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by lbenes 11y ago
You ask the right questions. The documentary "Why We Fight"[1] attempts to answer them. It's a fascinating look into the military–industrial complex and its 50-year involvement with US wars. [1] https://vimeo.com&#
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by lbenes 11y ago
No mention of pollution or climate change? The trend for climate change been observed since the 1950's. 99% of Scientists agree that it's really happening, and it will have a major impact on how livable our planet is.
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by lbenes 11y ago
Chrome has done so much right, why did they develop a case of NIHS with this? I've RDP'd to machine IN CHINA with better performance than I got connecting my uncle across town. The devs that came up with the harebrained idea, shou
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by lbenes 11y ago
I’ve always felt that theoretical physicists should give more thought to the implication that gravitational waves don’t exist. Just maybe it would require reworking relativity in a way that’s more compatible with quantum mechanics. Sadly, i
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by lbenes 11y ago
Terry’s entire life and sense of reality are twisted in ways you probably can’t even imagine unless you’ve tripped before. You seem to lack the empathy to imagine what it’s like to live as a Schizophrenic. I just ignore the racist bullshit
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by lbenes 11y ago
Sure you can claim there's no "smoking gun" between Roundup use and the loss of the Monarch just like the FDA refused to acknowledge the link between antibiotics in livestock and superbugs in humans in the 1970s. [1] Or you c
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by lbenes 11y ago
The USDA's scientist Robert Kremer's research does not back Monsato's claims about reducing erosion.[1] What is clear from the research is that roundup: * causes damage to beneficial microbes in the soil increasing the likeli
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by lbenes 11y ago
I don't think the issue with Monsanto is how they're paid, I think it's what modifications they make. If a company makes golden rice, insect resistant crops, or adds nitro-fixing genes, I have no issue with the being rewarded
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by lbenes 12y ago
For novices like me, this site seems very useful. If there are some genuine problems, I hope you can take the time to report those issues on github. Also, what's the final verdict on Fast InvSqrt()? Is the optimal magic number Q3'
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by lbenes 12y ago
This will only disable webm VP8 + VP9, forcing FF to fallback to H264. In order to enable MSE & WebM VP9 in Firefox nightly, you must leave: media.webm.enabled=true (default) media.mediasource.enabled=true (default) The only value you m
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by lbenes 12y ago
As a related note, if you upgrade to a SSD be sure to change the SATA type in BIOS from IDE to AHCI. Not only did I see a doubling in write speed [1], but after making the change, my system felt much more responsive under heavy load. [1] h
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by lbenes 12y ago
Sadly, it still has issues with importing footnotes/endnotes.[1] It was one of the main reasons cited by our marketing team for resisting LibreOffice and going with MS Office 2010 instead. [1] https://bugs.documentfoundation
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by lbenes 12y ago
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uJIN57k... I don’t know what style requirement the DOJ had, but I do know that when the marketing team put a footnote on one page, and LibreOffice moved it on a separate
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by lbenes 12y ago
It’s funny you mentioned footnotes as being important to you. When my company was considering upgrading from Office 2003 to 2010, I pushed hard for LibreOffice. When we ran the shared drive folder though the batch converter, we found many m
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by lbenes 12y ago
First of all, I don't buy your argument that the proposal is bad. Your hypothetical situation where net neutrality could harm startups is so contrived it almost sounds like you are trolling. The odds of a future ISP competing by broker
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by lbenes 12y ago
Great link and thanks for the explanation. So by using a deferred rendering algorithm you can reduces the complexity O(m+n), (m=number of surfaces, n=number of lights) where the forward lighting path renderers have complexity O(m*n). The tr
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by lbenes 12y ago
> New entrants are trying to compete in the market place. One proven effective way to gain a foothold in a market with entrenched players is to offer a loss leader. We could more than make up for this hypothetical disadvantage by regulat
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by lbenes 12y ago
>For my Masters degree project at uni I had a demo written in OpenGL with over 500 dynamic lights, I don’t know what kind of 3D engine you wrote, but as a FPS gamer I have quite a bit of experience with 3D engines. From Doom 3 to Alan Wa
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by lbenes 12y ago
Yes, of course if most American were as lucky as you, net neutrality wouldn't be an issue. But the reality is that most of us are under a monopoly.[1] And it will take years and billions of dollars in infrastructure to enable the kind
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by lbenes 12y ago
> Is the DRM module itself an open specification? Or will it be a separate proprietary program It's a closed source proprietary blob. You can read about it here. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/05/1
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by lbenes 12y ago
This is terrible advice. Whether it's for your own heath or your pet's you should always educate yourself. Doctors/veterinarian are heavily influenced by drug/pet supply companies. From her first days veterinary school,
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by lbenes 12y ago
> "open, tolerant and inclusive society" This is what we need, not the usual approach of using tragic events to justify new surveillance, law enforcement powers, or military action. The only response that could offer a real lon
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by lbenes 12y ago
UPDATE: "But even though they are running thousands of new relays, their relays currently make up less than 1% of the Tor network by capacity. We are working now to remove these relays from the network before they become a threat, and
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by lbenes 12y ago
Sony just had a major layoff,pointing to a possible insider.[1] Many Koreans work for Sony and they may have had a personal gripe with NK.“Guardians of Peace” comes from a quote used by former President Richard Nixon describing South Korea.
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by lbenes 12y ago
From the symptoms you're describing, it sounds like you're using Flash with Firefox on Linux. I had the same issue as you until I switched to Google Chrome. Firefox is stuck at 11.2.202.425, while Chrome is using the latest 16.0.0
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by lbenes 12y ago
Nope, definitely was White Pine, 5 needles on each sprig and black bark. Ponderosa Pine doesn't grow natively in the North-East. Oddly, people do make tea out of Yellow Pine too! Give you an idea, this stuff is pretty good. Going help
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by lbenes 12y ago
So the article inspired me to try some white pine tea for the first time. I'm sipping it right now, and it tastes quite good. If you live in the north try it out. Here's the recipe that I followed: http://hubpages.com&#
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by lbenes 12y ago
Yes please. If you want share it, I'm curious how different compilers and architectures handle memmove vs memcpy.
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What memtest are you using? This one: https://github.com/UK-MAC/WMTools/blob/master/tests/memtest....
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by lbenes 12y ago
"Think of the children!" Whether it's for backdoors to your data in the cloud or facial recognition, protecting the children is ALWAYS what governments claim they need the tech for. Their track record is terrible, almost alwa

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