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by ttraub 7y ago
Don't you mean "appropriate"? If global climate is heating up, people will naturally move northwards in Canada and Siberia to take advantage of newly fertile farmland and moderate temps.
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by ttraub 7y ago
Yes, lots of great clips about lion behavior from BBC and NatGeo on youtube, as well as (mostly nonviolent) scenes captured by safari leaders like Rob the Ranger. Lions are incredibly savage toward "the other"; no intra-species so
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by ttraub 7y ago
Media outlets certainly do that, but can't product makers sue them for damages, when they publish false information that can tank a stock or kill a company's sales?
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by ttraub 7y ago
Me three! It happens all too often that an example Python script fails in one, then succeeds in the other. I'm also a casual Python user, trying to ramp up because of its obvious popularity and utility. I wish that the basic syntactica
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by ttraub 7y ago
My mind was just blown because of D3.js, and now you're hitting me with DC.js? Mercy!!! (joke) D3 is stunning. I've been looking for a nice visualization framework for some internal reports, and this (D3 or I guess DC) looks li
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by ttraub 7y ago
A more accurate title would be "How to get Google search results in Google Sheets or MS Excel" as per the original article (corrected for capitalization). "inside sheets" sounds dangerously close to "between the she
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by ttraub 7y ago
So says a friend of mine who has written two books on Six Sigma and for a few years was consulting full time in QC. He told me: "At its core, Six Sigma is a set of very old, well established tools encased in a slick marketing shell. T
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Why Israel has become a mighty mobile app engine(israel21c.org)
3 points by ttraub 10y ago|0 comments
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by ttraub 10y ago
The implants would likely be pretty cheap -- a one time purchase of an RFID sensor encased in glass or similar non-immunogenic coating. RFID tags are on the order of a few cents. Probably this type of sophisticated sensor is going to be m
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by ttraub 10y ago
This sounds like an "Internet of things" opportunity: an implant that monitors an animal's temperature, antibody levels etc. Then they could target only the animals with telltale symptoms.
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by ttraub 10y ago
It was a foregone conclusion that he would win the nomination after Cruz quit, but it's still interesting that it happened before the last big primaries e.g. California. Indeed this may affect turnout in the California primaries: GOP
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by ttraub 10y ago
You said "the citizens" when in fact it was less than 20% of the voters. Technically you are correct, but really, this vote was hardly representative of the citizenry. Then there's the whole vague wording thing as explained a
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by ttraub 10y ago
Actually, we're not that far off from being chipped voluntarily. That's how it will start. "Let us chip you, and you won't need your badge to get through the front entrance anymore; and we'll give you a $50/wee
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by ttraub 10y ago
Eliminate the TSA and give the $8B to Nasa. A much better investment.
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by ttraub 10y ago
Here's what the Tea party website has to say: http://teaparty.org/tsa-misconduct-highest-levels-160893/ There are many other articles on conservative channels ripping the TSA as a big government boondoggle.
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by ttraub 10y ago
China is accomplishing great things in science; very impressive list of projects. By contrast, the U.S. seems to ceding its former leadership role. We don't even have a manned space program anymore. Maybe some day, Orion will be comple
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by ttraub 10y ago
Are Uber/Lyft passengers in such grave danger that these regulations are necessary, or is this simply a way to "taxi-fy" the ride shares and thus satisfy the traditional cab companies?