Amarok

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by Amarok 7y ago
Ideally the future is nuclear fission transitioning to fusion, with hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Lithium battery production and recycling is still very damaging to the environment, even if it stopped relying on coal for energy[1][2]. Hydrog
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by Amarok 12y ago
I don't understand why the successful implantation of the embryo is amazing. Many women take immunossupressants while pregnant, and many undergo IVF to give birth, some of which to allogeneic embryos (egg donations). This last one does
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by Amarok 12y ago
During pregnancy the mother was on a triple immunosuppressant regimen: azathioprine, tacrolimus, and prednisolone (corticosteroid). The first is a Pregnancy Class D drug (some reports of human birth defects), and the two are class C (birth
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Livebirth after uterus transplantation [pdf](press.thelancet.com)
1 points by Amarok 12y ago|0 comments
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Earth’s Impending Magnetic Flip: magnetic field weakening faster than expected(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by Amarok 12y ago|0 comments
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by Amarok 12y ago
>shorter hours were assumed to be a natural consequence of increased productivity Another possibility is that progress will increase the amount of people that are unemployed or unneeded to support society, as the others continue to work
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Correlation is usually not causation. But why not?(gwern.net)
114 points by Amarok 12y ago|71 comments
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by Amarok 12y ago
This premise reminds me of the plot of a movie, I think it was The Cube. From what I remember, it dealt with how bureaucracy could be used to perpetuate evil, without those involved thinking that what they're doing is wrong. Once the m
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by Amarok 12y ago
Caffeine appeared when plants started producing it, however it must have evolved from a similar molecule. I guess it makes more sense to talk about evolution of larger molecules like proteins, but the title isn't completely wrong.
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by Amarok 12y ago
Public health services are sub-par, if you want the best standard of care you'll need to go private. Ironically, government workers qualify for a special health insurance, which allows them to use most private hospitals. Also, part of
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Healthy Midlife Diet Staves Off Dementia(epublications.uef.fi)
3 points by Amarok 12y ago|0 comments
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Germany: Companies that Cooperate with the NSA Excluded from Federal Contracts(worldcrunch.com)
6 points by Amarok 12y ago|0 comments
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by Amarok 12y ago
One of the reasons I switched from windows to debian was not having to deal with windows-style updates: you can have the computer running and don't need to reboot after updating. I wonder if someone already thought of applying the sam
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by Amarok 12y ago
It's truly a small world, the guy who wrote that plugin is a med student at my fac, but I'd never heard of it. Thanks for introducing me to an awesome plugin, my anatomy classes would've been a breeze with it. On a more serio
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by Amarok 13y ago
It's a step forward, but treatment is still a long way off: "Independently of the selected gene therapy strategy, and prior to its potential use in HIV-infected patients, vector technology has to be developed that allows safe and
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by Amarok 13y ago
I'm curious if the exploits would work with javascript enabled, but with noscript installed. This is default for the current TBB I think.
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by Amarok 13y ago
What about startpage? I know they're still dependent on google, but in terms of privacy they seem to be at the same level as DDG. At least they're smaller than DDG, so it's less likely that the NSA will bother with them