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   by huxley 12y ago

   Interestingly, the director of End of Evangelion, Hideaki Anno was mentored by Miyazaki and was an animator on Nausicaa. He did the protagonist's voice work for Miyazaki's last film "The Wind Rises" and Miyazaki has said
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   by huxley 12y ago

   Definitely agreed, if you've got kids Totoro and Spirited Away are good excuses to become introduced to Miyazaki's work. If you like the anime film of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, it's worth checking out the manga draw
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   by huxley 12y ago

   I AM NOT A DOCTOR OR PHARMACIST, but liver damage is more often caused by acetaminophen, it is quite rare with ibuprofen which tends to be associated with gastrointestinal bleeding or in extreme cases kidney damage (however ibuprofen is not
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   by huxley 12y ago

   Apple's software & services revenues are pretty significant, its gross revenue from iTunes Store, App Store, etc comes to $7+ billion per quarter: http://www.asymco.com/2014/02/10/fortune-130/ P
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   by huxley 12y ago

   I was actually browsing the docs when the change went through and did a triple take.
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   by huxley 12y ago

   A bit surprising that Jean-Louis confused Itanium with PA-RISC. Itanium was started at HP as a successor to PA-RISC and provided an emulation mode for PA-RISC legacy users but it's EPIC (VLIW) architecture was pretty much a clean slate
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   by huxley 12y ago

   Man, I listened to them live at the Flamingo in Halifax. The music is besides the point, there's nothing intrinsically wrong with Skinny Puppy (even if it isn't everyone's cup of tea), it's the constant overwhelming of t
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   by huxley 12y ago

   For definitions of "big trouble" that include a class-action lawsuit being filed in Canada.
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   by huxley 12y ago

   I don't think Einstein was being that nice, he was essentially saying that intelligence and education were not guarantees against bigotry and bias. Aristotle proposed in Book 1 of Politics that certain human beings were natural slaves,
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    by huxley 12y ago

    For anyone who isn't familiar with the backstory, Watson didn't become an unperson for believing in IQ, he claimed in an interview with the Sunday Times Magazine that testing proved that black Africans aren’t as smart as white peo
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    by huxley 12y ago

    Link didn't work for me, here is the Google Cache text version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:f01MHrX...
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    by huxley 12y ago

    The postscript on disowning Lisa was that he reconciled with Lisa in her teens, she lived with him and he paid for her studies at Harvard. Yes, he was an asshole for rejecting her when he was younger but if he was a terrible person in his 2
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    by huxley 12y ago

    Is there any region of the world that uses more energy during non-daylight hours? Everywhere I've lived, peak demand is daytime.
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    by huxley 12y ago

    Note: a company put a single Apple blogger under an MRI not as part of a study or "a report", it was one scan that was paid for by a documentary series called Secrets of the Superbrands hosted and written by comedian Alex Riley (&
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    by huxley 12y ago

    I associate swamp dragons with Discworld
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    by huxley 12y ago

    I must have watched hundreds of hours of Chespirito when I was a young boy in Honduras back in the 1970s, I even remember having comic books of El Chapulin Colorado.
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    by huxley 12y ago

    OS X still has a great basis for interprocess communication via NeXTSTEP's PDO: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Distributed_Objects it's existed for over 20 years now and is IMO unjustly ignored in spit
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    by huxley 12y ago

    * Plenty of online retailers won't take cash * Both coins and high-denomination bills can be and have been refused by brick-n-mortar stores (not all or most but they are within their rights to refuse it as payment).
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    by huxley 12y ago

    If it was for a drug that might not otherwise be made or sold at usurious prices, I wouldn't be against crowdfunding it, so long as it was available under reasonable terms like the Vatican Library documents are. Laundromats I've g
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    by huxley 12y ago

    I have voted in every election that I have been eligible for (almost 30 years of voting now). I consider it an obligation as a citizen to express my preferences, though I'll admit that I often get frustrated with our elected government
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    by huxley 12y ago

    Though forgotten by pretty everyone who doesn't study Medieval history, the Muslim scholar Averroës (Abū l-Walīd Muḥammad Ibn ʾAḥmad Ibn Rušd) was perhaps the single most significant figure, influencing all medieval scholars including
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    by huxley 12y ago

    There are much finer examples of ancient literature, surviving versions of the Epic of Gilgamesh can be as old as the Code of Hammurabi, some Old Babylonian tablets from 1800 BCE survive though the version Sîn-lēqi-unninni compiled in Akka
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    by huxley 12y ago

    Giving researchers and enthusiasts access to the Vatican Library collection for free over the Internet isn't really part of their mandate. There's no paywall, no onerous registration requirements, but you focus on a request for co
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    by huxley 12y ago

    The Nobel Foundation begs to differ. It's not one of the original Nobel Prizes but it is considered by the foundation to be on the same standing as the other prizes. Winners are selected by a committee appointed by the Royal Swedish Ac
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    by huxley 12y ago

    You mean the Paul Krugman who was chief staffer (international economics) on the Council of Economic Advisors under the Reagan Administration and was hand-picked by Martin Feldstein? Krugman has a very full bio so you can find all sorts of
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    by huxley 12y ago

    I thought D-Wave was a quantum computing company?
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    by huxley 12y ago

    If you worked in a remote area doing logging, mining or fishing, the use of company stores and company scrip was quite common once upon a time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip Scrip was theoretically exchang
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    by huxley 12y ago

    Note: IANA medieval scholar nor particularly versed in medieval translation, but here would be my explanation: A medieval translator tackling Aristotle would face several challenges, some insurmountable, but Boethius had many unique advanta
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    by huxley 12y ago

    Andrew is providing some additions in South 1.0 to ease the transition a bit, probably not to the degree he had hoped earlier in the process: http://south.readthedocs.org/en/latest/releasenotes/1.0.html &quot
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    by huxley 12y ago

    Apple is encouraging Metal adoption through game engines like Unreal Engine 4, Frostbite and Unity (among others) to make it less demanding for developers. http://www.polygon.com/2014/6/2/5773128/metal-io