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by joeyo 17y ago
Cetaceans (whales and dolphins) have internal testicles. It's easy to guess why: they would incur a significant decrease in hydrodynamic efficiency if they had external testicles like other mammals. However, they risk not having viable sper
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by joeyo 17y ago
The way the author phrased this is unfortunate. However, there are very good reasons to believe that even small mutations could have resulted in large changes in morphology or behavior. A mutation in even a single base-pair could result in
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by joeyo 17y ago
Wow. I was prepared to dislike this article but I find the argument extremely compelling and well reasoned. Edit: An especially good point is his suggestion that permanent breasts would likely have evolved before men started to find them
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by joeyo 17y ago
Great, now we will have spam that tries to game the system to be flagged more important.
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by joeyo 17y ago
Yes, if you register a Starbucks card you become eligible for "rewards" according to: https://www.starbucks.com/cardrewards/default.asp
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by joeyo 17y ago
> You could make the same observation about the fact that > people use Kleenex and not Kimberly-Clark Wipes. Unless you work in a wet lab, then you definitely use Kim Wipes.
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by joeyo 17y ago
The tiers are aimed at the carriers, not at end users. The logic being that the (typical) end user is not going to be changing to a non-carrier-sanctioned version of the OS. I don't fully understand the difference between tiers 2 and 3, but
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by joeyo 17y ago
In principle you can build your own android image from the public git tree. This would be the first type. My understanding is that people have figured out how to hack the google apps (gmail, market, etc) onto these pure open-source images,
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by joeyo 17y ago
Scale it by your user base-- that is, if your top user has 50k RSS subscribers, then make that the top of the scale. This makes it basically a percentile system. However, I suggest not updating the coefficients in real-time. Otherwise you c
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by joeyo 17y ago
I don't see why it's a big deal. Sell the car to cover the tax. You still come out ahead.
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by joeyo 17y ago
I hope you are at least putting away a good chunk of change so that you have some cushion if disaster strikes. A mallet to the face is one thing, but what about a progressive disease like cancer?
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by joeyo 17y ago
> But isn't oil carbon neutral? ;-) Heh. The area under the curve may add up to 1, but it's coming out a lot faster than it went in! I used to be somewhat worried that when oil starts to run out it will leave the developing coun
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by joeyo 17y ago
> "When it was over, it was over" > > ...is also far from correct Political grudges are one thing. But I think we were extremely fortunate that the American Civil war did not devolve into a protracted guerrilla war. I
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by joeyo 17y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I suspect that my G1 has a bad GPS module because I find that when I have it disabled, I can get a somewhat accurate measurement of my current location via cell towers or whatever, however if I have it enabled,
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by joeyo 17y ago
Android with the Locale app does this (lets you toggle features as a function of battery state), but I've heard that Google is actually removing the API calls for toggling GPS in Cupcake (Android v1.5). I'm not entirely sure why this is sup
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by joeyo 17y ago
And when you consider how much longer it takes for you perceive , the light it gets even more ridiculous!
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by joeyo 17y ago
If you jailbreak an android phone you get this, more or less.
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by joeyo 17y ago
Typos like these are some of the hardest to debug. More than once I've been at the point of pulling my hair out on some nonsensical error message that is fixed by simply retyping the line. Trust me, you don't want to waste your time on this
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by joeyo 17y ago
I guess I'm just pragmatic about these things, but I find it difficult to think of any sort remix, mash-up or cover that could be done that would make someone an "artistic wrecker". Even your example of belching on top of "Yesterday", while
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by joeyo 17y ago
My understanding is that alimony is quite distinct from child support. Rather it is payments made directly to a former spouse and harks back to a time when women had no way to support themselves after a divorce (they could not work and prob
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by joeyo 17y ago
The median age on IRC has got to be at least 23 at this point.
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by joeyo 17y ago
While I enjoy hating on fMRI studies as much as the next guy, it's a little harsh to say that this study proves nothing. Brain activity is proportional to blood flow/energy consumption. We can argue about the linearity of that relationshi
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by joeyo 17y ago
Ok well the article is about eliminating cars within cities, so why the non-sequitur? edit: Regarding your point about commuting from extremely outlying "suburbs"--Richmond is over 100 mi from DC!--I agree that such insanity is only "sust
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by joeyo 17y ago
> There cannot, logically, be a more efficient > way to reach certain destinations than with a car. Efficient in what way? Least energy use per person? Surely not. Least time to destination per person perhaps? If you defi
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by joeyo 17y ago
I don't understand the connection you posit between wealth and not using automobiles. I would expect that there is if anything a positive correlation between wealth and automobile use (though perhaps not between wealth and driving ). At t
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by joeyo 17y ago
Can an admin please fix the title?
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by joeyo 17y ago
I use it to analyze neural signal data. Every now and again I fantasize about giving python and matplotlib a try, but there is too much inertia to overcome.
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by joeyo 17y ago
Those are some very nice examples. However, is there a better/more respected metric for comparing how two datasets are related? Mutual Information perhaps?
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by joeyo 17y ago
When I write them down I'm surprised at how few I actually use on a daily basis. It boils down to (in order of decreasing frequency): 1. Matlab 2. C++ 3. C
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by joeyo 17y ago
So plug the iPhone into the wall when you're sharing internet over wifi. Anyway, the article claims that the device gets only four hours of continuous use. I imagine this is better than an iPhone using wifi constantly, but is it really tha

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