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by marze 16y ago
I remember hearing a lecture many years ago given by Seth Putterman, the researcher in this study. Unless I'm confusing him with another researcher, he claimed in the lecture that the underlying mechanisms behind static electricity were no
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by marze 16y ago
...yet.
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by marze 16y ago
Maybe someone who has voted this confusing essay up could explain why. The author is saying, the problem with education in the US is not that poor teachers are nearly impossible to fire, but is really something else? It seems an improvement
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by marze 16y ago
"Google seems under-rewarded." Google's growth was anticipated more and the and factored into the stock price (at the start of the five years) to a greater degree than was for Apple.
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by marze 16y ago
Perhaps this type effect has something to do with the fact that most all individual who have brought a gun to school and opened fire have been on similar medications. Worth some serious followup.
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by marze 16y ago
Two words: ballistic coefficient.
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by marze 16y ago
Not to mention possibly the most important benefit of clarifying your own thinking on the subject.
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by marze 16y ago
I can't think of anything Microsoft has done recently that would be interesting to mainstream consumers.
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by marze 16y ago
It is fun to see the phrase "save the world" used in its literal meaning for a change.
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by marze 16y ago
That was very well written.
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Bracing For Peak Oil Production By Decade's End(forbes.com)
1 points by marze 16y ago|0 comments
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by marze 16y ago
The skiing corollary: if you aren't wiping out at least once each run you aren't learning.
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by marze 16y ago
Multiplayer Galcon would be extremely interesting.
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by marze 16y ago
Unlikely sounding indeed. You look around, you see people, you see bacteria. They came from somewhere. One possibility is single cell organisms evolved from nothing on Earth, the other is their ancestors evolved somewhere else and arrived
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by marze 16y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the Cardiff group spent six months on the research and three years getting the paper accepted. Agreed, it would have been nice if the Dr. Louis had sent samples to any lab that would take them, but instead he sent
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by marze 16y ago
Link to the paper: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1008/1008.4960.pdf
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by marze 16y ago
"Verification of a real phenomenon would be massive and immediate" Incorrect. Something involving alien life, comets, etc? Scientists run the other way. In a sense, this publication is verification by scientists in the UK of a previous pa
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by marze 16y ago
If we could now adjust the cutoffs for high blood pressure and high cholesterol so as to include 77% of the population, that would totally increase the market cap of the pharmaceutical manufacturers.
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by marze 16y ago
Does anyone think the (rumored) new touch screen iPod Nano with be capable of running "Nano apps"?
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by marze 16y ago
Steve Jobs has been listed as the #1 CEO in the USA. He seems to be doing a great job on 1 through 3, and has #3 particularly in the bag. He may do other things as well, but you couldn't say he has in any way shortchanged any of these thr
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by marze 16y ago
Apparently, Florida Senate candidate Jeff Greene made a billion dollars doing just this, over and over again.
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by marze 16y ago
Just put the experiment on a spacecraft headed for Mars.
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by marze 16y ago
No one knows. Only the effects are well understood.
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by marze 16y ago
You over-complicate. 1. School officials take pictures of students at home without their knowledge. 2. Investigation occurs. 3. No charges, because no "criminal intent" Sure looks like a reasonable conclusion is that the spying is not illeg
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Mute autistic girl uses laptop to communicate(tvkim.com)
1 points by marze 16y ago|0 comments
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by marze 16y ago
With the present army of unemployed workers out there, why aren't more people getting together and investing sweat equity to create something of value? The opportunity cost is practically zero for a lot of folks. "Q. What do your V.C.-fu
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by marze 16y ago
The social stigma of such youthful indiscretions will be reduced once everyone's are documented online.
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by marze 16y ago
The iPod Touch is a very strategic product for Apple. Apple is in the process of converting their vast base of 200M legacy iPod users into iPhone and iPad users. The $199 iPod Touch probably has the tightest margin of any Apple product, cr
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by marze 16y ago
A nice improvement to the current system would be to continue unemployment benefits for three months after someone starts a new job. As it is, the termination of benefits [edit: upon taking a new job] is a disincentive to take new job, unl
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by marze 16y ago
Keep in mind with Hotwire there are no refunds. If your is cancelled you still pay.

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