coriny

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by coriny 9mo ago
Your maths doesn't seem right. You can estimate mutation rates very easily, and you don't end up at crazy numbers. The sequence space explored by evolution is tiny compared to the possibilities and closely interlinked. A simple ex
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by coriny 9mo ago
Could be Reagan as well.
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by coriny 9mo ago
The EU, like almost every democracy ever, is a "representative democracy": > Representative democracy is a system where citizens vote for officials (representatives) to make laws and political decisions on their behalf, rather
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by coriny 10mo ago
It was possible to obtain them in Edinburgh 25 years ago, but it was rare. It was more of a meme than a popular choice, based around the Scottish love of deep frying absolutely everything.
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by coriny 10mo ago
I recommend scrolling to the next article about the giant AI-generated Christmas image/Lovecraft Eldritch horror on a shopping centre in Kingston (London). It is glorious.
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by coriny 1y ago
> This cast doubt on the long-established view that life was made possible when organisms started producing oxygen via photosynthesis, which requires sunlight, about 2.7 billion years ago. So ... life began because it started producing o
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by coriny 2y ago
Botswana is well in the top half of least-corrupt countries. I suspect you know nothing about Ukraine or Botswana.
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by coriny 2y ago
Shutting down and starting up again can draw more power than sleeping/other low power mode. e.g. airplane mode on a phone is probably better than turning the device off for the night. Old dumb phones used to sip power when switched off
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by coriny 2y ago
There is a biannual structural prediction contest called CASP [1], in which a set of newly determined structures is used to benchmark the prediction methods. Some of these structures will be "novel", and so can be used to estimate
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by coriny 3y ago
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by coriny 3y ago
Not quite sure what you mean by "mind manifestation"? MDMA has significant impacts on your emotional and mental state, and also causes strong audiovisual hallucinations, disorientation and loss of self. What extra experiential eff
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by coriny 3y ago
Ketamine is a psychedelic, just not a "classical" one that operates the same receptors as LSD/mushrooms. Or rather, whether or not it is a psychedelic is a semantic argument, and it still makes you hallucinate. MDMA is anothe
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by coriny 4y ago
I don't know if it's still the same, but from Stansted airport you had a choice of taking either the train to Liverpool St or Liverpool Lime St. Fun times for tired travellers.
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by coriny 4y ago
I find rain alarm good enough for this.
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by coriny 4y ago
From over a year ago: https://9to5mac.com/2021/05/10/apple-hires-former-facebook-a...
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by coriny 4y ago
You might have missed this statement in the article: > German authorities were of course also customers of the company Though I don't think that's what the title was implying, I think it means German "nationality" rat
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by coriny 5y ago
They seem pretty good. This summer was a bit of a mystery, but otherwise things have tracked pretty well. <jk> Obviously you can't determine anything without taking into account the estimated/guessed factors (extent of peopl
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by coriny 5y ago
Patches with built-in bugs made it to stable: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YIAta3cRl8mk%2FRkH@unreal/ .
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by coriny 5y ago
I don't know if it was clinically RSI, but I had severe cramps in my forearms, shooting pains and tingling sensations from shoulders to hands for about 6 years. Switching from using MacOS laptops back to Gnome 3 (first an XPS 13, curre
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by coriny 7y ago
Both of those options would take longer and be more effort, but I've only find someone else's cards 3 times in 40 years...
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by coriny 7y ago
Both my accounts I just freeze it in the app, but yes, quite.
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by coriny 7y ago
Um, this is how banking works in the UK. Nobody cancels their bank account if they lose their card, they just cancel their card. And given someone else's card I could send them 1p within a minute (even if it's cancelled). Now I&#x
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by coriny 7y ago
I suspect it's the work of Grant Shapps: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/grant-shapps-... , a known SEO spammer.
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by coriny 7y ago
Chrome plugin by Google: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
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by coriny 8y ago
As far as I'm aware, cars are modified for the UK market and they're not allowed to do this - I think normally a start/stop button is added and an alarm goes off if you get out of the car with it running.
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by coriny 9y ago
Certainly ruthless optimisation of their corporate structure with respect to tax helps contribute to their low prices: http://www.economist.com/node/6919139 . But it's nice to think that it could also be due to gen
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by coriny 10y ago
This may (IANAL) be relevant: http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-trade-secr... . California has laws dealing with the "misappropriation" of trade secrets.
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by coriny 10y ago
I probably should have added more comment, but the point is the "Calorie is a calorie" argument as applied to diet was pretty thoroughly debunked over decade ago. Calorie counting is a poor predictor of weight, while source of cal
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by coriny 10y ago
> "A calorie is a calorie" violates the second law of thermodynamics https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC506782/
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by coriny 10y ago
Loads of people use it for going to/from UK-France as it's generally the cheapest method (both for drivers and passengers).

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