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by gravitycop 18y ago
F1 engines have overhead cams for specifically this reason. F1 has displacement limits. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_One_regulations#Engine F1 is not relevant to the world outside racing, where there are no displacement limits.
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by gravitycop 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Company_history In March 2008, YouTube's bandwidth costs were estimated at approximately US$1 million a day. [...] In June 2008 a Forbes magazine article projected the 2008 revenue at US$200 million
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Cell-phone chargers to be universal by 2012 (will use micro-USB plugs)(news.prnewswire.com)
1 points by gravitycop 18y ago|0 comments
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by gravitycop 18y ago
The term [devolution], as used commonly, implies some sort of objective heirarchy to evolution Yes. Such an objective hierarchy of species is frequently referred-to in Charles Darwin's, The Descent of Man . http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs
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by gravitycop 18y ago
what is referred to by "devolution" is just evolution. Dictionaries do not define devolution as just evolution. They define it as retrogade evolution. http://www.google.com/search?q=devolution+%22retrograde+evol...
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by gravitycop 18y ago
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devolution_(biological_fallacy) I suggest you read the wikipedia link I read it before you gave the link. The discussion page conflicts with the current state of the main page. http://en.wikipedi
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by gravitycop 18y ago
The existence of high er mammals and high er animals implies the existence of low er mammals and low er animals, and therefore possible de volutionary directions.
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by gravitycop 18y ago
So, then, are higher mammals and higher animals misnamed? http://www.google.com/search?q=%22higher+mammals%22 http://www.google.com/search?q=%22higher+animals%22 The Encyclopedia Britannica mentions plants that are more highly evolv
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by gravitycop 18y ago
do you think a chimpanzee carrier makes it okay to inflict What is the test for "okay"? okay to inflict (with reasonably high likelihood) mutations and health problems on animals you are expecting will have near-human, or even human, lev
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by gravitycop 18y ago
let's pretend you could find a human carrier to gestate your transgenic Neanderthal baby for you. How about a chimpanzee carrier, as George Church suggested? http://www.google.com/search?q=george+church+chimpanzee+nean... http://reason
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by gravitycop 18y ago
I like "descent with modification" when explaining what evolution is to layman. What, then, would de volution be?
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by gravitycop 18y ago
All laptop manufacturers stopped using high-quality LCD panels and switched to selling overpriced TN-film based junk It seems so: http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7-9320-9... We know of no IPS screens in current-mode
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by gravitycop 18y ago
no-spec.com appears to be in violation of federal RICO laws. http://reclaimdemocracy.org/articles/2008/smithfield_union_r... Smithfield says the union, the United Food and Commercial Workers International, and its officials violated RICO
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by gravitycop 18y ago
possibly more [...] intelligent than humans Do you think it is likely that mean modern-Neanderthal (Neanderthal raised in a modern environment) IQ would be higher than mean modern-human IQ?
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by gravitycop 18y ago
How will we determine if he's competent Why not use IQ testing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_retardation#Treatment_an... There are thousands of agencies in the United States that provide assistance for people with developmental
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Crack dealers are entrepreneurs. Most crack dealers work in large organizations with only one or a few entrepreneurs at the top. Does working at Microsoft or Google make one an entrepreneur? As the article said: Felipe Dias is one of t
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Dup. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=482106 Turning crack dealers into chief executives (bbc.co.uk) 4 points by RiderOfGiraffes 22 hours ago | 1 comment
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by gravitycop 18y ago
What's so scary about the Neanderthals is not that they were bigger or stronger, but that their brain volume was bigger then ours and from the skull shape we can tell the brain was shaped just like our brains. [...] So they might have been
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by gravitycop 18y ago
if [...] you're inflating the money supply way too much and way too fast, that can be disastrous. Why?
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Under the gold standard, there is a feedback loop allowing the market to control inflation Why would one want to control inflation? Inflation does not have anything to do with economic health, does it? http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon
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by gravitycop 18y ago
(1) A productive society is one with experts. Not according to Henry Ford: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/hnfrd10.txt If ever I wanted to kill opposition by unfair means I would endow the opposition with experts. [...] None of o
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by gravitycop 18y ago
The company is not what is being called a scheme. What the company was being employed by the city of Paris to execute is being called a scheme: Championed by Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe, the bikes were part of an attempt to "green" the ca
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by gravitycop 18y ago
saying that you know where there is a bicycle standing without a lock, clearly that should be legal. Do U.S. lawmakers know that (facilitating crime should be legal)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessory_(legal_term) In some jurisdic
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Many of your concerns were addressed by the author in the comments section: http://richardkulisz.blogspot.com/2007/04/aliens-dont-exist.... He completely ignores that humans actually took many tens of millions of years to evolve from scr
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by gravitycop 18y ago
the relationship between the number of people that you have to employ to look after abusers vs the number of people that are actually productive is a good way to measure your success. Yes. That is what I said. The workman with in ternal-
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by gravitycop 18y ago
>> the customer base forms part of the toolset. > Toolsets can be changed, improved or mastered. I [cannot] do [this] with my customers. You cannot provide any value to the world that would involve a different customer base? Aft
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by gravitycop 18y ago
if you increase the displacement the petrol engine will get more power but that is no longer a fair comparision. Why? Are they both turbocharged? http://www.google.com/search?q=bmw+x5+35d+biturbo Do they both weigh the same and take up
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by gravitycop 18y ago
test drive a BMW 5 series diesel 2009 X5 35d vs. 2004 X5 4.8is: http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/suvs/112_0902_2009_bmw_x... http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/suvs/112_0504_2005_luxur... 35d 4.8is hp:
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by gravitycop 18y ago
I'm perplexed Work (value creation) can be more or less efficient. As stated, an inefficient workman blames his tools, instead of the way he is going about his work. In this case, and often in other cases, the customer base forms part of
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by gravitycop 18y ago
nowadays if you design anything at all that has an end-user component you'll spend at least as much time at making it jerk-proof and doing all kinds of abuse analysis http://www.google.com/search?q=%22always+blames+his+tools%22 Echoes o

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