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by gilleain 9y ago
Heh, I don't know what the current hardware is for the CUDL DSpace repository, but having helped upgrade it a few years ago, I can't say the software is the fastest. It's a java application with XLST in the page rendering pip
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by gilleain 9y ago
Not to disagree with you, but I found this timeline of abolition very interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_abolition_of_slave... It took a long time, and a lot of treaties and individual countries to
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by gilleain 9y ago
It looks like "THC" and "tetrahydrocannabinol" resolve to different isomers. One has wedges (stereo information) and they have different double bond positions (the double lines). The problem here is naming compounds - a
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by gilleain 9y ago
It's probably a hard one: https://github.com/cryos/avogadro/ Mostly C++, then the clojure wrappers in java? There do exist pure javascript molecule drawers, though.
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by gilleain 9y ago
Addressed in the article: >The sand used for construction comes mainly from riverbeds and oceans. Desert sand, it turns out, is too smooth for the mix.
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by gilleain 9y ago
Very generous of you to accept my intentions. Perhaps next time you could not build a tower of assumptions on top of a single sentence that ends with concluding the other person is evil? That sounds like a horrible way to grow up, and yes p
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by gilleain 9y ago
I didn't mean what you assumed. It was a simple neutral comment.
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by gilleain 9y ago
Agreed that we've drifted off-topic. Private spaces wont solve drug use or homelessness, but it could certainly affect it. It's harder to sleep on the streets if there is nowhere to go.
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by gilleain 9y ago
Evidently not the same parts of London that I see (for the past 40 or so years): > Drug dealing and use Literally every day. There's a man who sits on the next doorstep that I call 'Mr Subtle' as he is continuously 'r
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by gilleain 9y ago
> could this be applied in some manner to understanding protein folding? Ehhh. Probably not? It's hard to say without the algorithm, really. The main problem (apart from not modelling any of the chemistry of proteins) would be what
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by gilleain 9y ago
Sounds cool - go CML! There's also some work done by the Jmol project: http://wiki.jmol.org/index.php/3D_printing
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by gilleain 9y ago
There is some more detail here : https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/60251/how-do-the...
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by gilleain 10y ago
http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/reg-standards-conve...
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by gilleain 10y ago
> I'm not sure this particular example fits the "sarcastic" angle Ok, but Trump disagrees with you: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/12/donald-trump... > Perhaps DT'
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by gilleain 10y ago
And the more general tactic was used very well by Trump during the campaign. For example when he claimed to be being "sarcastic" when he said Clinton and Obama "founded" ISIS. I found most fascinating - in a horrible way
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by gilleain 10y ago
Banee? Is that "someone who has been banned"?
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by gilleain 10y ago
Indeed, Newt Gingrich said during the campaign: > GINGRICH: The current view is that liberals have a whole set of statistics that theoretically may be right, but it's not where human beings are. > CAMEROTA: But what you're s
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by gilleain 10y ago
In the 2000, Bush v Gore election the result was contested afterwards when there was some doubt over who carried Florida and it came down to some hundreds of votes. Trump is claiming in advance that he will "have to see" whether
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by gilleain 10y ago
I agree that Trump is no Mussolini - however I see why it's tempting to compare them, as they are both slightly comical figures with a great regard for themselves. The closer parallel would be to another Italian leader: Silvio Berlusco
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by gilleain 10y ago
> Whether a fetus is a person is of course the point debated, but anyway, those are the numbers More pedantically, they are surely not Americans either, since citizenship is conferred at birth ?
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by gilleain 10y ago
You're right, my response was a bit confused. I absolutely agree with your original point that we shouldn't lose sight of the goal of challenging horrible opinions just to try and better understand someone. I was really just point
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by gilleain 10y ago
> she doesn't consider it to be murder as such, she just wants people who do it to get the same punishment Right, and the point is that the writer would likely never have found this out in the course of normal argument because the
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by gilleain 10y ago
This is all very true, however even if they _did_ want to scan them, it's not just like scanning a bunch of papers. I sat next to a guy working on the Genizah project ( https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/genizah
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by gilleain 10y ago
Also chemistry/alchemy comes (sortof) from the Arabic "al-kīmiyā" - or further back, from the Egyptian name for Egypt. So any chemist reading books on "Free Radicals" should be questioned immediately!
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by gilleain 10y ago
On an audio tour around a castle in northern France, they had actors "reconstructing" lines from the past, including one that went: "The tower had to be strong, so we built the walls 1.85 meters thick!...." Soooo authent
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by gilleain 10y ago
Unfortunately, there is an underlying assumption in many debates, arguments, rants, discussions, and wikis online that simply presenting others with "THE TRUTH" is sufficient to change their viewpoint. I realised a while ago that
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by gilleain 10y ago
The comparison you make with the natural world is interesting. If you consider natural systems to be innovators in the space of making new organisms then what have we seen? First, there were eras of explosive growth into new areas - for exa
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by gilleain 10y ago
Dexter's Lab had a silent episode "DiM": > Dexter makes an angst-ridden trip to the hardware store to buy a new light bulb for his lab. Note: This episode is almost dialogue-free; the only dialogue in the entire episode is
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by gilleain 10y ago
> What is its mechanism of action? From this image of the structure ( http://cen.acs.org/content/dam/cen/94/31/09431-notw4-Lugduni... ) it looks very much like some kind of small pore. That's
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by gilleain 10y ago
Fantastic! There's a book by Charles Stross called "Neptune's Brood" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune%27s_Brood ) where the central character is a historian specialising in these kinds of fraud

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