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Ask a scientist that. Any test of life should do. How do scientists tests for life right now? Also, it could be multiple additional forces..
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Life force acts at the molecular level. There's a fifth fundamental force of nature, just like gravity/electromagnetic/strong/weak forces, which interacts with specially structured organic matter, like DNA or RNA, that a
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Better than forums for real-life socializing are mailing lists..
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In all of those cases you're paying elsewhere for the service. In the case of web ads, you're not usually paying for the content, and so they're expecting you to see the ads. I don't know why people go to websites to rea
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8y ago
Hence a good reason to delete FaceBook...
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8y ago
Sounds more like it's causing you to be angry instead of having fun...
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8y ago
What about memes pages? Memes pages seem like the best reason to delete Facebook.
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8y ago
I think the issue here is the safety of lithium electric batteries? It's rare for gas tanks to explode.. not sure what lithium battery safety rates, especially given reports of exploding phones/laptops/Boeing 787s
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Now I'm wondering what could be code-words to signal that they're AI and go into modem-mode... "Hi there, I'd like to schedule an appointment" "Are you suuuure?" SCCREEECH KSHHH ...
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You just can't impress everyone. "This new protocol allows anyone in the world to transfer information semantically and graphically with anyone else in the world" "Big deal... that's just another form of vocalizatio
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8y ago
A lot of good media properties are sold BECAUSE of the ads. Think magazines like Vogue, with 800 pages of ads that people are looking at for the season's trends. Or other shopping magazines. Also, local newspapers provide useful local
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8y ago
Or, stop consuming so much shit. It's OK to not have everything, you know?
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Yah and that proof-of-concept shows that you need insane amounts of power per transaction, killing the idea completely and making it unusable. > There are many intelligent people now working on this problem and improving the way a blockc
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8y ago
Is the Crunchbase data accurate? It's not like it's an official SEC report. I always figured it would be missing lots and lots of data, seeing how it's self reported, and founders are likely to be something left out due to fa
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... while minimizing the wasteful environmental impact of blockchains due to the power requirements of each transaction. This is probably the one "feature" of blockchains that will kill it, since they're based on proof-of-lot
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8y ago
At the bottom of this page: http://www.iihs.org/iihs/news/desktopnews/on-the-road-again-...
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No, automated driving won't be doing that. It will never make your car safer than human drivers. You think every human driver is out there playing Candy Crush? And there are several car models that have ZERO fatalities. How is Tesla su
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200 people in cars, on bikes, on buses and light rail
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Photographic lighting is such an overlooked skill. Commercial photographers spend years crafting this skill. You can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars just on lighting, where one umbrella reflector, with no electronics, can cost $11k.
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Now I wonder if Safari (& other browsers) has distinct headers for their favorites lookups, to tell these lookups apart from real users and discard these accesses from site analytics..
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And then you have Phosphene gas used to dope silicon, where people have died changing empty supply tanks.
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Just putting out next step learning challenges. I'm loving what he's doing, it's a great project, I hope he continues it by exploring different aspects of it. Other challenges include smaller lithography and CMOS fabrication
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OK now grow your own SI wafers using repeated Czochralski process based on silicon you made by melting sand.
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VR us stupid due to the terrible user experience of being blocked out of the environment, but if there's any company that possibly might be able to make it work, it's Apple. The 8k resolution here possibly indicates a holographic
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I think it's mostly due to their nuclear program being successful at producing an H-Bomb as well as a warhead. People here say their nuclear program is a failutre, but they already tested the H-bomb as working, and it does look like it
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Yah but the entire point of Snapchat was to discard those moments...
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I tried switching away from Apple but can't. I went from a 2011 17" MacBook Pro (so good.. just too big) to an HP Spectre x360 with 4k display, which was apparently a top-reviewed laptop. The HP would be great if it didn't ha
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For ultimate protection, add HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP) as well. Warning: this is only to be used by experts. Otherwise, your site is going to become permanently/long-term inaccessible by the browser if you screw up just once.
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If this was an experiment, what were the results? What was being measured?
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Qt is great and probably the best cross-platform app-development environment. Given that, why would you use this instead of just building a compiled package for a targeted platform?
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