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by 08-15 5y ago
> Doctors know about Vitamin D. Don't be so sure about that. When I first heard about the connection of D3 with the immune system, I asked a friend, who happens to be a cardiologist, about it. He said vitamin D prevents rickets, t
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by 08-15 5y ago
Nope, because according to me, if you're fat, it's because because you like sugar more than being slim, and if you're not vaccinated, it's because you can't do simple math. Looking forward to statistics supporting y
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by 08-15 5y ago
You may be confused. At least here in Germany, we (mostly) implement 2G: "Geimpft oder genesen." -- vaccinated or recovered. (Depending on context, "getestet", meaning tested negatively, is also fine.) So no, "na
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by 08-15 5y ago
Indeed. That's why helmets are mandatory for motorcyclists. Helmets are to motorcycles as vaccines are to COVID. Neither guarantees that you don't die or need intensive care, but both reduce the likelihood.
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> Stigmatising obese people, people who drink alcohol, people who do extreme sports, people who have children late in life. Where does it end? You sound as if you live in a weird parallel universe where we don't stigmatise those p
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You are obviously an NF temperament, most probably the ENFP personality type. Extraversion/Introversion is the first distinction of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. I find it remarkable that exactly the people who get incensed at the
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by 08-15 5y ago
Not at the behest of The People? What a weird court. But more importantly, "to seize" means to "take possession", doesn't it? And you need a license to possess a teletherapy machine, for the very good reason that
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by 08-15 5y ago
From https://web.archive.org/web/20140503013539/http://noticias.j... by way of Google translation: "Meanwhile, the ownership of the clinic's assets was being discussed in court, and the cobalt
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by 08-15 5y ago
Meanwhile, Rachel posted an update. Apparently, the whole section about how "the system got reworked" doesn't describe the proper solution, but her own (Rookie Rachel's) attempt to fix it. And in that context, everyth
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by 08-15 5y ago
In this blog post, senior engineer Rachel talks nonsense about normalization and promotes a bafflingly complicated solution as superior to a simple one, without identifying the actual fix, which appears to have happened accidentally. In oth
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I must be missing something, but the "solution" with the 3NF and five separate tables with their own indices seems artificial and like pointless overengineering. Isn't this solved by a single index? Or maybe a relational DB
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Or maybe not. It was Navy training that destroyed TMI-2. Instead of worrying about the loss off coolant, the operators worried about the reactor "going solid", which is slang for "no steam bubble is left in the primary coola
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In April of 1986, the operators of a nuclear power plant turned of the coolant flow to their reactor under full power, just to see what would happen. Nothing happened. The reactor just sat there peacefully doing nothing, because it was a f
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by 08-15 5y ago
If Betamax is so much better than VHS, why is VHS a market success and Betamax a failure?
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by 08-15 5y ago
This might surprise you, but Haskell can do IO. It even has a name. It's called "IO". Shocking, I know. (IO happens to be a monad, which I'm sure someone will point out soon, but that's not important right now.)
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by 08-15 5y ago
"For CD [control diet], the source of carbohydrate included corn starch, sucrose and maltodextrin. In contrast, the HFCS-MFD contained HFCS as the primary source of carbohydrate at a level of 26% of the diet by weight. The HFCS-MFD als
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Very important document. Thank you and your friend "from the West" for making and preserving it!
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It might be because managers talk all the time while saying nothing. So nobody really listens anymore. It was certainly true in most meetings I experienced.
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> Fossil fuels have one of the highest energy densities What? The energy density of primordial fuels is six orders of magnitude higher!
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And all that greed, corruption, corner-cutting resulted in two major accidents, which killed fewer than 60 people in total. What a condemning track record! One of these accidents happened in the Soviet Union, in a reactor type that could n
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> People will either pay more or save money by changing their lifestyle to match the weather and seasons. Absolutely. People will soon adapt to Renewables by heating their homes only in summer, when electricity is cheap, and not in wint
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Wait, what? Coal plants operate with an upper temperature of under 600C, and they approach 40% efficiency. Why do you say it's only 20%? Either way, it sounds as if a coal plant without the furnace wouldn't be able to compete wi
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by 08-15 5y ago
How come? Conventional electricity plants also convert heat to electricity. That doesn't sound fundamentally different from your business. Was your input temperature too low? That would explain it. At low temperature differential,
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Your first question has a simple answer: by law. New nuclear plants haven't been licensed in Germany in, like, forever. Currently, the law explicitly states that no new nuclear power plants will be licensed. How they got the operato
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> I do believe we should have built more nuclear plants 20 or 30 years ago Would you like to know why we didn't? Because climate activists told us 20 years ago that - [a nuclear power plant] takes 30 years or more to build one - [a
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I didn't completely get it, but it sure sounds scary. Probably because I don't know what happened at Harrisburg. Did people die there?
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> it takes millions of years for plants to do it Silicate minerals can do it in thousands of years, and much faster with some human assistance.
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Unfortunately, every device that has Signal installed, also has a root kit installed: the play store. If I use PGP-encrypted mail, I have to trust that the receiver is not stupid. If I use Signal, I have to trust that Google is not evil.
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I don't get it, what bomb program? The Haigerloch machine is obviously a power reactor, similar to the more modern CANDU line.
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by 08-15 5y ago
So you're not actually parsing CSV and your comment was off-topic. Thank you for the clarification.

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