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I took the parent comment to be making the assumption that politically attractive options for responding to emissions and climate change tend to be "market-based" solutions or acti…

Link to PDF of policy[1] [1] http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoranda/...

Where x can be any combination of letters of any length?

If the DNA in a seed is still in good enough shape to support blooming after being frozen 30,000 years, perhaps a seed frozen in a meteorite [1] could also survive long enough to b…

Ruby. Rails is the web framework, Ruby is the language and thus the thing that is interpreted.

BST is O(n) in the worst case (when a tree is completely unbalanced and is essentially a linked list)

Mirror via the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20150409042753/http://www.intell...

The video at the "byzantine regulatory framework" link[1] is worth a watch (at least the first 10 minutes to get a taste). One of the most valuable offerings of cloud.gov is (hopef…

Nice explanation at http://grammarist.com/usage/all-but/

His second bind example is incorrect. function handleClick(i) { this.innerHTML = i; } for (i = 0; i In the for loop, the this value refers to the global object. To get the desired …

Not the friendliest program but http://mrale.ph/irhydra/1/ can display all sorts of intermediate representations spit out by v8

You mixed up your definitions of function declaration and function expression. In this case, if the '!' weren't there, it would indeed be a function declaration, but with improper …

r is a model parameter that affects the strength of gravity waves. r=0.2 was much higher than expected. See http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/20mrz4/cosmic_infla...

You're quite correct that cadence is diminished, though that can be mitigated by adding a delay to each word based on its length.

That's what I did with Spree [1] (also posted below). Just a simple word.length*8 seemed to have quite a nice effect on readability. 1. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sp…

Similar to what I did with the chrome extension Spree [1]. Though I find your pauses on periods to be a bit much. Code for Spree available on github [2]. The IIFE in spree.js can a…

If the socket is terminated mid-command (thus emitting 'close'), one would want the process to be killed. Also, the socket doesn't know that no more transmission is required just b…

The getter is wrapped in a try/catch, so the circular reference hits the max call stack size and errors out silently.