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by lurquer 8y ago
Maybe he was referring to the casket business... the EU produces most of the UK's caskets... maybe that's why there would be corpses in the street.
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by lurquer 8y ago
Corpses in the street? The UK imports around 25% of food-related commodities from the EU. Even with no deal, these imports will continue (as the EU has to sell them to someone.) Even if the EU stopped, there would not be corpses in the stre
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by lurquer 8y ago
I've found SFML an easy way to get some stuff on the screen in 2D. As far as true 3D graphics, I made a Minecraft clone using OpenGL... it was a nice project as, surprisingly, you end up using all the basic techniques as you tweak it,
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by lurquer 8y ago
Exactly. Everything after the first trigger word you said when you unwrapped and plugged it in is streamed.
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by lurquer 8y ago
There never was a non-extraction economy in West Texas. The place is empty. Some cattle. Fire ants. And the occasional SS retiree living in a mobile home in the middle of nowhere (such as the lady highlighted in the article). Weep over the
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by lurquer 8y ago
Isn't the more illuminating data the average wage growth of an individual? That is, observing that the average height of the lower quintile has regrettably not changed in 40 years obscures the fact that it isn't at all unlikely fo
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by lurquer 8y ago
The attributes you reference are a function of culture and not DNA. The Viking culture was replaced with a Christian culture.
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by lurquer 8y ago
It was a cell growth simulation. Morphogenesis. The goal was to start with a single cell and see if I could make it divide and grow into something neat. The constraint was that all the cells were identical, and 'knew' only a limit
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by lurquer 8y ago
I had to write a scripting language for a personal project. Since I could create whatever syntax I wanted, I used this: 'if x==4' was written as 'x[4]' 'if x>2 && x<4' was written as 'x(2,4)&
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by lurquer 8y ago
It's not "global warming" any more. It's "climate change." I hope I live long enough -- and I suspect I will -- to see the 'issue' become the damaging effects of 'climate stagnation'. I bet
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by lurquer 8y ago
>The general trend that goes upward in your graph isn't the number of butterflies, but the number of 'sites monitored', i.e., places where they searched for butterflies. With all due respect, I can read a graph. I was refe
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by lurquer 8y ago
I'm no statistician, but the general trend seems to be upward for the last ten years. https://www.westernmonarchcount.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/... Indeed, but for some out-of-whack numbers in 1997, th
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by lurquer 8y ago
>This year’s steep drop is probably due to extreme weather, at least partly resulting from climate change. Late rainstorms in March, as well as an intense, extended wildfire season across California, have battered the species. The state’
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by lurquer 8y ago
Are there others besides Strom Thurmond and Richard Shelby?
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by lurquer 8y ago
Measuring life expectancy from birth is more a measure of infant mortality. The data on life expectancy from 5 years old is remarkably consistent... mid to upper 70's. It's even more consistent when one looks at life expectancy fr
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by lurquer 8y ago
>If we are to judge those people, it must be on their own terms. And on their own terms, human sacrifice and cannibalism was what their faith (and therefore, their morality) required of them. So, you're ok with the Spanish wiping th
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by lurquer 8y ago
>Everything related to food in the US is just a total disaster. The US has the most plentiful and cheapest foods. It supplies its own population with food so cheap the prices have to be supported. And, even with that, there is enormous s
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by lurquer 8y ago
You're right. Shouldn't have posted that. I just wanted the last word. (Dammit... did it again!)
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by lurquer 8y ago
It suffers from the fallacy of petitio principii, in that it assumes arguendo that consciousness is comprised of neurons (and, as mentioned above, that a neuron is less complex than consciousness.) But it's not stated as an 'argum
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by lurquer 8y ago
It may be a fallacy to assume a neuron is less complex than a brain. Depends on how one measures complexity and at what scale... but living systems -- unlike no living systems -- strangely get more complex the closer in one goes. That is, i
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by lurquer 8y ago
You too? For the benefit of the greater good, I’ve stopped investing for several years. I just couldn’t stomach the damage I was doing to the markets.
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by lurquer 8y ago
No. The sunk cost comes into play in explaining why we've gone to Disney World three time too many simply because we bought some multi-day package years ago. I hate Disney. She hates Dianey. But, we gotta use up the stinking tickets.
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by lurquer 8y ago
So that's why I go broke on vacations... I want to eat somewhere cheap and the wife says, "No, let's go to the expensive joint... we've already spent $x getting here, so an extra $50 won't make a difference!" N
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by lurquer 8y ago
Perhaps it's related to the 'membership' marketing aspect. Checking to see if you have your membership card upon entry, and this strange little check when you leave, cements into the customer that there is something special a
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by lurquer 8y ago
Been to Venice? But for a sliver of the northern side, I got the impression nobody lived there but tourists.
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by lurquer 8y ago
Sadly, the plant used Apple's iSensors which don't work in the presence of helium.
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by lurquer 8y ago
Indeed. I had to reread that paragraph. That's a LOT of helium (by volume). "So, i noticed some of the workers' iwatch's weren't registering the users' heart-rates. At first, I thought it was because they had a
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by lurquer 8y ago
>What is an actual phenomenon that is well modeled by a poisson process? I used it in a cell tissue simulation where the user could define how frequently the cells divide. If you start with 100 cells and want them each to divide, on aver
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by lurquer 8y ago
Plenty of examples. Every day we read of Professors not receiving tenure because they believe in global warming. Articles that support global warming being rejected from journals. Notable commentators suggesting the belief in global warming
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by lurquer 8y ago
All for the cost of a coffee cup.

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