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by xrange 8y ago
Feedstock for plastics and other industrial products. https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=34&t=6 A similar process used in: https://availabletechnologies.pnnl.gov/technology.asp?id=395 .
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by xrange 8y ago
> red state prisons sit full of petty dime bag dealers Does anyone know where to get at the raw statistics for this kind of information? So that we can figure out how many prisoners there are in red states vs. blue states for marijuana
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by xrange 9y ago
Another fun twist would be to see what effect there would be if you mentioned that no one from Puerto Rico voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
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by xrange 9y ago
Anyone have a good estimate the total amount of money spent in the name of education in the U.S. in the last 50 years? I'd be interested to see the total pre-k through university graduate school, including both public (local, state, f
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by xrange 9y ago
That sounds awfully static. The interesting thing will be to see if people with unconditional money end up becoming addicts at higher rates. Are the study researchers planning on making the data openly available? Is it going to be cash p
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by xrange 9y ago
Does GHC still come with a copy of GCC and Perl? Hugs is pretty small: https://www.haskell.org/hugs/
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by xrange 9y ago
Just to make sure that we aren't all talking past each other... 1. I assume the FBI is investigating the hack itself (who did it, etc.). Citation? 2. I assume the SEC is investigating the suspicious timing the executives who were sell
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by xrange 9y ago
You are right. The sheriff that covers Ryegate, MT commutes in every day from New York City, and the school bus drivers commute from Seattle, likewise the mailman commutes in from D.C., and the garbage man from San Francisco.
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by xrange 9y ago
Interesting. I'd like to learn more about this. Any pointers to how other languages and cultures don't distinguish between math and science? Does it apply to other things like the difference between induction and deduction as w
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by xrange 9y ago
Here's an utterly trivial question. Do most people working on computational problems like this consider themselves mathematicians or scientists?
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by xrange 9y ago
The Strang book: "Introduction to Linear Algebra" does seem to have quite a few "high quality" 1-star reviews. They mostly seem to cluster around this book not being good for a linear algebra introduction, for someone n
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New Bounties for McCLIM (Common Lisp Interface Manager)(bountysource.com)
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by xrange 9y ago
Just some clarification for those readers not in the U.S.. You as the defendant do not have to select have your case tried by a jury. You can select to have a bench trial instead. There is a presumption of innocence for the defendant, so
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by xrange 9y ago
Is there a way to find out how much Foxconn pays in U.S. taxes right now? Or how much revenue they earn in the U.S.? If Apple has Foxconn make phones in Taiwan, and Apple then ships phones to the U.S., then Foxconn doesn't pay any ta
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by xrange 9y ago
Might as well put a Wikipedia link here about the fission product isotopes and their half lives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission_product#Radioa...
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by xrange 9y ago
>If you were to tell a non-HNer that Kayak, Booking, Priceline, CheapFlights, OpenTable, and other large websites are worth 100B combined, I don't think they would even blink an eye. ...is that because you don't think non-HNer&
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by xrange 9y ago
>Here's something I'd love to know about undefined behavior in C: is this something specific to C, or is it something that any similar language would have to contend with? How similar is similar? Pascal? Ada? Spark Ada? Rust?
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by xrange 9y ago
>what if I'm on duolingo learning Spanish? What if I'm checking my investments or making a trade? ...ah, the Paul Erdos defense: http://amphetamines.com/paul-erdos.html > I spend too much time on my phone, b
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by xrange 9y ago
>...I wish I had found a way to stay clean. Anyone have success stories to share? I've tried adding various sites to my hosts file. But I seem to lapse after a while, since I can restore the file anytime I want to. Any negative r
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by xrange 9y ago
http://www.gaisma.com/en/location/madrid.html
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by xrange 9y ago
>1. First America stops being world police. Yes, how do we do this? I'd like to see us declare victory, and remove our troops from South Korea, Japan, Germany, the rest of Europe, the Middle East, and everywhere else. The UK did e
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by xrange 9y ago
Anyone have stats on rates of alcohol use over time, compared to other medications? For example, maybe people are using anti-depressants instead of medicating themselves with alcohol?
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by xrange 9y ago
Today You Learned: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=islamic+state+b...
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by xrange 9y ago
Dasher might be something worth looking into: http://www.inference.org.uk/dasher/
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by xrange 9y ago
>There are very few projects without Py3 support, and most you'll find without Py3 support is because the project has been dead for quite some time. One notable exception is FreeCAD for anyone who is looking to jump into a project t
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by xrange 9y ago
>...it's so full of little bugs and crashes it's not really usable in my mind. I'm using the version from Debian unstable. Ever try it on another platform or build? I've been learning FreeCAD for the past few months,
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by xrange 9y ago
That sounds like it is true for western countries, but China has a lot of nuclear power coming online, and what are the attitudes in India?
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by xrange 9y ago
Anyone know more about India's nuclear story? At one time they were focusing on thorium. I wonder what we could do to spur on a little more competition with China. http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library&#x2F
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by xrange 9y ago
Mistakes have been known to happen, like carving the wrong value for pi into a wall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Park_MAX_Station#El...
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by xrange 9y ago
>Does he ever mention Conway in any of his texts? For "A New Kind of Science", here is the index entry: Conway, John H. (England/USA, 1937- ) and arithmetic recurrences, 1115 and Game of Life, 877, 880, 9

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