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by kale 8y ago
A side effect of this is that the "pure" olive oil is much more stable and has a higher smoke point. Wikipedia lists "Extra Virgin" at 160C and "Refined" up to 243C. So if you're trying to create a non-sti
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by kale 8y ago
I always though sapphire fulfilled the requirements of "transparent aluminium". It's used as a lens material for a lot of phone cameras.
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by kale 8y ago
My understanding is that Lehman Brothers still has a few employees left. Mainly to sort through the mess of paperwork left behind. Here's an article from 2013 where they still had employees working on liquidating the assets. [1]: http
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by kale 9y ago
Without branching (or with limited branching, last I checked it masked and re-ran instead). A core implies both instruction and data operations, rather than SIMD behavior.
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by kale 9y ago
PlayOn desktop works pretty well too. That plus Plex is way more convenient when travelling internationally and in places with poor network access.
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by kale 9y ago
Illinois has had difficulty recently paying lottery winnings to citizens. In 2015, 3900 winning tickets had delayed payouts [0]. Risk should always be factored into financial decisions, and risk of a lottery institution going insolvent is n
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by kale 9y ago
Stainless Steel is a huge class of metals, most (but not all) have nickel in them. Also alloys of cupronickel, coin metal, cobalt chromium, and nitinol all have nickel in them. And certain countries lie constantly about nickel content in me
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by kale 9y ago
From a toxicity standpoint they are safer. Bismuth can be consumed in medicine (Pepto Bismol). I work in toxicology and we are worried about the "big four": lead, cadmium, mercury, and arsenic. These are from the Q3D guidelines on
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by kale 9y ago
My daughter has an Android tablet. For a while it was vanilla Android until I realized she was downloading an app, tapping the initial ad on the app, which lead to another app. Repeat ad nauseam until she couldn't install anything else
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by kale 9y ago
The senate has the filibuster provision to give the minority party the ability to slow down or block legislation. To overcome a filibuster, 3/5* of the senate have to vote to end it. At some point, the senate was afraid of gridlock, so
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by kale 9y ago
Titanium is also a relatively poor conductor of heat. Aluminum conducts heat over 10 times better than Titanium. Use of aluminium would be much better at conducting heat away from the body of the notebook.
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by kale 9y ago
So I'm reading that LASEK still cuts a flap, just a thinner one than LASIK. It also appears to have a longer healing time than LASIK[0]. It does appear to have fewer complications with the flap, since it's a thinner one, and less
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by kale 10y ago
No, Yagis have a single driven element like a dipole, and you have longer elements behind the driven element (reflectors), and shorter elements in front (directors I think?).
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by kale 10y ago
I'm not an expert in the field, but I do annealing work on occasion (simulated annealing, which is kind of like copying polymer annealing). Simulated annealing is just an optimization. I use it for modelling human motion. You have the
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by kale 10y ago
This is the frustrating part to me. I bought a house with a broker I used a lot (flipped abused houses for a few years). He sold the loan to company A, which was great. They sold the loan to company B after a year, and the nightmare started
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by kale 10y ago
I know war and tension have always been part of the modern era, but it does seem like we're going back to cold war levels of tension again. U.S. vs Saudi Arabia. U.S. and Europe vs Russia. India vs Pakistan. North and South Korea (alth
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by kale 10y ago
Breeder reactors run on a different cycle, and allow uranium to capture neutrons and turn into plutonium (spallation). Last time I checked the US had two breeder reactors operational, to make material for nuclear weapons, and one ready but
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by kale 10y ago
Biofilms are nasty stuff. I did part of my master's thesis on them. They group together and communicate with each other (with electrical grids, according to Dr. Costerton, one of the forefront researchers of biofilms before he passed a
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by kale 10y ago
Mathematically, "inside" our stomachs and intestines are "outside" our body. They are also outside of our body by looking at epithelial tissue, which has an inside/outside orientation.
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by kale 10y ago
> Does sleep perform the same function as melatonin? A hormone that allows greater sleep "efficiency" than normal sleep. Melatonin is the hormone that regulates sleep normally. You're taking additional sleep hormone by tak
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by kale 10y ago
Thanks for linking that. I researched melatonin previously and found these same studies. It appears that there's not much of a tolerance effect when taking melatonin. This is unusual, our experience tells us that most drugs have a tole
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by kale 10y ago
Not OP but: High quality mats inside and outside every entrance to the house/apartment. I use a stiff bristle mat outside and a softer/more absorbent mat inside.
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by kale 10y ago
Nothing can prepare you for the "crap I can't do anything spontaneous now" like having children. I recently had to let tickets to a concert go (that I was really looking forward to) because the babysitter had a family emergen
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by kale 10y ago
Can anyone really know what the root of his great performance is? If anyone did, wouldn't they be as successful?
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by kale 10y ago
Bluetooth v4.2 is not yet 2 years old. Bluetooth v5 is coming out in the next couple of years. Bluetooth 4.0 really dropped power requirements for a lot of use cases. It's an adapting standard that's not sitting still by any stret
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by kale 10y ago
The FDA has tiers of regulation. Things like "supplements" are loosely regulated, while "pharmaceuticals" are much more highly regulated. With supplements, the FDA pretty much lets things go until they start causing prob
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by kale 10y ago
In addition to newer regulations aimed at exclusion. After a burst of new development of upper-middle-class homes in my town, the new residents voted in a new mayor and aldermen, and the new leadership passed a law preventing the constructi
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by kale 10y ago
I deal routinely with use patents in the medical field. There's a chemical that's been in use for 30+ years to stabilize polymers from ionizing radiation. It's used in practically all gallon milk jugs to protect them from UV
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by kale 10y ago
Even then, this assumes you'll have enough deductions to not take the standard deduction. I did this analysis once. I took the cost of a rental I was considering, figured out how much I claimed on long-form taxes. Then I re-calculated
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by kale 10y ago
That's been less effective lately, so I've also added an HTML5 autoplay blocker. It's fairly effective. Not sure how much it prevents from loading to save on data, but at least it prevents being halfway down the page reading

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