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Why Education Startups Do Not Succeed « Avichal's Blog - http://avichal.wordpress.com/2011...
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This is good.
- Tudor Bosman
Define "succeed"? Is it being bought out by larger places?
- Prolific Programmer
" The non-college educated person in Kansas probably won’t have a great life and a secure retirement without an education. But they, their children, and their parents probably won’t die hungry and homeless on the streets of Topeka." Rob recently told me that unemployment for people with Bachelor's degrees is about 4% while the average is 9%.Education for the "masses" will have to change if what there is for the masses to do changes.
- Clare Dibble
Clare: I'd bet that many of those extra 5% of unemployed people without degrees are not likely qualified to get a college education, or necessarily many jobs either.
- Gabe
Some days I feel it's futile to be discerning about antibiotics, since whatever I prescribe is completely dwarfed by agribusiness.
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I'm lost!!??
Sabri E. Sabancı, strangelittlegirl, Rodfather and 45 other people liked this
elem tere fiş kem gözlere şiş!
- grizabella
caught in a landslide, no escape from re-ali-tea. olmuyur.
- znpzsy
fanta kutusu gorunmeseymis daha iyi olurmus
- clara glass
ne yani yarın fanta da mı bedava du hemen bunun da çıktısını alimmm..
- -Limon-
beynimizin %90 da fantaymış zaten :///
- segah
Bu ne ya Fanta içen mi kaldı ?
- Pelin
benim anam hala elma kompostosu yapıyo..-acaba ben yırttım mı-
- -Limon-
ahaha pelin, konuya pek gercekci, pek dry bi ucan tekme attin :)
- grizabella
içiyom ben yaaaee
- Asli G.
yaaa bak, varmis iste icen.
- grizabella
pelin kızar diye gizli gizli içiyorum :P
- Asli G.
pelin de arada gizli gizli iciyor aslinda, biliyorum. itiraf et pelin!
- grizabella
fanta gözükünce olmamış sanki.
- Laleña
meyveli gazoz O-o
- Akasya
@ lalena clara da begenmemis fanta goruntusunu. bence tehditkar bi hava katmis, kotu olmamis. ahaha ya da aklima "ah belinda"daki dev sampuan sisesini getirdigi icin bana tehditkar geldi :)
- grizabella
ahah, evet sen bağı kurmuşsun. en azından üzerinde fanta yazmasaymış bence, form aynı kalabilirmiş. ha bir de charlie after dentist di mi bu? hehe.
- Laleña
fanta bana mega boy cekirdek poseti cagristiriyor. *fethullahci sitayla*. su gorsel cok daha fantastik olabilirdi. :'m soran da yoktu ama icimde kanser olacagina disimda konser olsun dedim, soyledim.
- znpzsy
yeeaaa canim tuzlu cekirdek istedi senin yuzunden! :)
- grizabella
bende var gel. hoho.
- Laleña
tuzlu cekirdek: tum bakkallarda. ('90larin basinda boston'da yasarkene cekirdegin kus yemi diye satildigini gorup dertlenmistik. ermeni kardeslerimiz tuzlusunu satiyordu, fakat tukkani bulana kadar koca amerika gozume bir mahrumiyet bolgesi gibi gorunduydu)
- znpzsy
uuu guzel olmus :)
- hybridus
Ya tamam ben aslında severim Fanta'yı ehehuehue
- Pelin
up!
- grizabella
çok salakmış bu! ahahaha
- deniztan
çok sinir bozucu evet :) the science of sleep miydi neydi bir film vardi, onu animsatiyor bana.
- grizabella
çoğ iyi çoğ güzel
- Tuğrul Peker
Going Godless: Does Secularism Make People More Ethical? - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International - http://www.spiegel.de/interna...
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Google Groups stopped indexing Usenet newsgroups a week ago, and barely anyone noticed - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r...
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There Will Be No Files In The Cloud - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r...
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NoSQL is a Premature Optimization - http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2011...
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Display your Profile Picture in Google next to all your Blog Articles - http://www.labnol.org/interne...
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I smell Wordpress plugins coming...
- Jean-Marc Liotier
Look at this Fibonacci spiral. Look at it!
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waoow!
- Çağrı ¬
This is turning me on.
- Mike Nayyar
nice!
- .LAG liked that
:D
- AJ Batac :)
hhahhahah
- Kerem Co
bu kutular fibonacci değil yav göz var nizam var
- Serpico
Can someone translate?
- AJ Batac :)
This is what the boring math teachers need to use in their presentations.
- Josh Haley
Damn words getting in the way
- SteVe C
I'm honestly impressed.
- <3Heather<3
Is there supposed to be a surfer in this image, too????
- CarlC
Nice curve!
- Siddharth Deb
Dirty Energy Money | Oil Change International - http://oilmoney.priceofoil.org
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The Dirty Energy Money Campaign aims to end all government handouts to oil, coal and gas companies and persuade our elected representatives to reject campaign contributions from these Dirty Energy industries.
- Iphigenie
Sept mythes sur les bidonvilles - http://owni.fr/2011...
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For the English speaking, this article is a translation of http://dissidentvoice.org/2010...
- Jean-Marc Liotier
The main thesis of this article revolves around the government having abdicated its responsibilities towards the poor, among other things by failing to let urban planning take their social contribution into account. It seems very plausible to me, but I would love to see some numbers and example to support this hypothesis.
- Jean-Marc Liotier
english list of the same points http://dissidentvoice.org/2010...
- Iphigenie
(and yes, more references to the basis for these would be good. since the list started with http://www.stwr.org/ perhaps some can be dug up there, will look
- Iphigenie
(one must also not forget that urban slums were originally purposefully made to happen, part of a movement that needed to force people who could make a decent subsistence living part time on the land into urban centres as workers for a growing industrial revolution)
- Iphigenie
Wiping old hard drives: Jaz disks didn't lose any data in 15 years.
Jean-Marc Liotier, Cristal Blue Persuasion, TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC and Iphigenie liked this
how about some more? 50? 500?
- A. T.
Impressive! I haven't had such luck with my zip disks. :(
- TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC
I just found a stack of 15 CDs that have all of my backed-up data from 1996-2001. Funny to think that only takes up 9 gigs now. Let's see how many of the discs are readable.
- Kevin Fox
No such luck with stale CD-R from the mid to late nineties...
- Jean-Marc Liotier
Piwigo is a photo gallery software for the web | piwigo.org - http://piwigo.org
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Piwigo is a photo gallery software for the web, built by an active community of users and developers. Extensions make Piwigo easily customizable. Icing on the cake, Piwigo is free and opensource.
- Iphigenie
Interesting... I'm considering migration from Gallery 2 to Gallery 3 - Piwigo might be an alternative to consider.
- Jean-Marc Liotier
Seems to have nice features but I havent tried it (yet)
- Iphigenie
seems alive, an update has appeared in freshmeat yesterday
- Iphigenie
What's sad is that people are using the Fukushima accidents to try to curb the building of new plants. What we need to realize is that we need nuclear energy in our efforts to reduce our dependence on hydrocarbons and that if we don't build new plants using much safer designs we too could be looking at this level of catastrophe in this country...
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Since we have around 24 plants that are of the exact same design as the Fukushima plants. They need to be replaced with newer models ASAP.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Yep.
- Spencer
I'd just like to throw this out there. No private industry will take on the responsibility of a new plant without the full guarantee of the government. That means all this talk of safety is a little suspect. There is no safe energy source.
- Eric
True, but some sources are safer than others.
- Victor Ganata
They won't do it because it's a long uphill battle costing billions of dollars just to get a plant built, if you can even get one built. Even if I had 50 billion in the bank I probably wouldn't want to go through the hassle of building a nuclear power plant and how many entities out there have the cash necessary to build new plants? So no, the talk of safety isn't suspect. Corporations don't really care about safety, what they care about is profit and if the profits aren't there they won't build.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
What rarely gets mentioned, at least here on FF, is conserving energy. Americans are incredibly wasteful with energy resources. But better that people in other places deal with pollution and radioactivity than that we give up our god-given right to leave the TV on when we're asleep or have lights on in every room of the house when we're only in one room.
- Spidra Webster
IMHO, The economic problem is not necessarily the actual cost of guarantee but the perceived cost of potential liability and government interference. Companies don't want to build a plant if the government will force them to shut it down before the bonds are paid off over something stupid and insurers don't want to deal with a raft of people suing because their life sucks and they might have gotten one thousandth of a banana-equivalent-dose.
- Wirehead
Also, my gut feel is that it's not really a problem with the BWR design, merely some details that weren't quite attended to properly in terms of standby power and stuff.
- Wirehead
Conservation only gets you so far. Even if we conserve 20% energy per person, that doesn't help much if the population grows 50%.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I disagree there, Wirehead. If it was a more modern design with passive cooling systems there wouldn't have been a problem at all in this instance.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Or insurance companies just don't want to pay up tons of money when something disastrous *does* occur. (I wonder how the liability issue will play out in Fukushima)
- Victor Ganata
Alex, Americans aren't really trying to conserve unless someone gives them strong monetary incentive to do so. They don't care that there are reasons other than monetary to be conserving. Plus, the planet really can't handle a 50% population growth of humans. We need to learn to live within our means.
- Spidra Webster
Thing is, Alex, the reactors would likely have survived the beyond-design-spec earthquake much better had there been reserve power. Even if it was just a matter of putting the diesel generators on stilts or something. That can be done in a year or less. Can't crank out 24 new reactors in a year or less, no matter how fast you try.
- Wirehead
The only way to effectively conserve resources is to limit population growth.
- Jemm
Alex- population growth doesn't go up faster when we conserve energy. Conserving energy will be a benefit no matter the population growth. Everyone seems to know the general concept behind how small the US population is but the extreme amount of energy and resource we use. Not many people seem to care.
- <3Heather<3
I'm thinking about the number of lives lost because of our dependence on oil. Don't get me started on the invasion of Iraq.
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
I mean, yeah, I've always been a fan of the IFR design since grade school, but I've been working on large projects long enough to know that sometimes it's better to tweak what's already in production that has worked pretty damn well.
- Wirehead
It's not that population growth goes faster when we conserve, the point is that conservation alone doesn't deal with power generation needs of a growing society. And expecting our society to willingly slow down growth is a non-starter. It's just not happening.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Alex. The designs at Fukushima were touted as being safer at the time. And each time something happens to test that theory
- Melanie Reed
They were safer at the time, but those designs are now 40 years old. They could have been built like Chernobyl, you know. And then we'd be looking at a real disaster.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Somehow economies managed to grow before the advent of electricity. But if people are too selfish to get serious about conservation, then I expect the species will get what it deserves. Honestly, it's probably going to go that way anyway given the way our last century of shenanigans has kicked off the greenhouse effect.
- Spidra Webster
Spidra is correct. Economies did grow before electricity. We do use way too much. And that's a lot of what's behind this idea that we have to have so much power...and , ahem, do it cheaply. If Greed is running your system (and it is) it is always going to be pushed to the price the market will bear. Resources become scarce through both over use and created belief.
- Melanie Reed
What about the forests of Europe that were cut down to fuel growth so fast that we were rescued from collapse by coal? No, our history as civilized humans is a story of switching from one source of limited energy to another to fuel growth. It is only recently that we had the ability to ask if it was necessary to expand quite so quickly and to do so in a way that reduces our need to find something more efficient to draw energy from.
- Wirehead
Nuclear power isn't practical though Alex. Saul Griffith (http://greeneconomypost.com/green-e...) - "Just to supply one-quarter of its current energy mix from a resource that emits far fewer greenhouse gases — nuclear power — the U.S. would need to build 1,000 one-gigawatt nuclear reactors by 2050. Yet construction has begun on only two nuclear reactors in the...
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- Todd Hoff
That's a nice article, but I disagree with your assertion that it means nuclear power isn't practical. I don't even see the author really saying it's impossible, especially given how the US has scaled up so well in the past. To me, that sounds like the proclamations that building more than 1,000 computers would be extremely involved. And that maybe it's better to have more railroads and less trucks instead of trying to replace long-haul semi trucks with electric trucks.
- Wirehead
Sorry, this was the article I really meant to point to: Giant Holes in the Ground - http://www.technologyreview.com/energy.... Here's a non paywall version: http://www.nuclearcounterfeit.com/.... On a life cycle basis it's not cost competitive. If you are against government subsidies this is just a pure corporate money grab (http://www.technologyreview.com/blog... -...
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- Todd Hoff
Yep, like I said elsewhere, it doesn't come down to which source is cleaner or more safe, it comes down to which is cheaper. But those costs don't factor in damage done to environment or to human lives.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
One infinitely cheap and infinitely deadly energy source coming up Alex :-) I think a balance and mix is probably a good idea.
- Todd Hoff
When you find an infinitely cheap and infinitely deadly energy source, let me know.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Burning humans for fuel :P
- Kevin L
Yuck :( That would smell.. I like the idea of forced conservation of energy like my hybrid car.. I try to drive less, but the driving that I do is stored in the battery to be used by the car :)
- agirlnamedxine
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We are also close to an algae produced biodiesel which can be used in used in current infrastructure that burns cleaner and the algae can use the CO2 produced
- agirlnamedxine
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Can I offer an alternative to my earlier point: Maybe, just maybe, the movement towards building the plants "ASAP" should be curbed so careful observation can be made... I mean, building one on the ocean side of an island, right on the shore, 150-200 km or so from a marjor fault line... Yeah it may be 'safe' but maybe more work has to be done in 'where' as well as 'what'
- Johnny
We've already done that, Johnny. See "shoreham Nuclear power plant" on Long island - cost a mint to put up, then they realized, should anything go wrong, there's no escape route since it's at the juncture of Long island and New York/mainland US. It's been sitting there for decades. Also: I wouldnt trust apolitician to make that decision here in the S. have you SEEN the farce of representatives we have?
- ωαřмaiden ☆TeamOtto☆
Johnny, I think the where is why we haven't been able to build any new plants in a very long time. Needs to be on a body of water which usually means near civilization and the NIMBYs show up, for better or for worse.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Why is it framed as hydrocarbons vs nukes? There are several other methods to generate power - wind, tides, geothermal, small hydroelectric, big hydro, and solar.
- Andrew C (✓)
Because none of the other alternatives, even when used holistically, can fill our needs. We need nuclear in the mix.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Dispatch reliability, mostly. wind, tides, and solar all don't work 24/7. And there are only so many useful hydro and geothermal sites.
- Wirehead
"There is no safe energy source" is pure BS. 18% of our utility's power comes from renewable sources, most of them absolutely safe (OK, I suppose a set of solar panels could fall on you in an earthquake)... And, you know, Californians have been reducing per-cap energy usage for years. Realistically, though, need a mix--which probably includes nuclear. BUT we also need a lot more renewable/non-nuke.
- Walt Crawford
The chemical processes used to manufacture solar panels are not entirely benign. And because you need so much surface area, it can completely disrupt ecosystems. That's what the fight over the Mojave Desert solar facility is about. Everything has an environmental impact.
- Victor Ganata
Almost everything of an industrial and technological production does. Agreed, Victor. It's been a subject of many science fiction stories where whole cultures have decided to forgo these types of lifestyle solutions. But generally they only decide to do it when brought almost to the point of extinction.
- Melanie Reed
It's not pure BS, Walt, but I agree that we need to use all clean technologies at our disposal and need to do a lot more research in to alternatives in order to combat the problem.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
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OK: Impure BS. Sure, Victor: *existing* has environmental impact. If you tell me my thin-film 100% recyclable rooftop solar panels are environmentally disruptive, I'm not sure how I'd respond. And I do agree with Alex: We need nuclear in the mix.
- Walt Crawford
Ok, 24 plants at 2011 list prices.... whos got a calculator?
- Roberto Bonini
It gets cheaper in bulk. The thing that makes nuclear reactors, rockets, and a few other pieces of our future expensive isn't that shaping a giant piece of steel into a reactor core or a giant piece of aluminum into a rocket isn't that you are using elaborate amounts of material, it's that nobody wants to order a 24 pack of identical nuclear reactors with options for bunches more.
- Wirehead
Very little the government buys fits in that category these days.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Well, the F-35's and F-22's are great examples, actually. They were sold at a particular per-plane unit price with a given order size. The assembly line is built under the assumption that they will build planes at a given rate for a given amount of time. And then the government cuts the order size or reduces the rate, which then causes the per-plane unit price to shoot up. Furthermore, it shoots up even higher than what they'd pay if they'd just made a smaller, slower order in the first place.
- Wirehead
"They were safer at the time..." No they weren't....https://www.nytimes.com/2011...
- ovigia
My concern is about what we do with the nuclear waste. There doesn't seem to be a solution and that's (obviously) way more likely than an accident.
- amygeek
There is a solution, amygeek. It's just illegal in the US. Recover excess fissionables from the waste with today's technology, the remaining crap is dangerous for a few centuries before it's less radioactive than the ore from which it came. Run the remaining crap through an accelerated reactor (which is, honestly, tomorrow's technology, although it's looking practical) and you are talking about decades, not centuries.
- Wirehead
There are two points that need to be made: First, reprocessed reactor fuel has too much Plutonium-240 to be used for nuclear weaponry. Second, science class teaches you the fact of what a half-life is, but not what it means. The stuff that's really really radioactive and scary that makes reactor fuel not safe for the kitchen has a short half-life. The stuff that's barely radioactive has a long half-life. There are no long-half-life substances that are also radioactive.
- Wirehead
by 'really scary', do you mean "dead in a day" or "cancer in 5-10 years"?
- Andrew C (✓)
An atom decays by emitting a radioactive particle. The more likely it is to emit that particle, the more radiation a chunk of it will emit, therefore the shorter the half-life. "Dead in a day" has a shorter half-life than "cancer in 5-10 years", assuming similar quantities. It would take a lot of U-238 to be harmful because it has a very very long half-life. A small amount of I-131 is going to be really harmful, but it's also going to be mostly gone in weeks.
- Wirehead
Are you sure that reprocessing is illegal in the US? I read that there are plants being built here to do just that.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
The thing with iodine-131 (and to a lesser extent, cesium-137) is that it can get incorporated into the body and can actually be concentrated. It's temporary (their pharmacokinetic half-lives are only a few days) but it is long enough to cause damage.
- Victor Ganata
True, Victor. Nontheless, I'm not keen on sitting near iodine-131 or cesium-137, even if carefully prevented from ingestion. Whereas, I own some pieces of uranium glass. Alex, unless you know something I don't, Carter banned reprocessing and nobody has un-banned it.
- Wirehead
Can you find a link regarding him doing that? There was no mention of it on Wikipedia, but my dad has told me the same thing.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Ban was lifted by Reagan.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
My impression was that the reason the U.S. didn't restart reprocessing was, again, cost. Private companies didn't think it would be worth it, and so the domestic tech has really languished, and no one is particularly excited about the idea of outsourcing it http://www.fas.org/sgp...
- Victor Ganata
Let me summarize what we've concluded so far: WE'RE SCREWED (sorry that's just my American optimism talking).
- Micah
Essentially, if we want nuclear power with a decent margin of safety, the government has to subsidize it. I think that's a non-starter for a lot of people who espouse a certain ideology.
- Victor Ganata
except all the other energy systems also get subsidised - directly and indirectly
- Iphigenie
Massive Honeycombed Skyscraper Flat Tower Arches Over Green Space | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World - http://inhabitat.com/flat-to...
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"Proposed for the city of Rennes, France, the gargantuan inhabited dome placed second in this year’s eVolo skyscraper competition. Designed by Yoann Mescam, Paul-Eric Schirr-Bonnans, and Xavier Schirr-Bonnans, Flat Tower envelops a vast green space, has the ability to collect sun and rainwater and is also a sustainable solution to developing appropriately large scale developments."
- chaz2b
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Wide Urban World: Addis Ababa in 1900: A “collection of villages” that was capital of an empire - http://wideurbanworld.blogspot.com/2011...
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"At the end of the nineteenth century, Addis Ababa was a city of 100,000 and capital of a large empire. Emperor Menelik II was one of the most powerful rulers in the world. He had defeated the Italian army, and European diplomats and missionaries were beating a path to his door to win favor and make deals."
- Maitani
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"Aren’t imperial capitals supposed to be large imposing cities with huge stone monuments? Think of ancient Rome or Beijing or Tenochtitlan. If the idea that a low-density settlement in the jungle—without big stone buildings—could be a powerful capital sounds incongruous, it is because of two western biases. First, a century ago many people thought that “natives” in tropical areas of the...
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- Maitani
This is a really good blog. It's showed up in my 'Research Blogging" feed a few times, but I think I'll start to follow it.
- Eivind
I agree. It is definitely worth following. :-)
- Maitani
The True Size of Africa by Kai Krause - Scaled (49%) (infographic) - http://static02.mediaite.com/geekosy...
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'Tis big, indeed.
- Eivind
Fwd: A rare natural phenomenon turns one of Austria’s most beautiful... - http://flipside.scribkin.com/post... (via http://friendfeed.com/eng1ne...)
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"A rare natural phenomenon turns one of Austria’s most beautiful hiking trails into a 10 meter-deep lake, for half the year. Located at the foot of the Hochschwab Mountains, in Tragoess, Styria, Green Lake is one of the most bizarre natural phenomena in the world. During the cold winter months, this place is almost completely dry, and used as a country park where hikers love to come and spend some time away from urban chaos. But as soon as temperatures rise, the snow and ice covering the mountaintops begin to melt, and the water pours down, filling the basin below with crystal-clear water. Water levels go from one-two meters at most, to over 10 meters, in the early summer. The waters of Green Lake are highest in June, when this extraordinary place is invaded by divers, curious to see what a mountain park looks like underwater. Fish swimming over wooden benches, a grass-covered bottom, trees, roads, roads and even bridges create a surreal setting that feels like it belongs on dry ground. That’s because for half of the year, that’s exactly where it’s at."
- Eivind
8 Cooking Oil Facts Everyone Must Be Aware Of | Small Bites - http://smallbites.andybellatti.com/...
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Tags: cooking food
- Iphigenie
Smile! - http://bitsandpieces.us/2011...
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- ؛ patrick
Heee!!
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
Those beautiful teeth :))
- ؛ patrick
oh my
- just ZONED
Hallelujah! :p
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iki feed'de hallelujah demişken (ve search'un calismasinin da serefine!), sana da up!
- grizabella
Trinity!
- Eivind
yep, the most holy!
- grizabella
Depends on who you ask. I hear he's ranked about 3rd in holiness in your neck of the woods :)
- Eivind
well...yeah...ok i confess he actually comes after baalzebub and nosferatu :)
- grizabella
Baalzebub was a pleasant deity. Unfortunately he never recovered from the trashing he got in the Bible :/
- Eivind
luckily the enlightened and compassionate few of us like you and myself keep a dear place for him in our hearts :P
- grizabella
"It's a god-eat-god world." -Terry Pratchett :)
- Eivind
Pharma: Tamed But Still A Big Beast - http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2011...
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Neo4j Blog: Social networks in the database: using a graph database - http://blog.neo4j.org/2009...
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What is actually the root cause of the differences between relational databases and graph databases outlined in this article? It lies in a fundamental difference in design of the underlying data models. The relational model is based on the assumption that database records are what primarily matters while relationships between records come second place. Graph databases instead assume that the relationships are as important as the records. This difference has numerous consequences for ease of use as well as for performance. A table-based system makes a good fit for static and simple data structures, while a graph-based fits complex and dynamic data better. What actually matters in your data? Think about it!
- Meryn Stol
You Should Date An Illiterate Girl « Thought Catalog - http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011...
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Part 1. Click through to read Part 2, where he explains what happens when the girl actually reads. :-)
- Piaw Na
The Future Of Java - http://blogs.forrester.com/john_r_...
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How is it inefficient for a museum to only display 10-15% of their collections? it would be stupid to have buildings to display it all!
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of course the government wants to imply that the museums dont need to keep what they dont show. It shows an incredible ignorance at the purpose of museums - keep, archive, organise, research are all part of it as well as share and show!
- Iphigenie
The unsaid hint is that museums can finance themselves if they would only sell some of their stuff... shameful! stupid! and obviously, only works while you have stuff to sell, so not sustainable.
- Iphigenie
It would also be impossible to see everything. It already takes a long time to visit some museums.
- Richard A.
Re: Building Better Social Graphs - http://www.disqus.com/people...
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"The problem with this idea is context or the need for metadata. Keeping track of your network in each group is simple, but each network has a different purpose and that purpose could be different based on the person creating the network. For example, I use Facebook mainly for personal contacts, but other people use it for business. I use LinkedIn for business, and Twitter is a mix of business and personal. Each contact in each network has specific context (or metadata) that makes that connection mean something. For people, that context is implicit but for an application the context needs to be built and managed explicitly. I would love to have something like this as well, but with the number of network-enabled services, even the development becomes difficult. Also, how does this fit with the idea of a single digital identity that is shared across all of these services?"
- Rob Diana
Stuxnet is embarrassing, not amazing - http://rdist.root.org/2011...
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