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This is the same William Paley (1743–1805) who proposed the watchmaker analogy arguing that complexity in nature was teleological evidence of a creator or intelligent designer.
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Wouldn't higher cargo density be more of a benefit if launch costs are high?
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In case you don't get the joke: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobby_Lud
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If you're a Philip K Dick fan, you'll recognize Wilder Penfield as the namesake for the Penfield Mood Organ in "Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?" Canadians would probably remember him from the "I smell burnt toa
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If a "fear of offence" culture exists, aren't you're part of it? You've spent a lot of time here being offended by political correctness, "wasted money" and alleged political motivations. Can you think of
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That was on old versions of Geekbench 3, on recent versions the difference between mobile and desktop is minor according to Primate. JPoole provided an example of Geekbench of the A9 running mobile and desktop workload sizes [1]. [1] http:
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While many historians do consider them significant, take Wagener's memoir with a pinch of salt, the author was writing the hagiography of a man he was infatuated with: "Hitler turned his large, unfathomable eyes on me; once again,
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If you have some code that needs Python 2.7, I have been really happy using Pyenv: https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv Can't say enough nice things about it, makes it dead simple to run per-project Python versions on th
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While Leonard Read's essay was reasonably well known among Chicago School economists, the concepts it described were made more famous by Milton Friedman's Pencil Allegory from the 1980s PBS series "Free to Choose": http
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Baby changing tables in men's restrooms is becoming much more common in parts of Canada, but you are 100% correct that it wouldn't have happened if people didn't at least question the ingrained idea that changing tables only
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His father emigrated from Sudan, so not so unlikely that someone who is ethnically Sudanese might be invited to visit Sudan and meet the president.
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For those that don't know Cordwainer Smith (and maybe even some that only know him for his beautifully weird stories) in real life was Paul M. A. Linebarger, one of the pioneers of psychological warfare and wrote one of the classics in
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It's anti-corporate not anti-technological, not quite the same thing. After all the open and free Internet is the creation of government departments and government-funded universities. I don't believe that anything as extreme as t
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Listen to music? Talk? Pass a joint around? Those that played instruments brought them and would jam. I know I'm getting old and was kind of a prole but most parties that I went to in Atlantic Canada were like that, you brought what yo
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The article is confusing, I believe Ive was talking about Apple and its product line, not about outside standards. He seems to be saying that keeping compatibility within a product family can stifle innovation.
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Fair but the Apple of today is also a very different company than the Apple of 1996. Before the Jobs/Cook era, Apple used to have terrible inventory management, that isn't a problem any longer. Apple used to be extremely dependent
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For most other companies the iPad, Mac, AppStore, iTunes or even iPod product lines would be considered significant or market leading products. Apple seems like a one-trick pony only in relation to the gargantuaness of the iPhone pony and t
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I imagine an honorary undergraduate degree would also be a bit of a rarity.
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Not to be too thick but wouldn't it seem like a banal point if instead of "iron bar" we were to say "measurement dial" and instead of "specific distance" we say "number of units on dial" and if i
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Just for perspective for those unfamiliar with what short a period the Pony Express[1] actually operated its 2000 mile long, 184 station mail delivery system: it started in April 3 1860 and ended October 24, 1861. [1] https://en.
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I developed mostly in Objective-C and even WebScript [1], the Java transition was hard but I stuck with WO and EOF until the early 2000s. It was my first stage as a working developer, so it will always have a special spot even if it's
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Doesn't have to be. You can have a system with multiple levels of verification. For example in Canada, each party is allowed to appoint an on-site representative for each ballot box to observe the voting process, the count (and ensure
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Sounds like something might be wrong with your MacBook Pro, I would get it checked out. My 2015 13" MacBook Pro pretty consistently shows between 20-35 fps (measured with Quartz Debug Framerate) when using Mission Control.
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The Halifax Explosion was during working hours and near one of the most populated parts of Halifax which contributed to the large number of deaths. The Mont Blanc carried 3121 tons of picric acid, 200 tons of trinitrotoluene, 35 tons of ben
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I live near part of what was the epicentre of the Halifax Explosion. Best estimates are that it was the equivalent of a 2.9 kiloton nuclear explosion, it's rivalled by the Texas City Disaster (1947) [1], but about four times as many pe
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It does have some pretty fancy encryption hardware and Apple seems to have made it very difficult to do even with physical access. David Schultz wrote a pretty comprehensive article about it: http://www.darthnull.org/2014&#x
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You can set your iPhone to secure erase after 10 failed pass-code attempts. In addition you can use long alphanumeric pass codes and even the default new passcode option is being increased to 6 digits (though you can choose a 4 digit option
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Gladstone wasn't aware that the Greeks and other ancient peoples used brightly coloured paints on their statues and buildings. Because articles like the linked one keep coming up, I've just submitted on HN an article from the Brit
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Ancient colour revealed on the Parthenon Sculptures(britishmuseum.org)
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It was in April 2007, details are unsurprisingly confidential but "mutually acceptable" http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/apple/emi-apple-corps-deal-go...

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