ursablanco
Because that's what the membrane filters do. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_exchange_membrane http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_conductor Mainly they work on size - small versus really small.
Again, at a guess, it doesn't need to cool the other side - it's not a temperature gradient, it's a concentration gradient. And since the ions are being reacted back to H2 at a brisk rate, it's not a big problem. The more thermal energy you could maintain in the ions the better, because they wouldn't need as much heating once they'd been recycled.
It has a whiff of perpetual motion machine to it. Maxwell's Demon, I think.
The numbers for 'enforceability of contracts' and 'paying taxes' are absurd. Puts the rest of the results in doubt.
If you locate a reputation system that produces better quality or decently filters better quality, please brag about it, I'm sure you'd have a success on your hands.
For another, compare the per capita GDP of Norway, which is higher than the US's and Norwegian health outcomes, which are also better.
I'm left wondering; what about the current situation so appeals to the blogger that they attempt to make it an inevitable outcome of being a really rich country.
My guess - because, when a user goes through the process of evaluating a for-pay app and then deciding that they want to pay for it, they're saving face by not critiquing the app if they decide that it's not what they wanted. If they evaluated it, paid for it, and realized that it was a mistake, they're basically saying "Oops. I'm an idiot and I just wasted five bucks."
"The last data point, annotated with text and a dot tells the reader the value, allowing them to intuitively set the scale for the rest of the graph."
If the HTTP return codes is the killer application for sparklines, I couldn't say. I'd have to wonder, though, if this were a mission critical issue: Would you do the same thing?
My guess is that this caused by internal reflections in a slew of similarly sized water droplets. Much like a rainbow, except that this is backlit.