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by whyenot 11y ago
How is that related to her lawsuit? It seems completely unrelated to me. In any case, 10k "people" (it's easy to game these things) is just a drop in the bucket of reddit's userbase.
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by whyenot 11y ago
We don't even know what the current deal looks like. Even lawmakers have had only very limited access to the terms of the proposed treaty. if the country, and by extension, the American people, are going to give up some of their sove
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by whyenot 11y ago
That seems a little unfair. The SVP are indeed the "strongest party" in the swiss government, but they still only hold 54 out of 200 seats in the National Council. Parties in many other European democracies have expressed equally
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by whyenot 11y ago
It's 10,000 mAh.
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by whyenot 11y ago
> have never put my life at risk... If true, he also risked the lives of everyone else on that plane. That's not ballsy, it's selfish and dangerous. If proven true, what he needs is a "timeout" at one of our country&#
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by whyenot 11y ago
All three of Musk's most recent ventures (SolarCity, Tesla, and SpaceX), depend either on direct or indirect government subsidies. It's not just that Musk is a workaholic, or possibly innovative, but his ability to "work&quot
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by whyenot 11y ago
Neonics may need to go away, but we also need to be a little careful about outlawing the best (safe, effective) group of systemic insecticides currently on the market. I don't keep bees but I do manage some research greenhouses filled
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by whyenot 12y ago
"hosting package" =/= "cert[ificate]"
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by whyenot 12y ago
> What would be a viable way for Google to fix this that doesn't hurt users? If they are prioritizing Google Shopping results, as is alleged, stop doing that or otherwise biasing search results to favor Google products.
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by whyenot 12y ago
Please stick to the actual title of the article and avoid adding your own linkbait.
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by whyenot 12y ago
The physical lab wasn't a part of the history of humanity, what was done there -- that's what is important. The building was not in good shape and the landlord(s) have had trouble finding long term tenants for the site for decades
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by whyenot 12y ago
What keeps people from chopping down the trees and using them for firewood -- why many areas of northern Africa became deforested in the first place?
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by whyenot 12y ago
Some other good examples are snow plant (Sarcodes sanguinea)[1] and phantom orchid (Cephalanthera austiniae)[2]. It's also probably worth mentioning that this is an example of symbiosis in the borad sense. It's not a mutualistic r
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by whyenot 12y ago
Yes, but this figure is also a little misleading. For example, if you live in San Francisco or several other cities in the Bay Area, 80% of your water comes from the Hetch Hetchy system. Very little of that water is used for agriculture. If
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by whyenot 12y ago
IBM's model M keyboard is more than three decades old and built like a tank. Old model M keyboards are still in high demand on places like eBay.
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by whyenot 12y ago
The figures used in the Wikipedia article include "environmental" water use (water that flows to the sea in streams, etc. most other sources do not include this in their figures. Environmental "use" accounts for 50% of t
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by whyenot 12y ago
Almonds use 10% of the state's water supply. The irony is that almonds and apricots have been grown in the Santa Clara valley and surrounding areas without irrigration until tech booms led to orchards being pulled out and replaced wi
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by whyenot 12y ago
The only solution? Couldn't you buy a bluetooth keyboard?
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by whyenot 12y ago
The macbook does have bluetooth, so I don't really see your point. There are lots of inexpensive, perfectly decent bluetooth mice out there.
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by whyenot 12y ago
Agriculture uses about 40% of the total water supply in the state and industry/municipal use is about 10% [1]. Of the human uses of the state's water, 10% goes to water almond trees [2]. While an important industry, agriculture ac
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by whyenot 12y ago
I donated code, time, and money to Mozilla in those early days when they were just scraping by. To me, in recent years they seem to have become bloated and wasteful thanks to the Google and now Yahoo money. Yes, they have accomplished great
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by whyenot 12y ago
The doctor was wearing a mic. I think it would be very hard to argue he wasn't involved in the production. He also has at least a moral obligation to protect the privacy of his patients. It's a shame these things end in lawsuits
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Dying in the E.R., and on TV Without His Family’s Consent(nytimes.com)
91 points by whyenot 12y ago|58 comments
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Researchers: We can detect life on other worlds through its vibrations(arstechnica.com)
40 points by whyenot 12y ago|4 comments
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by whyenot 12y ago
It has been estimated as many as 100 coyotes live in San Francisco[1]. Mountain lions have been found in Palo Alto[2], Mountain View[3], greater Los Angeles[4] and other very urban areas in California. [1] http://www.sfgate.com&#
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How 'Star Wars' ruined sci-fi(cnn.com)
4 points by whyenot 12y ago|0 comments
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Do Online Death Threats Count as Free Speech?(nytimes.com)
1 points by whyenot 12y ago|0 comments
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GoPro Developing Line of Consumer Drones(online.wsj.com)
50 points by whyenot 12y ago|21 comments
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by whyenot 12y ago
> Sexual reproduction is a huge evolutionary benefit. It's not clear that this is the case. Many bacteria, fungi and plants do not appear to reproduce sexually and are highly successful. Evolution by natural selection does require t
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by whyenot 12y ago
If they charge too much student will just start using pirated books. This is already happening; there are several sites out there offering free pdf downloads of textbooks.

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