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by smackay 14y ago
From the time I spent in the USA I think there are at least two parts to this. There is a certain degree of triumphalism based on the outcomes of the Second World War and Cold War but more interestingly (or perhaps importantly) it is used t
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by smackay 14y ago
mkvirtualenv <name> --python=pythonx.y --no-site-packages
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by smackay 14y ago
Sickle-cell anemia has very little to do with race and everything to do with protection against malaria - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110428123931.ht... . That people with darker skin live in areas where malaria is present
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by smackay 14y ago
200 hundred years is such a short time in terms of human history. A blink of an eye and it was gone.
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by smackay 14y ago
Perhaps it is a signal to the marketplace, either to other startups or to investors that Yahoo! is rejuvenating itself (or at least is trying to), moreso since it is an acquisition outside of Silicon Valley.
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by smackay 14y ago
For Australian history from 1788 onwards, The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes is an excellent read. It also gives a good insight to British attitudes to criminality, of which traces can still be seen today in government policy, etc.
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by smackay 14y ago
Last time I checked, China was a very large and quite diverse country. The comment has a touch of jingoism about it, but racially motivated, hardly.
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by smackay 14y ago
The article mentions it takes 10 minutes to do a release so if you have revert to an earlier version you could be looking at significant (for a payments processor) downtime. I presume you have a strategy for rolling back directly on the ser
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by smackay 14y ago
yup, it's good. From Merriam-Webster: "to form the basis or foundation of : strengthen, support <facts and statistics subtly undergird his commentary"
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by smackay 14y ago
Yes, that is true. The lifetime of methane in the atmosphere is 8 years compared to 100 years for carbon. The possible problem with extracting it is destabilizing the hydrates so you get a very large eruption which would release colossal qu
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by smackay 14y ago
Methane is 25 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide so you really need to burn it rather than just let it escape. Of course it just might be better to leave it frozen at the bottom of the ocean.
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by smackay 14y ago
Have you seen some of the types of terrain involved. Doing it manually is like two needles looking for each other in a haystack. You'll still need boots on the ground once the poachers have been found and with increased success it's just po
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by smackay 14y ago
I was not thinking of perfect candidates but rather having a lot of information that was previously inaccessible to those without means and money offers considerable scope for mischief. Even the most innocuous of habits can be used by those
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by smackay 14y ago
For the simple reason that not everyone you deal with is altruistic and has your best interests at heart. "anything [said] can and will be used against [the defendant] in the court of public opinion". Release of all information, without the
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by smackay 14y ago
Michael Lewis' book, The New New Thing, probably offers a good insight to this. Jim Clark is probably the character that all the choreographers of pretty faces seek to emulate.
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by smackay 14y ago
As far as I know Roundup is a general use herbicide. If it was only licensed for use with Monsanto's GM products then I think Monsanto would have a case - assuming there were equivalent non-Monsanto herbicides freely available. I doubt Mons
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by smackay 14y ago
The issue here is that farmers have been planting crops and saving some of the seed generated for the next season probably from Day 1 in agriculture. Monsanto seeks to insert themselves into this highly efficient process, blocking the repla
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by smackay 14y ago
The crux of this is that nothing exists in isolation. Humans evolved eating plants and plants evolved trying not to be eaten so a large part of human physiology is probably designed to deal with plant toxins. Any natural product that is pot
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by smackay 14y ago
There were also a large contingent of Scottish mercenaries serving in the Low Countries, see http://anthrocivitas.net/forum/archive/index.php/t-5599.html http://www.irss.uoguelph.ca/article/view/635/1056 It's not clear from the sources
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by smackay 14y ago
It was an engineer, Roger Boisjoly, who repeatedly warned about the safety of the o-rings, particularly in low temperatures. The decision to launch the shuttle came from management not the engineers. http://www.space.com/14522-roger-boisjo
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by smackay 14y ago
Everyone who is moderately well read knows this is not a problem, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoignition_temperature
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by smackay 14y ago
To avoid getting hung up on taxonomy I much prefer defining the scope of tests with the control theory terms of Observability and Controllability, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observability . That makes it way easier to categorize tests in
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by smackay 14y ago
The Catholic church is a pragmatic institution. You can be sure that if the tide of public opinion started flowing against evolution they'd drop their support in a heart-beat.
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by smackay 14y ago
It's probably worthwhile to point out the distinction between general frameworks for static page generation and those that are designed for blogs. Overall the supported features are similar with the only difference being the amount of code
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by smackay 14y ago
Do a search on google images for "cork products" the range is quite amazing. The umbrella is my favourite - waterproof and fireproof.
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by smackay 14y ago
The author's argument is based on the emotional appeal of vinyl and the experience of purchasing from people who care about the music they sell. I'd tend to agree that in the world of music company profits and MP3s (notice there were no ref
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by smackay 14y ago
"but all of them are true expressions of people as they are" I don't think you can say that. Humans are fundamentally social creatures with behaviours that are also context driven. So to characterize the dialog on 4chan as free expression i
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by smackay 14y ago
I completely agree but I would add that a lot of people start out by using folders but it needs a little care and attention to keep it all organized so they end up with a few folders that contain everything. The beauty of a filesystem is th
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by smackay 14y ago
Step forward the new Publishers re-purposed as curated search engines. There is a real possibility that all you would end up with is an on-line version of the current crop of dead-tree publishers. In addition to simply democratising publish
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by smackay 14y ago
You just made his point and rather succinctly too. MySQL has a low barrier to entry with some reasonable tools that make it easy to get up and running with a minimum of fuss. For a large swathe of applications it does the job just fine. The

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