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by squidfood 12y ago
The OP "managed to break it up." What if he hadn't managed?
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by squidfood 12y ago
Headlines are the original linkbait.
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by squidfood 12y ago
I generally save "very sad" for when someone, you know, dies or something. I mean, if she really cared, she could have the content removed entirely. Rather than say, caring enough about getting credit by having the formerly anony
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by squidfood 12y ago
Assuming OP's native language is Turkish, that uses the same punctuation as English.
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by squidfood 12y ago
And personally and culturally, I enjoy intelligent conversations about it with my kids, and "approve" of it (as do my friends with kids) in a way I haven't with other crazes.
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by squidfood 12y ago
Heh, I've done vodka once! For modern shipboard collections, time is still the enemy ($20K/day to run a ship exhausts a scientific budget quickly, not to mention weather, etc). Surveys have multiple studies going on, so deck oper
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by squidfood 12y ago
Formaldehyde and alcohol are still the best way to preserve samples for physical examination when no genetic work is expected. It's a trade-off. If these had been stored in a genetically-safe way (say frozen, or dried), they may not h
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by squidfood 12y ago
Well, I'd say that's a difference between training selected people for a single purpose, versus trying to educate everyone from all backgrounds for all possible things...
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by squidfood 12y ago
Well, that's a societal choice. So's keeping the fishing grounds open. The main point is that fertilization is a tradeoff, not a free lunch.
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by squidfood 12y ago
When "ocean health" is talked about, restoring ocean "health" (restricting fishing, land use, etc.) is not expected to have measurable effects on carbon sequestration in particular. And while the ocean ecosystems have e
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by squidfood 12y ago
One of the main "protests" from scientists (like myself) is not that this doesn't sequester carbon. But by sopping up macronutrients (nitrogen in particular) to form large diatoms, you greatly disadvantage smaller, floatin
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by squidfood 12y ago
Well, 'drip' includes automatic coffee makers, so this distinguishes pouring by hand.
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by squidfood 12y ago
That scene in the movie ("you have to make this, fit into this, using these") was a big aha moment for me, in realizing just how fundamentally hard space travel really was. I'm very glad to learn it wasn't movie-exagger
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by squidfood 12y ago
You will find many companies that work in dangerous industries, public or private, have had their share of disasters due to institutional problems. If you want the result of private companies' work, see: coal mining, oil drilling.
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by squidfood 12y ago
Honestly, a few of those folks were in grad school with me far before they were on the "other side" (actually this is true of "both" other sides). We thrash each other in meetings and can perfectly drop work over dinner
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by squidfood 12y ago
I work in a regulatory environment (much lower level) and have turned down stuff (cheap stuff, like a reception where I might get comped a drink). Out of sheer politeness, I sometimes respond with a "those stuffed shirts say I can&#x27
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by squidfood 12y ago
It was useful for Luke, but if that was an off-the-shelf helmet (used by pilots), you wouldn't want the blast shield to blind them.
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by squidfood 12y ago
A solid Italy-Austria alliance (until near the end naturally) can get the job done.
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by squidfood 12y ago
Don't let the word "tenure" fool you too much, in this case it's just union seniority rules under a different name.
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by squidfood 12y ago
Maybe not to you, but from a public health perspective it is important to understand what's going on. Also: if you learned that gluten in general could be on the menu again, but that you should avoid gluten products that also contain
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by squidfood 12y ago
Natural intelligence aside, it's certainly been a leading, news-making target (and best analogy) for artificial intelligence work, as long as I've followed AI. Since the 1970s at least, I've been reading articles about try
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by squidfood 12y ago
I think it's all over eastern Europe, Slavic, and Turkic areas anyway. Maybe a generational thing too.
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by squidfood 12y ago
I can't speak to the rest of the world, I was honestly thinking more of Turkey than America (where I spent hours and hours ruining my college career through this game, a national obsession second only to backgammon).
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by squidfood 12y ago
I'm a scientist who does lots of code. Most of my "projects" are 1000 lines or less (usually much less) to do a single function or calculation. Last year I was pulled into my first larger-scale project (about 8 science coder
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by squidfood 12y ago
As "an abstract strategy game that is considered culturally to be a symbol of intelligence, deep thought and deep tradition", the analogy works for me.
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by squidfood 12y ago
86,400 is the number of seconds in a day. This searches for the number of times a piece of code transposed the 6 and 4.
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by squidfood 13y ago
Hmm, this sounds like the old "you shouldn't mind surveillance if you've got nothing to hide" argument.
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by squidfood 13y ago
Eh, cheap dig. We are under specific legal and regulatory burden to produce, proof, and provide our results for external audits, which happen regularly. QC is a substantial part of the costs of a new system. Thanks for the offer of guara
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by squidfood 13y ago
In my federal government research lab, we have 15+ years of Excel scripts behind a huge amount of our ongoing analyses. Whether this route was the best or not is a bit moot now (Excel dependence grew by individual choices on the local leve
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by squidfood 13y ago
A scam where you don't get one product you ordered is a different order of magnitude than one where you lose a long-term stake in a company. (For Kickstarter, it's the same thing that prevents scams over any online exchange really

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