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by marze 15y ago
Anyone who thinks that the position of president has power enough to make substantial change in the way the US government operates is living in a world of fantasy.
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by marze 15y ago
Not mentioned in the article but significant is that this find represents a very easy asteroid to visit and return to Earth, either a manned mission or an unmanned sample return mission.
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by marze 15y ago
Since NASA has repeatedly demonstrated its inability to develop a new rocket (something like $21B wasted in failed attempts over the last 20 years), it certainly makes sense to outsource launch services to the free market instead of trying
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by marze 15y ago
Demonstrates humility on Apple's part.
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by marze 15y ago
There are bigger concerns than ground water contamination. This blog has info translated from Japanese, http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/05/asahi-shinbun-core-meltdo...
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by marze 16y ago
I wonder what the practical consequences are for the decision maker(s) who wasted $650M corporate funds buying then dumping Flip?
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by marze 16y ago
Putting the fuel storage pool on the fifth floor of the reactor does seem questionable, especially given the violence of the explosion at reactor 3. Another "unknown bug" exposed by these events will probably motivate mitigating the risk of
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by marze 16y ago
When I see a story like this, it reminds me that the events in Japan represent the biggest PR challenge the nuclear industry has faced in many years. Fifty billion dollars of nuclear reactor US taxpayer-backed loan guarantees hang in the b
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by marze 16y ago
Interesting, from the second pic it looks like reactor building 4 was crushed inward at the top by the blast wave from the building 3 explosion, crushing even the concrete structural beams and columns. You can also see a 60 ft diameter hole
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by marze 16y ago
Why shouldn't a city be able to build out a network, if the citizens vote to do so?
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by marze 16y ago
Overreaction? History will view this as "underreacted". It has been days now since the earthquake, and at the reactors they are having trouble pumping water . Japan and the world is full of equipment that can pump water, but for some r
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by marze 16y ago
I would guess that what some perceive as "bad boss" behavior is simply unfiltered honesty in communications. To be as successful as Steve is, one must see the world the way it is, which requires complete internal honesty.
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by marze 16y ago
Isn't Tokyo 150 km from the leaking reactors? The radiation levels for those living closer must be more concerning, if it is 23x background that far away.
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by marze 16y ago
America has a lot of cute women. (hint)
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by marze 16y ago
Patients. - Steve
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by marze 16y ago
High definition movie editing, on a phone (iMovie on iOS)? It is amazing to see how far things have come in since 2007. In 2007, if you said you were going to download an app to edit a high definition movie on your smartphone you'd be ins
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Practical due diligence(theoildrum.com)
2 points by marze 16y ago|0 comments
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by marze 16y ago
Can't last.fm or anyone else not accept new subscribers from within an app, and be fine?
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by marze 16y ago
I imagine the decision at Apple went something like this: We can always go from 30% to 10% later, and all publicity is good publicity, so go for it.
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by marze 16y ago
Are the Egyptian people really stupid enough to be happy the former head of the notorious secret police is taking over as president? Unless I've really missed something, this makes little sense.
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by marze 16y ago
In general, if someone wants to feed me a low dose poison, I'd want to see some bullet-proof safety and efficacy data. In this case, if the cavity rates between cities with and without fluoride are similar as the article states, I would pas
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The case against water fluoridation(foodconsumer.org)
14 points by marze 16y ago|17 comments
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by marze 16y ago
Very sad. Just a practical question, if someone is on the "no fly" list, does that prevent them from flying in all countries? One would think not, so why wouldn't that person be able to fly to Mexico then present their passport at the bord
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by marze 16y ago
If you consider a "nice restaurant meal" to cost $25 or more, I assert it is hard to spend $25 on ingredients for one home cooked meal. It is fairly easy to spend more than a "dollar menu fast food meal".
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by marze 16y ago
Once Google has significant amounts real human ratings on the usefulness of a site in general or the usefulness of the site given a specific search, machine learning techniques could then be used to predict the usefulness of unrated sites.
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by marze 16y ago
I would guess the general Google approach to this problem is to try to improve algorithms. I wonder if a change towards "human input" might improve things more. For example, what if the Chrome browser had a big feedback button so that if us
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by marze 16y ago
And have been for millennia, deal with it.
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by marze 16y ago
Elizer is probably assuming an actual coin. P for 100 heads in a row is 1 in 2^100 attempts, or 10e30. You wouldn't live long enough.
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by marze 16y ago
Oh big deal, who cares if some people have their faith in the paranormal strengthened. Something like one in two people or more believe in what scientists would consider paranormal already. Good scientists know there is much yet to be disc
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by marze 16y ago
The author leaves out one advantage of not eating out so much, cost. It is difficult to spend more on ingredients for a home cooked meal than a nice restaurant meal would cost, and not hard to spend a lot less. The downside is time, but the

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