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by whyenot 10y ago
Nikon and Canon have also been stuck in a rut in recent years. Sony is coming out with all these new ideas (TLRs, the A7 series), while Canon and Nikon keep on churning out pretty much the same stuff they always have. Not only are they faci
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by whyenot 10y ago
> Corporations don't have a mind of their own Of course not, as you mentioned they are composed of human beings who make the decisions about how a company operates. I am sure you will agree that a significant number of humans will
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by whyenot 10y ago
This is great news, but mountain gorillas were also moved from endangered to critically endangered status by IUCN. ALL of humanity's closest relatives are either critically endangered (the two species of orangutans and two species of g
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by whyenot 10y ago
Putting the solar cells in the desert makes a lot of sense, but I don't understand why the pumped storage facility has to also be there. Put it somewhere else in California where there is ample water, the ground isn't as porous, a
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by whyenot 10y ago
Looks like it's pretty harmless. http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/chicago_gardener/200...
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by whyenot 10y ago
Human testes are much larger than one would expect in a truly monogamous primate[1]. Approximately 85% of all human cultures are polygamous and not monogamous[2]. 1. Google "Harcourt testes 1981" and read the Nature article. 2. Ac
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by whyenot 10y ago
Something doesn't match up with those numbers. Tuition at ITT starts at about $45k/yr. http://programinfo.itt-tech.edu/cost.pdf
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Japan’s ‘Hail Mary’: An Ice Wall Beneath Fukushima(nytimes.com)
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by whyenot 10y ago
An Epoch is a division of geological time and needs to be reflected by something that is visible in the geological record. That's why the article mentions nuclear testing, chicken bones and soot from factories and power plants. It seem
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by whyenot 10y ago
In theory is right! I added my Toyota Tacoma a few years ago, and STILL ended up with the wrong windshield wipers.
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by whyenot 10y ago
Why is it so important that we terraform other planets? Is it really a desirable thing to spread across the solar system and beyond like mold on stale bread?
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It's taken directly from the press release at Stockholm University. It's a little weird.
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by whyenot 10y ago
You use an increment borer, basically a long drill bit that has a hollow tube in the center so that you can extract a core from the tree trunk. Once you have the sample you affix it to a wooden board and sand it flat on one side so you can
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by whyenot 10y ago
> Funny to see that 'Latin' is not in the list. Sure there are plant names with names in 'latin' but not the same Latin as the Romans used. Seeing as it's actively used by members of the Catholic church and taugh
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by whyenot 10y ago
* Most of the food crops we depend on both directly and indirectly are grasses and are wind pollinated (corn, wheat, etc.). * There is no evidence of neonics disrupting food webs or destroying ecosystems. How do you even "destroy"
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by whyenot 10y ago
the non-native bees shipped around the country (US) and that are the primary pollinators in agriculture appear to already be fairly resistant to neonics.
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by whyenot 10y ago
We already have many, many, many pesticides that do this, but neonicotinoid pesticides are really useful for a couple of reasons: 1. Very low toxicity to mammals. Neonics are used in flea collars, and to kill lice in farm animal bedding mat
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by whyenot 10y ago
There is no evidence that Clinton was directly involved with this decision. Furthermore, the company involved may have 20% of US uranium production capacity, but it actually only produces about 11% of US uranium. Please save the Donald Trum
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by whyenot 10y ago
Here is a map of the states where the kissing bugs that vector Chagas disease have been been reported in the US. http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/chagas/gen_info/vectors/ This doesn't mean the bugs are
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by whyenot 10y ago
Both kissing bugs and assassin bugs are both true bugs in the family Reduviidae, but they are not the same thing. Kissing bugs that can spread Chagas are not common outside the extreme southern portion of the US. By the way, not only are ti
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by whyenot 10y ago
Just to be clear, there is a test and a treatment for Chagas disease (although not necessarily a cure).
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by whyenot 10y ago
Your whole argument revolved around large lawns being a waste of resources ("in California, of all places!"), not that "excess" water use is unlawful
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by whyenot 10y ago
Is it a waste if he or she enjoys it? With a few exceptions, California's water problems are not due to residential use, but rather over-use by agriculture, which uses almost all the water yet represents only 2% of California's GD
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by whyenot 10y ago
I appreciate your critique, but stand by my original statement. Let me address the items you bring up point by point. Please excuse my brevity. 1. Xenix was based on Bell Labs V7 and then AT&T SVR2, SCO Unix was based on SVR4. Xenix and
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by whyenot 10y ago
Of course Microsoft then licensed XENIX to the Santa Cruz Operation which after several years renamed it to SCO Unix. SCO eventually split apart, but the piece that ended up with SCO Unix renamed themselves the SCO Group. The SCO Group with
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by whyenot 10y ago
Yes, at least in the early hobbyist phase. When you bought a machine (or parts of a machine, the line is a little blurry with S-100 bus), you usually also got the ASM source code for the BIOS. If you wanted to add a printer or other periphe
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by whyenot 10y ago
I lived in SF's Inner Sunset for several years. When the old DeYoung museum was demolished and all the landscaping scraped away, the "soil" underneath was pure sand. I noticed the same thing at my home a few blocks away -- th
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by whyenot 10y ago
The fact that there may be a better option than ApplePay for 517 million people in Europe... that doesn't on it's own seem like great evidence that ApplePay is "america-centric." The vast majority of the world does not l
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by whyenot 10y ago
Driverless cars are excellent witnesses of the behavior of other drivers. Speed, initiate an illegal lane change, roll through a stop sign, etc, and it wouldn't be a technological stretch for a driverless car to send a report to the p
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by whyenot 10y ago
So you are suggesting repealing proposition 13? Good luck with that!

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