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by v8xi 2mo ago
Thats super interesting I've never heard of this before. It seems that toxin gives a persistent increase in the activity of the sodium channel(s) that make cold painful. I imagine similar to how cold water on frozen fingers feels burni
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by v8xi 2mo ago
Theres a guy Grant Harding on YT etc. who sends gas station pills for testing and some of the things he finds are scary. Seriously addictive drugs being sold OTC with no meaningful consumer warning or guardrails
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by v8xi 2mo ago
are you not a true believer of the efficient market?
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by v8xi 6mo ago
next you should explain idioms
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Einstein's Riddle – Who owns the fish?(numericana.com)
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by v8xi 7mo ago
As an adult that kind of feedback feels like a sales pitch. As a kid its unforgettable validation. Wonder when that change happened.
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by v8xi 8mo ago
I introduced this to so many people as the only one who knew how to play. Key is start the game with 3 cards and win the round quickly + be super diligent about the rules so no conflicting information. Win the round quickly, add an obvious
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by v8xi 8mo ago
I used to play this a ton (often as a drinking game). The wiki does a good job of explaining the basics and I'd always do the no talking + point of order variants (+ a few others). My favorite type are: 1) rules requiring awareness of
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by v8xi 9mo ago
Just remains to be seen whether they can maintain capitalization long enough to find PMF
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by v8xi 1y ago
i just picked up an ultimaker s5 for $400 on ebay with tons of extra filament and it worked off the bat. Been printing for almost 2 weeks straight and my daughter loves it :D
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by v8xi 2y ago
Christmas 1999 my father's business had just gone under when the banks stopped lending after the dot com bubble. We didn't have any presents until Christmas morning when our church dropped off a bunch of presents for us. We got a
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by v8xi 2y ago
Was going to say about the same - this is ~2500 years after construction of the pyramids. How do you coordinate something that massive without any form of writing?
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by v8xi 2y ago
In graduate school we had to answer this on a test question and it took all of 5 minutes...should have published it, I guess
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by v8xi 2y ago
Was curious what types of observations they'd do with this and found this site: https://www.universetoday.com/168209/the-big-fringe-telescop... From there: Dr. van Belle continues, “Observations of binary star s
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by v8xi 2y ago
I think of geothermal the same way I think of tidal power - seemingly renewable but not really. Harnessing tides dampens the lunar oscillations surprisingly fast (as discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37383
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by v8xi 2y ago
If this works and becomes a common dental procedure I will be soooo happy. Every time I go to the dentist I ask them if anything like this is coming down the pipeline and they laugh...
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by v8xi 2y ago
True currently, but laser form factors are shrinking quickly. Reminds me of this article from a couple months ago where a team built (among a host of other sizes/use cases) a 20W(!) laser using a 500um PCSEL which they describe, mount
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by v8xi 2y ago
Surprisingly little compared to the volume of the oceans. Makes me wonder how much is in Mars' crust
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by v8xi 2y ago
Also had this issue. I even tried a bunch of different reformulations/reinterpretation of the provided formula and nothing helped :(
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by v8xi 2y ago
One of the advancements against EW is having on-device mapping systems (this goes back to the Tomahawk in the 70s) so that the projectile can adjust its flight in the absence of GPS. This is what one of the real advances of AI promises to b
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by v8xi 3y ago
This is what I thought the article was saying until I read it. But if most babies are cradled on the mothers left, that would lead to the babies left side being more interacted with by the mother. Since most sensory information is processed
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by v8xi 3y ago
Was curious what chatGPT would say: The result of subtracting 9999999999999998.0 from 9999999999999999.0 is 2.0. This result is due to the limitations in the precision of floating-point arithmetic in computers. When dealing with very large
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by v8xi 3y ago
I just don't believe there is any change of a free lunch. The entire point of sleep is to allow your brain to rest and process...spend a week getting only light REM sleep and you're gonna have a breakdown
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by v8xi 3y ago
I learned Fortran for a summer research job in college about 15 years ago. It was my first programming language and I used it to do some population modeling. I found an old Fortran book from when my dad went to school back in the early 70s
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by v8xi 3y ago
It's important that the CARVac (mRNA vaccine) part of the treatment targets specifically (though how specific, I dont know) dendritic cells which are "professional" antigen-presenting cells in the immune system. During an imm
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by v8xi 3y ago
Only thing I could find was a study in mice (which you should always take with a heap of salt) showing an increased incident, and a modest correlation in human studies but with a lot of caveats and a disclaimer that the study was in no way
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by v8xi 3y ago
That is a good question. I couldn't find a citation for the original comment, but my guess would be either that they want an unbiased cohort OR, since its a bacterial treatment, they wouldn't want to risk the spread and possibly c
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by v8xi 3y ago
In Nick Lane's Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World, he talks about the importance of both methane and carbon dioxide and how they exist at the extremes of a complex metabolic oxidation-reduction cycle. Methane stores a lot of chem
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by v8xi 3y ago
I think https://lichess.org is wonderful and always bring it up as an example of a great UI
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by v8xi 3y ago
I've seen this argument elsewhere so I think I know what he means. Basically the idea is you throw money around too easily and companies that would otherwise die (due to poor management/inability to compete) stay around. Too much

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