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by BaryonBundle 8y ago
To complicate matters, not all iron should be considered equal per units mass, some forms of iron are considerably more bio-available, and in general the forms provided as supplement on cereals in are on the low end of bio-availability.
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by BaryonBundle 8y ago
I believe this to be a reference to a quote from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
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by BaryonBundle 9y ago
And the previous HN discussion on this exact topic had some good notes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9003898
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by BaryonBundle 9y ago
Angular 4/5 is simply the continuation of Angular 2, so it's more like 2/4/5. The Angular router had been up to a major version 3 so they skipped Angular 3 as a whole in the interest of keeping all of the parts of Angul
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by BaryonBundle 10y ago
Exactly that, though, the placebo effect of interest would only be induced on people who haven't tripped. That aside, and of course accepting that states induced by psilocybin and other substances are unobtainable by any other means, y
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by BaryonBundle 10y ago
This study is attempting to show that psilocybin is effective in treating depression, not effective in inducing a 'trip'. For patients who have never experimented with psychotropics, there may be a placebo effect when they are tol
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by BaryonBundle 10y ago
Since when is grace relevant at all? It's pretty apparent how effective Fox News is, graceful or not.
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by BaryonBundle 11y ago
Evolution doesn't code for just optimal . During the time that we were actually evolving, there existed pressure, for example, to optimize our use of the small amount of food that we had access to, optimizing to be as incospicuous d
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by BaryonBundle 11y ago
As with most renewables (e.g., wind, solar, wave), I would imagine that just because production of energy outpaced its consumption on a given day, the same may not be true on any other given day.
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by BaryonBundle 11y ago
Conkeror is a standalone browser (not to be confused with KDE's Konqueror) I've been using with a similar mission, though I look forward to trying this out and take advantage of FireFox's technologies (debug, pdf.js integrati
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by BaryonBundle 11y ago
This was posted 5 days ago...
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by BaryonBundle 12y ago
Nature is also important in Physics and Astrophysics.
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by BaryonBundle 12y ago
Special effects for Star Wars were through Industrial Light & Magic (associated with Lucasfilm), a part of which was bought off by Steve Jobs as Pixar. Now, both Pixar and all of Lucasfilm are owned by Disney...
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by BaryonBundle 12y ago
From the last page of this forum thread, it looks like the project is currently dead: > i have stopped my work on Previous during the last month. It is unlikely that i will continue development in the future. I'm sorry for the bad n
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by BaryonBundle 12y ago
Many of the normal rules aren't implemented (flips in the air, jumping off of rocks if you click at the right time, etc.).
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by BaryonBundle 12y ago
There is also a similarly titled, much longer (92 pages vs. 29 pages) introduction to tensors by the same author, also hosted by NASA, and released ~3 years later: Foundations of Tensor Analysis for Students of Physics and Engineering With
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by BaryonBundle 12y ago
The Drake Equation[0] is probably the most famous attempt at a "resolution" to the Fermi paradox and I haven't seen any that realistically try to implement a term involving the likelihood that a civilization might colonize ne
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by BaryonBundle 12y ago
It definitely is, and is a powerful tool in the determination of mass for very massive galaxies and galactic clusters. That being said, I don't think this contradicts anything I mentioned in my post -- gravitational lensing doesn'
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by BaryonBundle 12y ago
Neutral hydrogen in space is actually quite readily observed via radio telescopes as the famous spin-flip 21cm line. This signal has been very useful in mapping the distribution of neutral hydrogen within our own galaxy and those of our gal
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by BaryonBundle 12y ago
To start off, nothing about dark matter contradicts GR. All contemporary cosmological models of the Universe, which are constructed from GR, include dark matter. The "surprise" that is attributed to the discovery of dark matter in
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by BaryonBundle 12y ago
Can't get it to work, e.g., for `hn.top_stories()` I get: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "hackernews.py", line 23, in top_stories re
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by BaryonBundle 12y ago
This reminds me of a comment[0] by a math grad student, Chao Xu, who extended markdown documents parsed by pandoc to ennumerate Proofs, Lemmas, etc., leading to blog posts that feel like part of a math text. One starts with a line beginni
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by BaryonBundle 12y ago
You probably mean carbonic acid. Carbolic acid is an organic compound also known as phenol.
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by BaryonBundle 12y ago
Just to add to this, Google recently open sourced the PDF rendering engine in Chrome [1], so I imagine that it'll be included in Chromium soon. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7781878
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by BaryonBundle 12y ago
I feel like the NVIDIA Jetson TK1 would be a better alternative to the odroid products. https://developer.nvidia.com/jetson-tk1
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by BaryonBundle 12y ago
While the 16 Parallella can run with just passive cooling, you still need to ensure proper airflow over the unit. Units have been known to overheat with just passive cooling, and they even advise that you install a fan with the official cas
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by BaryonBundle 13y ago
The quoted example admits that it ignores strong fields and non-relativistic matter, which we have already established to be dealing with. The angular momentum of an element of volume in the neutron star likely contains enough kinetic energ