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Trial opens against scientists for Italy quake(hosted2.ap.org)
2 points by lucasjung 15y ago|0 comments
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by lucasjung 15y ago
Affordable health care that doesn't include all of the advances in treatment (procedures, pharmaceuticals, technologies, etc.) that have come about in the past 36 years? To give an example that affects most people in small ways: in 1975 I w
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by lucasjung 15y ago
In this case it's especially relevant: how many of those top 5% are in the top 5% because they were able to grab a disproportionate portion of the economy's gains? In other words, a lot of people will look at this and think, "Rich people
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by lucasjung 15y ago
I experienced something like this as a child, but it didn't seem very extreme to me at all. I started younger than eight, so that probably helped. My parents were living in Germany when I was born. My mother flew back to California for my
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by lucasjung 15y ago
I honestly don't know. It might also include people that get Prime for free (new moms, college students, etc.), who also don't get streaming video. Assuming that the 5M figure is correct, and that it includes everyone with access to Prime
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by lucasjung 15y ago
Amazon's numbers might not compare right now, but they are very well positioned to elbow their way into Netflix's market. I found an estimate[1] that Amazon has 121-131 million customers, of which about 5 million are Prime members. Those p
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by lucasjung 15y ago
Amazon Prime also has all seasons of TNG (and all the other ST series), costs less per year than Netflix, and includes free two-day shipping on all meatspace purchases. The Amazon Prime streaming collection is currently smaller than Netfli
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by lucasjung 15y ago
I would guess that it's a whole lot of reasons including the reasons you stated. I would also add a couple (and there's probably more): Round is structurally strong (which, when it comes to aerospace engineering, is really just the opposit
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by lucasjung 15y ago
In the modern sense of the term, that is true. However, one could certainly make an argument that Oliver Cromwell, et al were fundamentalists, as well as the original settlers of Plymouth. You could go back even further in time and apply
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by lucasjung 15y ago
I wouldn't have downvoted you, but then your edit included some incredibly bigoted and unwarranted stereotypes: > ...fundamentalist christian [sic] ignorant half retarded hillbilly sex fiend town... > Typical small town american [s
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by lucasjung 15y ago
This headline is misleading. Most copyrights have been 70 years in the EU for years. This change brings an exception into line with the majority.
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by lucasjung 15y ago
Just like the Smart Engineer: http://xkcd.com/670/
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by lucasjung 15y ago
> The teacher-student-parent relationship isn't adversarial. Sometimes it is , and in those cases parents need to advocate for their children. The unfortunate truth is that there are asshats in every segment of the population, includ
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by lucasjung 15y ago
I had a teacher in elementary school who regularly asserted that I had done things which I had not. She wasn't directly lying: there was another boy who I did not get along well with (to put it mildly), and he would regularly tell her lies
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by lucasjung 15y ago
> The key to learning how to touch type is just typing _a lot_. Absolutely. I don't think that typing-tutor software really does very much teaching at all, it's just a good tool for drilling yourself. But why not have fun in the proc
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by lucasjung 15y ago
> The real final piece to the puzzle would be rolling out some sort of Google broadband via wifi/fibre etc all the way to the home. Already in the works: http://www.fiberforcommunities.com/
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by lucasjung 15y ago
They also tried it in the American South as part of Jim Crow: "literacy" tests that were hard for anyone to pass, with grandfather clauses so that all of the illiterate whites could keep voting (in fact, that's where the term "grandfather
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by lucasjung 15y ago
> ...you can't do ROI calculations on that. Instead, you dump as much money as you can into it, and then you know that decades down the line, you'll be very happy that you did it. I could apply this quote to all kinds of other ways of
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by lucasjung 15y ago
Indeed. The question isn't, "Did this experiment advance scientific knowledge," the question is, "Was this a prudent and appropriate use of tax money, especially in light of the enormous opportunity costs inherent in any expenditure of t
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by lucasjung 15y ago
I recently tried to set up an HTPC with XBMC on top of Arch. I had never used Arch before, but I was attracted by the idea of being able to install just the very minimum stuff I needed (to keep boot times short), as well as the rolling-rel
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by lucasjung 15y ago
Maybe because he's paranoid and doesn't understand economics?
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Russian cargo flight to space station crashes(reuters.com)
7 points by lucasjung 15y ago|0 comments
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by lucasjung 15y ago
Using that bijection, you are still describing two sets of coordinates, you have just encoded them into a single number by interleaving them. Also, you won't be able to define points in certain quadrants of the cartesian coordinate space u
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by lucasjung 15y ago
You are correct, but when you look at it this way, Wolf 3D was actually 2D: you couldn't move up or down. If, instead of defining the number of dimensions according to the degrees of freedom in movement, we instead define them according to
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by lucasjung 15y ago
You're missing the point. Within the set of points along the curved line, I can define any point by a single coordinate: how far along the line that point is. That makes the space defined by that set of points one-dimensional. The fact t
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by lucasjung 15y ago
> So, the only reason for Google to refuse to talk about joining the group to bid on the Novell patents would be if google was planning to use them against the group, if it won them. I can think of at least one other reason: they saw t
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by lucasjung 15y ago
It's funny that you say this, because prior to the adoption of fiat money systems, class-warfare leaders agitated for decades (centuries, even?) in favor of a system of fiat money, because they saw fiat money as a way to reduce wealth inequ
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Governments, IOC and UN hit by massive cyber attack(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by lucasjung 15y ago|0 comments
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by lucasjung 15y ago
You are correct that, while unlawful combatants are not guaranteed the same rights under the Geneva Conventions as lawful combatants, there is no requirement to actively deny those rights. However, there are some very good reasons for goin
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by lucasjung 15y ago
> 1) when did it suddenly become ok for the military to shoot unarmed combatants? It has always been OK to shoot enemy combatants who are not actively communicating their intent to surrender; just because someone is not obviously arm

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