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by qbrass 9y ago
Cellulose was hard to break down, so when bacteria found a way to do it, they had no competition for that food source and millions of years worth of it just sitting around to feed on.
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by qbrass 9y ago
>It says the record is laser etched from digitised "high definition audio" No, it doesn't. >Wouldn't that make it a digital rather than an analog recording? No, it doesn't.
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by qbrass 9y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6NpoUk62CM
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by qbrass 9y ago
The potentiometers get worn and dirty, and the varying resistance from the dirt and loose contacts causes the jitter. You can try cleaning them with electronics cleaner or alcohol, but it probably won't work for long, if at all. http:
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by qbrass 9y ago
#null
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by qbrass 9y ago
The company won't notice unless the rest of the people with your identity stop, too.
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by qbrass 9y ago
The Earth's orbit makes it move towards and away from the probes relative to the probe's distance from the Sun.
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by qbrass 9y ago
The latter solution is an implementation of the former solution.
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by qbrass 9y ago
I wouldn't call myself familiar, but from just looking at how they both work, evolutionary strategies don't appear to have a crossover step.
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by qbrass 9y ago
That's similar to how electroluminescent displays work. Except those use an insulating layer and electrode layer on both sides of the light producing layer instead of just one.
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by qbrass 9y ago
The site informed me that pitythafoo.com is available if someone wants it.
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by qbrass 9y ago
It doesn't stop everyone from saying they make $35,000 cars. So it's a success, not a failure on the part of Tesla.
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by qbrass 9y ago
The real trick is that making skinner boxes look like turtles makes them an easier sell to parents.
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by qbrass 9y ago
Those few years of overlap were epic.
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by qbrass 9y ago
What it does mean is that that unless 1/3 or more of your code is buggy, it will report more false positives than bugs.
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by qbrass 9y ago
Change "midnight" to "mid-night" and things work well enough. "It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere" loses all meaning, along with anything else referencing the 9-5 workday.
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by qbrass 9y ago
(3) operate outside of the US.
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by qbrass 9y ago
It might help on a habitat scale, but won't help Mars on a planetary scale. There's simply not enough atmosphere on Mars. While CO2 makes up 95% of Mars's atmosphere and 0.04% of Earth's. There's roughly the same am
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by qbrass 9y ago
Contractors can better utilize workers and equipment by spreading their usage to multiple sites. Since they can have a larger pool of employees, they can take risks on people willing to work for less money. Basically, a contractor can turn
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by qbrass 9y ago
It was a front for a terrorist organization, which is why the Empire freed every molecule of the planet with their liberation ray.
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by qbrass 9y ago
Starting in Windows 95, you could stack periods to go back further than one directory. "cd....." instead of "cd ..\..\..\.."
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by qbrass 9y ago
"The American midwest is quickly becoming the next Mumbai." What you're seeing is SV outsourcing to America.
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by qbrass 9y ago
They don't. It's a 45 degree vee with a common crank pin. The front cylinder fires, the crank rotates 315 degrees before the rear cylinder fires, then the crank rotates 405 degrees before the first cylinder fires again. The 90 deg
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by qbrass 9y ago
Buy him a blender ironically.
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by qbrass 9y ago
Plastic breaks down in oxygen and UV light. The problem is people keep burying them.
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by qbrass 9y ago
Because when you hear ASCII art, it rings a bell.
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by qbrass 9y ago
It's protected from snow but not road grime and salt. With the bristles unprotected, you'll just be collecting it and rubbing it into your paint when you use it.
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by qbrass 9y ago
Besides being lazy, it's also a fallacy of it's own to dismiss an argument just because it contains a fallacy.
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by qbrass 9y ago
That's my favorite.
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by qbrass 9y ago
I'm guessing type of Linux users that gather in rooms is different than the type that fill out online polls.

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