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by shirakawasuna 8y ago
When there are basically two ISPs in most municipalities, there is no independent third party. And this is before we get to what happens when people start inserting these ideas into peering a la the money grab on Netflix. The ISPs can filte
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by shirakawasuna 9y ago
Aspartame has been tested like crazy and does not have any known dramatic effects on health. As you mentioned, it's very sweet per molecule, much sweeter than most other artificial / sugary sweeteners, and so you don't have t
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by shirakawasuna 9y ago
One of the issues with KDE 4 was that their '4.0' release is what everyone else would call and alpha or beta, and their '4.1' release is the true '4.0'. Is there any chance the bugs you encountered were for 4.0
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by shirakawasuna 9y ago
> The problem with the KDE4 was that people were adopting it too early. Yes, but this problem was caused by the KDE release team botching their announcement. They had an alpha release, a beta release, and then a big 4.0 release. Then, it
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by shirakawasuna 9y ago
There's a lot of comparisons between Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap, and I think this one is valid: when Wikipedia first started out, its mission was to populate new articles. As most topics became fleshed out, they transitioned to having
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by shirakawasuna 9y ago
One of the issues is that responsibility for maintaining the integrity of the code is 100% on the seller's side. Like you said, if you used this service, it would become extremely expensive over the long term. Since the purpose is to g
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by shirakawasuna 9y ago
Gene regulation is very slow, on the order of minutes to hours. It's involved in our brains, for sure, but it's just way too slow to be a dynamic part of our brains' processing of information.
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by shirakawasuna 10y ago
The majority of the population lives near the coast, and this percentage is increasing. Those people (billions of them) will either be displaced, resulting in a huge humanitarian crisis, or spend enormous amounts of money and effort to crea
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by shirakawasuna 10y ago
The process of putting the CRISPR genes in a cell and making them target a given gene is trivially simple and undergraduates around the world are doing it every hour (if not more). The Broad group did a little more than that, but it's