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NFC can be used for more things than just payments. You could get your monthly bus card sent to your phone instead of needing to carry a separate card. When entering the subway/bus…

>Human biology is not that quick to change. No, but a lot of things with regards to our current expected behaviour of genders is in fact social, not biological. A lot of 18th centu…

It's a blog post, not a research paper. If course it will use anecdotes. Do you have any counter examples to show an exceptional bias in their "hand-picking"?

>But when you see someone for the first time appearances are the first thing you notice... unless you can read minds. Yet when talking to boys, people generally don't say - "Oh, wh…

>"So, when Clojure calls a function, it either already has the instance in its entirety (a lambda) or it finds it by dereferencing a binding. Since all functions are instances that…

>if [a JVM thread] reads a field of an object, and another thread writes to the same field of the same object, then the program will see either the old value, or the new value, but…

An interesting read is "Remembering Satan", about a small community torn apart by accusations of sexual abuse and satanic rituals. Many people confessed, some were convicted, no ev…

On one hand, other Android based phone manufacturers are clearly going to face an uphill struggle if Google are going to release new versions of the OS on their own devices first. …

It was in a rented apartment, so it could soon be someone else's kitchen. Currently he had small amounts of radioactive matter, but what what if had gotten hold of more? Radiation …

I think this happened sometimes during the last 15 years. I was surprised when I came to the US and was exposed to Fox news, I was surprised that they were using the word incorrect…

From studying sediments and vegetation - quite a lot actually.

That is a false dichotomy - lots of people suggest we rely on science and technology, that is not what many people dislike about Lomborg. Well, it is not what I dislike about him a…

>in fact some people claimed that the PS3 had nearly “unlimited power” These people are known as "marketers".

Politicians taking on jobs in industries they regulated: amakudari, "descent from heaven".

It is a powerful speech to be sure, but it also contains some of the things I didn't like about the book and her philosophy. For instance - cultist thinking: >Run for your life fro…

>It does actually have to be so, especially for developing nations like China and India No, it doesn't actually have to be so. Knowledge and technology transfer, more efficient mar…

>claiming that the only possible solution is to pretty much destroy our way of life. That is what many climate warming deniers like to claim will happen. Doesn't have to be so, Swe…

It's part of HTCs Sense weather/clock widget. You can disable the snow/rain/sun lensflare effects in the settings for the widget.

Agreed, but as Aaronontheweb said, take a look at Fallout New Vegas. Several of the people involved with the original Fallouts now work AT Obsidian, and it seems they want to bring…

This article reminded me of something I've thought about - does any game developer use high level languages for AI or core game engine? It seems they all use C/C++ for most everyth…

If you like choice & consequeces kind of RPGs, take a look at Vampire:Bloodlines (available on Steam, install the fan patches), the Witcher, and Obsidian's recently released Alpha …

Right you are jbellis. Had forgotten that Dalvik isn't just a small JVM but a completely different architecture (register based, etc). But anyway, what nimrody suggested is what th…

The handset maker verifies that the update works with their models and customizations, and they makes the new files available to the MNO (Mobile Network Operator). The MNO then dec…

That is basically what JIT is. Why reinvent the wheel when they can use the resources that has been poured into JVM research?