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   by fractallyte 11y ago

   I received my Jolla phone just two days ago, after a slight delay. (The company was open about this, so I had no feelings of forboding.) I'm delighted with it! Sailfish OS is smooth and efficient, and Android blends seamlessly into the
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   by fractallyte 11y ago

   Now that really depends on the 'organic' standards the farmer has decided to follow. The UK Soil Association Organic standards ( http://www.soilassociation.org/organicstandards ) are known to be some of the strictes
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   by fractallyte 11y ago

   There are two things here to recognise and differentiate: depression (the clinical kind), and dejection (feeling down about things in general). With the latter, you can work out a plan of action to gradually lift yourself out of misery. Sin
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   by fractallyte 11y ago

   I watched a video of this guy wowing some 'scientists', and was not impressed. His arms were folded in front, close to his chest. That helped tremendously to maintain core temperature, even with ice surrounding the rest of his b
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   by fractallyte 11y ago

   Thank you for that link - a relentless, yet sensitive, dissection of religion and Christianity. I have some creationist acquaintances who need to read this!
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   by fractallyte 11y ago

   How could they be anything other than unique? A fingerprint is a 'function' of a unique individual. You might as well claim that human faces aren't unique. Bear in mind, of course: the degree of uniqueness between two samples
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   by fractallyte 11y ago

   Well, the other way around as well: those animals have evolved special feelings for us . It's harder to eat something when our conscience gets in the way...
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   by fractallyte 11y ago

   Sigh. Was it really necessary to preface it with: "This is not a flippant comment"? How else to explain such sudden deaths, even considering there was enough warning of impending catastrophe, and time to escape? Why else stick it
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   by fractallyte 11y ago

   Probably the diehards - the volcano-deniers who refused to believe anything of significant magnitude was about to happen. You'll find 'em in every era...
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    by fractallyte 11y ago

    John Wyndham's SF novel 'Web' ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_(novel) ) was an interesting exploration of spider cooperation - uncannily close to the observations detailed in this article, but written
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    by fractallyte 11y ago

    It's superb! And essential background to the ideas in the later Foundation novels. There are 42 new/used physical copies readily available on Amazon...
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    by fractallyte 11y ago

    Asimov's peers during the formative years/decades of science fiction (the 'Golden Age' of SF) are all worth reading: A E Van Vogt, Robert Heinlein, James Schmitz, Murray Leinster, Jack Williamson, and many more. Arthur
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    by fractallyte 11y ago

    Here: http://www.riaxe.com/marketplace/thin-admin/index.html (It's a ThemeForest template.)
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    by fractallyte 11y ago

    I'm genuinely curious: what's wrong with their website? There's a logo, one-sentence explanation (with further details beneath), examples, FAQ, and footer. So the content is all there. Furthermore, it's minimal-looking
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    by fractallyte 11y ago

    A much better chocolate 'bean-to-bar' story is that of William Harcourt-Cooze ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Harcourt-Cooze ). There was even a documentary series: http://www.imdb.com/ti
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    by fractallyte 11y ago

    This article lays out those failures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
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    by fractallyte 11y ago

    That's because you're writing incorrectly! The sinistrous among us should be writing right-to-left. Yeah, OK, so most people may need a mirror to read it - but it's natural for you. Aside: the world is terribly 'right bi
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    by fractallyte 11y ago

    Dell Latitude E6220 - more details in my other reply!
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    by fractallyte 11y ago

    I selected the laptop very carefully: it's a Dell Latitude E6220, refurbished. With all the upgrades (SSD, wifi, even a new keyboard and case), it came to around $300 - laughably cheap! It took a week to get it working. (All instructio
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    by fractallyte 11y ago

    Conversely, I'm using OS X Yosemite on a Dell laptop. (It started as an experiment: to see if I could get a working Hackintosh, solely for development. Now it's my go-to machine.) I'm not getting any annoying notifications, o
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    by fractallyte 11y ago

    I came here to post the same thing! The fuel economy on this was said to be excellent (because it's a tandem seating design), with the downside that the passenger was always relegated to the back seat... Gyrocars also featured in the a
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    by fractallyte 11y ago

    'Guide': each section has many subsections. When browsing through, it's easy to become disoriented due to the 'sameness'. Numbered titles/subtitles would be easier to navigate. Syntax coloring would add life to
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    by fractallyte 11y ago

    In contrast to some here, I think this is a strikingly different, minimal, lovely design! Admittedly, the sub-pages should be spruced up with more color and better layout (they're just too minimalist to convey important concepts about
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    by fractallyte 11y ago

    Rust's website is the opposite of this: BUSY! Just look at that landing page: logo, menu, intro, download buttons, code example (and editor), features - all 'above the fold' (on my screen). Sure, everything's there, but
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    by fractallyte 11y ago

    Absolutely right (to whoever downvoted you) - go explore! I've trekked with my bicycle to forgotten orchards and overgrown corners of parks and riverbanks, and found plenty. Even roadsides are laden with wild produce. Some less-traffic
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    by fractallyte 11y ago

    I've found, in my temperate industrialized urban area, an astonishing amount of 'wild' food, all free for the taking: apple, pear, cherry, plum, berries, rose hips, hazelnut, walnut... One fall I picked so many kilograms of a
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    by fractallyte 11y ago

    The Wikipedia article sadly neglects to mention the work of mathematician Mary Blagg in the early 20th century ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Adela_Blagg ), and the in-depth examination by Michael Martin Nieto in t
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    by fractallyte 11y ago

    So, like a (real-life) marine version of the melange/spice produced by the sandworms of Dune/Arrakis...? ;-)
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    by fractallyte 11y ago

    Some of those visual patterns are reminiscent of cellular automata... So work out the rules, and bring the music (literally) to 'life'!
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    by fractallyte 11y ago

    Way back, there were observations of 'giant galactic arcs', with all kinds of speculation as to their nature. Now we know it was simply an effect of gravitational lensing. These excitable and far-flung statements about 'paral