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by waps 13y ago
Presumably it's things like this : http://www.dx.com/p/60x-zoom-led-micro-lens-microscope-w-bac...
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by waps 13y ago
Well there's many to choose from. Here's one that not only shows the prophet was just making things up, but that this was well known at the time : http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/sunnah/bukhari/060.
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This is not a valid point against medical studies, because medical studies never attempt to prove causation. They are merely showing that event A preceeds event B with correlation of 0.51 or so. The human body is so complex that controlling
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Very interesting company. Your next internet router : http://titanaerospace.com/platforms/solara-50 Can't quite compete with what SpaceX is going to do today, but ... very nice. Doesn't look like they've
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You have to wonder if they're actually paying someone to put those messages there. They're just different enough to make one think a human is typing them. I guess management instructed them to do this. I would advise against chang
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by waps 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7578365 talks about this. Keep in mind that because of the constant job-hopping society seems to be forcing on most developers (either stand still in your career, or job-hop), you should
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Those letters are not vowels, no. Like in Hebrew, they're more akin to separation characters. Like, in latin languages you write 2 letters and you have the difference between open and closed vowels. Certain rules then dictate when you
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As I said, I don't care. I don't believe anyone has any choice in this, so opinions don't matter. Yours. Mine. That doesn't stop me from stating my opinion. Really, I see this as nothing more than a writing exercise. It&
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What's the upside for any external management appointment ? A large investment, that's what.
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Have we learned nothing from the Mozilla incident ? Liberals do not forget. Liberals do not forgive. Not even the liberals donating against gay marriage themselves [1]. This happens when people get power and feel confident. Perfect ideologi
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Heh, true.
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If that's true, how would you explain that tensions like that, and much, much, much worse exist everywhere that minority lives ? Especially in places where said minority is in fact a majority. I mean, I'm all for tolerance. But de
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Well, the Netherlands had a problematic court case some time back, and this fixes it. Well, if you're a copyright owner it was problematic. You see copyright law technically doesn't restrict illegal downloading. It only limits dis
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> That has its value, but you have some programmers who write empty catch blocks just to get rid of the exception. That's why you have code review and code linters. If you have a linter, there's no way in hell you'll ever
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by waps 13y ago
> Yes, I chat with my friends in "sms" style Arabic on IM so to speak. Hmm, so you're saying Quranic Arabic is like sms style No I'm saying that sms arabic is a transliteration or arabic into latin script, despite ver
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Would you consider a "beginner in islamic studies" to be the least bit scientific ? The whole study field is, by definition, prejudiced. > That being said, it is impossible to have a letter-by-letter re-write from Arabic to Ara
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Given the current energy situation, I'm of the opinion that attempting to prevent most coal from being used for energy is a fight that cannot be won. We are on the terminal decline of the oil production, since 2005, and it's about
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> The way the Quran uses language is very intricate. That's what muslims claim. Actually reading the thing does not at all give that impression. It truly is a massive effort, reading it. I admire anyone who's gotten through i
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> Citation needed. I take it you have not read the Quran. The accounts of the Battles of Badr, Uhud, as well as others are sufficient to disprove this claim. My comment was written today, yet talks about things older than 2 centuries. Ho
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by waps 13y ago
That's only true in a really superficial way. It's rhetoric. They do because the quran says "when people ask about Isa (Jesus), tell them that he was a muslim". And it really does not go deeper than that. If you question
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Islam is a really bad example, since it's an extremely late entry in the whole history of God, as such it is not a good basis to study the God concept at all. If you want to scientifically validate the existence of an eternal God it ma
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It tends to be the legal system. With phycical books there was no question of going after illegal copies, but now with DRM you can actually go after physical copies, so the court demands that. Amazon "usually" doesn't have a
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FT would also enable CO2 + H2O => Fuel. That would be the perfect solution to global warming. Instead of getting fuel in Saudi Arabia, a tanker just goes out to sea, and with solar power and ocean top layer co2 just slowly fills itself w
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by waps 13y ago
Or if you rent out a room in your house while you're still staying there.
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The parent is wrong though. It is not the duty of merchants to inform you that something is illegal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat In the case of uber you might attempt to make the case that
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Keep in mind that the top 2mm of your skin is mostly dead material. Nothing will happen if you put something into it, and there are places where it doesn't get renewed.
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How about sponsoring some alternative fusion research ? Aside from ITER, nothing seems to have even basic sponsorship, and ITER makes no business sense (price/reward). Same thing with battery research. Or try to find a better Fisher-Tr
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I think the argument is that every native application is effectively something akin to facebook's walled garden. 1) sharing data between apps is near-impossible, unless format converters are written (they never are) and explicit manual
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The way I understand it is this : if an implant is nice and smooth and well integrated with it's surrounding tissue then a titanium implant is safe. Safe in the sense that the immune system won't attack it just because it's t
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You're assuming coder jobs aren't getting disrupted themselves. They are. It just moves the coder demand from "insane" to "extreme" at the moment. I would argue that ever more capable frameworks are destroying

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