pejoculant
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Comment · 10 years ago
Those don't look like actual classification markings, which are required to appear at both the top and bottom of pages. It seems more likely that those are some internal Democratic party markings. Also the fact that the documents seem to be talking about the first 100 days in the future tense would point to them being planning documents produced by people in the party.
Comment · 11 years ago
Ok,ok but "own the term sky" doesn't sound as nice.
Comment · 11 years ago
Wow, they literally "own the sky".
Comment · 13 years ago
Here is a link to the actual CIA document that was released:
Comment · 13 years ago
This whole line of argument presupposes that there is some sort of magic ratio of nutrients for each person and that if they don't hit exactly those numbers they will suffer some vague disastrous consequences (coughing a lot from eating too much pizza and mac-and-cheese?).
Our metabolisms are way more adaptable than that. Generally if you're even in the right ballpark you are fine. There's clearly no exact optimal diet (even at an individualized level). If it were this way people would be keeling over left and right.
Comment · 13 years ago
There most certainly are capacitors available that meet his specs without being unreasonably large. For example this one has a capacitance of 1200F and is only 8 cm long:
http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Ioxus/RSC2R7128LR/?qs=cf...
Modeling it as a parallel plate capacitor with a mica dielectric is basically totally ignoring the part about it being a supercapacitor. He may as well have been seeing if it would be feasible to get to the moon using a wood fired rocket.
Comment · 13 years ago
This headline is pretty misleading. He just introduced a bill to renew an already existing ban on non-metallic guns and magazines.
Comment · 14 years ago
I wrote some code a little while ago to do something like this (although I wasn't trying to produce Victory Boogie Woogie in particular)[1]. It generates samples from a probability distribution over kd-trees called the Mondrian Process [2]
[1] http://whatididonthetrain.blogspot.com/2011/02/mondrian-was-...
[2] http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~teh/research/npbayes/RoyTeh2009a....
Comment · 14 years ago
However the driver lives in New Jersey, where only 10% of the power comes from coal (as of 2005). There, I find that it is only 0.713 lbs of CO2 per kwh, so he'd only be releasing about 1.5 tons of CO2.
CO2 data from here: http://www.miloslick.com/EnergyLogger_files/State_Electricit...
Comment · 14 years ago
Regardless of what they paid, its already been spent and its likely that Facebook did not see much of that anyway. Even if they were to move to another social network out of spite they'd still have to pay that acquisition cost again and more since that network will be much smaller making it harder to drive more likes/follows/whatevers there.
Comment · 14 years ago
Is it just me or does $3000 seem like a really cheap price for the Dallas Mavericks to reach 1M+ fans? Would it make any significant difference to their marketing budget if the price were cut to $1000 or doubled to $6000?
Comment · 14 years ago
I'm not really sure that this explains it at all. For one, there are sites similar to isitruby19.com - such as onpython3yet.com. What seems more likely to me is that python 3 was not as compelling of an upgrade until recently since a lot of stuff was back ported to 2.7. I don't know as much about ruby 1.9, but it is also seems possible that python 3 was simply more disruptive of a change.
Comment · 14 years ago
Somewhat off the beaten path for this site I know, but the process seemed oddly similar to software development to me as well as simply amazing that you can create something that polished from dirt.