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by bh42 16y ago
Indeed. However, keep in mind the green revolution always has had the PR of high yield & low risk . People who point out that it is in fact high yield & high risk, tend to be accused of being anti-progress luddites.
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by bh42 16y ago
... which argues that policymakers should leave the climate debate aside and focus on planting trees. Planting 5 billion acres of trees -- about 2.5 times the surface area of Canada That's a lot of trees!
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by bh42 16y ago
I wonder which is more painful? What you had, or what I had in Eastern Europe, which is the same old drill, but no anesthesia. Incidentally, living in the west has totally pussyfied me. No offense meant to my (now) fellow westerners.
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by bh42 16y ago
Do homeopathy believers love vaccines? Or is a vaccine not diluted enough for them?
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by bh42 16y ago
Well.... proteins play an important role in how DNA is expressed. And you get your initial set of proteins, like your DNA, from your parents (mom mostly), so they set the starting conditions. Then during your life what you do has a methylat
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by bh42 16y ago
Could this lead to a move by big investor to gain 5% of stock just so they can nominate alternative board members? Is this realistic? I understand almost no one owns those kind of proportions today, but what would be the incentive today if
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by bh42 16y ago
If you think that a given company's CEO compensation is wrong, don't own the stock. This assumes good competition among CEO compensations. But when I say "game", I mean that there's essentially a cartel of CEO compensation among all publ
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by bh42 16y ago
We all (OK, maybe just me) agree that the free market is the way to go, competition, prosperity, etc. But the free market is an ideal which is easy to game. CEOs hand picking the board, and the board then turning around and deciding on the
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by bh42 16y ago
There doesn't have to be Knuth level computering for it to be a fun or easy, or simple, or elegant hack. And sadly the comment about the FBI is completely true. Any script kiddies reading this better keep that in mind.
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by bh42 16y ago
Also the government really threw the book at Lamo for being an Aspergers kid who didn't know better then openly hack into websites. It is quite understandable that he would immediately turn over anything even remotely suspicious after that
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by bh42 16y ago
I don't appreciated the dig at open-source linux guys , but it is true that image, one of the defaults they chose, is just horrid. What in the hell were they thinking!
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by bh42 16y ago
Don't index funds and completely random selections ALSO outperform most professional stock pickers?
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by bh42 16y ago
No surprise. It is sad to see how going public is now making them force people to sign up for a google account. I'm switching to http://duckduckgo.com/
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by bh42 16y ago
Now, while that can be fun to play with, it's pretty dangerous if you are not expecting it. That's kind of an understatement when it comes to liquid oxygen.
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by bh42 16y ago
Adams is a smart and funny guy, but his great talent to simply often leads him to embarrassing oversimplification. His bold assumption that no one could be sure if the BP rig was safe is complete BS. Watch the 60 Minutes report, listen to t
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by bh42 16y ago
This may be just me but I've found Ultimate players to be by far the most competitive. It is almost as if people who know they have a problem are self selecting for a sport that is the most restraining in that particular way.
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by bh42 16y ago
Ha, ply people with drugs, awesome! (I am not even sure, exactly how I feel about this.)
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by bh42 16y ago
I can't confirm but allegedly Seattle tap water is much more expensive then Phoenix tap water.
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by bh42 16y ago
So basically what he's saying is that super naive unit tests which barely even test the happy path are hardly better then nothing. I fully agree, but I am getting tired of all of this slam down style, flame-bait headlined, writing.
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by bh42 16y ago
I can't wait until Clang++ is a standard part of CEDET and Code::Blocks and even Qt Creator and Eclipse. (Heck even Netbeans, I feel charitable today :)
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by bh42 16y ago
I can easily imagine an HIV that's as easy to transmit as the common cold. Franky we got lucky with HIV, it could have been something like that and we along with cheetahs and a few other species don't have much genetic diversity within the
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by bh42 16y ago
Indeed, that could be known as the Slashdot approach.
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by bh42 16y ago
See there's thing thing called an apple and this other thing called an orange. And there's this discussion about artificial and natural micro organisms competing in the same niche. Like using light energy to capture CO2 for example. And the
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by bh42 16y ago
If any of the subreddit starts to get too popular and mainstream, usually 2-3 new subreddits popup that are more specific and interesting. Bingo! I think this is the solution to the eternal September effect on communities. You get a super
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by bh42 16y ago
Modern technology has already far surpassed the capabilities of natural organisms in a number of areas, all within a geologically minute timespan. They key words here are: "in a number of areas" In a number of areas indeed. Can a plane fl
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by bh42 16y ago
Cars are faster than land animals. Planes are faster than birds. Fuel, jet fuel. Biology doesn't produce the wheel. Tumble weeds? Insects which curl up into a wheel to quickly roll away from danger? Can a car drive up stairs? Indeed if
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by bh42 16y ago
Luddite. In all seriousness, the dangers brought up in the article can only come from a person lacking significant knowledge of bacteria. Unimaginable numbers of bacteria permeate every part of the world, including miles within the earth, d
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by bh42 16y ago
Thanks for that link! It may not sound like a lot -- between 1 and 4 percent. But that's the equivalent of one great-great-great grandparent's DNA contribution. That is quite a bit! And from that same link: Does this mean that Neandertal
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by bh42 16y ago
Wonderful! I honestly never liked the flash choice. I always wished for something like google's view as html , but done right. And this may be it!
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by bh42 16y ago
Remember that the data suggests exactly 2 individuals dropped into human populations that were locally in the tens of thousands I did not notice that, but it seems that's just what we have detected so far. If it can happen twice, isn't it

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