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by wycx 12y ago
Mandatory execution sees offenders only as their offence, rather than human beings, and denies offenders the opportunity to change for the better. It is cynical and pessimistic.
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by wycx 12y ago
Pinochet was in Chile.
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by wycx 12y ago
That ~30% of GDP number is government debt. I am not talking about government debt. I am talking about private debt. Australia has a much much worse private debt problem than a government debt problem: total private debt ~150% GDP; mortgage
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by wycx 12y ago
Exactly what about it is awe-inspiring? In what services does Australia have an intrinsic advantage, or an advantage that will remain for the medium to long term? Why is a service economy a good thing? Australia went through the entire comm
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by wycx 12y ago
Perhaps as many criminal have access to a punch or a chisel plus a hammer as have access to a $2 file.
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by wycx 12y ago
Furnish us with your definitions of money and credit
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by wycx 12y ago
see also: the present Australian economy. Our future is not bright...
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New High-Tech Farm Equipment Is a Nightmare for Farmers(wired.com)
281 points by wycx 12y ago|164 comments
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by wycx 12y ago
Now that nature lets you read articles for free you can actually go and read the original paper. In the paper the authors had to heat treat the steel at 900 °C for 15 mins to generate the microstructure that gave the properties they wanted.
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by wycx 12y ago
I shall dig up my copy (1996 edition) later to give you the chapter, but as far as I recall (and I have not read it again recently), the book details that 98% of combatants were observed to suffer some sort of breakdown when in a sustained
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by wycx 12y ago
Would he fall into the ~2% of people that can cope with sustained combat[1], i.e. a sociopath? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Killing
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by wycx 12y ago
I have lived in West LA for a couple of years, but spent most of my time in Australian 'cities' like Canberra and Darwin, but am also familiar with Sydney and Melbourne. Large suburban cities without freeways suck (poor/incom
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by wycx 12y ago
Do we want to make research even more winner-takes-all than it currently is? Is is important to conduct research across all disciplines, or only the ones that are appealing to those who might like to fund research via Kickstarter etc. Call
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by wycx 12y ago
I also suggest this BBC Horizon documentary[1]. It has a quite entertaining segment where they test the radioactivity of small mammal specimens from around Chernobyl. [1] http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xwy1o5_bbc-hori
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by wycx 12y ago
How is the block on one of these engines fabricated? I would imagine it is not a one piece casting, so are a few smaller castings bolted together? Are they made of stacks of plate? Do they have to build a gantry mill over it for machining?
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by wycx 12y ago
I don't think the predatory journals mentioned in the article are much of a problem for practicing researchers, since these journals are so far off the radar they may as well not exist. I cannot imagine a serious researcher would even
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by wycx 12y ago
Someone may pick up a large-scale sapphire manufacturing facility at pennies on the dollar. Perhaps we will see sapphire screens on non-Apple phones as a result, using equipment funded by Apple. The irony...
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by wycx 12y ago
Cargo culting for wanting to stay on DST year round? Here at 35deg south, I would prefer it not to be dark at 4:30 pm in winter, hence preference for year round DST. Darkness in the morning is less of a concern for me. The sleeping pattern
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by wycx 12y ago
Anyone know in what form lead occurs in the residue/vapour at gun ranges? Is it all native Pb, or are other more soluble compounds formed during firing?
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by wycx 12y ago
Most machine shops (production shops at least) are not purchasing new manual machine tools. Manual machine tools, even tool room (i.e. high precision) machines, like mills (and shapers) and lathes represent little or no value to commercial
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by wycx 12y ago
Just an anecdote: When I went into a malarial area for only a few days on a field trip in South Africa, my doctor put me on doxycycline rather than anti-malarial medication.
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by wycx 12y ago
Thanks for the Esquire link. Very entertaining.
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by wycx 12y ago
You would make a phosphate salt. Depending on its solubility, it may precipitate. Depending on the log K, your cola might no longer be acidic at all, and as others have suggested, not taste as nice, making the addition of both the phosphori
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by wycx 12y ago
It started under Mark Taylor
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by wycx 12y ago
http://www.anandtech.com/print/7603/mac-pro-review-late-2013
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by wycx 12y ago
It is too small to display an A4 page at 100%, so its no good for pdfs.
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by wycx 12y ago
Actually, the number of lead atoms is not constant. It is steadily increasing, due to U and Th decay.
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by wycx 12y ago
Go learn the difference between rent seekers and the productive.
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Billy Beane’s Ascendant A’s Are Playing a Brand-New Brand of Moneyball(nymag.com)
1 points by wycx 12y ago|0 comments
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by wycx 12y ago
I think the most straightforward way is via a phase diagram that is contoured for density (lines of constant density are called isochores). For example: http://eurjmin.geoscienceworld.org/content/15/5/773&#x2F

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