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4y ago
It's the difference between a plastic that eats mushrooms and a mushroom that eats plastic.
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Do cable bacteria[0] count? [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_bacteria
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IMO grammatical gender in Indo European languages (of which the Germanic and Romance language families are a part of) reflect how nouns and their references (pronouns, adjectives etc) are semantically linked by modifying the word endings of
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I mean, it's quite likely the ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine has some effect against the virus in the early stages of infection, but their use needs to be balanced against their side effects, of which there are many. It's like
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You're not wrong - the cornea (front of the eye) has about 3x the refractive power of the lens. Both function as converging lenses, and the only difference is that the refractive power of the lens can be changed.
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It's the accommodation reflex [0] at work here - pupillary constriction goes hand in hand with a shortening of the focal length of the lens, and the eyes also converge together. This is a brainstem level response, so I doubt there'
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It seems like they're describing a phenomenon where a material remains in a metastable configuration associated with a higher critical temperature, even after the pressure is removed and the sample warmed to room temperature. That said
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Apparently it's to do with the board awarding themselves more pay and donating less to charity. https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/18/nominet_board_support...
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I'm leaning towards no at the moment - mainly because the hackers appear to be based in a different country, and because they appear to be brute forcing the WhatsApp verification code API. Also, his phone could still do outgoing calls
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Ask HN: Hackers locked my dad out of WhatsApp – need advice
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There are mods that let you extend the physics range, but they don't address the underlying issue of the KSP physics engine bring numerically unstable over long distances
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Cost and availability, especially at the higher capacities. Note that HGST was bought out by WD in 2012, and WD started sunsetting the HGST brand in 2018.
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Some questions: - How much would you expect to spend if you were to pay all the bribes? Are you unable to afford them, or is this more of a moral issue? - Is there any reason why you are effectively purchasing agricultural land and rezoning
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You could always keep Google Chrome open to rerun these specific queries, as the captchas are less irritating to solve then.
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I think the point is that since the power available at these wavelengths vary sharply with frequency in these regions of the solar spectrum, the plant can easily compensate for brightness fluctuations in these portions of the spectrum with
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Yep, they now exist in capacities of up to 1 TB. Also, SanDisk were the first (and probably only) company to sell 200/400 GB microSD cards, supposedly so that they could lay claim to having the highest capacity micro SD card. https:&#
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It's an English idiom used to describe someone mentally deranged.
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The 1 cup of quinoa that you added to the start contributes the final missing cup (its packing ratio does not change much, it's just the water that changes its packing ratio).
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Well, yes, NASA does rely a lot on external contractors due to the budgetary flexibility it entails. While there is some cross-communication between teams, it's generally limited by the extreme degree of specialisation needed. Also, as
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Because Mars and Earth takes different amounts of time to complete an orbit around the Sun, launching at the right point in time is absolutely essential to ensure that your transfer orbit takes you to the distance of Mars' orbit at the
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There are many ways to do this, but the easiest way is to look at the Network tab in the browser developer tools as you load the page, type an address in, and generate the code.
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Well, antibiotic use is associated with diarrhoea and increased risk of C. difficile infections for this very reason. But the gut eventually gets recolonised by commensal bacteria - either from food or from the appendix[0]. In the worst cas
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Why not just internally represent longitude as being between 0 to 360 (mod 360)? This way you won't have a discontinuity in direction when going from one longitude to another.
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Is that a Real Genius (movie) reference? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Genius
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It's interesting to note that the 65g was removed from the air over 9000 miles, which averages to particulate matter being produced at a rate of about 0.0045g/km. However, the parent article suggests that the buses have engines th
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It's over a disagreement between Cloudflare and the owner of Archive.is regarding the forwarding of EDNS metadata. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317
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May I recommend 4D Toys? It's made by the same guy who's developing Miegakure and it has a VR version. The controls are a bit limited though in that user-initiated rotations are limited to 3D.
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I see. Well with high enough laser intensities the back reflection portion plateaus due to plasma formation [0], while the specular reflection portion could probably be minimised with a suitable prepulse[1,2] to pattern the surface. That sa
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Realistically, while I feel that the author is on the right track with this data driven approach to evidence based medicine, the fact remains that the advantages/disadvantages between drugs within the same class of medicine tend to be
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What about masers? The atmosphere should be fairly transparent in that frequency range so no need to worry about scattering, and the wavelength is short enough so you don't have to worry too much about near field effects.
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