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hexscrews
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Comment #24838204
And so, in 2050, the Nokia Shield Initiative was launched. 500 (american) football field sized Nokia 3310's were put into orbit to protect the earth.
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Comment #21861451
I'm in a weird position of taking both ritalin and celexa. It makes me both anxious and focused.
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Comment #21459966
One of the reasons I've committed to never having children is because there isn't a NEED for more children. We (our species) has a far excess of humans to survive just anything.
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Comment #20793761
Paywalled.
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Comment #20469427
I clicked on the link and closed it after 3 lines. No. JUST no. I will not stand for those columns. You have KILOMETERS of virtual space on a webpage. You are not stuck on a physic…
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Comment #18706946
Gives me a Privacy error on chrome. >. This server could not prove that it is cant.stopdatamining.me; its security certificate is from *.gridserver.com. This may be caused by a mis…
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Comment #18415051
You may also be interested in the field of biological computing ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_computing#Biochemic... ). Since your background covers both biology and c…
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Comment #18358905
I'd say that even if your answer is completely wrong, at least you can document WHY it was wrong. And maybe someone can open up a new vein of inquiry that branches off yours. It re…
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Comment #17919155
Indeed, though mildly predictable. If true, which is yet to be seen, They probably saw the money and thought why should someone else get so much money while they continued to strug…
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Comment #17316561
Wouldn't xenocide be a more apt description? A quick search for genocide gives the definition of: "the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particul…
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Comment #17194129
Literally 30 seconds of searching brought up a IFF transponder that would add 100 g (3.53 oz). Why isn't a state owned drone not equipped as such? (XPC-TR Mode C Transponder)
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Comment #17015329
I'm kind of curious about the person whos mental construct crashed. How long did it take before her mind was able to interpret the math again? Was it a slow boot up or was it insta…
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Comment #16511799
Ok, this is similar to Gridcoin ( https://gridcoin.io/ ) , Golem ( https://cryptoslate.com/coins/golem/ ) , SPARC ( https://sparc.network/ ) , et al. I could keep going, but the po…
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Comment #16208211
There are projects like gridcoin, uscore dot net, that use mining to compute scientific research. It is considering using a Proof Of Research approach.
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Comment #14786181
Replace the word "car" with segway and this article seems like a repeat of claims of entire cities having to be redesigned around this marvelous new invention.
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Comment #14222617
Cellular substrates are just a different kind of machine platform.
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Comment #13861565
Don't copy that floppy!
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Comment #13254818
In some ways, there are. If you consider china's Great Firewall, Tor, I2P, various encrypted spaces. They aren't the "internet" so much as a layer over the internet.
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Comment #12857801
Would like to point out, unless you are running on non-x86 hardware or a tablet, the term pc still applies to linux based hardware.
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Comment #12664325
Not sure if this will help any. http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/msdos.htm I also read about using a CF to IDE adapter. http://www.yqcomputer.com/1118_467_1.htm
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Comment #12034772
It'll be interesting to see what happens when the technology to generate milk from artificial mammary glands becomes a thing. We are already on the path to eliminating the need for…
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Comment #11891356
I'd argue otherwise. The constitution sets out the defining goal of a society. Call it the rule-set for the society as a whole. If you disagree with the defining rules, that is fin…
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Comment #11360202
Perhaps Death has a nut allergy?
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Comment #10810296
I think it was more for the practical research rather than actual use. Human response, movement tests, acceptable noise levels etc. All of that is very valuable in of itself.
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Comment #10765756
If you REALLY, REEEALLLY need the things with you, you could always do something like UPS with signature and insurance. Make the insurance level something like 3x the value of our …