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by dylandrop 13y ago
It's understandable that you'd be upset if you knew this was a case of rich white kids playing the race card, but you don't -- all we know is that some of the protesters were white. Making generalizations is counterproductive
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Look to the end of the video -- these sorts of studies could tell us more about making interesting new materials or perhaps small robots that can behave similarly when clumped together.
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by dylandrop 13y ago
When I posted this I also had a thought that despite taking standard metrics of viscosity, elasticity, etc. it seems like it would be very difficult to model something like a glob of ants since each ant is obviously a lot more complex than
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by dylandrop 13y ago
I don't think your argument works. Concerns of using a technology we did not develop (radium, which was "invented" by nature) exceeding our understanding is much more reasonable than a concern about man made technology.
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Good to know. I suppose for all cases where I'm deploying to non-Heroku servers I'd probably still use secrets.yml just because it's built into 4.1.
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Is Figaro even usable without Heroku? From what I understand the commands it offers are tailor-made for Heroku, and the main problem mentioned (secrets.yml not being Heroku-friendly) seems like specifically a Heroku problem. IMO I'd us
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The Physics of Ants [video](nytimes.com)
39 points by dylandrop 13y ago|9 comments
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Yeah, I thought it would be CHEAPER than their laptops, at least base price. I could be wrong, but isn't that how most desktop PCs are priced? I mean of course the specs are much, much better, but I thought you pay a premium for the la
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by dylandrop 13y ago
"About two-thirds of the world's tuna comes from the Pacific, but bluefin tuna accounts for only about 1% of this." Yes I know, but the above is the more important point, sorry I should have quoted it. The amount of tuna fish
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Way to use an anecdote of a single commodity to claim the entire economy is experiencing extreme inflation. Moreover, you know tuna is extremely overfished right? This helps explain the price of that can you bought going up. http:/&#x
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Wow! That's a crapload of RAM. Do you happen to know / able to say any metrics on how big the data/computations were in order to have to use that much memory?
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Ok, sorry, but 100 hours to apply to a single job is just silly. There are tons of factors that you could make you an unfit candidate for that position that you couldn't possibly know about, and even putting a solid year of work into a
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by dylandrop 13y ago
You could see it this way, or you could also claim that those "creating entirely new paradigms" themselves don't have "the wisdom and maturity required to use it responsibly". (See: nuclear weapons, nuclear power fa
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Yeah but I'm kind of confused as it's my understanding Go is not a web framework so much as a language. Is this just testing how fast Go can print out the string "{message: 'Hello World'}"? Or are they testing
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Well I think the problem is that from the title, NBC seems to suggest (at least in my opinion) that he is a scientific researcher. I think he's actually a policy maker, which puts his credibility in a different light.
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by dylandrop 13y ago
First off, from what I can gather, he's a policy advisor -- a law maker, not a scientist. This makes the title somewhat disingenuous, at least in my opinion. Second, this story is 3.5 months old: http://www.washingtonpost.co
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Kind of unfortunate NBC has chosen to use a title that makes you believe the article will be about lies on climate change, likely just to click bait.
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What does a good smartwatch actually look like?(arstechnica.com)
3 points by dylandrop 13y ago|1 comments
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Well first off, if you don't have a copyright (which it doesn't sound like you do) - no, there's no purpose. A copyright is actual legal material which you have to apply for, just like a patent ( http://www.copyrigh
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by dylandrop 13y ago
So if you compare the U.S. and Nazis they are therefore foils of each other? While I agree that the U.S. falls short of being a true democracy for all of those three bullet points, I'm a little confused about Wolin's reasoning. Hi
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by dylandrop 13y ago
> You could donate to a charity "fund" sort of like the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. So some sort of central fund for cancer research, where bureaucrats distribute funding to constituent organizations... Hmm where have I
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by dylandrop 13y ago
So you're saying that you yourself contribute regularly to heart, lung, skin, eye, and bone marrow cancers? If so you're a saint, but I think most Americans do not. This is understandable - if we live in a society that encourages
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by dylandrop 13y ago
> real people whose mother was killed by cancer, and worry about that gene popping up in their own children Certainly everyone's mother was killed by cancer who works on cancer. And no, not everyone who works at a Big Pharma company
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by dylandrop 13y ago
No serious funding for scientific research would be accomplished this way. >"rather than using the force of gov't to coerce every citizen into paying for it" Oh please. If we're living a capitalist society, we have to
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by dylandrop 13y ago
If they didn't in fact fund it themselves
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by dylandrop 13y ago
The problem is that most science that is funded by private companies is done only to further their funding companies' interests, not those of the general populace. For example, Big Pharma has no incentive to make a cheap cancer cure, i
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by dylandrop 13y ago
I agree. Also, what about perishables? You can't have those sitting around all day so you'd still need to go to the grocery store for that
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by dylandrop 13y ago
So if you say you fixed it, do you have any before and after results?
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by dylandrop 13y ago
I'm not dismissing it, I'm just saying I think the best thing would be to ask on a case per case basis, "what do you need most help with?" I see this as a sort of systemic problem with nonprofits and other causes nowaday
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by dylandrop 13y ago
While this has good sentiment, I feel like a lot of nonprofits and charities would rather you volunteer your physical support rather than get rid of malware, which nowadays a lot of people are capable of doing, and they might be apprehensiv

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