rthomas6

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by rthomas6 12y ago
Here are some more reasons that haven't been mentioned yet. Keep in mind this is speculative on my part. 1. I read somewhere that the probable migration of native Americans over the ice-age land bridge between Asia and Alaska meant tha
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Oh, there's no doubt that we wiped out the Native Americans on purpose. Systematically. Over several hundred years. I didn't mean to imply otherwise. But even in that effort, disease played a part through purposeful infection.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
It's easy to forget how much disease aided in the European colonization of America. "The Mayflower first hove to at Cape Cod. An armed company staggered out. Eventually it found a recently deserted Indian settlement. The newco
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Neither of the preceding comments used any pronouns to refer to Manning, which makes this comment kind of odd.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
They did, you just have to do a bunch of command-line bullshittery to get it to work.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
I'm willing to bet it will work in any Linux distro that has the newest Chrome installed, so Mint and Arch Linux will probably also work. Haven't confirmed yet though.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Thank you for the recommendation. This looks great. This excerpt from a review sold me on it: "Tonight I had a few (lovely, organic) chicken breasts in the fridge that were getting perilously close to the date. As it is the end of the
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by rthomas6 12y ago
I could do this, but without following a recipe I think it would turn out bland or bad. But you know, that's a temporary problem. I will try this.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
I was wrong in that old forests are net carbon emitters. They are still net carbon absorbers, but not as much as young forests. The reason for this is that trees also respirate, taking in O2 and emitting CO2, and this balances the CO2 absor
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Well, how much carbon does corn absorb vs. trees?
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Yes, so following this logic, imagine how much more carbon is stored when a new forest is planted vs. a forest simply maintaining itself. In the first case all the trees, plants, animals, etc. are newly stored carbon, since before there w
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Well, actually they do, but after a bit more googling they're not net carbon emitters, and old forests apparently still can capture net carbon. So my point isn't as strong as I thought it was. Trees take in CO2 due to photosynthes
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Trees are carbon neutral or even net emitters of carbon once they're mature, so a better solution would be to frequently cut them down and then replant them. Edit: I am wrong in the case of old growth forests. After a bit of googling,
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Apparently trees are carbon neutral or even net emitters of carbon once they're mature, so this is only true for young forests. Edit: I am wrong in the case of old growth forests. After a bit of googling, they are still net carbon ca
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by rthomas6 12y ago
You missed a reason (my main reason): for cost while maintaining adequate quality.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
I am convinced if you front-load the work on the weekend you can prepare something quickly on weekdays. I mean restaurants do it, even gourmet places. I've watched them cook. They have the sauces made, the meats thawed, the veggies cho
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by rthomas6 12y ago
I have an intense desire to learn how to incorporate some of the more traditional diets shown. Not only do they look healthier, they are also much cheaper. How can a westerner like me learn how to prepare these meals and base our diets arou
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by rthomas6 12y ago
I don't know if I'd be that hard on the Austrians.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
The effortless action described sounds like a flow state. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28psychology%29
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by rthomas6 12y ago
I use Arch Linux because I get to choose exactly what is running on my system. Arch also has the most active community as well, IMHO. If there's ever any doubt how to do something, the Arch Wiki will show you how to do it, often 5 diff
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by rthomas6 12y ago
>Sometimes HN chars a bagel. It's a toaster not a microwave oven. This is one of the strangest analogies I've ever heard.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
The Greeks and Romans to my limited knowledge weren't very good at continuous maths. That whole domain of math seems fairly recent, at least in the western world. Calculus itself wasn't invented until Isaac Newton or a little befo
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Does the book recommend a specific kind of exercise? What I mean is does it say aerobic or strength training or something is key?
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Then why not buy an even bigger TV to make you even more happy?
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by rthomas6 12y ago
If you believe some people, one day all those jobs will be automated away.
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What does your family think about all this?
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by rthomas6 12y ago
But then they wouldn't buy the bigger TV because they'd realize it wouldn't make them happier, and the TV makers would suffer. /s
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Don't have any good advice, but I recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Yes-Negotiating-Agreement-With...
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by rthomas6 12y ago
So we finally get to redeem our karma.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Where is the verilog source?

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