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by toufka 11y ago
But you don't really need that much bandwidth for all of these services. Dropbox's bandwidth would be the hardest to replicate - but even then, in general, once you get your first backup done, updates shouldn't require that m
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by toufka 11y ago
It doesn't do phonetic matching. A big flaw. Baca returns nothing, Baka returns 'idiot/ er in Japanese'.
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by toufka 11y ago
Installing spyware via a software update is a huge moral hazard for Microsoft. It incentivizes people to maintain an unpatched operating system.
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by toufka 11y ago
Epigenetics. It's the make-file for your genetic source code. Certain conditions can cause certain parts of your genetic code to be uncommented or commented-out. There are actually a number of different kinds of comments (histone mod
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by toufka 11y ago
Much of the 'water per pound' likely comes from food and growing food for the cattle to eat. Most of that corn comes from the midwest, where at the moment there is flooding from too much water. So growing corn to feed cows surel
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by toufka 11y ago
The drone flyovers taken at night hours after the explosion show fires burning with multiple different spectra - white, blue, gold, orange and red fires all burning down below. A total mess of chemicals.
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by toufka 11y ago
Yep - it was many hundreds of tons. Based on comparing with other records, I'd wager both explosions together likely approached a kiloton of TNT. One of the larger (possibly?) non-military explosions ever. Compared with this video fo
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by toufka 11y ago
Part of it is just understanding how to set up the $GOPATH. Understanding its structure is one thing, but actually getting the 'go' to read the right directory on OSX vs Ubuntu vs other systems depending on your shell (and versio
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by toufka 11y ago
You keep saying this. You've said it many times in this thread. 1) there are lots of different kinds of oils each with their own distinct flash points and toxicities. Olive oil has one of the lowest flashpoints and has very little to
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by toufka 11y ago
'not toxic' - until you heat it above its suggested operating temperature - which as I recall is about the temp of a 'high' setting on a stove.
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by toufka 11y ago
1) for the most dangerous of diseases, we tend to know their mechanism (gene(s) responsible), precisely because if they're dangerous then they are interesting genes and have been studied in the lab already. That's not to say we kn
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by toufka 11y ago
The protein, RPE65 [1][2] allows cells to produce a required pigment necessary for both rod and cone-mediated vision. Getting that sequence into the (correct cells in the) patient was the hard part. This particular protein helps prevent b
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by toufka 11y ago
What if someone just wants to pay for your dinner? Or figures out what sports game you're going to, and pays to rent out the entire row of seats next to you. Or pays to do the same for your staff - who advise you? That's the is
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by toufka 11y ago
Except it's delayed in action - there are already other threads running that'll still be running by the time the expression completes. So it's okay if you've got zombie threads running until the entire process is upgrade
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by toufka 11y ago
That combination of sincerity and intellect would put our nation two decades ahead of its own time.
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by toufka 11y ago
Give him his 2 minutes to pitch his idea. The thought is that no matter what your political ideals are, you're better off fixing voting reform first. Whatever issues you care about, you can't actually properly vote them into pla
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by toufka 11y ago
It's curious, because he's actually (unusually) explicit about what this referendum would be for.[1] 1) 'Equal Right to Vote' - "...automatic registration, and shift election day to a national holiday." 2) &#x2
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by toufka 11y ago
I think the idea is that if you can pass the election reform, then anything that comes afterwards - republican or democrat would be better than what would have come otherwise. The VP doesn't matter at all. Break the rigged system a
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by toufka 11y ago
"Cross Site Request Forgery" (CSRF)[1] [1] https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross-Site_Request_Forgery_%...
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by toufka 11y ago
Doesn't that just mean that AirBNB's numbers would be even worse?
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by toufka 11y ago
For those confused, here is the actual code of conduct [1] [1] http://todogroup.org/opencodeofconduct/
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by toufka 11y ago
Yep. There was no informant. The implications are quite unacceptable.
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by toufka 11y ago
I bet there could be creative situations where it could work. Imagine a rig that joins to an electric overhead line (like a light rail). The rig could move at the speed limit around the ring-loop of a city's interstate. Cars can pull
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by toufka 11y ago
Seriously, when can this happen? Is there a cad file on TPB yet? I'd download it.
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by toufka 11y ago
Reddit discussion with the author is pretty good [1]. The author tries to dispel some of the superlatives in the public statements about the work, and provides good detail about what they've done: a novel way to produce a single mater
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by toufka 11y ago
We had a good idea of what pluto looked like for decades. But no photo to confirm; the fact it was red, rocky, pocked, etc. We know characteristics about distance, composure, mass, energy, etc. using spectroscopic techniques. Those spect
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by toufka 11y ago
"Garbage in, garbage out", or, "give me enough degrees of freedom and I can fit an elephant". It's a reasonable retort given what's on display here. On the other hand, if you do collect enough data in a parti
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by toufka 11y ago
This is the one problem. Spent a whole day trying to figure out why only the first tag in the struct was 'active': Name string `xml:"name", db:"name"` //<--- XML works, DB doesn't Name
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by toufka 11y ago
Apple has their Human Interface Guide [1]. Even if you don't program using their elements, it's still an excellent first read to understand the thinking behind a number of the visual elements you often take for granted. Google an
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by toufka 11y ago
You should at least do it the justice of pointing out what the driver said: >The lap itself was around 10 minutes Bridge to Gantry (in heavy traffic) but unfortunately the car went into a reduced power mode about 3 minutes in due to exce

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