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by qbrass 11y ago
They're hoping to make producing cellulostic ethanol easier. They found out that by combining photosynthetic pigment with the enzymes plant-eating fungus use to break cellulose down, they can speed up the process. The pigment absorbs l
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by qbrass 11y ago
>Extending the animal class to make a car would be weird though. Carriage extends Animal with Cart Car implements Carriage with Engine as Animal
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by qbrass 11y ago
While you're at it. http://www.bloodbathsoftworks.com/xylemon/projects/xlennart.... "XLennart is an xBill modification about a hacker named, "Lennart" who has created the ultimate computer viru
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by qbrass 11y ago
A mixture of men and women biased towards telepathic octopods.
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by qbrass 11y ago
Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea have been on the silver dollar. Hellen Keller was on the back of one of the 50 state quarters.
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by qbrass 11y ago
Tectoy http://www.tectoy.com.br/master-system-evolution-132-jogos/p...
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by qbrass 11y ago
> nobody watches people getting into a crash and becomes convinced to try it themself. The disclaimer at the beginning of every episode of Jackass must have been for drama then. http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photo
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by qbrass 11y ago
You're looking in /etc/rc.conf instead of /etc/defaults/rc.conf
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by qbrass 11y ago
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DerivativeTeam/Derivatives/Sabily "Sabily is a set of packages that customizes the Ubuntu distro by installing Islamic software (prayer times, Quran study tool, web content filtering t
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by qbrass 11y ago
Drones designed to kamikaze radio transmitters vs people with high powered radio transmitters designed to kill robots. That's got dystopian future game show written all over it.
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by qbrass 11y ago
Humans can tell where their appendages are without looking at them and can use this ability to form mental images of objects by touch. The cost of being able to manipulate 8 arms is octopus arms don't provide a lot of feedback to the b
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by qbrass 11y ago
* (or 'Lisp 'LisP) LISP
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by qbrass 11y ago
The light transfers some of it's momentum to the sail as it bounces off of it. It works in a vacuum, but there's too much drag to use it in an atmosphere.
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by qbrass 11y ago
* (or 'Lisp 'LISP) LISP
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by qbrass 11y ago
I'd be more concerned with soap and oil and hair plugging it off, or bacterial growth between showers than it's ability to filter pee.
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by qbrass 11y ago
Almost 700,000 gallons of water go untapped over Niagara Falls every second. There's no point in pumping water back up until you've harnessed that first.
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by qbrass 11y ago
It's the trade-off Google accepted for allowing their trademark on unsupported devices and having 80% of the mobile OS marketshare instead of 4%.
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by qbrass 11y ago
Besides the definition you know, "organic" is a certification label used to brand crops grown that meet certain standards. Not using chemical fertilizers or pesticides is one of those standards[0]. [0] It's more nuanced than
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by qbrass 11y ago
>Solving forum trolling could be brutally curbed by this method and would probably be effective with an extensible whitelist. Sounds like a recipe for a forum full of sarcasm and passive-aggression.
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by qbrass 11y ago
http://www.reactiongifs.us/mr-rogers-gives-the-finger/
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by qbrass 11y ago
If you're worried about it, close the dialog, then fetch the newest version manually.
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by qbrass 11y ago
I was hoping for Rez designed around VR instead of Rez with VR tacked on. I went from wanting to buy a headset to play the game, to wanting to buy the game if I get a headset.
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by qbrass 11y ago
>Why bother to do that or anything at all? What is the end game? People want to leave their mark on the universe. There's some solace in thinking about how after everyone you know and your entire species is gone, something may come
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by qbrass 11y ago
"This one weird trick to let you know I wrote a book"
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by qbrass 11y ago
Robot comes from 'robota' means mindless work or drudgery, which comes from 'rabota' meaning servitude, which comes from 'rabŭ' meaning slave, which comes from 'orbŭ' meaning orphan.
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by qbrass 11y ago
Or the guy sitting behind him just looked over his shoulder.
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by qbrass 11y ago
Here's an opposed piston 2 stroke diesel. Basically the "Super Engine" that the article describes built in the 1930's, except it runs on diesel instead of gasoline. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuvJIoU
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by qbrass 11y ago
>What I find odd is that PACs only seem to accept contributions from a company's employees. They legally can't ask anyone else for money.
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by qbrass 11y ago
It's one of those things you say as a joke, then someone turns around and does it for real.
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by qbrass 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_(short_story)

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