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by xefer 13y ago
I can recommend the book: "Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room" http://amazon.com/o/asin/0307390314 which is a short, personal appreciation-cum-memoir of Tarkovsky's "Stalker&qu
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by xefer 13y ago
The TNG episode is a direct reference to Orwell's "1984" (but with lights instead of fingers) https://archive.org/details/HowManyFingersWinston-NineteenEi...
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by xefer 13y ago
There is a scene in the movie "Queen of Versailles" (at about the 75 minute mark) were David Siegel claims to have indirectly done just that. He said that he sent a 3rd party into a bank and they sold an 18 million dollar loan he
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by xefer 13y ago
The greatest weird diet story ever written: http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2002/mar/09/restandrelaxat...
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by xefer 13y ago
Unsung and infamous: Fritz Haber inventor of the nitrogen-fixation process (later industrialized by Carl Bosch, which is why it is known as the Haber-Bosch process.) At a minimum, 3 billion people are alive today because the proteins in the
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by xefer 13y ago
For anyone looking for a bit more detail I would highly recommend: "Ancient Earth, Ancient Skies"[1] by G. Brent Dalrymple which is a distillation of the author’s earlier, more scholarly work: "The Age of the Earth"[2] i
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by xefer 13y ago
Whenever I see that phrase I think of the scene from "Boiler Room": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BIa1N_wU0k
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by xefer 13y ago
The story and much of the commentary I've seen on it seems misplaced because of a conflation of the descriptive vs. prescriptive nature of dictionaries. The addition of this "figuratively" meaning to "literally" doe
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by xefer 13y ago
I use YQL and Pipes for this Twitter analyzer. I'd be sad to see it go. It's great technology for what it does, but I'm not sure enough people know how to take advantage of it or trust its stability or longevity. http:/
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by xefer 13y ago
"We can plant bugs in machines" to me sounds more like a clue that this guy really doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.
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by xefer 13y ago
Finance is like its own universe. The salaries for software are like nothing I've seen anywhere else. I get the sense there's so much money sloshing around it doesn't seem that out of wack to anybody. The investment guys probably can't even
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by xefer 13y ago
The logo seems to be a benzene ring. When I see that I think "poison" not "health"
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by xefer 13y ago
I too had a copy. I remember when the album came out I immediately recognized the image, but I had no idea they had lifted it directly from the book itself. Now I wish I hadn't cut the picture out and taped it to the wall. :)
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by xefer 13y ago
I don't know the economics of airlines, nor travel that much, but I can't believe there isn't a niche for an airline that features a reasonable amount of legroom at a reasonably higher cost. Something above the "cattle pen with wings" that
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by xefer 13y ago
That's sort of my (somewhat cynical) point: if everyone else is reacting ridiculously to fake news, moving against them would pay off I suppose. I wonder who lost money dumping shares?
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by xefer 13y ago
It seems there is money to be made distinguishing fake tweets from real ones.
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by xefer 13y ago
The reading of Miranda rights doesn't in and of itself confer or trigger any new "rights". It's a reminder of the rights he already has. He could simply choose to not say anything without a lawyer being present and there's nothing law enf
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by xefer 13y ago
I get the same feeling about Google Glass that I got from Segway: cool technology, but who the heck is going to actually use it?
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by xefer 14y ago
Several years ago J. Richard Gott and Mario Jurić of Princeton put together an awesome logarithmic map of the entire universe: http://www.astro.princeton.edu/universe/
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by xefer 14y ago
It's the only time we get to use a different word to express the subjunctive mood in English.
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by xefer 14y ago
It's not even 1/7th of the way to the aphelion of minor planet Sedna: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sedna+aphelion+/+voyage...
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by xefer 14y ago
It reminds me a bit of one of the fundamental strategy flaws inherent in the old SPI "War of the Rings" game from 1977: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2228/war-of-the-ring Basically the issue was that the person playing as Sauron's fo
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by xefer 14y ago
Some of the earliest mainstream general discussion of REST took place in the still-active "rest-discuss" board going back to 2002. I hope that history is preserved.
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by xefer 14y ago
Taubes actually started the mainstream reexamination of fat over 10 years ago with his New York Times Magazine article "What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?": http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-... The key point i
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by xefer 14y ago
This 2006 article from American Scientist went into this issue in great detail: https://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2006/4/the-sour...
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by xefer 14y ago
I've never understood how anyone thinks they can be successful by making the web worse.
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by xefer 14y ago
I tend to agree. When Latin translation was first introduced by Google in 2010, the first words of "lorem ipsum" then translated to "Hello World!" I thought it was an Easter egg at the time, as that seems more specific to programming langu
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by xefer 14y ago
This reminds me of the oft-considered notion of pre-rotating airplane tires on landing to reduce wear. It seems like a good idea on paper, but ultimately it just complicates aircraft design and it's cheaper to just replace the tires.
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by xefer 14y ago
I recall a Nova or something on PBS several years ago where an MIT student had built a contraption that did essentially that. The thing that struck him when analyzing the data was how much every day was more or less exactly like the other.
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by xefer 14y ago
To be honest, although I know the obvious benefits of metric, I still prefer imperial simply because of its messiness. I realize the system is archaic, etc., but I still like that connection, as attenuated as it may be, to our ancient pa

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