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The Earth, Destroyed by Asteroid (HD Video)(youtube.com)
4 points by iwr 16y ago|0 comments
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by iwr 16y ago
If this comes to fruition, we can at least console ourselves that Global Warming would be stopped (by killing out ocean-borne oxygen breathers).
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by iwr 16y ago
They wouldn't have an inherently higher survivorship, but it would be toxic to predators, wiping them out (either directly by toxicity, or indirectly by starvation), at the same time as growing and spreading further. Natural evolution itsel
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by iwr 16y ago
Recently it was proven possible to construct an organism through synthetic processes. This is still limited to very close copies of the real things, but could be adapted to produce reverse chiral molecules. http://www.jcvi.org/cms/press/pr
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by iwr 16y ago
Even if predators can't metabolize the mirror molecules, they can still eat them (possibly dying afterwards). So you'd need to release the mirror algae( ?) in very large quantities for them to overcome the predatory pressures in their envir
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by iwr 16y ago
You may want to have a payment processor as a backup solution, they will provide their own APIs to their services. Relying on PayPal alone can be risky.
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by iwr 16y ago
Relevant resource on the topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality_(chemistry)
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by iwr 16y ago
The question should be: "Why doesn't C have a string data type?" C only considers a pointer to a char, it's the programmers' fault they treat this structure like a string.
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by iwr 16y ago
Why do people think a social networking toolbar, social networking side panel and facebook iframe add value to their website?
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by iwr 16y ago
All they missed was a can of spam.
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by iwr 16y ago
One more step toward a fully self-replicating reprap.
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by iwr 16y ago
It's yet another "command economy simulator", probably not very different from the models used by our central bankers. That is, if they indeed rely on models and not nakedly trying to enrich or prop up the big banks. There is nothing specia
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by iwr 16y ago
For a fraction of the cost of an electric gun, they could have built a light-gas gun with better capabilities.
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Leaning Tower of Padre Island, Texas (Real Estate Disaster)
1 points by iwr 16y ago|0 comments
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by iwr 16y ago
You mean, the first time I had a reason to use (the expensive) mobile bandwidth, the carriers are unhappy?
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by iwr 16y ago
Can we get some perspective from a Swede on this issue?
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by iwr 16y ago
In which case, they could have been in violation if it was GPL code.
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by iwr 16y ago
Why would this guy bother copying stuff off the Goldman servers when it was open source, and presumably freely available?
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by iwr 16y ago
Prepare for obfuscated-code penises.
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by iwr 16y ago
It's more a courtesy call so they don't look quite like saying "Good riddance!"
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by iwr 16y ago
Really, what's with those RGB+Yellow displays?
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by iwr 16y ago
While retrograde, it's only "weakly" so in that it has a very slow rotation period (1 solar year == 2 solar days).
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by iwr 16y ago
For a challenge, play Gomoku (large Go board, 5 in a row, column or across) http://www.playok.com/en/gomoku/
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by iwr 16y ago
So planets would tend to form more from the aggregation of gas rather than rocks or dust (then accumulate the other kinds of matter in the new gaseous body). Does this new model also propose that planets formed further out than previously b
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by iwr 16y ago
Pair production is not a new phenomenon, it's been known since Einstein. This is the fundamental way particle colliders work.
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The Failure of Micro-Credit (Irrational Exuberance in India)(aidwatchers.com)
1 points by iwr 16y ago|0 comments
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by iwr 16y ago
The military could issue USB storage devices and identity tokens that keep their information internally encrypted and which only work on sirpnet-trusted computers. Scenario: Anything copied to the USB device is internally encrypted, offline
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by iwr 16y ago
In short: make life easy for skilled migrants and your economy will do good. I'll say it's simpler than that: make sure immigrants get to sustain themselves through work rather than welfare. This creates a direct incentive for them to learn
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by iwr 16y ago
Sadly, the nature of the internet is that unduplicated content will die out within a few years. It should be OK to wholly copy an article, while at the same time pointing back to the original piece and original author. Granted, the duplicat
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by iwr 16y ago
Anyone remember old YouOS? Google apps needs a more desktop feel before people get comfortable using purpose web machines.

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