tareqak

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2551.
New crystals yield solar power breakthrough(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by tareqak 13y ago|0 comments
2552.
The receding threat from 'peak oil'(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by tareqak 13y ago|0 comments
2553.
US to begin exporting 'fracked' gas(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by tareqak 13y ago|0 comments
2554.
by tareqak 13y ago
Was I the only one who read the title and thought "botnet"?
2555.
by tareqak 13y ago
What I personally don't understand is the reluctance to tax consumption as opposed to production. From my point of view, it is easier to decide how much to tax a particular good or service e.g. a luxury car vs. a basic car vs. public t
2556.
by tareqak 14y ago
I think you sort of answered your own question. Fibonacci and factorial functions have closed forms that can be computed efficiently than implementing the recurrence relation both in terms of clock cycles and developer time. While there are
2557.
by tareqak 14y ago
Since the theme is "working together is better than working alone", a group of octocats holdings hands/tentacles together would be nice. The octocats should be varied sort of like the ones here: http://octodex.github.com/ (maybe to a less
2558.
by tareqak 14y ago
Once I looked up the word "innovation" it made sense. I understood "invention" and "improvement", but "innovation" always sounded like marketing-speak to me, so I turned off my brain on that one. The page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I
2559.
by tareqak 14y ago
TL;DR Yes, oppression of people in KSA needs to stop (A). However, drastic (read: US government) actions will hurt US interests (read: recovery and growth) (B). If individuals and corporations (read: we the people) take a more voluntary app
2560.
by tareqak 14y ago
Canada has the Bell (telephone) and Rogers (cable) duopoly. In addition, both of them offer internet service and cellular data service. Odds are, if the Canadian government (agencies and governments underneath the Canadian federal governmen
2561.
by tareqak 14y ago
I expected a similar pun. Maybe someone will now have a chip on their shoulder to have a chip on their shoulder.
2562.
by tareqak 14y ago
My personal complaint with CCTVs is, "why are they so hidden ?" I understand that in a public place (shopping mall, public park etc), people could be watching me. I'm alright with that simply for the fact that those people watching me are
2563.
by tareqak 14y ago
That would be part of the solution, but doing that alone would cause more problems than it would solve. But, this won't happen until the United States secures a source of energy that will be a suitable replacement to the oil from that regio
2564.
by tareqak 14y ago
Sounds like someone sufficiently motivated enough could use something like https://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/elections/da... to predict or promote more Silicon X'es. Caveat: just looking at one characteristic of a given geog
2565.
by tareqak 14y ago
From my reading of the article, the defendant is being painted to be bigger, scarier target so that AT&T looks like a victim instead of a corporation failing to secure the confidential information of their customers as due diligence dem
2566.
YouTube loses court battle over music clips(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by tareqak 15y ago|0 comments
2567.
IsAnyoneUp's Hunter Moore: 'The net's most hated man'(bbc.com)
1 points by tareqak 15y ago|0 comments
2568.
by tareqak 15y ago
Seems like we have to sign up again, but with a Coursera account. There is also a Terms of Service to read through too. Edit: This is just an observation. People who signed up at the end of last year might be out of the loop.
2569.
by tareqak 15y ago
I completely agree with your inertia comment. I stopped watching television once I got into university. Living in a dormitory-style residence, the TV was in the floor's lounge, and my room was furthest from it. I am not exactly sure when, b