Alia’s predicament is akin to most of residents in India’s half a million villages. Where poverty is secular and shows no sign of receding. Like Barigaon, most of India’s villages are entirely sustained by natural resources like land and forest. With 70 per cent of population depending on agriculture and around 400 million people on [...]
Read more →Dr. Thompson peered inside his perfect offspring to gain insight into its methods, but what he found inside was baffling. The plucky chip was utilizing only thirty-seven of its one hundred logic gates, and most of them were arranged in a curious collection of feedback loops. Five individual logic cells were functionally disconnected from the [...]
Read more →It’s just fine. It’s no great meditation upon aging, but people have aged. It’s perhaps not the most inspired of the plots, but it’s not breathtakingly stupid… in short, it works. You’ll enjoy yourself. Go see it.
Read more →Hm. Let’s see, in the event of a global economic crash, whether India or China fare better. The village is rooted in self-sufficiency and food security. The global economy, while efficient in some respects, is incredibly volatile and unstable. To grow dependent on something you cannot hope to control is not wisdom. I think that [...]
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Read more →http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4786216.stm good article! http://www.msrc.sunysb.edu/news/Tanzania.html – more here.
Read more →http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash what’s nice is that you can trim off the end of the hash, to get a less and less precise hash, because it basically represents a quadtree in hash from. Brilliantly simple, and well executed.
Read more →http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0516/p03s03-usmi.html?page=1 I’m still figuring out what I learned at the AFRICOM expo. I had brief discussions on STAR-TIDES with a lot of senior people, but placing infrastructure at the center of “winning the peace” is such a radical shift in perspective from the process-heavy approaches which have been at the core of the US govt. [...]
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Read more →http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-quake22-2008may22,0,3753797.story yep. it’s about like that.
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