david_b

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by david_b 5y ago
I'm not sure to what degree her perspective is specifically feminine, but Sara Maitland has written two books on solitude and silence: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20518977-how-to-be-alone https:&#x2F
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by david_b 9y ago
There also is a Radiolab episode http://www.radiolab.org/story/nukes/
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Harold Herings failure to demonstrate acceptable qualities of leadership(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by david_b 9y ago|1 comments
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by david_b 9y ago
A somewhat similar, much simpler process is in wide use in the manufacturing industry for form measurement: https://www.google.de/search?q=air+gaging
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by david_b 11y ago
It's definitely very impressive - just five years ago they still had to feed the yeast precursors: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/canadian-s...
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by david_b 11y ago
Why not, indeed... Bromates are formed many different ways in municipal drinking water. The most common is the reaction of ozone and bromide. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromate
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by david_b 11y ago
Unless the people are humans or elfs (hence orcs) or dwarfs or hobbits - then they aren't influenced or changed at all by the power of the ring. The fact that the characters are somewhat like woodcuts might also be owed to two things:
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by david_b 11y ago
> The Moorcocks now divide their time between Paris and Austin, Texas, It's alway good to know where people talking about fascism actually live - it gives a sense of perspective about their opinions (jodhpurs: nasty and evil /
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by david_b 11y ago
I'd say Daimler and co. got there first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Prometheus_Project Google has obviously taken taken that a lot further (no driver reacting every 9km) > "We kind of laugh whe
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by david_b 11y ago
> For example, I cannot stomach green beans. Attempting to chew them results in vomiting within my mouth. The smell of them alone is repulsive to me. Maybe you're just really sensitive to lectins and your body is trying to tell you
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by david_b 11y ago
Corn Laws - what do they have to do with selling real estate internationally? > Taking away citizens' right to sell to whomever they wish is not a moral solution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traff
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by david_b 11y ago
You may want to read this: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/nonviole... and then this as background infomation: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/29&
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by david_b 12y ago
In many countries exerting influence in the democratic process is heavily tied to the monetary resources of the person doing the influencing. Given that mechanism it might be easier to remove the wealth inequality than to dismantle the ineq
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by david_b 12y ago
Sadly the lifespan on wikipedia is not sourced: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halocaridina_rubra If they indeed life up to 20 years the Ecosphere can hardly be very well balanced if it keeps them going for only 2-3 year
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by david_b 12y ago
Please don't buy Ecospheres - I realize that many people don't feel particularly sympathetic toward shrimp, but they really are amazing creatures slowly starving to death: http://www.petshrimp.com/opaeinfo.php Alt
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by david_b 12y ago
Your comment is slightly off-the-mark as his comment wasn't merely about a festival, but also about his opinion on Portugals drug policy. As your comment implies that you aren't familiar with said policy, you may wish to recap Po
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by david_b 12y ago
While I can see how this behaviour of PayPal is close to credit cards, I cannot see how they can show an amount that may be incorrect - they could just ask the shop whether the amount is final or not and indicate that in some way. I wouldn&
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Ignoring the amount customers confirm is no security bug according to PayPal(seclists.org)
173 points by david_b 12y ago|36 comments
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by david_b 12y ago
OT: Since I don't have permissions for an Ask-type post I'll do this here. The lines in this thread break extremely 'late' ( http://imgur.com/IzmwWBo ), causing me a lot of painful sideways scrolling - my
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by david_b 13y ago
Yeah, there is something that is regularly overlooked about developing antibiotics: new ones end up on a shelf as the new last resort. If you've got a timeframe (imposed by patent lifetimes) in which you have to recoup your investment,
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by david_b 13y ago
Yes, the horror of an open ecosystem on iOS would hardly be bearable. You do know that nobody forces you to use foreign code to earn your money? Pretty much everybody in a commercial setting knows about licensing restrictions, so these wa
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by david_b 14y ago
-- strict adherence to rules and procedures in aspects of life that most cultures don't care about (clear your sidewalk of snow and ride your bicycle only on the correct side of the sidewalk, for example). Not very good examples: --When s
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by david_b 14y ago
We're talking about a company more aggressive and protective of its patents than Apple or any tech company anyone has ever seen before. Not that I condone Monsantos actions, but they kinda have to be: their inventions replicate quite free
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by david_b 14y ago
Don't forget the Anti-Dildo laws: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_obscenity_statute http://daxlegal.com/dildos-sexually-obscene-toys-illegal-in-... This is so fantastically nutty I could hardly believe it (when I first read about a w
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by david_b 14y ago
That depends on where you are: there are many retreat centers worldwide: http://www.dharmaoverground.org/web/guest/dharma-wiki/-/wiki... http://www.dharmaoverground.org/web/guest/discussion/-/messa... S.N. Goenka runs a lot of retreat c
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by david_b 14y ago
Mindfulness in Plain English is good - there is some weird stuff in it (something about levitation) but it is a very minor part and the rest is solid. It's free: http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html If you need more guidance get t
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by david_b 14y ago
Much as I want to, DDT isn't the wonder-pesticide it is sometimes seen as (it affects not only birds - the german article has more info on wildlife, the english more on human health effects): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT Also, I want
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by david_b 14y ago
Here you go: http://web.archive.org/web/20050703004351/http://www.nybooks...
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by david_b 14y ago
I would argue that Math does have side effects: it runs on mathmaticians brains. After all math is a chain of logical equivalencies based on a set of axioms (I'm not a mathmatician so that is most probably not a very complete definition).
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by david_b 14y ago
Even other countries get pressured into drug prohibition - to my knowledge, there is no country where it would be safe (as in legal) to make drugs for yourself (Portugal maybe?). Not every prison system is as inhumane as that of the US, but

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