kobeya

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by kobeya 9y ago
You are correct. Radiation != radioactivity. Radioactive things give off radiation. Radiation itself is not radioactive. It's in the name: radioactive = radio-active = radiation (radio!) generating (active).
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by kobeya 9y ago
You are correct, but it's orthogonal to anything I said. The point I was making is that feudal Japan was an oppressive, nasty place and gunboat diplomacy, while not bloodless (see the internal conflicts of the Meiji Restoration), was a
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by kobeya 9y ago
The two are incomparable. A mere 40 years after Perry sailed into Tokyo bay, Japan went from backwater feudal island to an industrial superpower and unshackled itself from the unequal treaties, asserting its dominance on the international s
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by kobeya 9y ago
I think I know a bit more about he subject than you, having studied the Edo era academically and being a licensed instructor in the military techniques carried down by one family of Tokugawa bodyguards, including the oral history that comes
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by kobeya 9y ago
Honeypots are literally the oldest trick in the book. Everybody uses them.
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by kobeya 9y ago
If they knew, would they tell the New York Times?
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by kobeya 9y ago
Or the Rape of Nanking.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Japan got a very good deal out of gunboat diplomacy, and its population was much better off for it, then and now.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Yes... my comment wouldn't make much sense if that wasn't the case.
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by kobeya 9y ago
I believe you answered your own question.
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by kobeya 9y ago
...like all the countries in the world that do maintain such border filters?
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by kobeya 9y ago
I suspect harmful content here also include ISIS recruiting.
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by kobeya 9y ago
I'm thankful Hong Kong is now part of China so they can keep their fair and open Internet. What a weird world we live in.
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by kobeya 9y ago
He expressed it badly. The point I think he is trying to say is that dark matter can be neither proven nor disproven at this time with the information available. An intellectually honest person should remain open to both possibilities. You
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by kobeya 9y ago
Ah yes, the let's-euthanize-the-Jews-instead-of-keeping-them-in-ghettos approach.
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by kobeya 9y ago
This is the exact opposite of what is taught in technical writing classes, however.
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by kobeya 9y ago
This is addressed in the article.
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by kobeya 9y ago
I learned it in an Aquarium, which unfortunately didn't provide a citation on the display.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Providing commentary yes. Just because I replied doesn't mean I'm disagreeing ;)
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by kobeya 9y ago
> I also wonder if they can shift away from the 'orphanage' model to a more 'foster' model by bringing in sick animals, nursing them to health, then releasing them shortly after This is exactly how the Monterey bay aq
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by kobeya 9y ago
The famous "dolphin blowing air rings" trick was invented in captivity by a bored dolphin. It was never observed in the wild until some rescue dolphins were released back.
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by kobeya 9y ago
So escrow communications for future audits.
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by kobeya 9y ago
The point is that 2.4% is within the error of such a survey. So effectively the result of the survey is that there is no pay gap.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Really depends on the man and the woman.
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by kobeya 9y ago
People are talking about two different things in this thread, and that's why people are talking past each other. Some people think halving means "half the number of base pairs remain" which would be an exponential process, ye
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by kobeya 9y ago
Be reasonable. It's not slavery, nor even indentured servitude when you can quit at any time.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Wow, is that true of vice presidents that become president for 3hrs when air force one goes offline in the middle of a national security crisis?
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by kobeya 9y ago
Why? What's the upside?
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by kobeya 9y ago
Why would this be an exponential process? The error is per base pair per unit time. If a DNA fragment is split cleanly in half, each half should have double the expected time to failure as the whole, because there is half the number of base
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by kobeya 9y ago
Pedantic point, but you couldn't really run an OS from 1990. It wouldn't support any modern peripheral buses required for normal operation. But you certainly can natively run user-mode 16-bit DOS programs on a modern CPU.

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