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by lurquer 8y ago
To the contrary, the stupidity of the average TSA worker is such that it may encourage bad-actors. Having to deal with such buffoons on every flight make it very difficult to sustain the delusion that gov't security is competent. They&
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by lurquer 8y ago
HN shouldn't regurgitate political hit pieces. Ivanka Trump's business has trademarks registered throughout the world... it is no great honor to get a trademark registered in China. Qatar did not invest in Kushener's office t
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by lurquer 8y ago
I wonder what would evolve more in a given space of time... A creature that has tens of thousands of offspring every year? Or, a creature that has -- at most -- a few dozen offspring over a lifespan of several decades? The answer is as obvi
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by lurquer 8y ago
I see hysteria about Ebola. As if it has the potential to wipe out millions. If Ebola was prone to causing large-scale epidemics, Ebola would have caused large-scale epidemics. Want to worry? Worry about flu. Worry about smallpox. Those vir
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by lurquer 8y ago
I go to Austin now and then. It gives me hope for the future when I see the organic hemp reusable tie-died bags. Amazing how many plastic bottles, plastic packaging, plastic garbage sacks, and plastic tableware can fit into those bags.
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by lurquer 8y ago
There is also the loss of flexibility and freedom. Having your own car available -- even though it sits in your workplace's parking lot 99% of the time during business hours -- gives some comfort to some people. I have not lived in NYC
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by lurquer 8y ago
Ha. Can't believe someone mentioned Barcelona. Went to London and a few other European cities and my cheapo-wrist compass made it so easy to navigate. Then we reached Barcelona, where every damn road is at a 45 degree angle! Argh. It&#
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by lurquer 8y ago
Much of Kansas is comprised of the most uninteresting topography in the United States. But for wheat and corn, nobody would live there. The author claims she grew up in Kansas. I doubt her job requires her to be in Los Angeles. So, why isn&
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by lurquer 8y ago
You are exactly right. I left your observation unstated as I felt it obvious. I was involved in a project to create an anthology of poems. I spent much time reviewing previous anthologies, published in the 1800s, of 'contemporary'
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by lurquer 8y ago
Never bother with a poem that is less than 100 years old. If you really want to be 'moved', don't bother with any poem less than 200 years old. The poems that remain after 300 years are even better... Unfortunately, you start
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by lurquer 8y ago
>One should be allowed to alter one's own consciousness any way one sees fit. You state that as a self-evident fact. It clearly isn't. I can think of no human society where limits and restrictions were not placed on intoxicatin
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by lurquer 9y ago
What's your point? When roads were reserved for horses, would you ride your donkey on the sidewalk?
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by lurquer 9y ago
Check out the book "Tahoe Leap Eyeball" at Amazon. It's the entire KJV bible in that style. (Tahoe Leap Eyeball = The Holy Bible). Clearly the process was automated. Ingenious program. More complex than mere homophone substri
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by lurquer 9y ago
>It's also very safe to try out and do, which is counterintuitive to most people who haven't tried. Overwhelmingly the most common failure mode on a unicycle is that you just stop riding it, and then it either gets ahead of you
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by lurquer 9y ago
I believe the word "suck" was used correctly. The distinction in use between 'blow' and 'suck' seems to be the direction of travel. If items are moving away from some centralized point in random directions, we
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by lurquer 9y ago
> 3. The end-product of science is not truth, it is explanations of observations. The term 'science' is used in this way. Perhaps it should not be. Perhaps semantics drive the issue. In the field in which I am familiar, we have
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by lurquer 9y ago
Maybe WE are the waste.... Former civilization created organic automatons for amusement. The civilization is long gone, but their relics continue on to this day in the form of 'life'.
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by lurquer 9y ago
I considered blindfolding, but from what I gather the protein would be activated merely with the presence of the field. Looks like the humane way to test, according to the article cited above, is to affix magnets to the eyes/beak to se
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by lurquer 9y ago
Hey, thanks! That's what I was looking for! Their procedure is far less bloody than my proposal... that's probably why I'm not a biologist. I guess the "Let's just chop it off and see what happens" ploy isn&#x
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by lurquer 9y ago
Is there practical expirementsl evidence demonstrating birds can sense magnetic fields? That is, can you train a bird to select between two boxes, one of which contains a strong magnet? Just wondering. I'd read about theories regarding
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by lurquer 9y ago
Reads like they found it near the surface: ------ "But researchers behind the recent Misliya discovery argue that the bone’s location on the surface rather than in the lake deposits below mean it might not correspond to that climactic
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by lurquer 9y ago
Dude in a caravan 100 years ago gets finger cut off while harnessing camel. Buried finger in sand. At night. (thus leaving the sand 'unbleached' as the term is used in the optical luminescence field.) Occam's razor.
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by lurquer 9y ago
Where's the rest of the skeleton?
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by lurquer 9y ago
Sigh... Got all excited to read an article about Mack Bolan. Oh well...
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by lurquer 9y ago
That was a great project. I saw it when it popped up on Hacker News.
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by lurquer 9y ago
Agreed. It's a sort of silly constraint. Not truly necessary. But, there are other aspects of the project that make it much easier to completely and utterly do away with floating point.
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by lurquer 9y ago
Excellent demo. I've been working on a procedural terrain generator for fun. Voxel-based. Just big chunks of 16x16x256 sections. Like minecraft. My goal is create a function that will take any 3D integer coordinate and output a particu
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by lurquer 9y ago
The original article was to have a voice-over that explained such things.
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by lurquer 9y ago
You are correct. Few realize that China -- nearly all of it -- had been exposed to Christisnity; albeit, a really bizarre form of it preached by Xiuquan. I don't believe this period of China's history is taught much in China and,
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by lurquer 9y ago
If you can find them, Forrest Mims electronics books (once sold at RadioShack).

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