ephelon

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by ephelon 10mo ago
While there isn't a commercially grown glyphosate tolerant wheat; there is a significant pathway for glyphosate into the wheat you eat through the process of desiccation[1]. It is common practice to kill the plant with an herbicide sho
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by ephelon 8y ago
Generally speaking, incorporating as an individual doesn't save you much in the way of tax unless you get creative. It does give you the ability to defer income which in turn defers some tax. On the downside, there is much more paperwo
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by ephelon 11y ago
The danger is not that teenagers are avoiding real world sex, but that they have unrealistic ideas about sex. Kids see graphic sex and think that is how it's done. Consequently girls are subjected to unrealistic expectations and learn
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by ephelon 14y ago
The old dock connector, and the new "lightning" connector do a lot more that is supported by a USB connector. The dock can carry audio, video, act as a USB slave, and connect other slave devices. Arguably, Apple could have included both por
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by ephelon 14y ago
It was working for me earlier, but glitched out when switching streams; now I get an empty document when I reload the page.
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by ephelon 15y ago
The author asserts that YC's capitalist purpose it at odds with the hacker ethos of free information. I would argue that YC is investing in products, not ideas. It has been stated many times that ideas are not valuable in themselves; their
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by ephelon 15y ago
It's quite easy to release the GIL while you are running non-python code.[1] Just be sure that if you touch the Python API that you reaquire the GIL.[2] [1] http://docs.python.org/c-api/init.html#releasing-the-gil-fro... [2] http://docs.
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by ephelon 15y ago
It was probably as simple as evaporating the liquid and then heating the gold residue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_parting#Acid_parting
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by ephelon 15y ago
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that you rolled that rug up and threw it away to make space for the new and shiny rug. Too bad the new rug still has some moths.