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by hga 11y ago
Scott McNealy said early on that retreating to the Data Center was where companies went to die. And at the time was selling workstations on desks and crushing DEC.... Maybe. That was before cloud computing based on a much cheaper, faster
902.
by hga 11y ago
That or an article linked in a side bar said they were still chasing the IoT.
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by hga 11y ago
From their investigation, http://www.spacex.com/news/2015/07/20/crs-7-investigation-up... : The strut that we believe failed was designed and material certified to handle 10,000 lbs of force, but failed
904.
by hga 11y ago
Might be a generally better business strategy going forward, it makes it more difficult to match their price, doesn't get them hooked on higher and ultimately non-sustainable profit margins, etc. Also, when they publish their prices to
905.
by hga 11y ago
Not about Disney, but about "Pillar Technology in Columbus, Ohio".
906.
by hga 11y ago
This discussion is in the context of a sudden failure of a variety of crops, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Grass In that context, for a couple or so of years you don't worry about soil erosion, e
907.
by hga 11y ago
Different A-12: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_A-12_Avenger... You're thinking of the first generation of what became the SR-71, which was made for the CIA, and used a different numbering scheme:
908.
by hga 11y ago
Amazon is selling trust there; in my experience, if the seller has a 96% or better rating you'll seldom be disappointed when it arrives, and they'll work hard to give you satisfaction if you aren't. Much better than eBay in m
909.
by hga 11y ago
Well, all that's after the fact 20/20 hindsight. Initially, all he and his doctor knew was that he was 77 years old and his routine, approved by the powers that be, PSA test results took a worrisome turn, bad enough that a biopsy
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by hga 11y ago
Thanks!
911.
by hga 11y ago
Don't forget urine, the kidneys give quite a view into one's bloodstream. Don't have any links, it's just something that is said to likely be fruitful.
912.
by hga 11y ago
Given the Gleason score, let's just say would/might -> most likely.
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by hga 11y ago
That's something you start worrying about after you make sure no one is likely to starve, it can most likely wait a couple of years.
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by hga 11y ago
So many people have stopped their small scale chicken raising/egg production, like one family I know, after they learned "fox in the hen-house" isn't just a turn of phrase. Both my parents grew up on farms, and we kept a
915.
by hga 11y ago
And in the US, corn burned for ethanol, which is 40% or so of it. Now plenty of that food value is passed on to animals, the largest byproduct is "distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS)", which is 31% by weight of the origi
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by hga 11y ago
https://www.crowdsupply.com/xipiter/usbcondom
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by hga 11y ago
If you want frequent testing, and this is not my idea, but that of someone who's been doing serious biology for decades, the most obvious was is to see what we excrete, something that's part of a toilet. Needless to say, this won&
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by hga 11y ago
That's early testing, specifically " average-risk men aged 55 to 69 years" . E.g. my 82 year old father would be dead or severely suffering today if his routine, over 69 years of age PSA tests hadn't prompted his docto
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by hga 11y ago
When we're talking about Facebook, we have a zillion concrete things to talk about, the services they provide, their open source and hardware, their refusal to play ball with Jobs' attempt to turn SV into a company town, etc. etc.
920.
by hga 11y ago
Indeed, read a infectious disease news collection source like http://promedmail.org/ long enough and you might be surprised we have anything to eat beyond Soylent Green. Everything you love to eat has a host of pathogens
921.
by hga 11y ago
Not in the shared memory way I mean (which I did not make clear), per http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/parallelism.html The racket/place library provides support for performance improvement through parallelism w
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by hga 11y ago
Do you have an English translation to recommend? Sounds like I should check it out.
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by hga 11y ago
Yeah, in the US at least, the normal pattern is to raise cows on pastures, sometimes out in the dry west fantastic acreage of it, 1,000 acre ranches can be considered tiny, 10s of thousands are not uncommon, and/or including grazing ri
924.
by hga 11y ago
And the more meat a county eats, the more is can divert stored feed for that purpose, modulo grain sorghum, which isn't normally a human food, to directly feed humans.
925.
by hga 11y ago
Ah, that's why the games based in the exclusion zone are named S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: [something]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:_Shadow_of_Cher... Ah, it's explicit in a paragraph in the intro which
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by hga 11y ago
the volume of waste generated by a 1 GWe nuclear reactor (were it reprocessed and vitrified) would fill right around three cubic meters And that waste will be no more radioactive than the ore it was mined from in about 600 years. (Now, th
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by hga 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam The resulting flood waters caused a wave, 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) wide and 3–7 meters (9.8–23.0 ft) high in Suiping (遂平), to rush onto the plains below at nearly 50 kilometers
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by hga 11y ago
The 2nd design flaw is the positive void coefficient due to it using light water as a coolant and graphite as a moderator. In its scheme, the light water is a neutron absorber, and if steam voids form in it, there's less water absorbi
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by hga 11y ago
WRT 3, assoc lists are just the simplest thing to store things like environments, they're traditional for "writing a Lisp in one week". If you modulerize your code, you can trivially use hash tables or whatever later. Ditto
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by hga 11y ago
And aside from the JVM implementations and some works in progress the last time I checked, the only one with native instead of green threading.

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