moocowduckquack

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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
people correctly identifying that the women on average perform worse, even given the same resumes. Where exactly are you pulling this from?
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
NickTheMagicMan, I have a magic trick to request of you. Do you think you can you guess what it is?
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
I'm not trying to be funny. People already known to the victim is the sane place to start any investigation. edit - my edit earlier was going from 'pissed off' to 'argued with' as I realised that 'pissed off&#x
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
Maths is a game for anyone with the inclination to play. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/05/16/1206569109.abst...
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
Has he argued with any Comp Sci students? (edited to avoid implying fault on his part)
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
I'm in the UK, read & watch the news everyday, and didn't know this interview was happening. It's also the first time I've seen it mentioned online. It wasn't promoted properly. It's news, not a brand of
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
For some reason it makes me really want to try writing raw transactions at home, even though I have no idea what I am doing.
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
I think we should build a sick ecosphere of over-socialized nerds. In space. We can use it for testing, umm, things.
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
Sorry, I sort of ignored the article and just had a look at the references instead.
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
Remember, the alternative I'm comparing it to is restoring the land to a forested state You do both, the two activities feed into each other, the greenhouses increase air moisture down wind and help you get plants growing, which feed
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
This reference looks interesting: "A net unidirectional and reversible force on the order of ± 3.14 milli‐Newton or 0.069% of the suspended test article mass was recorded by us in our first high frequency 2.2 MHz test article. The aut
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
Offering a choice between service provided by local government and a private business isn't really the kind of competition most people have in mind when they think of healthy markets. Is the sort of choice that has been available in
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
Damn. Prior Art.
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
Edison wasn't above a bit of patent charlatanry himself on occaision, so he might just find it amusing. Though I may just patent making Edison spin in his grave as a means of providing power. I'm sure I can get the patent office t
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
I think the argument goes something along the lines of: Public enterprise, as we all know, is of course highly inefficient, massively expensive and badly organised. Which is why it is absolutely vital to ban it from entering industry as it
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
I know people at UK companies who were banned from doing any work at all for their employer, or even coming into the office while working out their notice. They called it "gardening leave" and said it was standard practice by thei
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
That is really good of you. Massive amounts of respect. Out of interest, what is it you are now working on? edit - I just had a look at what you are doing through your username, akvo looks pretty cool.
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
It is one of the maxims of US media. "No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses o
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
Tricky to do that without a lot of people dying. Also, if you honestly think that, then what are you doing wasting joules chatting idly on the internet?
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
the kinds of nuclear reactors we can build these days simply don't produce waste that lasts that long; a good breeder reactor eats anything that's immediately dangerous The UK is currently committing to building a whole new set
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
I am not entirely sure what you think these greenhouses are. Desalination does not intefere with rainwater harvesting. Rainwater harvesting is an entirely parallel enterprise, mostly involving accumulating very large bodies of freshwater. C
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
Photovoltaic solar produces lots of waste, more than nuclear. It produces treatable wastes, ones that can be allowed to enter the normal economy and processed, rather than wastes we are so scared of that we can't let anybody touch th
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
I'm not against nuclear power, per se, but the way we do it is seriously warped, mostly by its associations with the weaponry. A uranium mine isn't just a fuel source, it is also part of a military arsenal at the highest level, so
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
How is this better than local rainwater collection? It works when there is no rain without needing a tank big enough to last a several year long drought. The architecture of the greenhouse acts as a solar desalinator that in testing creat
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
The current nuclear industry has some serious downsides. The only reason established nuclear is presented as ecological is due to the discussion about climate impact. Without the CO2 blinkers on though, it is pretty fucking messy.
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
I think that is usually said the other way about anyway.
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
Pump seawater to Nevada and cover it in desalination greenhouses. http://www.seawatergreenhouse.com/
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
If you engineer a system that backs the company into a corner of "we can never upgrade," then you're a crappy architect. Sometimes the we can never upgrade is part of the job description. A lot of control software for ind
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
Is the same distinction Gibson draws with the Dixie Flatline construct in Neuromancer. Constructs aren't AI and they aren't the person neither.
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by moocowduckquack 13y ago
I know that care in spelling is not a good way of judging stuff like this, but I am not sure I have much faith in their Artificial Intelligence algorhitms (sic).

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