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   Atomic Gardens: Breeding Plants with Gamma Radiation(pruned.blogspot.com)

   56 points by thret 11y ago|7 comments
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   by thret 11y ago

   This story grows more significant with each passing year.
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   by thret 11y ago

   5 is young, she is still a pup! She will be fine.
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   by thret 11y ago

   This site would be a lot more interesting if it could link you directly to each thesis.
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   by thret 11y ago

   So to really prove his claim someone would have to create the clock according to the design, using only the technology available 250 years ago? That would be impressive. Perhaps now that the design has been validated someone will attempt it
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   by thret 11y ago

   I'm sure a Dune remake is in our near future.
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   by thret 11y ago

   Do you remember where you read this? I have been looking for a source without success.
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   by thret 11y ago

   Huh, I just read this theory yesterday in Nation by Terry Pratchett. I'm going back and reading the few books of his I missed.
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   by thret 11y ago

   Thank you, I was about to say the same. I hate wearing suits, but I wear them for weddings and funerals and interviews because that is one of the clauses in the social contract.
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    by thret 11y ago

    Lets wait and see what McDonald's use.
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    by thret 11y ago

    Why would you go to a doctor for a cold?
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    by thret 12y ago

    You may be thinking of those penny auctions, where there was a timer that would refresh whenever there was a higher bid?
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    by thret 12y ago

    It reminds me of The Wave, or the Blue Eye-Brown Eye experiment.
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    by thret 12y ago

    It's already biased towards the face that is facing up to start. With practice or by accident, you can toss it so that it wobbles but doesn't actually flip over. A casual observer cannot tell the difference. Explained in http:&#x
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    by thret 12y ago

    Even loaning things to friends can cause problems. Unless you accept that every loan is something between a loan and a gift.
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    by thret 12y ago

    Yes, I am not sure if they calculated this based on Mars being a perfect sphere or not. I did find this interesting image of all the water on Earth, compared to the size of Earth: http://water.usgs.gov/edu/gallery/
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    by thret 12y ago

    http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html If your glass is half full, then of course we are living in a simulation. What is the halting problem for this simulation? That's the real question. IMO that should be
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    by thret 12y ago

    I really liked Parenthood though. I think it did a lot for ASD.
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    Beyond Chance? The Persistence of Performance in Online Poker(journals.plos.org)

    28 points by thret 12y ago|16 comments
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    by thret 12y ago

    So you could cover the entire surface with 1.1 meters of ice. Does this mean Mars has a higher water-to-surface-area ratio than Earth?
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    by thret 12y ago

    A girl I met recently is encouraging me to learn Latin. She is fluent, even competes in Latin poetry competitions (this actually happened). I think... all I can think of is that scene in Life of Brian! Although I am sure there is some benef
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    by thret 12y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude
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    by thret 12y ago

    This. I take my hand off the piece and immediately resign. Allowing a single 'undo-last-move' play would help my game a lot.
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    by thret 12y ago

    Hopefully never. IMO access to the internet is a basic human right, like clean water and immunization. I wouldn't choose to deny these things to citizens of any country.
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    by thret 12y ago

    Just referring to the case(s) mentioned in the article.
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    by thret 12y ago

    Better to be raised by a liar and a cheat who is comfortable turning around and making unreasonable demands on their hard-working ex? And putting them in jail if they can't pay? NO.
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    by thret 12y ago

    "Mr Cook's base salaray" I always wonder how sites like the bbc still miss spelling errors. Good for him though.
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    by thret 12y ago

    I found all of the divorce stuff terrifying. If a pilot is away 10-22 days a month for their full time job, then even if their spouse has an affair and wants a divorce they still lose everything because they are not home enough? How is that
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    by thret 12y ago

    I first heard that in the book 'Hackers' by David Bischoff.
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    by thret 12y ago

    This book has major irritations for me: 1. It is set in a far future that is technologically identical to 1940. People who write about the future should not miss the mark so completely. The characters are still writing letters by hand and s