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by aperrien 12y ago
Please keep in mind, the USA is not the only supplier of these parts/components.
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by aperrien 12y ago
As a side question, how can you tell how many writes a regular drive has sustained? Say, like the one in my desktop or laptop?
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by aperrien 12y ago
Because, unfortunately, some people are just jerks, and will troll for the luz.
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by aperrien 12y ago
Some conjoined twins can actually pass thoughts to each other through connected brain tissue. Since that is in no way planned, I'd reason that a link initiated while the brains in question have high plasticity would likely work.
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by aperrien 12y ago
You can help by attempting to break your coworkers of bad habits. There's enough to joke at about the nature of code and system administration that they don't need to joke about ethnicity and sexism, too.
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by aperrien 12y ago
As you said, nothing is free. If you refuse to pay for the upkeep of the society that you are part of, you can either leave, or be removed from it.
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by aperrien 12y ago
> (3) Unlike something like cancer pregnancy is not an accident. If you can't afford to pay for children, don't have them. It's not an accident, it's merely one of the foundations of any healthy society. I'm will
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by aperrien 12y ago
That's incredibly interesting! If you can treat cells to receive signals on one end, and transmit them on the other, then can you then use some sort of optical fiber to possibly branch around damage along a nerve path? As they say, the
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by aperrien 12y ago
You know, I've seen all these neural interfaces that connect electrical impulses to nerve cells, and I wonder: why aren't we using optogenetics to connect them instead? it would seem to me that using light to penetrate the skin ra
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by aperrien 12y ago
I'm interested in when narrative writing software will incorporate this: http://0xab.com/research/video-in-sentences-out.html That will be a sea change in event coverage, in my opinion.
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by aperrien 12y ago
The semantics of "your suffering brings my life meaning" are particularly vile.
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by aperrien 12y ago
This reminds me of a time in college where we hacked an HP print server to add chat services to it... Good times.
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by aperrien 12y ago
I'm no expert in this, but from what I've seen, most of the small players are working on variants of aneutronic fusion[1] a method that reduces the quantity and energy of the neutrons that come out of the reaction. There you have
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by aperrien 12y ago
It depends on the process. Some of the plasma focus devices being experimented with create electricity directly from the ionization process.
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by aperrien 12y ago
I'm kind of disappointed. This article discussed almost none of the dozen small-scale fusion projects out there today. Coverage of them along with the fission companies that were covered would have made for an excellent article. Especi
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by aperrien 12y ago
You know, I've always wondered why, in edge cases like this, it's not standard to run the patients through fMRI to detect whether or not the patient is actually conscious before just consigning them to a bed with no interaction.
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by aperrien 12y ago
What's the difference between this concept and e-paper?
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by aperrien 12y ago
Why not make a housing sandwich? (of sorts) Like this: Road/Parking___Housing/Shops___Greenway/Park___Housing/Shops___Road/Parking It costs a bit of land, but the area would be much nicer.
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by aperrien 12y ago
You know, for all these horrible employers, who is it that is loaning them money to start these businesses? How are they able to persuade others to loan them money to start this madness?
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by aperrien 12y ago
I don't believe in American exceptionalism. I do however, believe in exceptional Americans.
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by aperrien 12y ago
I would not be around mucking with code today if not for this woman's work. May she rest in peace.
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by aperrien 12y ago
You can produce memristors on the macro scale[1], in fact, it appears that any pair of oxidized conductive metals will work[2]. http://sparkbangbuzz.com/memristor/memristor.htm[1] http://youtu.be/rvA5r4
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by aperrien 12y ago
I really, really, wish I could buy this tv show. Is it still broadcast anywhere?
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by aperrien 12y ago
You might want to check out James Burke's "Connections" series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)
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by aperrien 12y ago
It can also depend on what is the easiest thing for you to hear. Take a look at this article: http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/04/14/america-the... It's disturbing how much we look to conf
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by aperrien 13y ago
About how many FLOPS is this thing? The specs portion of their webpage doesn't cover that, and I'm curious about using it for CUDA purposes.
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by aperrien 13y ago
Any idea how much it costs to have a disc pressed? For some things of mine it might be worth it.
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by aperrien 13y ago
And this is why all police officers should be wearing badge-cams with the video feed removed from their (and the department's) control.
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by aperrien 13y ago
Like this technology? https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity12/technical...
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by aperrien 13y ago
Perhaps someone like this? http://pando.com/2014/01/02/from-coding-to-the-catwalk-this-... I'm not really saying we need to promote pizza and staying up all night coding, it's that we need to maybe

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