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by barabba 2y ago
I hope you don’t really believe that’s a fair comparison.
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by barabba 3y ago
I strongly disagree with this view. We don’t even know if such material can exist, and the intersected odds of it 1) existing 2) naturally and 3) us stumbling into it in the short term are astronomically low. Not saying space exploration is
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by barabba 4y ago
That's a rather creative expectation to form from that sentence.
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by barabba 4y ago
How so? 1) The stretch in the comment I replied to was referring to calling the area below the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul as belonging to Eurasia. I simply pointed out there is no stretch in there, since it does objectively belong to Eur
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by barabba 4y ago
I don’t see why that would be a stretch at all.
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by barabba 4y ago
The definition of “Middle East” is a rather flexible one, and can definitely include continentally European Turkey. It’s a political concept at least as much as a geographical one.
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by barabba 5y ago
So you're saying that "fat people eat too much" is a statistically inaccurate statement?
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by barabba 6y ago
I haven't suggested anything. What did you mean when you said that "we already know children aren't being affected"?
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by barabba 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunosuppression Non-deliberate immunosuppression can occur in, for example, ataxia–telangiectasia, complement deficiencies, many types of cancer, and certain chronic infections suc
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by barabba 6y ago
Children are susceptible to infection, and long term consequences are not clear.
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by barabba 8y ago
Am I mistaken or there is no support for bookmarks / table of contents in the pdf reader? This makes reading a lot more difficult.
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by barabba 8y ago
conflict of interest?
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by barabba 9y ago
Saving mill I ons! ;)
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by barabba 10y ago
Thanks a lot for the feedback!
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by barabba 10y ago
Can I ask you which model you did buy? I am in the process of doing precisely the same and wondering if their acrylic models are isolating enough. Silicon apparently isolates better but requires more maintenance, makes them more difficult
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by barabba 14y ago
I perceived it more as an "ad hominem" attack to a competitor than as a service to the backers, go figure...
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by barabba 14y ago
Turns out the Arduino guys were well aware of the issue a month ago: http://smartduino.com/arduinotmtrademark-intimated-us-to-clo... . So I guess the unresponsiveness is on their side...
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by barabba 15y ago
First post on HN, but after reading about 50 pages of this book since morning I feel it really deserves a praise. I'm a student working on a metaheuristic focused MSc thesis, and I find this book as an invaluable summary of most methods pre