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by eCa 11y ago
IANAS[1], but I believe one of the reasons why the Lituya Bay tsunami was so big was simply that the water had nowhere to go but up. In a more lowlandy situation the water would spread over much larger areas at a lower elevation. Also, cons
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by eCa 11y ago
I'm not really sure why there should be tsunami walls etc built, since the howevermany scores of nukes it takes probably will leave large parts of the pacific northwest uninhabitable (either de facto or by choice) for a while. So, it
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by eCa 11y ago
If no-one sees the crash coming, then it doesn't come. When enough people see the crash coming, then it comes.
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by eCa 11y ago
Ah, yes. The BOE got me confused.. Calculation makeover: We consume about 50 million BOE of natural gas per day[1], so this vessel will fulfill 0.2% of the current demand. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_count
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by eCa 11y ago
One could argue that with such investments we will run out quicker :).
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by eCa 11y ago
We won't empty the earth of fossil fuels, but when fields reaches negative ROI/EROEI they are no longer worked. It is likely in the not to distant future that oil prices will rise or production fall. (Added: This is why the tarsan
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by eCa 11y ago
Just a nitpick. YAML stands for "YAML Ain't Markup Language".
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by eCa 11y ago
> "We must now continue to fight for an extension of important copyright exceptions such as this one to all member states." Good! > Cavada wanted all European nations to adopt laws that may require permission from a building
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by eCa 11y ago
Recommended viewing: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1058017/
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by eCa 11y ago
The ending felt a bit abrupt, so I guess that will probably be expanded on in part II or III of the series.
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by eCa 11y ago
It doesn't. Knowing the answer means you can't solve it without being influenced of other people's answers/thoughts.
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Is the seat-back movie about to die out?(bbc.com)
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by eCa 11y ago
It's no good when noone wants to find an alternative: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-GB&q=Reddit+alte...
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by eCa 11y ago
I don't think it does. The Population Reference Bureau estimates that a total of 107 billion Homo Sapiens have lived (since 50,000 BC) [1]. [1] http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2002/HowManyPeopleH
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by eCa 11y ago
He had "problems" a couple of years back. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah_Lehrer
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by eCa 11y ago
"If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup." [1] [1] http://www.quotes.net/quote/34890
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by eCa 11y ago
"Make an impact", "change the world". You can certainly do that working at NSA (or FSB). If you want to do good , then becoming a software developer (or accountant, or statistician) is not enough in itself. It is what y
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by eCa 11y ago
> Is that different from any other punishment? Yes, death is different. Because all other punishments can, in some way, be compensated if later the punishment is deemed to have been given in error. That is not yet possible with someone w
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by eCa 11y ago
> inconsistent rule Imho, it is not inconsistent and it is not a rule. It is a fact (as long as one uses the Gregorian calendar where there is no year zero[1]). [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_%28year%29
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by eCa 11y ago
As of right now it appears to be correct (1901-2000, inclusive).
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by eCa 11y ago
(Not couchand, but) 1900-1999, which is not the same thing as the 20th century.
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by eCa 11y ago
Some of the photos they used are CC licensed, so it would probably be CC-BY-SA.
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by eCa 11y ago
That could be solved by "if user has downvoted the comment they reply to, don't count upvotes for their reply when calculating thread value".
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by eCa 11y ago
> Self-driving cars will never happen. "You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense." [1] [1] http://www.goodreads.com/quotes
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by eCa 11y ago
Various projections[1] estimates a sea level rise of up to two metres until the end of this century, so that would put La Paz at 13,994 ft. I don't think oxygen changes would be significant. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/
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by eCa 11y ago
It is under citizenship, not country of birth.
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by eCa 11y ago
For sites that has x free articles/month, I just discovered Private Tab[1] which makes it easy to turn an existing tab private or force a bookmark to always open in a private tab. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us&#x
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by eCa 11y ago
> Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking Google Fixed it. (But I agree with regards to Maps Classic, it is superior to the new maps in almost all ways (for me, at least).)
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by eCa 11y ago
The primer[1] has some more arguments. [1] http://narrowstreetssf.com/primer/
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by eCa 11y ago
There has been quite a few incidents in Europe concerning a certain neighbor of the EU doing this [1]. [1] http://www.google.com/search?q=transponder+russia

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