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by bawana 8y ago
for nyu to make tuition go away means that they are already having a large cost processing loans/grants/discounts along with the compliance costs for sallie mae,etc. NYU is a PRIVATE university as well so they can be super select
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by bawana 8y ago
How do they know that the structure has only negative curvature and not regions with positive curvature? (like a bunch of soap bubbles that have coalesced)The structure in the paper labeled ztc-RWY certainly looks like it is ONLY positively
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by bawana 8y ago
not just Amsterdam. I had a car accident on Route 128 in Massachusetts during rush hour. I called the state police - they asked if anyone was hurt and when I told them no they said 'just exchange information with the other driver'
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by bawana 8y ago
Why go after tuners? Well, if you are a giant automobile firm that has been lying about their mileage and emissions and covering it up with software that detunes the car just to pass testing- well, then you don't want people figuring o
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by bawana 8y ago
and to think that most of the space in an atom is vacant. Seems to be a tremendous waste of space. incomprehensible that nature would permit this. surely something must exist in that nothingness where the electron vibrates around the nucleu
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by bawana 8y ago
which programming framework would best allow the coding of an app to generate Chladni figures on an arbitrarily user drawn shape? And perhaps with a knob to allow frequency modulation. Or perhaps two or three knobs to allow visualization of
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by bawana 8y ago
If the lenticular lens is made of columns (as those fake 3D postcards are) then only horizontal shift is 3D-able. To display verticality, the lenticular lenses could be hemispheres. However, to encode vertical 3D-ness you would need 45 imag
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by bawana 8y ago
Everything google does is to generate data points. Although the rest of the world raises prices to cover costs, increase profits, etc., Google plays with APIs, pricing, availability as a way to generate data to model the behavior of its cus
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by bawana 8y ago
So the light we see from the lasers is emitted by atoms in space? I thought space was a vacuum? Or is it that the emitted light only comes from atoms in the atmosphere? So the further up we go, the dimmer becomes the emitted light. Also, is
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by bawana 8y ago
LexisNexis said there is no web page to submit a request for info. I tried their chat option and that person said I had to call. 888.497.0011 After 30 min on hold I spoke to someone. They wanted my personal info including SS# and Drivers li
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by bawana 8y ago
why are they using this unsafe tech (Pu-U) when molten salt reactors are safer? https://whatisnuclear.com/msr.html
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by bawana 8y ago
as long as were talking about unorthodox ways to store info, does anyone know about the information density possible in laser engraved glass? You know, those blocks of glass with a design etched into the interior? If we can produce an etchi
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by bawana 8y ago
The problem w money is that it represents the fruit of human labor but also allows speculation. We have arrived at a point where accumulated wealth through speculation that human labor ( and therefore self worth ) are devalued. That money f
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by bawana 8y ago
not really. email and list serves are somewhat 'dead'. they are distributed in chunky dumps only every so many hours. bbses are closer to what engage people. conversations are updated in a more granular fashion with a greater resp
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by bawana 8y ago
How about crowdsourcing a social network? Look at synology NAS boxes-they have a ton of apps. They have even developed a stupid-proof way of connecting NAS boxes securely over the net without opening router ports. If i choose to install the
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by bawana 8y ago
The first step towards AD supported healthcare. Watch ads in the ER - accrue $ towards your bill (which is silently and automatically padded to make sure that any 'money' you make is sucked right back out). Or maybe Pfizer will bu
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by bawana 8y ago
my ignorance and naivete are really annoying me. How do you write an ad to 'target' a person? How do you personalize spam??
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by bawana 8y ago
this model says mitochondria are clustered around the nucleus which is not what i see in the microscope
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by bawana 8y ago
here is a deeper (but concise) discussion of Zipfs law and its shortcomings http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~xanadu/talks/IT-dolphins-04-1-05... the shannon entropy of dolphin utterances is even more informative. this
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by bawana 8y ago
i must zsound so obtuse. How does redirection happen? If there is a web page with a button, then what is /toggle? Is it another web page on his site? Isnt a button some code in html on the index.html page?
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by bawana 8y ago
forgive my density, but why would you make a web page trigger a toggle when it is loaded? shouldnt there be a button or some other user interaction to initiate the state change? Is it like loading a web page for the weather- so that when th
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by bawana 9y ago
How do the number of internet connections relate to the number of nodes? Building fat pipes is not the answer just as more highways is not the answer to more destinations. The increase in traffic will consume more resources exponentially (f
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by bawana 9y ago
Part 2 Key Points in Terms of Service • We’ve added a mutual arbitration clause. Hopefully, disputes will never be an issue, but in the case of one, this allows a third-party arbitrator to help us resolve them. We’ve also added a class act
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Yahoo's new terms of service are scary
5 points by bawana 9y ago|3 comments
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by bawana 9y ago
Anyone remember Andromeda strain? A bug that digests plastic was responsible for the crash of a plane. Bacteria are too small to contain. They'll get out somehow - on the worker's clothes, etc. And then they'll wreak havoc (a
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by bawana 9y ago
i want to burn up on re-entry. Elon, you hear me?! I want a space burial.
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by bawana 9y ago
really scary. Can you imagine the CIA create a small molecule that interferes with ApoE3 to give and ApoE4 phenotype?! Inducing dementia in terrorists and then allowing them to return home??!! or Inducing dementia in suspected spies? or ind
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by bawana 9y ago
I guess they see tuition inflation as a guaranteed revenue stream. Certainly they have experienced this firsthand as much of Asia sends their offspring for a US ‘education’.
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by bawana 9y ago
I wonder if its possible/useful to construct a programming paradigm based on the architecture of the internet and TCP packets. Instead of having just one queue with messages, one could have multiple queues , each with its own address (
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by bawana 9y ago
This is WONDERFUL! no really. The first step to a world without money . Imagine a powerful govt AI keeping track of your karma and then determining what you can access, get or use. There won't be any shortcuts or cheats. People with a

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