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Comment Re:More likely medical practice, not evolution (Score 1) 277

by SteveOHT on Thursday December 08, 2016 @08:38AM (#53445455) Attached to: Cesarean Births Could Be Affecting Human Evolution, Study Says

I agree it is low growth from the economic view alone. The medical system's tendency to overuse any procedure for ultimately what are financial reasons makes the number seemingly ridiculously low unless somehow "do no harm" kicked in. Nah. It's a mystery to me.

Comment Wishfull thinking for USA (Score 3, Insightful) 347

by SteveOHT on Thursday April 28, 2011 @12:33AM (#35960038) Attached to: China's High-Speed Trains Coming Off the Rails

Where are the stories of wrecks? They don't standout in my memory anyway. Plus, the second link says they have twice the assets as they have debt. Nothing like the 40 dollars of assets to 39 dollars debt plus in the USA sub prime. Are these stories simply "sour grapes" or what?

Cassandra and Voldemort Benchmarked 45

Posted by timothy on Saturday May 08, 2010 @02:02PM from the rifling-the-file-cabinet dept.

kreide33 writes "Key/Value storage systems are gaining in popularity, much because of features such as easy scalability and automatic replication. However, there are several to choose from and performance is an important deciding factor. This article compares the performance of two of the most well-known projects, Cassandra and Voldemort, using several different mixes of access types, and compares both throughput and latency."

Philip K. Dick's Exegesis To Be Published In 2011 82

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 30, 2010 @05:55PM from the that's-a-lot-of-pkd dept.

Dynamoo writes "The NYT reports that a two-part edition of PKD's Exegesis will be published next year. This huge work, a combination of journal and philosophical treatise, has been published in part before, but this is the first time that the whole version will be made generally available."

Nostalgic Elation — the Super Mario Crossover 67

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 30, 2010 @04:28PM from the it'sa-me-megaman dept.

eldavojohn writes "Sure, they're stepping all over proprietary rights and copyright, but something must be said about the amount of bliss-filled nostalgia inside Exploding Rabbit's Super Mario Crossover. If the plumbers never really did it for you, you can now kill those goombas as Link, Mega Man, Samus, Simon Belmont, or Contra's Bill. Goodbye jumping and spitting; hello slicing, whipping, and shooting. Is this one of the early firsts in the new genre of video game mashups?"

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