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Strange waves rippled around the world, and nobody knows why(nationalgeographic.com)
3 points by pwaivers 8y ago|0 comments
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by pwaivers 8y ago
A single book takes way longer to finish than a single movie. You can also go to your library or Redbox to get a movie.
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> The effect has been studied as it applies to illegal drugs and it has been shown that the potency of marijuana increased in response to higher enforcement budgets... If the price of all marijuana goes up, then I bet overall usage of
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This is super interesting :). Just curious, why don't you use a more advanced code editor than Notepad++?
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> "But it is humorous when the TDA2002 is often referred to as a replacement for the LM383. As a matter of fact, the LM383 is really a reverse engineering of the TDA2002. Credit should be given to the design engineer Bruno Murari w
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by pwaivers 8y ago
This is actually a good example to argue for Flickr. No one would 1) pay to store a fridge, 2) pay for the electricity and 3) protect the contents indefinitely for strangers . It is perfectly reasonable to throw out food after a long
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by pwaivers 8y ago
No you are conflating two different meanings of "abuse". The definition we should be talking about is: [verb] treat (a person or an animal) with cruelty or violence, especially regularly or repeatedly. I believe that is what the
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by pwaivers 8y ago
You think that Western world leaders wouldn't know the rules to chess? Trump may not know, but I would be bet everyone else does.
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by pwaivers 8y ago
> Surprise! Over 30 years poor people gained an average of almost $30k in income! I sure fucking hope someone who started at minimum wage in 1980 is making $30k more today. Well this is an important part of his argument. The people&#x2
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by pwaivers 8y ago
I believe the rest of the article is making the same point as you. There are lots of factors at play.
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> Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation, regardless of whether it works. Sounds like all modern JS frameworks :)
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> No matter how hard you push and no matter what the priority, you can't increase the speed of light. This reminds of one of favorite videos with the famous Grace Hopper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8
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by pwaivers 8y ago
> Authorities initially estimated that 9,200 vehicles would cross the bridge every day. This is... very few. Should they open it up to anyone that wants to use it? Otherwise it kind of defeats the purpose of connecting the cities.
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Despite the criticisms, this is pretty awe-inspiring. I wish the US had big construction projects like this also.
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> This is the one note of darkness that enters an otherwise optimistic conversation. “This technology could be used in a completely different way,” he says. “You could have entire states in America with no people in them. The potential
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by pwaivers 8y ago
> “I expected farmers to be quite luddite about the adoption of new technology,” he [Ben Scott-Robinson] says, as he packs Rachel away. I actually assume farmers are very welcoming of technology. They are hard workers and good busines
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by pwaivers 8y ago
Does anyone else think this is really cool? This makes me think even more that Apple is really a supporter of privacy and a good actor. What do you think?
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by pwaivers 8y ago
This article suffers from too many analogies. After the long DaVinci analogy, he goes into a medicine analogy. Please just say your point clear and up front. I don't think analogies are necessary to explain each point.
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> User messages could have been exposed in one specific use case, officials said. If an affected user had been the administrator of a Facebook page, and the page had received a message from another user, that message may have been compr
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> "No value has been provided..." There is value provided. These planes support the US world hegemony and are amazing centerpieces of the US military. If you argue that we could have done it for cheaper, that is fair. But th
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So this is pretty incredible. We know that animals can detect magnetic fields, but we don't know how they sense it! I hope one day humans can have the same sense.
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by pwaivers 8y ago
I see where you are coming from, but I think that is just fighting the inevitable. People & companies should consider the implications of technology, but that shouldn't prevent it from becoming a bigger part of our lives.
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by pwaivers 8y ago
> "These sources, who were granted anonymity in order to speak freely and without fear of retribution,..." What retribution? They were fired with no severance or time to prepare. Why don't they just speak out against the
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> To US companies, that are driven by quarterly targets then it is very much a case of sacrificing the future for the present. This comment comes off as trite and naive. Multi-billion dollar companies like DuPont and AMD Inc do not onl
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by pwaivers 8y ago
Unfortunately this is not always realistic. In smaller businesses, one person may know a system or process far better than anyone else. So if that person is on vacation, he should be available. You may disagree, but I think this is a good
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How do other European countries compare?
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by pwaivers 8y ago
It is interesting that Larry Page stays out of the spotlight so much. Everyone knows who Mark Zuckerberg is, but many probably couldn't tell you who the CEO of Google/Alphabet is.
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> Avoid: Plurals—use the more natural collective term where possible instead. For example "staff" instead of "employees" or "people" instead of "individuals". What if a word doesn't have a c
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by pwaivers 8y ago
Great video. I've never seen her speak before. She is very likable!
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> “In reality, the ban has already been made. I don’t know a single teacher in this country that allows the use of phones in class.” Not allowing kids to use smartphones during class is a huge difference than not allowing them at all in

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