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by crygin 12y ago
The current consensus is that the drought will extend to the Great Plains. See for example this paper (recently discussed at the AAAS meeting): http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400082 This is not
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by crygin 12y ago
I still have a 3.5" floppy disk that a friend of mine made in middle school in which he replaced the magnetic medium with a sheet of black fine-grit sandpaper. I don't think anyone ever used it, fortunately.
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Tramadol Is Not a Natural Product After All(pipeline.corante.com)
217 points by crygin 12y ago|117 comments
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by crygin 12y ago
That's commonly cited as fact, but the truth is we don't know that they required large flocks to survive (deforestation is another possibility). Charles Mann points out in his book 1491 that e.g. DeSoto didn't report large
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by crygin 12y ago
It's also known that certain types of marine quakes are more frequent at low tide, though the weight differential involved there is orders of magnitude larger than in the case of the CA drought: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.co
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by crygin 12y ago
Your "meanwhile" is on the order of hundreds of thousands of years, at a bare minimum, whereas the extinction of specialists can easily happen over the course of a single human lifespan. It's not thinking critically about the
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by crygin 12y ago
I apologize for not having time right now to track down primary sources for you, but if you're interested in learning more about the current research specifically on this drought and climate, look up stuff related to the position and s
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by crygin 12y ago
Yes. I had a friend once who took a cab to work when her bus didn't arrive, even though it meant she would have a net negative income for that day, so she wouldn't lose her job.
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by crygin 12y ago
Fair, I'd love to see some hard data on this. I don't think I've ever spent more than ten minutes looking for a spot, though it's certainly seemed like a lot longer during the process itself.
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by crygin 12y ago
$20 is probably more than enough to incentivize a market of people who will occupy spots in order to resell them, though, if this takes off. I bet you could do 10+ spots/hour driving around at the right day/time.
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by crygin 12y ago
Seriously. A few years ago (2010ish) I was roped into helping out with a microprobe array that would have cost about $150k to replace, whose controller software would only run on Windows 95... not OSR2, meaning that USB wouldn't eve
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by crygin 13y ago
As a single, useless data point, I'm not at all involved in the Mozilla community (though I've been a user for a very long time), or in the same-sex marriage fight, nor am I a resident of California. And my first thought when I h
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by crygin 13y ago
Seriously. My entire rear window is unusable after five minutes on the road this winter, no idea how any rear-facing camera could function.
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by crygin 13y ago
"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." -- Anatole France
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by crygin 13y ago
Agreed -- based on MS's statement they went through a fairly rigorous internal procedure (of course, they could be lying, but it seems fairly unlikely particularly given the regulatory attention MS generally has on it). I don't f
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by crygin 13y ago
This is a dangerous oversimplification of what "racist" (or any negative bias) means. There are many people who have no problem associating with individuals of [insert class here], but would be less likely to hire them, etc. Rac
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by crygin 13y ago
> It's pretty funny to see one person claim dominion and authority over another person's inner state. Well, this is exactly my point -- that this happens regularly, and isn't even commented upon, in many posts on HN when t
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by crygin 13y ago
Seriously. It's pretty funny to see a community that normally goes straight for the jugular on dismissing personal experience in favor of demands for data completely abandon that when it's /their/ personal experience bei
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by crygin 13y ago
You're not a Platonist, are you? Regardless, it would be plausible to imagine a character conceived of by an author, who has curious behaviors in early stories, the motivation for which is only revealed in a much later story. This wou
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by crygin 13y ago
> It gives me the impression that it's probably not worth reading Would you be willing to expand on this impression? I've worked with a number of charities who have suffered various minor website attacks, and blocking Tor (onl
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by crygin 13y ago
Presumably, from your tone, you mean for something other than the egregious violations of the public trust that they were willing participants in?
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by crygin 13y ago
This is incoherent. Is the ask the item being requested, or is it a demand? Neither of these are how it's used in the article, either. Which mostly goes to show that it's not a word with a definition as we think of it -- it&#x27
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by crygin 13y ago
It's been my experience that those negative social phenomena are emergent with any sufficiently large group of people. You need structural components in place to prevent them, or you need to not grow.
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by crygin 13y ago
You're right -- it's entirely possible that the fellow in the video has worked foodservice/retail/labor in the past, and learned absolutely nothing about hard work and the human experience from it. There's certainly
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by crygin 13y ago
They have skilled labor shortages at the prices they're willing to pay. Every time you hear an employer claim they can't find someone for a position, inquire about the salary they're offering.
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by crygin 13y ago
> humans evolving to the point where you could not kill one by shooting it in the head with a bullet. If there were billions of bullets flying around, and humans reproduced by the billions in a matter of hours with a generation-to-genera
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by crygin 13y ago
This is the ... third (maybe fourth?) article on this topic today to get up into the top few posts on HN before disappearing into oblivion. Some people really don't want to have a conversation about how young tech folks are being expl
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by crygin 13y ago
Not least because governmental power does not derive from the ability to issue fiat currency; it derives from a legal (or socially accepted) monopoly on force. Failure of a sanctioned fiat currency could reduce governmental legitimacy, but
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by crygin 13y ago
I'm unclear on why everyone seems to think that Bitcoin reduces governmental power. It makes all transactions public -- no more cash deals, hard-to-subpoena international wire transfers, etc. It makes the job of law enforcement much
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by crygin 13y ago
Because people behave irrationally as regards convictions, and this produces an undesirable class of essentially unemployable people who are thus incentivized to commit more crimes because they are unable to work. It's entirely approp

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