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by pcrh 12y ago
The amount of (surface) water on earth may not be as much as you would intuitively think, given that it covers 70% of the surface area. have a look at the image in this link: http://water.usgs.gov/edu/earthhowmuch.html
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by pcrh 12y ago
Years ago I took Amtrak from Chicago --> Seattle --> SF --> LA --> San Antonio --> Chicago. It was a great vacation, about 6 weeks long. Awesome scenery.
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by pcrh 12y ago
The decreased US$:BTC exchange rate doesn't appear to be sufficient to counteract almost exactly the increased volume of BTC traded.
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by pcrh 12y ago
That's hardly likely to make any difference. The accountants and lawyers will simply move to wherever their activity is legal.
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by pcrh 12y ago
VAT is explicitly a tax on consumers, not corporations.
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by pcrh 12y ago
How come that doesn't correlate with this graph showing the dollar value of transactions: https://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume-...
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by pcrh 12y ago
Given how far away other earth-like planets are likely to be, the more immediate challenge is long-term survival off earth, either in a spacecraft or on mars. Once we learn how to survive "on our own" then one could envisage makin
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by pcrh 12y ago
"Stapler theses" are common in some European countries, e.g. Germany and the Netherlands.
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by pcrh 12y ago
I lived in San Francisco for a number of years, so I'm familiar with this issue. The programs are underfunded and cannot cope with homeless people who are mentally ill or addicted. The "voluntary homeless" are more likely to
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by pcrh 12y ago
I think San Francisco's former "bath houses" served a different function than that being provided by these showers. They were shut down at the height of the AIDS epidemic.
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by pcrh 12y ago
I'm not sure whether to laud this or be shocked at the lack of more standard provisions. Bath houses were a feature of cities for centuries.
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by pcrh 12y ago
Check out pubpeer. It is supposedly post-publication peer review, but in practice is usually limited to people making accusations of data manipulation. The conversations can be a bit more chaotic than is ideal for peer review. https:/
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by pcrh 12y ago
The standards required for patentability are quite different from scientific novelty or interest. Paying reviewers is not a bad idea, as journals that pay will both be more likely to attract quality reviewers, and it also creates a contract
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by pcrh 12y ago
That speck appears to be there in the first image as well, though not as bright...? I wonder if Philae actually landed exactly where computed (the green square), and if so why the dark dust does not radiate from that spot, but "down-wa
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by pcrh 12y ago
Not at all, unless the "hypothesis" was that you would reach a particular comet. I think the scientific hypotheses were more likely related to the composition of comets, than the abilities of the engineering teams, reliability of
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by pcrh 12y ago
>Of which he owned a significant portion. He sold Photobucket to a company that he partly owned? That sounds more like a merger..?
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by pcrh 12y ago
Maybe they're hoping that their biggest customers will be office buildings that have space to spare. Each building could house a fair number of servers.
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by pcrh 12y ago
Perhaps one real world benefit from better understanding the composition of comets would be an improved ability to destroy one that is on a collision course with Earth.
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by pcrh 12y ago
That reminds me of the pigeon-guided missile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
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by pcrh 12y ago
I'm surprised the author makes no mention of the exodus of East Germans to the West via Hungary, which by the time the Berlin Wall came down had been ongoing for 6 months. http://www.politics.hu/20140627/hungary-au
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by pcrh 12y ago
San Francisco is about 40% Asian -- they live everywhere!
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by pcrh 12y ago
Outer Sunset is right next to Ocean Beach [1]. It isn't that bad if you can tolerate the fog, and daytime temperatures in May-Sept will frequently be in the 12-16 C range. And it's only 20-30 min from the downtown hotspots, and m
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by pcrh 12y ago
A similar phenomenon sometimes occurs with Europeans who have an epicanthic fold, e.g. Sami or Hungarians whose ancestry includes people from the Golden Horde. Locally, they are unremarkable but if they move to an area with many people of A
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by pcrh 12y ago
I don't know if these are the ones you are referring to, but they did release some neat images: http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Missions/Rosetta
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by pcrh 12y ago
H1-B visas are easy for academics to get (there isn't a cap on the number issued, unlike industry). While these H1-B visas cannot be transferred between academia and industry, they do allow you to start applying for residency. The adva
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by pcrh 12y ago
Nobody discards "old" science discoveries, any more than they discard the "old" inventions of steel, or indeed the wheel, they build upon them. Re-visiting previous studies with newer approaches is a common theme in arch
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by pcrh 12y ago
Two of the top 10 are different editions of a laboratory manual: Sambrook, J., Fritsch, E. F. & Maniatis, T. Molecular Cloning (1989), and Maniatis, T., Fritsch, E. F. & Sambrook, J. Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual (1982). Ci
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by pcrh 12y ago
It's similar to a bonus for making the correct prediction. Obviously one would need independent validation that the scientist's prediction was correct. It wouldn't be sufficient for scientists to make predictions based on th
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by pcrh 12y ago
The economics of research are worthy of more investigation. The goal would be to reward those who produce the most research with the highest impact. However, it often takes years or decades to determine which of the fashionable ideas circu
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by pcrh 12y ago
>but ignore results That is certainly an interesting proposal. How do you intend to assess competence in generating novel ideas (i.e. not testing for knowledge of existing work) if you ignore the candidate's track record?

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