scotteric

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by scotteric 2y ago
That would be the logistic curve then
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by scotteric 2y ago
I think insulin resistance from excess calorie and carbohydrate consumption has a lot to do with it. One of the symptoms of hyperglycemia is increased hunger, since glucose is staying in your blood stream instead of getting into your cells.
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by scotteric 2y ago
According to the wikipedia article, it was a Russian child that fell while riding a bike and his glasses broke and sent pieces of glass into both eyes. The doctor made radial cuts to remove the glass, and discovered that his vision improved
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by scotteric 2y ago
As an aside, methamphetamine is also a prescribed drug in the US, called Desoxyn.
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by scotteric 2y ago
You should be washing your hands immediately after handling raw meat.
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by scotteric 2y ago
He was alive and conscious for the 15 minutes of the attack. He may have screamed about his arm to his girlfriend.
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by scotteric 2y ago
People with alcohol use disorder are many times more likely to commit suicide. Alcohol makes depression worse in the long run, even if someone finds some temporary comfort from a bottle.
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by scotteric 2y ago
$247,686 over 7 years is around $35,000 per year. After traveling expenses, hotel rooms, and equipment, how much of that is left over?
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by scotteric 2y ago
And now, Minix is sadly abandoned.
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by scotteric 2y ago
It goes even deeper than just English. No descends from the Indo-European negation phoneme *ne. You see similar 'n' sound negative words in pretty much every IE language group. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/R
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by scotteric 2y ago
I've always heard ephedra called Mormon tea.
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by scotteric 2y ago
You literally feel lighter on your feet, like there's a spring in your step when you lose a good amount of weight. Imagine carrying around a 10kg weight with you all day.
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by scotteric 3y ago
How would one distinguish legal traffic from illegal? If encrypted communications were to be allowed, what is stopping people using the amateur bands for commercial use? This is the main concern of hams, not that it's good that you can
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by scotteric 3y ago
Pharmaceuticals and other manufactured goods are sometimes referred to in 'lots' meaning a batch.
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by scotteric 3y ago
You know a personal license is only $149 USD right? You could then run your old code. Toolkits for home are $49.
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by scotteric 3y ago
When it rains after being dry for some time an oil layer forms on top of the water. This is why he is afraid of skidding. In Southern California, where it is very dry there can be very substantial oil buildup.
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by scotteric 3y ago
Dragon's Well tea sort of reminds me of sweet corn.
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by scotteric 4y ago
I think fennel seeds are considered a spice in culinary terms. The bulb part I think would be a vegetable in culinary terms.
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by scotteric 4y ago
Cucumbers and green beans are fruit. Fruit is a botanical term for the structure that a flower grows into once fertilized. Fruit has seeds.
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by scotteric 4y ago
It still makes sense for things like anthrax that aren't easily communicable. Or botulinum toxin.
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by scotteric 4y ago
Conventional wisdom used to be that a glass of wine or a beer everyday was healthy.
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by scotteric 4y ago
Your coworkers don't have a problem with you being distracted and wearing headphones during a meeting?
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by scotteric 4y ago
Optically, you are limited by angular resolution, so less distance means better resolution on the ground.
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by scotteric 4y ago
It was in Brave New World, and I think originated there. The Feelies are also a jangle-rock band.
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by scotteric 4y ago
Every substation I've ever seen has just a chain link fence. They should at least add some privacy barrier so it's not so easy to aim at equipment.
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by scotteric 4y ago
Also Fritz the Cat.
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by scotteric 4y ago
Javascript lacks many basic facilities that other languages have.
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by scotteric 4y ago
I wonder how much of that is the water increasing the effective surface area of the panel be acting as lens?
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by scotteric 4y ago
It seems that the marinade goes on after the overnight drying though. That puzzled me since the bacteria would be free to reproduce.
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by scotteric 4y ago
Ceteris Paribus (all things being equal) is one of the economist's favorite phrases, along with 'on the other hand'. And to be fair, it's hard to predict how a change will affect things if everything else changes as well

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