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by marze 14y ago
>I don't know a lot of what's out there on the horizon, and there are some efforts to create a better C. Are there any efforts to extend C to add very simple/light objects, and perhaps string handling?
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by marze 14y ago
Well, if the science community ever decides Wickramasinghe is right I'll laugh. It was interesting to read about diatoms: about 25% of all photosynthesis, more than all the rainforests location on "tree of life" is unclear: "Despite a numbe
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by marze 14y ago
You're guessing the rock in question did fall from the sky, but that it was blasted of the Earth previously? Aren't there features of chontritic meteorites that would make it fairly easy to distinguish from an regular rock? Given the incom
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by marze 14y ago
I see. What about candidates for a high silica rock that might have been metamorphized diatom deposits? If this theory was correct and diatoms were the original life form, it would suggest they might be more primitive, genetically, assumin
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by marze 14y ago
If diatoms did arrive in meteorites and are the ancestors of Earthly diatoms, you would think they would have shown up in the fossil record earlier.
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by marze 14y ago
Wow, that looks stronger than expected from the low-key presentation. I hope they can interest some other labs to attempt to double check their samples. "The universe, not humans, must have the final say to declare what the world is really
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by marze 14y ago
Of course it would come to this. People need to pay more attention.
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by marze 14y ago
Cartoon physics meets gratuitous story changes. The Jackson films have gone downhill from Fellowship (which wasn't too bad) to the unwatchable Hobbit film.
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by marze 14y ago
It would appear Apple is managed in a way that allows employees to have "extreme focus", or a single focus. Also, Apple as a company seems to do a good job of staying focused on what they think is key. Thoughts?
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by marze 14y ago
It was 2002 when the last competent UI engineer left Microsoft, none of this is a surprise.
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by marze 14y ago
Reminds me a lot of a 120 year ago prediction that all the good stuff had been invented/discovered. So wrong...
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by marze 14y ago
The presidential election is a game, quite complicated, and the winner gets to be president. Voters and voting is just one aspect of the game. Romney lost this match, probably partly due to an IT and analysis advantage the Obama team had.
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by marze 14y ago
The main point is that the 'app' was not ready and the system failed to perform. The speculation that it could have made a difference in some states was secondary.
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by marze 14y ago
It would be more accurate to say: High blood pressure may damage the brain, or, the factors that cause high blood pressure also damage the brain. Correlation does not imply causation.
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by marze 14y ago
I still use my 1st-gen iPad daily, and am always impressed by its beautiful screen. The OS updates it's got since initial release have improved the web browsing substantially. My wife has the retina iPad, which has an even more beautiful
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by marze 14y ago
Here is a way to bribe journals, by purchasing large quantities of "reprints": http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/07/03/richard-smith-medical-jo... With so much money at stake, all this should surprise no one. And anyone with an ounce of brai
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by marze 14y ago
Polls say 1 in 5 in the US plan to get the new iPhone. Its release certainly is news if that is the case.
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by marze 14y ago
That is about the most shoddy photoshop job by a $10B corporation ever. Anyone have any ideas what was in that corner they might want to hide?
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by marze 14y ago
I love short jokes.
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by marze 14y ago
Well, how about the stock? Certainly not a lost decade by any measure of Microsoft's stock price. Some incredibly awesome denial in the comment thread of your link, rlu.
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by marze 14y ago
Steve would have said, is he inebriated? Anyhow, the $99 Logitech keyboard case is available today.
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by marze 14y ago
On a retina iPad it was the nicest horizontal scroll page I've seen. I'd be perfectly happy to read any text like this.
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by marze 14y ago
Hard to argue with Apple's success, essentially no malware vs the cesspool of Windows malware everyone deals with.
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by marze 14y ago
1995? How about 2005? Quarterly earnings of $0.35 per share, vs this quarter of $12.35 per share, up 4000%.
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by marze 15y ago
Why hurry things up when the cancer treatment industry is making billions with the status quo? I'm sure the industry (and by extension, the government regulatory and funding agencies) would rather this research was never funded in the first
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by marze 15y ago
Water works better. Heavy elements like lead splatter when hit by high energy particles and generate secondary radiation. The idea is good, most mars plans include a shelter with a water or rocket fuel shield.
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by marze 15y ago
In the presentation, Cook refers to the "new iPad" with no "3". Inside Apple, they probably have viewed what we call the iPad 1 and iPad 2 as the prequel 1 and prequel 2 to the actual iPad, which is only now finished.
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by marze 15y ago
When they've spent $500k lobbying against, that is when they should be considered forgiven.
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by marze 15y ago
Time will tell. Pretty safe prediction that they may decay in six years though. If they grew at the rate they have over the last six years for the next six years, you can do the math.
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by marze 15y ago
Like in the startup world, it is all about the team. Who now has a better team than Apple? They've demonstrated they can make good decisions, grow revenue, etc., better than anyone else. That's why I invest in Apple. A great team does gr

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