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Re:The Raising of Chicago on Thursday August 29, 2013 @04:27PM (#6298411)
The 1885 cholera epidemic is a widely told myth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_1885_cholera_epidemic_m...
Re:Ask HN: How does one create a fake identity? on Sunday July 07, 2013 @10:15PM (#6004728)
So when you are being detained, it is as it was before?
Re:Ask HN: How does one create a fake identity? on Sunday July 07, 2013 @06:01PM (#6003726)
The SCOTUS just ruled that that doesn't work anymore.
Re:Functors, applicatives, and monads in pictures on Sunday May 19, 2013 @01:01PM (#5733484)
People who exclusively use Excel spreadsheets to program is a good example. Most people who use spreadsheets never use functions in a cell whose effect is to change the function or value in another cell.
Re:SpaceX Grasshopper Flies High on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @03:09PM (#5597271)
For all Elon Musk's libertarian rhetoric, he sure disregards it whenever expedient.
Re:SpaceX Grasshopper Flies High on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @02:45PM (#5597122)
The saddest part is that I would have been willing to capitalize SpaceX voluntarily, as an investor. Instead, Elon Musk steals from me through NASA.
Re:Climate science: A sensitive matter on Thursday March 28, 2013 @01:16PM (#5456188)
The only transgenes in use for plant crops are for pest resistance. I don't know if they have anything for growth habits or metabolic engineering. All of that is done with classical breeding, and I might add that recently breeders have been breeding towards less resistance to drought; high response to irrigation and fertilizer means less energy "wasted" as roots leaving more for seeds.