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by pingou 12y ago
The end of the article reminded me of Chimera, a subject I find quite interesting. http://www.scq.ubc.ca/the-truth-about-chimeras/
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by pingou 12y ago
"this physical intuition kicks in as early as two and a half months, and vanMarle and her colleagues think that it is probably present from birth.". Does someone has any idea why they believe it is innate?
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by pingou 12y ago
Is it a natural thought? I'm not an expert but I thought it would just bigger and bigger. For the dumping matter part, they talk in the article of the hawking radiation, I think the astrophysical jet wouldn't reduce the mass of a
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by pingou 12y ago
Does "images that showed features as small as 31cm" means 1 pixel = average color of 31x31cm or is it more complicated?
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Fist Patient With Carmat Artificial Heart Dies(in.reuters.com)
1 points by pingou 13y ago|0 comments
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by pingou 13y ago
I was wondering the same thing. Imagine we make a study on programmers and observe that 80% of them like science. Then we have a new programmer than wasn't part of the study, can we say he has a 80% chance of liking science? Intuitivel
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by pingou 13y ago
There's no such thing in France, maybe you're mistaken with some Nordic countries? Edit : I was talking about the traffic fines. Source : I'm French, which may explain my broken English.
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by pingou 13y ago
Boys are born tinkerers,” she said. “They have a deep-seated need to rip things apart, decode their inner workings, create stuff.” Fortunately it was a woman who made that statement, it would have been sexist otherwise, right?
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by pingou 13y ago
Interesting read, I wonder why Marianne Schweitzer extracted what interested her in Melita Maschmann's letters then destroyed them.
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by pingou 13y ago
Maybe but I don’t think there’s that much soft tissue protecting the hands. Maybe they were stoned, then digged up for some reason? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning That would explain why there wasn’t any survivor able to come back la
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by pingou 13y ago
It doesn't make sense to me, why did the bodies only have wounds on the head and shoulders ? It seems intuitive that you protect your head with your hands and arms, as sudden as the hailstorm may have been, and once they collapsed to the gr
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by pingou 13y ago
"For instance, the 58 men who scored highest on measurements of “warm relationships” earned an average of $141,000 a year more at their peak salaries (usually between ages 55 and 60) than the 31 men who scored lowest". Why can't they give
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by pingou 13y ago
Could you please elaborate on your method? Do you decide before hand what X will be? If not, it looks a lot like counting sheep.
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by pingou 14y ago
Maybe it's because I'm on a mobile device or I'm from France but I'm told I can't read the article unless I register on ft.com. Does anybody have a link that might work better ?
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by pingou 14y ago
Well I don't know your method of valuing something but if farmers want to pay for it (or "steal" it) I would probably say it brings some value to them. Which point of the parent comment am I supporting exactly? We both agreed these technol
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by pingou 14y ago
> Since when does people have a right to make a profit, even if their business plan is stupid? As long as it provides value for the society. If you allow farmers to replant seeds then Monsanto doesn't exist anymore. Do you think it's b
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by pingou 14y ago
I hate Monsanto as much as everyone else but I agree with them in this case. If farmers are permitted to replant seeds then how are companies making the seeds supposed to make money ? I believe GM are a chance to humanity, with the potentia
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by pingou 14y ago
The problem is that these 10.000 $ look cheap regarding the amount of work it requires. I can't find a link but there's several studies showing that people are willing to do a lot of things for free if they like it, but they see it like wor
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by pingou 14y ago
I'm a bit surprised so many people would put real information as answer to their secret question, and I'm surprised a lot of websites offer this alternative to log in without knowing the password, it seems like a big security hole to me.
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by pingou 14y ago
I think the idea that all lives have equal values, while it sounds good, is paradoxical. If a life has a potential to save plenty of other lives (for example : healthcare worker, great scientist on the verge of discovering a new cure, engin
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by pingou 14y ago
Thank you, looks interesting, I'll have a look, I hope it's not too complicated for a layman like me.
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by pingou 14y ago
So no heat death, but every computation implies an energy loss, right ? Even with the help of gravity, how do you prevent energy from escaping in EM form ? Even a black hole evaporate if I recall correctly. So I can imagine we could live a
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by pingou 14y ago
"But Freeman Dyson has shown that, despite this, life could adapt to the ever-decreasing supply of ordered energy, and therefore could, in principle, continue forever". Does anyone knows what he's talking about ? Dyson's sphere ? Surely the
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by pingou 14y ago
That's interesting, but thankfully they only had 395 tweets so I wonder if you can get something really meaningful with a set of data so small. Looks like there's some correlation with Rommey's voting states though.
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by pingou 14y ago
Care to explain how it's relevant ?
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by pingou 14y ago
"Or do we want people who are better at allocating money to things that advance the species in general to have more ability to do more of that" I disagree, I don't think most entrepreneurs invest to advance the species in general, from my p
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by pingou 14y ago
You can take a 4 hour ride in Paris for 2$. One day ticket is 1,70 €, first 30 minutes are free, you have to pay if your trip is more than 30 minutes or you can just take another bike for free, that will reset the countdown. Not really hand
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by pingou 15y ago
Is this water a virtually unlimited resource or can it dry up if these turbines are implemented on a large scale ?
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by pingou 15y ago
It reminds me of the short story http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_S...
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by pingou 15y ago
Thank you, actually on Odesk 3 stars mean fluent in written English, but not so good in spoken English. I wonder if a lot of people need to communicate on skype for example.

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