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Advice to a PhD student(ark143.org)
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by atakan_gurkan 14y ago
Your question is not fair. I am sure there are cases where NSA tried an attack and failed. It is a matter of how badly they want the attack to succeed. Just because you are being attacked by "the Chinese" does not mean they will put all the
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by atakan_gurkan 14y ago
The vending machine part of the story is a bit strange. Why did they not make a machine that would accept a dime and return a couple pennies with the coke?
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by atakan_gurkan 14y ago
"It seems that the disagreement is over the percentage model that Motorola wants. Motorola wants 2.25% of the full retail price of the device. So, if you make a dumbphone for $35, you pay 79cents. If you make a 16GB iPhone 5, you pay $14.63
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by atakan_gurkan 14y ago
A simple product that encourages the growth of simple organisms can be harmful. Try pouring sugar to the pot of a plant. It will encourage the growth of bacteria which will compete with the plant for other nutrients in the soil and in the e
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by atakan_gurkan 14y ago
That would not be analogous at all. An analogous example would be if you made an artificial human organ that (supposedly) serves an identical function, but is different enough that it is immune to certain diseases.
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That Flawed Stanford Study(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Thomas Harriot: A telescopic astronomer before Galileo (2009)(ras.org.uk)
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French GM-fed rat study triggers furore(bbc.co.uk)
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Around the Solar System(theatlantic.com)
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by atakan_gurkan 14y ago
It is not that simple. In most brain studies I read there is a stroke or something like that which causes a lesion in the brain, and the changes came about after this. Since we already have a good idea where the change in the brain comes fr
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by atakan_gurkan 14y ago
As ugly as it may be, this is _business_, a.k.a. capitalism. Trying to interpret it as everyday human interaction using concepts like "ethics" will fail. Skip this step and try to decide whether you are comfortable or not without using thes
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Basque co-operative Mondragon defies Spain slump(bbc.co.uk)
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Severe abnormalities found in Fukushima butterflies(bbc.co.uk)
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Nasa's Morpheus planetary lander crashes and burns on liftoff(guardian.co.uk)
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Today is Dirac's birthday(en.wikipedia.org)
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The true true size of Africa(economist.com)
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by atakan_gurkan 14y ago
My guess is he meant Na.
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Temptations of a Peseta default in Spain(blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
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High Taxes Brought Us Xerox PARC and Bell Labs(slate.com)
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Rousseau's "Discourse on the Arts and Sciences"(en.wikipedia.org)
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Wealth doesn't trickle down(guardian.co.uk)
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by atakan_gurkan 14y ago
If this is because of OBD regulations, perhaps it can be changed somewhat. Give the owner a small electronic device that will be necessary to generate a new key for the car they purchased. That device can be kept separate from the car but w
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Malcolm Gladwell's disclosure statement(gladwell.com)
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by atakan_gurkan 14y ago
The numerical value is determined empirically, and as far as I know it is simply a result of our historical choice of length and time units. The fact that there is a definite speed of light is also a property of nature but there is some "ex
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by atakan_gurkan 14y ago
There has been enough criticism from scientific community at large and more importantly from within the OPERA collaboration that their spokespeople resigned from their position. Not much of that criticism coming from respectable scientists
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Another Elsevier journal editor resigns(malariaworld.org)
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I can no longer work for a system that puts profit over access to research(guardian.co.uk)
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by atakan_gurkan 14y ago
Plagiarism is not about copyright, it is about citing properly. A direct quote has to be indicated as such, a paraphrasing has to include a reference. I learned this in my freshman year in college, this is so basic that an "editor" cannot c
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China launches two more Beidou navigation satellites(bbc.com)
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