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by vivekd 10y ago
if this happens, bitcoin would become valueless. The value of bitcoin comes from the fact that you can't just pump them out, the energy requirements required to solve the calculations required for mining are one of the limits to bitco
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When you talk about biblical flat Earthers you are talking about a very small subset of Christians, to claim that all Christians are like them is akin to claiming that all Muslims are like ISIS. Similarly Zionism is not really a religious v
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by vivekd 10y ago
What is it with tech/science forums and the belief that religious people are crazy, backwards, zealots who would go crazy causing enormous destruction when faced with compelling new scientific revelation. . . this despite the fact that
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Plants communicate using an internet of fungi (2014)(bbc.com)
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paper books are better for children I think because they need a lot of pictures, and e-readers really haven't gotten up to that level. Also, I think it's good for children to have physical books to hold and interact with that all
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by vivekd 10y ago
Israel's situation is very unique because a large number people visit there and stay there, as you said, for social and religious reasons. Paris may also fit this category. However, for most cities, this isn't the case. Most ci
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from the article : >just 340 million years after the formation of the plant Also when you consider that the earth was uninhabitable for most of those first few hundred million years. This was a time when our planet was still getting bom
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So if life started on this planet shortly after it was formed, it must mean that life did not begin through the random combination of molecules. That something else happened to create life, whether it was transported from outer space or di
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by vivekd 10y ago
I use pocket because it is automatically synced with my Kobo e-reader. One thing I wish they would offer is folders. Before I bought the kobo I stuck with instapaper just because of the cleaner interface and the option to use folders. I g
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I just want to write quickly to say - "sample size." You can't make conclusions like the one in the title because we don't have a large enough sample size of nations that legalized same sex marriage to reliably make con
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What makes me mad about these kinds of data based climate change arguments is that they don't engage with the data in an honest way. The huge problem is 1880 was one of the coldest years in history. That cold period was caused by volc
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Scientists discover 8th submerged continent(theguardian.com)
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Automate the boring stuff - Al Sweigart. This book teaches you python through a series of example projects. You can get it online or order a physical copy and help support the author here: https://automatetheboringstuff.com&#x2F
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by vivekd 10y ago
Wait, are you saying that because alcohol is legal we should also legalize other drugs. That doesn't sound like a good argument. Just because one bad thing is legal doesn't mean we have to legalize all similar bad things. Yes alc
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by vivekd 10y ago
You're right, combination locks are protected by 5th amendment as Testimonial evidence. I was wrong in my original post, however this doesn't apply to computer encryptions which the court seems to treat more like keys to a safe wh
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by vivekd 10y ago
great, now look up what "dissent" means. Dissent is legal mumbo jumbo for "stuff that ain't law." When you have a panel of judges, we go with the decision of the majority of judges. The decision of the minority of
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by vivekd 10y ago
It's not as unjust as it seems because he does have the option of applying for a bail pending appeal which would release him until his appeal date. Unfortunately to do that you have to show that you have a reasonable chance of succeed
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His crime is disobeying a court order, which is a crime that you can go to jail for. Just like if you had the key to a safe, and the court orders you to open the safe, you would go to jail if you refuse to do so. If he forgot the keys he
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by vivekd 10y ago
Yes, I am a lawyer with mind dyslexia and I often got into trouble for missing stuff on my letters or rearranging the letters of things like the other parties names or case numbers etc. So I use the LaTeX letter document class and import t
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by vivekd 10y ago
Hold on a second, even given that global warming exists, there is no way this warm period is caused by global warming because you can't equate local weather to general climate. The fact that the arctic or any region is experiencing war
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by vivekd 10y ago
wait just tried the code again, you were right, I don't need the second empty string. I was using [] with get and it wasn't working. so it seems the right way is form.cleaned_data.get('formfieldvalue') or form.cleaned_
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by vivekd 10y ago
Sorry typo, it should be the second blank is the empty space where the user input goes. I just tried your solution with cleaned_data["formfield1"] instead of cleaned_data("formfield1","") and it didn't wor
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you reference the model in the view and then tell the view to save it directly to the model using the "model = form field" type syntax to assign value and then .save() method to save. In the form field you are saving from, you wri
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I would definitely agree with that, the first we program I tried to work with was PHP and I think I might have given up on programming altogether had I not discovered django with it's much better documentation. I appreciate what they h
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Django's basic tutorial is great to get started, but once you get into the nitty gritty I find myself often going to stacks rather than the docs to get the information I need because the docs get kinda sparse. One example is if you wan
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by vivekd 10y ago
Is this really proof. These nurses knew that they were the subject of a study, they knew that the hours were temporary, and they knew that if the outcome was positive they may get to work less and get paid the same for the rest of their li
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>We’re disappointed by this misguided ruling, but the case is far from over. Sounds like its going to be appealed. I think the government needs to stop passing regulations that just copy the rules of private standards organizations unles
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But dumping, and polluting water supplies are illegal in every developed nation I know of. Things like pesticides, antibiotics, trash and sewage are also heavily regulated to minimize environmental harm. The government has been going after
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I was just reading a book about this, "The undoing project". The point of the book was that statically even distribution only works in large numbers, in small numbers its normal to get uneven distributions like this. That's
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by vivekd 10y ago
His last point about poverty destroying genius was what really struck me. I remember reading that 71% of the world's population lives on less than $10 a day. That doesn't seem to be enough to get a decent education and contribut

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