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by araneae 16y ago
I come at it from a non-commercial perspective; at most I've had two hives at a time. I was mostly speaking from personal experience of winter losses; it's really heartbreaking. Commercial hives are indeed relatively mobile, as they're tem
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by araneae 16y ago
This is the critical winter for the beekeeping industry. I don't think we can survive. As a beekeeper, this phrase has meaning that might be overlooked by someone who is not one. It may seem obvious, but the most difficult time for bees
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by araneae 16y ago
True, but as someone who has a java background and is working on js, it's nice to know that switches suck in js :)
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by araneae 16y ago
I might have considered this a good idea, before I played SecondLife with Linden dollars, or used points on Listia, or got gold on Gaia Online. The problem with these virtual currencies so far is that they're very unstable and they suffer f
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by araneae 16y ago
"Science is based on facts" is a nonsensical statement. Science is a method by which one tries to establish facts. The problem is that it is a process run by humans which have biases. Bias can influence many things in science, not least o
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by araneae 16y ago
Well clearly that's problematic too.
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by araneae 16y ago
Your tone is rather aggressive. Why is that? In fact, it did keep him up at night that his lab was receiving grants from the government. That's why he ultimately made the decision he did. It's impossible for someone to be completely mo
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by araneae 16y ago
I think he was trying to point out that it's a credibility problem. For instance, where science aligns with political belief, it makes it harder for scientists to argue that they're impartial when they generally share the same political be
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by araneae 16y ago
to the extent that the GOP favors a smaller government (and though they say this, they don't actually do so, but that's a different discussion), this would make one expect that those against such governmental funding would be morally bound
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by araneae 16y ago
Because it's always female. Never beer-loving, or Asian, or bipolar. The whole industry is caught up in this obsession over the lack of women in tech, and I'm so incredibly sick of it.
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by araneae 16y ago
I should point out that Visa itself hasn't actually decided to stop payments to WikiLeak- only Visa Europe, its subsidiary. The people that run Visa.com are only responsible for selling Visa Europe the rights to use the name.
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by araneae 16y ago
It's possible that maybe he's only spending an hour a piece on these, but he might go back to them later and build on them more for a portfolio. It's good to make a bunch of quick and diverse designs just to see what happens.
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by araneae 16y ago
It's not meant to be accurate. In another comment someone claimed that 2% was "low" and I'm just pointing out that climbing Mt. Everest is one of the more risky things you can do. Obviously at an individual level it loses meaning, but peo
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by araneae 16y ago
The article quotes a 1/50 chance of dying. For perspective, only 1/20 suicide attempts are successful. That means that climbing Mt. Everest is only half as deadly as trying to actively kill yourself.
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by araneae 16y ago
More evidence that we have trouble thinking about probability as applied to our daily lives. That's a 2% chance over a four day period. I don't know if that number is accurate- it's from the article, if you've read it- but even though it
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by araneae 16y ago
establish a connection with nature that you can't get from simply running a marathon That's bullshit talk. What does that even mean ? I think mental illness is much more appropriate, because you can "connect with" nature just as well by
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Huge Magnetic Filament Erupts on the Sun(wired.com)
4 points by araneae 16y ago|0 comments
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Columbia University Reverses Anti-Wikileaks Guidance(wired.com)
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by araneae 16y ago
Well obviously I wasn't following his experiment. It was from a book on how to deal with my particular kind of hair (which is rather difficult).
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by araneae 16y ago
Conditioners are designed to completely wash out of your hair with just water. It wasn't that the conditioner wasn't getting washed out, it was that at some point it was insufficient to deal with the grease issue. At least it makes a whole
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by araneae 16y ago
In my experience, this does not work. I gave up on shampoo for about a month and a half, but I still used conditioner. I never used soap on my body when showering to begin with, except for ahem the bottom area. It actually worked for a l
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Paid developers power the Linux kernel(news.cnet.com)
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by araneae 16y ago
Makerbot :)
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by araneae 16y ago
Well, they are generally in the making pottery or weaving sheets business, so I doubt it would come up.
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by araneae 16y ago
It's not that I expected them to behave differently, I just prefer to give my money elsewhere where possible now. For instance, I am moving my wedding registry elsewhere, simply because I prefer not to give them the profit off of it since
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by araneae 16y ago
I have to say, learning to endure holding in traveler's diarrhea really well is not one of my life goals. But to each his own.
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by araneae 16y ago
I'm afraid I'm too confident in my masculinity, or lack thereof, to be much affected by any advice to "man up."
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by araneae 16y ago
The person who said it might be from run-off is a bee-keeper who has never visited the factory. I rather suspect that the bees have found their way into the factory through a small hole, as insects are wont to do, and are directly consuming
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by araneae 16y ago
I don't like traveling. I really don't. I spend most of the time feeling uncomfortable in some way (temperature isn't right, have to use the bathroom, worried about getting robbed) and it costs money! Why do people think that because the
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by araneae 16y ago
Meh. This is basically what it's like to be the SO of a student, or an academic, or a freelance blogger or writer or programmer, basically anyone who has an unstructured work environment. Both my SO and I will go to relatively nice restau

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