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by nitid_name 13y ago
Casini has a camera that's on the order of one megapixel in black and white. I'd be surprised if earth is more than a few pixels above the noise.
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by nitid_name 13y ago
The composition of your graduating class is a good indicator of the composition of your peers in industry (at least in your age bracket). There are some notable exceptions, like astrophysics. The crop of astrophysics students where I went t
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by nitid_name 13y ago
[Citation needed] I was under the impression the drop off for men both progressed slower and was less severe than it was for women. e.g. a 40 something woman has the same chance of having offspring with Downs Syndrome or other congenital de
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by nitid_name 13y ago
Why not pull down/delete old mail off your support@example.com email address? I can't imagine you have 5 gigs (or however many they give you these days) of tickets that can't deal with a few days of cold storage.
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by nitid_name 13y ago
>It'd be like claiming the different people that inhabit the same house over the span of 100 years are all the same people, because they're all humans. They're all people, and they all inhabited the house ('the people
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by nitid_name 13y ago
At the time of this posting, Berkshire Hathaway stock is trading at $172,750.31 per share and Seaboard Corporation is at $2,765.00/share. Of course, other than those two, I think the next most expensive stocks are in the google/ap
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by nitid_name 13y ago
We're slowly but surely collapsing back to the channel model of content. The bundling the cable services were forcing on us to support ESPN (which accounts for something like $15-20 in your TV bill) and then topping with the a la cart
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by nitid_name 13y ago
Perhaps the OP is implying that without previous population, the first peoples of the Americas were settlers, not colonizers or immigrants.
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by nitid_name 13y ago
Try using "Regulatory Capture" as a buzz word in these sorts of discussions. It carries the entire weight of the argument in one convenient term.
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by nitid_name 13y ago
Don't stand on your heels! You don't have to completely move over to digitigrade locomotion, but... standing flat footed for long periods of time seems like it could be painful. Keep a bit more weight on your forefoot. Your knees will than
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by nitid_name 13y ago
... assuming you're using the snapchat client to open the images. If you have a rooted phone, there are ways to save it before the snapchat client opens the image.
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by nitid_name 13y ago
As someone who, fresh out of high school, coded for a quite published astrophysicist at a major government research institution, I can confirm that I had no idea what I was doing.
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by nitid_name 14y ago
B456 is what they're calling the bankruptcy spin off company. It's basically just a shell to renegotiate debt. A123 Systems Inc will stay alive and well.
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by nitid_name 14y ago
>That said, the "profitability" of the big banks is somewhat irrelevant. JP Morgan, Goldman, etc, evolved out of partnerships, where all the profits went to the partners. To this day, the banks pay out most of their revenues as compensa
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by nitid_name 14y ago
Where do you pollute with your political musings?
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by nitid_name 14y ago
/pedantic rant The cleanest of the clean is Greg LeMond, not Lance Armstrong. Greg LeMond is now the only American cyclist to with the Tour de France. Greg LeMond has been a vocal proponent of clean riding and a vocal critic of Lance Armstr
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by nitid_name 14y ago
The problem is that states aren't seeing the sales tax revenue from out of state purchases and have become increasingly insistent that they receive said revenue. They've tried collecting it on income taxes (who really files that anyway?) bu
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by nitid_name 14y ago
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and env
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by nitid_name 14y ago
wut
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by nitid_name 14y ago
If it's from a central location and all clients are working off the same database, it seems like it would be fairly simple for their data mining teams to sift out the identical chaff.
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by nitid_name 14y ago
>Aug 31st 2012
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by nitid_name 14y ago
Of course, this assumes there is no friction or that friction is negligible compared to the upward pull of the balloon...
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by nitid_name 14y ago
Anytime I'm flying, if I can't find an interesting book in the book store, I buy a cheap piece of easy to read entertainment. More often than not, it ends up being one of the extended Halo universe books. They're short enough they can be fi
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by nitid_name 14y ago
>The reason women don't go into these fields is because of the misogynistic culture. [Citation needed]
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by nitid_name 14y ago
They will, once (if?) google goggles gets off the ground.
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by nitid_name 14y ago
Why are you facebook friends with people who post things you don't like? I don't facebook often... don't they still have the ability to turn down how frequently you see posts from people? Can't you put them in facebook's equivalent of "circ
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by nitid_name 14y ago
Browsing from work? Browsing from an anon'd browser? Even if we assume your 90% figure isn't like 68% of statistics (made up on the spot), there are still other reasons why a screenshot might be more appropriate.
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by nitid_name 14y ago
I doubt water usage per capita has changed drastically in the last 20 years. Sure, there were drops from low flow toilets, low flow shower heads, and HE washing machines, and I'm sure there's some variability to usage based on seasonal vari
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by nitid_name 14y ago
Possibly a naive question: what's the difference between a simulator and an emulator? Presumably an emulator copies the actual instruction set, while a simulator... only pretends to copy the instruction set?
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by nitid_name 14y ago
I had an HTC Windows Mobile phone and a Gateway XP Tablet with a Wacom screen. Other than being bulky, they were great devices.

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