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by mkstowegnv 7y ago
With all the shutdowns, Google is also foolishly throwing away what will be an increasingly important asset - distinguishing between real human identities and bots. False bot negatives waste Google computing resources, while false bot posi
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
Different people learn in different ways. Unlike most people apparently I credit Mims with delaying my taking up electronics. I found his books a complete turn off when I was young - painfully unimaginative and boring. Mims books were the
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
Stories about Mims always attract comments that make it clear that his writing inspired many to learn electronics. But to give some balance to the starry eyed impression left by the article and many such comments I suggest looking into his
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
The elephant that isn't in the room: China (one Hong Kong station and that's it). Anyone know if their government restricts streaming?
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
All over the world there are testosterone poisoned males engaging in as much obnoxious behavior as they can get away with (e.g. riding motorcycles with no mufflers). Particulary coming from the Southern US it is absolutely delightful to be
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
>plants/bacteria need additional energy in the form of sugars to pull carbon out of CO2 in the air. Sorry perhaps this is not what you meant to write. For anyone who wants an unmangled understanding of photosynthesis please consult
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
There is every likely and unlikely combination of political beliefs to be found in every population including commune members. But I will go out on a limb and try to speak for that population. Relatively few see the communal life as a via
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
Kind of like how anti-sense RNA works. They could call it anti-adsense!
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
As someone who has spent time at East Wind and Acorn and taken the three week visitor program at Twin Oaks, I hardly know where to begin in disabusing you of the idea that these communities are libertarian. Very few members would self iden
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
to summarize in consistent units: Orris oil 50,000 euros per kg OP BBC story Ambergris 1,140 euros per kg Wikipedia Saffron 958-9,583 euros per kg Wikipedia
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Facebook hacking hoax(lifehacker.com)
1 points by mkstowegnv 8y ago|0 comments
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
Mexico has only recently become a major poppy growing heroin producer. Before that the cartels were largely making money by dominating the flow of cocaine produced in South America. http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/english&#x
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
Mostly off topic. Why has China produced most of the serious competition to US software titans? In particular, given that South Korea was way ahead of the rest of the world in cell phone and broadband universality for it's population,
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
"As in many animals, honey bees rely on their gut microbial community for a variety of functions, including food processing (25, 26), regulation of immune system (33, 34), and defense against pathogens (17, 27). Perturbations of this s
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
Contradancing does not require any specific footwork and revolves around dancers flowing through and bonding with eventually all the other dancers in a line. It is an all ages activity (from babies in papooses to dancers pushing 100). It i
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
A nice article for someone who knows nothing about Burning Man. If you've been, you will learn little that you don't already know. Burners choose to play in a difficult, often uncomfortable environment. They have a higher than
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
The inherently self destructive nature of ICE's make it likely that ICE vehicles will always be more complex, less reliable/ higher maintenance than comparable all electric vehicles. The simplicity advantage of electric will soon
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
For a line level palindrome homage to Douglas Hofstadter's Crab Canon see https://juliagalef.com/2017/02/21/a-poem-for-douglas-hofstad...
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
What happened to the future where all our transactions were secured by trust rated escrow agents?
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
I went to a talk by someone who had switched fields to one that involved analyzing portions of cells. After showing a series of slides with diverse, confusing blobs and lines, he said "when I first started this work I would look at a
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
I hold to my own metaconspiracy theory - that there is a conspiracy to create and promote conspiracy theories. It's Russians and rogue libertarians who want us to fear and hate each other and our government. I mean have you seen all th
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
>tl;dr it can save 6% in a ideal situation, but the extra cost and logistical problems aren't worth it. Unless you launch by means of a mass driver/rail gun [1] built into the side of Mt Everest with a piggy backed elevator for
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
Thank you for this work. Would that other datasets had such an overseer
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
Every time this argument is made I wonder how capitalism would look if a fair comparison were made. All the mortality and cruelty of the slave trade and it's aftermath, all the genocide around the world that accompanied colonialism. M
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
Unfortunately "three human Plasmodium parasites" have been found in chimpanzees. "If malignant malaria were eradicated from human populations, chimpanzees, in addition to gorillas, might serve as a reservoir for P. falciparum
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe" Carl Sagan (as in the Cosmos remix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc )
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
Integrate into this mix all the future possibilities created by new materials and AI including better drones, flying cars, advanced forms of collapsible bicycles, and new forms of intercity transport including self carrying luggage and we c
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
I would argue (only somewhat tongue in cheek) that our best hope for averting civil war is the obesity crisis - we are too out of shape and too unwilling to risk hunger, to turn our very real animosity for each other into armed conflict.
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by mkstowegnv 8y ago
The definition of parole in this context https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parole_(United_States_immigr...
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Taiwan’s largest social media platform is fighting for data justice(technode.com)
1 points by mkstowegnv 8y ago|0 comments

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