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by xefer 9y ago
On a tangential note, that "Phage therapy" Wikipedia page makes reference to the Sinclair Lewis book "Arrowsmith": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrowsmith_(novel) I found it to be one more the more
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by xefer 9y ago
In that great documentary "Crumb" cartoonist Robert Crumb shows his notebooks in which he keeps pictures of all sorts of mundane infrastructure that he incorporates into his drawings. It's really effective in this sequence &q
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by xefer 9y ago
If you go through the election results there are actually quite a number of 1-vote write-in winners for this position across the various ward divisions - and a few with no votes at all. Quickly scanning through the hundreds of results I did
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by xefer 9y ago
I'd be interested in knowing what different pharmacies ultimately charge the various insurance companies for generic drugs. During a job switch I had a couple of weeks were I was covered, but before I got my new insurance ids I paid fu
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by xefer 9y ago
Since this article focuses on the U.S., how much of this is related to the slowdown in illegal immigration?
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by xefer 9y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to create a business whose purpose is to create tax shelters from money pooled together by tax payers who would otherwise not have enough individually to take advantage of these strategies available to the r
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by xefer 9y ago
The main opposition in Arlington was they were afraid then proposed Red Line extension out to Bedford/128 wouldn’t happen fast enough (or at all) and the city center would become a commuter hub, not that they were afraid if the kind of
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by xefer 9y ago
My changed relationship with the telephone became weirdly apparent when I watched the original WarGames movie recently. There's a scene where David (Matthew Broderick) is alone with McKittrick (Dabney Coleman) in his office being inter
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by xefer 9y ago
The biggest natural constraint was nitrogen fixation which places a natural limit of around 4 billion people. But artificial fertilizers basically took the lid of that and the population has been exploding since been the process was first i
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by xefer 9y ago
“Most demographers say we will hit 9 billion before we peak...” I believe this thinking is very out of date at this point. The 2017 UN Population Prospect report has the World population at 11.2 billion and still climbing by 2100. The popul
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by xefer 9y ago
I recommend the book "Red Plenty" by Francis Spufford: https://amazon.com/o/asin/B0074HCLPE It's a novel set as a series of historical vignettes. While it is semi-fictional, it's been widely pr
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by xefer 9y ago
Some years ago I made the case for an interrocolon, the purpose of which I do not see addressed in that list: "when the direct object of an interrogative statement references an example, a URL or another statement in a follow-on block
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by xefer 9y ago
Every single item you mention is discussed in great detail through the course of the series.
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by xefer 9y ago
Ringworld could work well as an open-ended style series. The world is so vast there would always be some new area to explore. Plus the visuals could be pretty awesome. It could work along a similar vein to that show from the 70s, The Star
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by xefer 9y ago
I wonder if there will come a time when buying food harvested by stoop labor will be considered immoral. Perhaps human diets should target foods that can be produced through mechanization where possible.
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by xefer 9y ago
Why would Harvard let these people go only to turn around and pay them fees to invest their money as a separate entity?
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by xefer 9y ago
There are so many bilateral derivative contracts tied to LIBOR what would it even mean for this benchmark to go away?
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by xefer 9y ago
I wonder when it will be considered unethical to eat food harvested by back-breaking stoop labor?
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by xefer 9y ago
I must be possible to determine when this code was collected by matching the files to version control time stamps. I wonder if that could be used to narrow down who pulled the code during that window.
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by xefer 10y ago
I think Kubrick implies it by the way HAL's voice noticeably slows significantly and changes his tonality to suggest he was at least deeply troubled
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by xefer 10y ago
I had always assumed that Kubrick gave an explicit clue that HAL had "snapped" when he strangely repeats himself when he claims to have detected a problem. HAL suddenly says "just a moment... just a moment..." It comes a
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by xefer 10y ago
This is an question I've always had about proton decay: if virtual particles can spontaneously appear anywhere at anytime, why couldn't some virtual quark appear in the midst of the three that make up the proton causing it to fall
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by xefer 10y ago
Would hitters benefit from more practice against "game situation"-level pitching? It occurs me that they get a lot of practice against decent batting-practice pitching and pitching machines, but how often do they get reps against
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by xefer 10y ago
I use ctrl-insert and shift-insert myself which I picked up from the old "m" editor that shipped with Microsoft's C compiler, version 2. (2 floppies and a green 3-ring binder.)
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by xefer 10y ago
One of the biggest problems with cars in the city is that they are ridiculously overengineered for that environment. It feels too slow because all that power and speed gives the illusion of control. If it were possible to electronically put
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by xefer 10y ago
My favorite example of "least metal words" is Iron Maiden's use of the word "cuddle" in their song "Drifter"
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by xefer 10y ago
Anatoly Liberman's columns are always interesting. Here is a great profile of the man: http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/origin-unknown
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by xefer 10y ago
To paraphrase that XKCD comic, "14 benefit programs?! Ridiculous! We need to create one universal benefit program that covers everyone! Now you have 15 programs." I get the sense that liberals and conservatives have wildly differe
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by xefer 10y ago
It's interesting that the three main domains of life are considered archaea, eukaryotes and bacteria; but looking at the diagram, the bacteria seem to be split into to two major clades that are more separated than even archaea and euka
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by xefer 11y ago
I'm curious, if these machines can consistently beat 9-dan players like this, is there talk of creating a 10-dan level?

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