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Since I am conveniently unable to respond to Mr. Woodchuck's comment below his, I'll make it here. You assume I am a creationist because.... I point out evidence that questions the…

That's the problem with any method used to try and determine information about the distant past: you have to make assumptions about your information-gathering method that may turn …

For those who are interested, physicist John Hartnett has developed a model that does not require dark matter. His work builds on that of Moshe Carmeli, who published "Cosmological…

I do some amateur blacksmithing, and I find the forge to make an excellent steak grill. I live in a wooded area, and use home-made charcoal to forge with instead of coal. With the …

I can't help but wonder where this might leave someone such as myself, who is over 40, but relatively new to professional software development. I've programmed for years as a hobby…

This. The immutable nature of Clojure is what, IMHO, makes it such a better choice than Java for me. I frequently see discussions/debates around type safety on HN, but in my experi…

The changes you refer to are examples of the equivocation I was speaking of. One cannot simply point to "changes" in an organism, micro- or not, call that evolution, and then say i…

I've been trying to sit this one out, but I've got to be blunt with YOU: how can anyone with a "sufficient understanding of the philosophy of science" draw the conclusion that evol…

Yes. This. This is exactly the sort of thing I was thinking...

Does anyone else here ever wonder if some of these "new" dinosaurs are really just re-discoveries of known dinosaurs? The article even mentions that the skeletal remains are incomp…

This. Much of what Paul recounts is what I experienced in school, particularly in Junior High. The problem is, by the time I got to High School, my grades had begun to suffer becau…

I have noticed several comments mentioning prior art as a defense against absurd patents. With the recent passage of the America Invents Act, the United States is now a "first to f…

Reminds me of a "hack" I pulled years ago - I was developing desktop software that needed to retrieve information from a Palm OS application called Ultrasoft Brainforest Deluxe. Th…

Notice also that in major keys, there is only a half-step between the 3rd and the 4th tones, meaning the diminished 4th interval will sound as a major 3rd. The augmented 4th (or di…

I bought a MakerGear M2 in kit form back in August. Because of the complexities of owning and operating a home 3D printer, I actually recommend building from a kit. It will give yo…

So, in essence, they have worked out a way to be paid in stock shares instead of currency?

Got one of these good 'ole birds in the Museum next to Robins AFB in Georgia. They also have the start carts, and even have an engine pulled so you can see the six bypass ducts. Th…

It seems to me the "sphere packing" infill would be subject to the sagging-overhang issues that arise on additive-extrusion devices. And of course, the infill is not a place where …

I think the OP has a point - and its much harder to see when you're a member of the majority. There IS a culture of drinking in the programming profession. And some comments I see …

One lurker here - I, for one, am EXTREMELY interested in CoA, and Clojure in general. I have only worked on a couple of Android apps thus far, but it is already enough for me to wa…

This is a problem I have wrestled with on several occasions and the solution I choose is the lein-localrepo plugin.

I am aware that there are already some programs that are capable of "learning", and you could certainly say that they are selecting the correct paths based on trial-and-error, and …

Mitch Kapor and Kurzweil have a $20,000 bet on whether or not any "machine intelligence" will have passed the Turing Test by 2029. Kurzweil, obviously, is on the "for" side. Kapor'…

I know I'll probably get down-votes for this, but its probably good that there ARE people who would at least question Evolution and the Big Bang. There are significant problems wit…

Sounds cool to me, since I have migrated to xfce as my DE of choice anyway...