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by kirrent 10y ago
I misread your reply on Lenski's experiment as dismissing it as not an example of evolution, rather than as not an example of speciation. The first would be incorrect, the second is more of a judgement call which calls for discussion.
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by kirrent 10y ago
I'll correct you because you're wrong. Adaptation is evolution. There's no line in the sand, no requirement for 'morphological differences', and no reproductive isolation before you call it evolution. Calling it ada
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by kirrent 10y ago
I've never met anyone who gets sick based entirely off vergence-accommodation conflict. I've certainly talked to people who claimed it was an issue but would happily go to a 3d film so I assume they were misattributing the cause o
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by kirrent 10y ago
"Steve suddenly got more intense. "Rectangles with rounded corners are everywhere! Just look around this room!". And sure enough, there were lots of them, like the whiteboard and some of the desks and tables. Then he pointed
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by kirrent 10y ago
Puzzlingly she didn't go to the reef but went to the coral around Keppel Island. I've been up and down the coast a few times and I don't know if the coral at Keppel could ever have been called vibrant. It seemed like a pretty
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by kirrent 10y ago
I'm not sure to what degree they're embellished but they do have some basis in reality. I didn't realise that until he shared on facebook that Simon, the subject of many jokes in his stories but someone he'd gotten close
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by kirrent 10y ago
For those interested, Andreas did an interview on the Amp hour a while ago. http://www.theamphour.com/254-an-interview-with-andreas-olof... Congrats to everyone at adapteva. I remember talking to a couple of researchers who
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by kirrent 10y ago
Your confusion here is exactly why everyone is so down on D-wave. All the parents points are true which is why it's hard to take their hype seriously.
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by kirrent 10y ago
That's not how quantum annealing works. This is a pretty good walk through expected and actual gains. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6231/215.full I've never heard anyone claim it'd
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by kirrent 10y ago
Whether or not you agree that D-wave has proper superposition and is properly performing quantum annealing your original statement was different from this one. You wrote: "it can test the superposition of the entire search space instea
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by kirrent 10y ago
To be fair, that's by design and they make no secret of the fact that it's not a fully featured OS. FreeRTOS has a lot of that stuff available but I think that part of the reason it's so popular is because of how bare-bones,
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by kirrent 10y ago
He didn't, but the outer space treaty would make any claim to ownership of land invalid. In the past he's discussed direct democracy as a preferred form of governance for smaller colonies with all/most laws having sunset prov
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by kirrent 10y ago
If you weren't confused then something would be wrong. People in the industry get confused by this subject matter eligibility stuff. Alice's tests are pretty vague and leave a lot up to individual judgement on the merits of each c
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by kirrent 10y ago
Famously, Argonaut impressed Nintendo by circumventing this copy protection. The gameboy actually reads the contents of the ROM twice. Once to check that all the data is correct and again to display on the screen. Argonaut just used a capac
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by kirrent 10y ago
Then they didn't go and make the mistake of trying to slim too much for the next gen in the Z4 compact. The thing has incremental improvements on all the features you mentioned and battery life is just as good as it was before.
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by kirrent 10y ago
To add to the above, if you are interested in (2) then most of the content of Aaronson's book 'Quantum Computing since Democritus' is on his website as lecture notes for an old class.
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by kirrent 10y ago
This was a test which had followed previous testing.
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by kirrent 10y ago
This wasn't launch. It was still a live fire test, but as you say, there are previous tests before integration.
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by kirrent 10y ago
To a degree every satellite is custom because of custom requirements. To the extent that they're not they can use an existing platform, like Boeing does with the 702.
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by kirrent 10y ago
Even at the far slower speed the first stage would still be damaged from re-entry. That's why they do a re-entry burn to slow the stage down before the atmosphere gets too dense. There's apparently also some interesting physics on
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by kirrent 10y ago
Not contradicting anything you've said seeing as the first few launches of the falcon 9 followed your rough outline, but SES was SpaceX's first GTO launch so they've clearly got an appetite for a bit of risk.
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by kirrent 10y ago
Because it's hilarious. He's also trapped alone on a planet and pretty sure he's going to die for most of the book. I'd swear as well.
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by kirrent 10y ago
Therefore, the final sentence of my comment. Of course the system is prone to abuse by larger entities in certain cases but that's highly dependent on each jurisdiction and their particular anti-slapp laws which should ideally protect
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by kirrent 10y ago
He financed their murder by lawyer but it's a vulnerability that only affects the weak and diseased. Expecting not to be punished for egregious illegal actions simply because your victims don't have enough money to make use of the
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by kirrent 10y ago
Very much off on this tangent. One of my favourite pieces of trivia in movies concerns the 1969 film Battle of Britain where Kesselring, a German field marshall, almost ironically gives Goring a Nazi salute following their defeat. This deta
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by kirrent 10y ago
I must admit I can't see any particular difficulty which would make the photoelectric effect more difficult to describe in terms of waves than other quantum phenomena.
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by kirrent 10y ago
The majority of the comments here are interesting to me because they're talking about the cost of an epi-pen after insurance. The problem doesn't seem to be some mismatch of the interplay between drug price and insurance rebate bu
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by kirrent 10y ago
"Perhaps the most controversial course of action, though, is the decision to carry and use supplemental O2. Most climbers consider their supplemental oxygen as equipment—just as much a part of their experience as their Gortex gear, and
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by kirrent 10y ago
Make sure you carry photo ID though. That actually can attract a fine.
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by kirrent 10y ago
Every ship within range of an AIS receiving station. There are deadspots far out and see and behind obstructions.

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