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by pacaro 8y ago
The canonical “most expensive” spice by weight is saffron, which seems to retail at between $30 and $300 an ounce depending on quality. FWIW saffron is the dried stigma of the saffron crocus crocus sativa so only a small part of the flowe
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by pacaro 8y ago
Even as the parent of a 4 year old I feel that my opinion is somewhat “armchair/backseat” but I agree with you, with an addendum. It’s good and important for parents and other adults in teenagers’ lives to keep current on pop culture,
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by pacaro 8y ago
If the “Zora” robot looks familiar, it’s because it is a rebadged SoftBank (was Aldebaran) Nao[1] which have been around for a long time (I stopped working in robotics in 2012 and they had been around for a while then) [1] https:/&#x2
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by pacaro 8y ago
Having implemented security protocols and used state machines to track state, this is a surprisingly easy (if embarrassing) mistake to make. It’s very easy to spend a lot of energy validating the documented state transitions and essentially
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by pacaro 8y ago
Sushirrito is a (delicious) thing
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by pacaro 8y ago
As a parent, I have done this. It’s hard when an active kid is constantly distracted. It has been a big exercise in discipline (for me) to say that food is eaten at the table at specific times and if she’s hungry, then she can eat more at t
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by pacaro 8y ago
The 520 bridge[1] cost approx. $4.5 billion By way of contrast the Millau Viaduct[2] cost approx. €400 million and the Øresund Bridge[3] cost approx €2.6 billion — and represents an order of magnitude more engineering challenge. Civil engin
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by pacaro 8y ago
I also wonder how much population density has to do with this. The distances that freight is moved over in the US seem far greater than in Europe. The same applies to people, rail travel is much more available/popular in the denser par
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by pacaro 8y ago
It appears that there are a lot of things that Symantec should have done, yet here we are.
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I think that I’m just uncovering a personal tacit assumption. I grew up in a household with a lot of 60s and 70s sci-fi books and magazines, so that was where my mind immediately went. I also need to have my arm twisted to admit that star w
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by pacaro 8y ago
So this is all or mostly American movies and tv? I was hoping for classic sci-fi cover art
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by pacaro 8y ago
One irony of this expression is the role Intel played in making sure that as much of USB as possible had to go through the CPU
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by pacaro 8y ago
Argos in the UK had (has? I have no idea) a similar model
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by pacaro 8y ago
Yeah, I think about this too. What proportion of people working for less than living wage would have to do this before there was movement. Being the last person is easy, being among the first is really hard.
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by pacaro 8y ago
I think that the history of tipping is more complex than that. My understanding is that at high end restaurants back in the day waitstaff paid the house for tables, and their entire income was from tips. That being said, I’d much rather soc
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by pacaro 8y ago
OMG I remember this being passed around in the late 80s early 90s but I lost my copy long ago. Thank you for finding this gem!
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by pacaro 8y ago
And in TFA, the expression should be “not old enough to drive, let alone vote.” The more restrictive criterion should come first, otherwise the expression doesn’t really work. I’m curious if he would have the legal capacity to sign anything
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by pacaro 8y ago
Anecdote time. I know one person who matches the description of someone with the gene for not needing sleep. He’s an extremely high functioning individual.
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I’m more interested in the unquestioning belief that people seem to have with information provided by an authority, especially during the earliest exposure to a subject. As the article states, the SPE is often introduced uncritically in int
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by pacaro 8y ago
Yeah, it’s hard to know what the bulk price of almonds is on the industrial scale, and given that “raw” almonds in the US have to have been pasteurized, they’ve already had some processing. Another analysis is to compare with soy milk. At a
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by pacaro 8y ago
Not all mammals have tits or nipples
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by pacaro 8y ago
Yeah this is a little disturbing. If I make almond milk at home I probably use a cup of almonds to make a quart of almond milk, the commercial stuff is probably less than a quarter of that. It’s a good example of where the numbers don’t mak
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by pacaro 8y ago
And almond milk has a long history in European cuisine. Partly because it could be consumed during lent, and partly because prior to pasteurization it was a milk that could be fresh without proximity to a dairy.
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The boys on the ice(bbc.co.uk)
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by pacaro 8y ago
Be very cautious with some of these approaches in a corporate environment. Shallow work can be much easier to measure than deep work. It’s easy to be burned if you push the “monastic” approach too hard and neglect the shallow
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by pacaro 8y ago
Sleight of hand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleight_of_hand
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by pacaro 8y ago
I’m mixed on whether api docs are needed, if you have them, they have to be kept in sync, if you don’t then examples have to cover as much of the api surface area as possible Higher level docs would be nice though, goals and non-goals, high
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by pacaro 8y ago
The PNAS article is out of reach for me, but I found this: http://www.dri.edu/newsroom/news-releases/5657-lead-pollutio... which has the graph and a little more information than the nytimes article
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by pacaro 8y ago
I don’t know about bombs per se but plenty of stuff has been deliberately crashed into the moon to study its seismic structure etc.
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by pacaro 8y ago
Yeah, my understanding with Humira is that to make generic version would essentially require a clone of the cell line that produces it. Abbot is under no obligation to give that to anyone else. Anecdote. I take Humira for psoriatic arthriti

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