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by total__C 13y ago
I knew all those beaching oarfish meant something .
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by total__C 13y ago
So modern Chinese consider their country to have been stagnant during the entirety of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties? I've read a number of Western books about Qing-era China trying to understand the same questions the linked arti
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by total__C 13y ago
Groovy's niche is supposed to be the same as Ruby or Python - if you want high performance, it's not the way to go. I've done a lot of Groovy for simple web applications and it works very well. You don't have to use f
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by total__C 13y ago
Calling the JVM platform a relic is a major mistake - the number of businesses that rely on the platform is massive. However Java-the-language has been stagnant since Java 1.5 in September 2004. The Java API has had some changes but the
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by total__C 13y ago
Obviously both sides will do it! I'm trying to offer an explanation as to why such nasty stuff will show up on news sites - political actors are paid to promote their viewpoints.
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by total__C 13y ago
Conservative political groups in the USA pay people to basically troll on major news sites/message boards/blogs: http://www.alternet.org/story/149197/are_right-wing_libertar...
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by total__C 13y ago
In the situation described by the article, the changes in gene expression are happening in the rat's brains . These changes aren't going to make it into the rat's gametes.
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by total__C 13y ago
the solution: quit journalising and start selling $200 yoga pants!
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by total__C 13y ago
Politics is unworthy of discussion yet an article like this is acceptable? If Javascript is making all other languages irrelevant why does the world have Coffeescript, Clojurescript, and so on and so forth?
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by total__C 13y ago
Something I've always wondered about regarding synthetic meat: for say synthetic pork, would it be necessary to mechanically 'exercise' the muscle fibers in order for them to taste the same as pork from a pig?
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by total__C 13y ago
Here's a presentation regarding the 'SYSAV' waste-to-energy facility in Malmö, Sweden: http://www.sysav.se/upload/flash/sysav.swf There's an extensive pollution collection/scrubbing system