spatulan

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Intersex patients routinely had diagnoses withheld by doctors(bbc.co.uk)
55 points by spatulan 9y ago|13 comments
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A way to make water potable using carbon dioxide(economist.com)
181 points by spatulan 9y ago|38 comments
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Scientists 3-D Print Mouse Ovaries That Actually Make Babies(wired.com)
1 points by spatulan 9y ago|0 comments
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by spatulan 9y ago
24th September 2014
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This new solar-powered device can pull water straight from the desert air(sciencemag.org)
2 points by spatulan 9y ago|0 comments
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by spatulan 10y ago
Yes
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by spatulan 10y ago
I'm on Cyproterone Acetate. Does it say anywhere in the paper if certain anti-androgens are worse than others?
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by spatulan 10y ago
"And before you downvote, ask yourself: Senseless violence to stop outsiders who are just trying to survive: is it really any less bad when the outsiders are animals?" Yes, it is.
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by spatulan 10y ago
I use the equivalent thing on Firefox. Partly so I can use or not use different groups of addons quickly and easily, but also so I can be logged into the same websites multiple times on different accounts.
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by spatulan 10y ago
Not in my experience
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by spatulan 10y ago
Assuming the economy doesn't weaken and we find ourselves with less money to spend.
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by spatulan 10y ago
Or you can import the two images into graphics software like gimp. Invert the colours in the top image, then knock transparency for that layer down to 50%. If the images are identical, you'll just see grey. Any differences will inst
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by spatulan 10y ago
It would help if Linux games actually worked on Linux, instead of only on single version of Ubuntu that's usually a few years out of date, and you have to have libraries X, Y and Z installed, only it won't tell you this, so have t
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by spatulan 10y ago
I thought the Lunar Guidance computer used cooperative multitasking.
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by spatulan 10y ago
The Germans fired nearly as many shells, 1,100,000, in just the first five hours of the 1918 Spring Offensive.
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by spatulan 10y ago
Because nations tend to avoid starting wars they'll obviously lose. If the US military falls behind technologically, other nations might start thinking defeat isn't so obvious any more.
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by spatulan 10y ago
Are most drone operators experts on bird of prey escape tactics?
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by spatulan 10y ago
The US Army's version might be new, but the general idea isn't. The Russian Drozd is the earliest of this type of system I'm aware of, and that was fielded in the late 70s.
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by spatulan 10y ago
That's more conspiracy theorist, than cynic.
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by spatulan 10y ago
I'd recommend Altirra even if you're on Linux, it works well through WINE.
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by spatulan 10y ago
There probably isn't enough data to render a full image, but how many lines do we need to draw to give the impression of a person, or a tree? Surprisingly few. Couldn't the same apply to a sonar image? It's just an idea. I
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by spatulan 10y ago
We might be looking for sentences and words that just aren't there. Dolphins see with sound, so maybe all those clicks and whistles are their way of sketching images for each other.
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by spatulan 10y ago
I though slat armour worked because RPGs only had a detonator in the nose, so unless you were very unlucky and the tip of the RPG hit a slat, the RPG would just jam itself between two of the slats.
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by spatulan 10y ago
That's backwards. Explosively formed jets need space to form, so work better if they detonate a little distance from the target.
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Tax transparency: Could the UK take a leaf out of Norway's book?(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by spatulan 10y ago|0 comments
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Is energy always conserved?(youtube.com)
1 points by spatulan 11y ago|0 comments
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by spatulan 11y ago
And feeling targeted and discriminated against increases anger, fear and hatred of society, which leads to the outcomes that these policies are trying to stop.
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by spatulan 11y ago
I wonder what the chances are of a cosmic ray or some stray radiation causing AlphaGo to have problems. It's quite a rare event, but when you have 1920 CPUs and 280 GPUs, it might up the probability enough to be something you have to
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by spatulan 11y ago
Acoustic homing torpedoes.
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by spatulan 11y ago
We've had autonomous killing machines since WW2, and nobody seemed to care until recently when everything got reframed in a scary Skynet/Terminator way. Most people seem to get their knowledge on the subject more from movies than

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