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by elektromekatron 11y ago
Shouldn't surprise me really, given stuff like this - http://www.technologyreview.com/view/537301/spiders-ingest-n... - there's probably already a group feeding carbon nanotubes to clams on the offchance
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
According to Shinto, water is generally full of dragons. So Shinto wins, because dragons. Though maybe the dragons are taking down notes and have little first aid kits and stuff, so homeopathy might just be one of their dragon hobbies, or s
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
It seems somehow profane, but I'd love to get some into a materials lab and see how it behaves.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
1. A system for customizing a product according to a user's preferences comprising: a remote server including a database configured to store a product preference of a predetermined product for at least one user; and a first communicat
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
I learnt this from looking at code for old 3d engines, where you have to first make up your matrix functions, but then also unroll them for optimising stuff like rotations round a single axis.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
The contract winner was selected based on the “non-negotiated best value proposal”, i.e. the one that obtained the highest combined score for their Price Proposal and Technical Proposal using a weighted model where the Technical Proposal w
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
I suddenly want an omelet.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
In a properly managed company, these are separate things.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
Or possibly rhetorical writing intended to convey an offhand comment by impersonating the style of speech. Who can say?
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
The volume of water being drawn from and the volume of evaporation, precipitation and runoff affecting that body of water, dwarf this desalination plant by an exceedingly long way.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
If you look at the list of the top ten wealthiest IT companies, other than the US you are talking about Taiwan, South Korea and Japan, all of which manage to have social provision for such luxuries , as you put it.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
I dunno, Scott Adams got HR pretty good when he created Catbert.
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Electronics-Sniffing Dogs Help Solve Cybercrimes(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
1 points by elektromekatron 11y ago|0 comments
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
It was an article about what happened to the author with her maternity leave. The relevance is that if you screw with maternity leave then you make your work environment toxic for anyone that gets pregnant, which only affects your female em
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
"Unfortunate space travellers won’t be able to return to their own universe, according to Hawking. But they will be able to escape somewhere else, he has proposed at a conference in Stockholm." I'm even more impressed by th
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Black holes are a passage to another universe, says Stephen Hawking(independent.co.uk)
4 points by elektromekatron 11y ago|1 comments
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
Again, silly isn't the word I'd use here, however I guess, given you are also busy slandering Ray Bradbury as a Stalin apologist based on not properly reading a very short article, it is a bit petty in context to be too annoyed ab
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
There is nothing in the article that says that Bradbury was a member of the CPUSA. edited to add - “Only a few perceived the intellectual holocaust and the revolution by burial that Stalin achieved… Only Koestler got the full range of dese
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
A bit overzealous? "If you want to be against McCarthy, boys, you've got to be either a Communist or a cocksucker." - Senator Joseph McCarthy
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
I have also practiced social engineering since the word was first invented and I can very quickly identify gender if given enough emotionally charged words from an individual. So really it is just a hunch. I find it is generally pretty da
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German woman starts living on a train(independent.co.uk)
3 points by elektromekatron 11y ago|0 comments
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
It seems to work well in Scotland, but then there aren't exactly the same drought problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruachan_Power_Station
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
Is also possibly an idiot-trap on a grand scale. If you have a widely dispersed enemy, leave some treats in an area that can be encircled.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
Creating a power vacuum with a load of weapon caches left behind and hastily trained folk guarding them, does have a pretty predictable outcome.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
Design can embed intent into an object. Software can embed it very well.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
It is definitely written for a faster computer and larger screen, however the animations are worth viewing properly.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
This could screw Russia. They have lost a hell of a lot of revenue already on this. I do wonder if that is the point.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
The global temperature results are often presented as NASA, NOAA in dual briefings, though sometimes the other way round, probably depends whose turn it is to book the hotel - https://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/janu
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
Get two thermometers and turn up the dial on your fridge.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
I find it continually amazing how many people find NASA sending rockets into space all the time to be an expected and everyday part of modern life, but then don't trust them with a thermometer.

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