 3 of these Mayan codices have survived (imagine inferring 1,000 years of Western civilization from a comic book, an almanac and a prayer book). Here are some of the codices which contain very accurate astronomical foreca
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by alphydan 12y ago
Or, an open access journal (with discussions and feedback) that I enjoy reading and will probably submit to in the future is https://peerj.com/ In physics there's obviously the ArXiv, and various sites to rate and comm
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by alphydan 12y ago
Nothing, it's just momentum (or newton's first law of motion, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_laws_of_motion )

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