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by huxley 12y ago
I've got a Surface Pro 2 which I use like an appliance (in my case, a mobile drawing tablet), it works well except for the alleged trackpad on the keyboard which is the absolute worst thing about it. Even the key travel I can live with
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by huxley 12y ago
In PyPy's FAQ, the answer to the question "Is PyPy a drop in replacement for CPython?" is "Almost!" ... followed by a few paragraphs of details about why it is "almost".[1] Their caveats seem to match up t
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by huxley 12y ago
Any idea of what the time frame is for Docker Extensions or is still at the early proposal phase?
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by huxley 12y ago
FYI: from Feb 15 1999
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by huxley 12y ago
First two sentences: "This article was written in early 2005, and submitted then to Science. Perhaps predictably enough, it was rejected." Reminder: http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2012/01/30&#x2F
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by huxley 12y ago
Were these ancient texts as summarized in "Worlds in Collision" by Immanuel Velikovsky?
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by huxley 12y ago
Give this interview with Brandenburg a try: http://youtu.be/NBuN3uHnjYY (courtesy of the Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association cult)
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by huxley 12y ago
Interestingly enough, in 2011, Brandenburg thought that was the case too: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2011/pdf/1097.pdf The more recent paper seems like a rehashed subplot from Heinlein's "
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by huxley 12y ago
In the late 1890s, a group of gentlemen-researchers named Henri Duveyrier, Victor Largeau, Erwin von Bary and H. S. Cowper found something incredible, what appeared to be a megalithic structure in Tripoli. Upon further investigations they f
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by huxley 12y ago
> "One interesting thing Brandenburg did say was that when he came to believe himself that Mars had been nuked, possibly in act of "biosphere genocide," the realization that this might have actually happened plunged him i
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by huxley 12y ago
Brandenburg's been focused on this for a while, here is his 2011 theory that it was a natural fission reactor: EVIDENCE FOR A LARGE, NATURAL, PALEO-NUCLEAR REACTOR ON MARS. J. E. Brandenburg http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meet
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by huxley 12y ago
From the article: "In 1946, a new advertising campaign appeared in magazines with a picture of a doctor in a lab coat holding a cigarette and the slogan, “More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.” No, this wasn’t a spoof. Ba
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by huxley 12y ago
Not at all, the parent and the article claim it was a unique item, it isn't. There was a predominance of silver Islamic dirham over any other currency including local varieties, this is strong evidence of direct trade with Islamic coun
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by huxley 12y ago
Hardly, there is considerable evidence. From "Silver Economy In The Viking Age" edited by James Graham-Campbell, Gareth Williams: "It is also relevant to note that, both in Denmark itself, and more widely in Scandinavia, coin
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by huxley 12y ago
I'm glad you're not dissing the Middle Ages, but the Ancients had some amazing trading networks too. The Britons in Cornwall, Devon and Brittany traded tin with the rest of Europe as far back as 2150BC. Pytheas of Massalia travell
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by huxley 12y ago
Yeah, I was blown away by Barlaam and Josaphat. If you're interested in the intersections between Greece and Asia, you should find these articles pretty amazing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Bactrian_Kingdom
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by huxley 12y ago
Here is something to increase your sample size: https://www.academia.edu/1722281/Islamic_Coin_Hoards_and_the...
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by huxley 12y ago
If you ever read the Prose Edda (the Atlakvida or Lay of Atli) or Nibelungenlied (Song of the Nibelungs) and find a mention of Atli or Etzel, that's actually (spoiler) Attila the Hun.
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by huxley 12y ago
You might be interested in reading the travel accounts of Ahmad Ibn Fadlan (full name Ahmad ibn Fadlān ibn al-Abbās ibn Rāšid ibn Hammād), an Abassid envoy who travelled all the way up to Russia in the early 10th century and apparently witn
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by huxley 12y ago
More amazing to me is the 6th century bronze Buddha statue found in a pre-Viking era trading centre in Helgö, Sweden: http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/12/the-helgo-treasure-a-viki...
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by huxley 12y ago
I imagine that when monitors with USB-C hubs start being released, the one-port hassles will be reduced --particularly if the hubs include Ethernet ports and device charging-- at least for a significant percentage of developers.
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by huxley 12y ago
Obviously we disagree about what exactly that entails (at a glance, the article you cited seems to describe multiple modes of moral relativism, not all as logically muddled as the one you describe). I'd be curious to know what grounds
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by huxley 12y ago
I think you're talking about a very naive normative interpretation of moral relativism, the fundamental argument, as I understand it, is actually that societies do reach some form of moral consensus, but that this consensus has cultur
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by huxley 12y ago
There might be a confusion between a prescriptive and a descriptive stance of moral relativism. You can be a moral relativist and take a pragmatic position that traditions or societal consensus are worth having without disappearing in a puf
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by huxley 12y ago
We do argue that all the time, we just call killing something other than murder if we don't want to impose a negative judgement on it. You don't have to be a moral relativist to see that the foundations of moral facts are often bu
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by huxley 12y ago
Just the other day I read a fascinating (to me) Quora reply to the question "What can happen if a human eats a water bear (the most resistant living organism), or gets a water bear in their blood stream?" Short answer: it gets dis
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by huxley 12y ago
I think he's referring to this: http://sourceforge.net/blog/today-we-offer-devshare-beta-a-s... Their Senior Director of Business Development, Roberto Galoppini, said this in the comments to the link above: "
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by huxley 12y ago
Reminds me of Dunbar in Joseph Heller's Catch-22 : "Do you know how long a year takes when it's going away?" Dunbar asked Clevinger. "This long." He snapped his fingers. "A second ago you were stepping i
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by huxley 12y ago
Most of the principals at Eazel the company that originally developed Nautilus were involved in the early development of the Macintosh.
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by huxley 12y ago
It's not like it drops dead if you use it for 1 minute after 18 hours, once the battery level hits the Power Reserve point, you can use it as a watch for up to 72 hours.

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