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VC accused of blackmail(pehub.com)
16 points by yannis 17y ago|2 comments
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by yannis 17y ago
The whole area of Scientific Publishing is in need of a major shift by disrupting current practices - and I am hoping when it does is a YC start-up. While studying for my PhD, a pattern arose - any papers written before 1975 provided adequa
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by yannis 17y ago
It's a sad story and very well written.
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I took a course with Edward de Bono himself teaching it in the nineties. He sat with an overhead projector next to him and kept sketching all these little nice diagrams. It can help you classify the various effects of a decision. On the cre
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by yannis 17y ago
Interesting tidbit at the end where the hacker being interviewed said 'if you opened a particular page in Google you got infected', pity he did not mention the page.
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Spherical cows help to dump metabolism law: 3/4-power law is actually 2/3(physorg.com)
1 points by yannis 17y ago|0 comments
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Very nice clean interface that leads to direct action. Use a more realistic product such as a textbook or a vacation trip - where you can entice technically savy students for example to act. It got a great potential and I think it can fly!
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For the sake of all my American friends here as some sure signs of a country's imminent collapse (from direct experience). First there will be water shortages and the mains water becomes undrinkable. Second you will get electricity blackout
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Your application left me with a number of questions: (01) Are you aiming for people to upload CV's or for Companies to use the application to find candidates. (02) As a candidate I would like to see how these CV's should look. (You should p
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And Pascal will go down with me:) I loved that language. Now and then I will code Pascal for fun.
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The Magic of Computer Science(cs4fn.org)
2 points by yannis 17y ago|1 comments
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I would say a definite yes. They did wrong. Having worked for many years in the Middle East where this sort of thing is endemic, I would say in most cases it is the Company's corrupt policies that take advantages of people's weaknesses to a
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by yannis 17y ago
The knife is at 1:50
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Ancient Rome's swiss army knife(news.bbc.co.uk)
3 points by yannis 17y ago|1 comments
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Motivation and other minor miracles (network.nature.com)
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It's because in general I believe tax money is not utilized effectively and their impact on demand is minimal. Non-tax policies could have similar effects. For example the government could impose a ban on manufacturing SUV vehicles or imp
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Was this ever in doubt?
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Retric you are right that it is a very complex analysis. Water vapor is also a greenhouse gas. Given the present composition of the atmosphere, the contribution to the total heating rate in the troposphere is around 5 percent from carbon di
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Just have a look at fig 4 at the paper I quoted above http://www.warwickhughes.com/icecore/zjmar07.pdf You will see the 'hills' I mentioned above. I am not actually suggesting inaction I support any measures that will lower human impact o
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by yannis 17y ago
Quote from University of Bristol research ( http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2009/6649.html ): New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite
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by yannis 17y ago
I am glad this is breaking out slowly but surely and the C02 saga will probably be the greatest scientific scandal of our time. I have been following the story for as far as I remember as I had an interest in Ice Ages. This article http://
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Recent Trends in Melting Glaciers(na.unep.net)
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Excellent read! Does anyone know of any study that extrapolates global temperatures from Landsat images?
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If you think you might be able to give it a competitive edge pretty similar to ExpressionEngine give it a go:) It's difficult to offer more without having more details like costs etc.
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by yannis 17y ago
Personally I am. With all the hype, I thought the heavens would have opened and a new wave of revolutionary and disruptive technology would have rained down on us. IMHO it's just re-packaging of existing technology.
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A Quick Guide for Developing Effective Bioinformatics Programming Skills(ploscompbiol.org)
1 points by yannis 17y ago|0 comments
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by yannis 17y ago
What is involved with the 10%? Is it a PHP/MySQL? Sounds risky to me mainly from a time point of view. Can you give us a bit more info on why the backend is such a great deal? I mean you can easily get that with open source such as Drupal.
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Live Blogging the Apple Product Announcement(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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We need to get over the chicken and egg problem of enough postings first Suggestion use the ebay API to populate (it can also bring some affiliate income). Any thought for exposing your API. I think this can be a great application to fost
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Thanks I saw the recovery.org under the categories but couldn't see anything as I was staring over a map of JHB. Some more questions:) - How would you handle spam? - How long would an ad stay? - Would users not be worry of revealin

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