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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
The sophistry is in claiming that it is this article that is trying to somehow tie Epstein together with all that. MIT, along with a sizable subset of figures across academia, industry and government, have achieved that all by themselves. A
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
I can appreciate that millions are alive thanks to Fritz Haber's work on chemical fertiliser and still think that it would have been for the best if someone had shot him in the head shortly after completing it. And then again to make s
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
I've been looking at the possibility of using high speed cameras and image processing. I suspect this is a hackable problem using just open source libraries, off the shelf camera modules and cheap single board computers.
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
This is pretty accurate. My brother is one of the best classical musicians I know, but he ditched it for physics for many of the same reasons laid out in this article.
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
>What this means is that a regex parser is like a goldfish. Like a drunk goldfish, or a sober goldfish? 'A method to study short-term memory (STM) in the goldfish.' 'Twenty-one common goldfish (13-15.5 cm long) were ran
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
> 'Until recently, babies were seen as a blessing. Now, far too many people argue that not having a baby is a blessing. Ultimately, the reason for this loss of faith in the human spirit is neither economic nor environmental. Rather,
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
>2) Somebody took his butt from outside and put it inside the perimeter (very unlikely). Only if you discount squirrels.
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
'Boys from the Blackstuff' : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys_from_the_Blackstuff 'American Red Cross – Our boys need SOX' : https://propagandaposterstore.com/product/amer
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
> 'Negroponte also goes around demanding people refer to him as the father of the netbook.' I'd go with a strategy of malicious compliance on that one. Though I would probably add some extra titles as time went on. Any su
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas - https://www.utilitarianism.com/nu/omelas.pdf
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
Nahh, The Count is getting the hell out of Barrytown.
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
Hardware matters.
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
I'd get depressed if I was put into a bucket.
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
'My pen, which is accustomed to figures, is unable to express the march and rhythm of consonance; therefore I shall try to record only the things I see, the things I think, or, to be more exact, the things we think. Yes, "we&quot
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
Unfortunately, if you have the clout and money and a facile excuse, you can also get data on patients straight from the NHS itself. 'Revealed: Google AI has access to huge haul of NHS patient data' - https://www.newscie
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
Well, you can go tell the Irish that their constitution is wrong, if you like. "It is the firm will of the Irish Nation, in harmony and friendship, to unite all the people who share the territory of the island of Ireland, in all the d
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
I don't quite see why you think transporting wafers 170 micrometers thick is unreal or in some way extreme. 170 micrometers is the same thickness as 135 gsm art paper. edit - Also, 170 micrometers is positively beefy compared to what i
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
Recovery of cobalt from spent lithium-ion batteries using supercritical carbon dioxide extraction - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956053X1... The Role of Sub- and Supercritical CO2 as “P
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
>A cube 3 meters on a side can contain enough gasoline to power the average car for its entire lifespan. A cube 3 meters on a side can also contain almost 160,000 meters squared of solar cell wafers, given a common wafer thickness of aro
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
> “For a given capital outlay on oil and renewables, how much useful energy at the wheel do we get? Our analysis indicates that for the same capital outlay today, new wind and solar-energy projects in tandem with battery electric vehicle
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
To unify Northern Ireland with the Republic, I think there are a few people that have to be asked first. I mean, it would be somewhat in character for the UK to attempt to achieve that unilaterally and with no consultation, but I think that
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
And don't be surprised if MPs vote against it.
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
Europe has long been the Conservative Party's kryptonite. I am almost surprised it took this long for the referendum to break them up, but you now have Ken Clarke kicked out of the Conservative party, along with people like Nicolas Soa
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
The referendum just gone is the second referendum though. The first one on staying part of the European community and common market was in 1975.
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
Winning an advisory referendum with a 52% majority, doesn't always equate to parliament having to take the advice. edit - people can disagree with me all they like, however I am not just making this up, so disagreeing with me will not
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
In reality, if the UK does not have a trade deal in place by the time it leaves the EU, it will still need to get one later and it will still contain the same requirements on respecting existing commitments to the the Irish Border. And this
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Amateurs Identify U.S. Spy Satellite Behind President Trump's Tweet(npr.org)
35 points by inflatableDodo 7y ago|3 comments
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
'Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant litt
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
>Also the picture of "native gold" is really pyrite I gave up before I made it that far. So it is. I wonder if anyone put that in deliberately as a metaphor?

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