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by diydsp 13y ago
Your post is the epitome of how domain-knowledge trumps idealism. I look at this and instantly think "Dirt. And water." Dirt and water will destroy their "machine." Whoever conceived it doesn't respect that farm
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by diydsp 13y ago
interesting point about the notifications from cellphones being random (and thus addictive like gambling). Perhaps mine would be less random if I were to use the "different sounds for different people" feature...
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by diydsp 13y ago
yes and PP presupposes "cheap natural gas." as witnessed by recent fracking-induced earthquakes [1] there may be very little cheap natural gas in the future. [1] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6142
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by diydsp 13y ago
haha a legit question, but i guess you got downvoted because you could have researched it and shared it? dunno. anyway. not a chem dude at all, but it appears III-V semis are when you combine: "III-V compound semiconductors obtained
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by diydsp 13y ago
someone on wikipedia has been maintaining a beautiful image of the history of solar cell efficiency for various technologies.. let's see if this has been added yet. It looks 1. No, and 2. There was a recent discovery by Sharp of 44.4%
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by diydsp 13y ago
Intriguing concept and neat approach (tower defense anyone?), but many of us perceive civilization as arising much earlier, around 10,500 BCE. Also, I cringe over this statement: "if military technology is removed as a factor, the mode
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by diydsp 13y ago
I make about $200-$300 per evening during Halloween. I go around to websites that list trick or treat times, I am short, dress like a ghost and collect candy for free than re-resell to convenience stores.
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"to allow U.S. companies to retaliate in cyberspace against their attackers"(dailycaller.com)
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by diydsp 13y ago
that's actually kind of ironic... ...the people closest to you in your environment ( kids, parents, spouse, boss, co-workers) are the ones who can most easily obtain your fingerprints...
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by diydsp 13y ago
what a coincidence- I was thinking about this this A.M. I was conceptualizing a flowchart. Something like: 1. Observation 2. Massive overgeneralization of observation and posting to Internet. 3. Refutation of massive overgeneralization.
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by diydsp 13y ago
heh. I bet the political leanings are simply an artifact of the Greater Internet Dickwad Theory. [1] [1] http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/uploads/uncat/dickwad-th...
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by diydsp 13y ago
Yes, certainly a tech-meets-social-issues story like this is shining fodder for Wired which is certainly an occasion to ask yourself "why does someone want me to believe this"... Meanwhile, I, too, have been considering the longer
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by diydsp 13y ago
Yes. And passive-aggressive, since she welched on the deal by not letting him read it before press.
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by diydsp 13y ago
iiuc sage comes from sageru which is a Japanese word meaning "lower." Its use is a polite way of saying "my comment is not important enough to bump the thread to the top of the page." If this is true, sage can not be us
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by diydsp 13y ago
Not only would more die in testing, but more would die in everyday use and results would be so mixed you could hardly get any information out of the experiments. One of my biggest clients is in the medical device industry. From the surface
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by diydsp 13y ago
I don't mean to pick on you, but this is the problem traditional learners have with internet-generation learners: You were successfully "intrigued." Hurray. Much dopamine was produced. Emotional energy is valuable in lear
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by diydsp 13y ago
>geniuses of this world have very often been afflicted Maybe so, but don't forget, there is no "normal" human being. We create the criteria of genius, normal and mental illness all in order to fulfill our social needs. I
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by diydsp 13y ago
I admire your healthy level of skepticism. I've been intrigued by Dennett for years, but I haven't drunk his Kool-Aid. How do you find triune brain theory? I'm finding it a very useful model. Want to know what I think many
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by diydsp 13y ago
great observation; it leads to a possible new feature for home wifi routers such as "guest" passwords or temporary passwords that expire (yes, I see that's redundant).
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by diydsp 13y ago
Yeah, then you read the article and it says "molested." I went back to verify this and couldn't find it (!). Until I searched for "gang" instead... That's when I found The Guardian had changed the wording in
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by diydsp 13y ago
I like your thoughts because they pay respect to the fact that (current) governments are NOT foundationally correct entities. They are socially-constructed approximations of justice which aid our human existence, but are not fundamentally
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by diydsp 13y ago
I think you think you called out sexism, but in actually, you have perpetuated it. PP shared his/her own opinion with no attempt or claim made to speak for other people. Your contribution was to declare which opinions belong to each s
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by diydsp 13y ago
This made me curious, so I found things like this: www.cse.unr.edu/~bebis/UdayFingerprint.pdf‎ and www.csis.pace.edu/~ctappert/dps/IJCB2011/papers/200.pdf‎ The features themselves are somewhat of a hash of
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by diydsp 13y ago
We could perhaps communicate this to people by way of saying that it resembles Bt corn. Bt works well as an infrequent insecticide, however, when it is used full-time, insects become immune to it and the usefulness of Bt is spoiled forever
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by diydsp 13y ago
They could have canceled the feature and launched the product without it. They could have referenced the privacy implications and their role in it, but they chose not to. The fingerprint scanner is clearly not a reaction to recent events,
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by diydsp 13y ago
i wish i could sit down with you and a few beers and explain it cuz it would take all night. in a nutshell: we are conditioned to blame others to make us easier to control. This begins when we're children and for must of us continues
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by diydsp 13y ago
At least for those we can't or haven't been trained to see through it, cockiness does help sell. This article was posted here a few weeks ago. It widened my perspective considerably: "... the main reason for the uneven mana
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by diydsp 13y ago
I'm with the two posters currently below me. When the factory runs out of the proper parts, they can do some "counterfeit" or sub-quality runs with near matches and most features will probably still work under most condition
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by diydsp 13y ago
Pressure against individuals: To put pressure on people to get them to do your bidding. To compel people to turn up evidence on bigger fish or your family members. To compel someone to be a patsy for a different crime. To compel celebri
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by diydsp 13y ago
A point repeated here has been "keep your skills flexible." A lesson we could learn that would improve upon the auto industry disaster would be to consider the "product line" itself. The auto industry was notoriously m

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