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H_Pylori
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H_Pylori
6y ago
I call it "The founder effect" of bad studies. Essentially the first few studies set the tone for the rest of the field, and it's very hard to correct the course due to the momentum. I'm glad people are starting to notic
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6y ago
HTML, and the web stack by extension, have their faults, but the advent of the web should've been a humbling experience for Alan Kay. I deeply respect Alan Kay for his achievements, but he appears to have been stuck in "object lan
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6y ago
Back in the day, Dev-C++ was the ideal IDE for the C/C++ beginner. Simple, easy to use and very light in term of resources. I remember being able to run Dev-C++ on a 166Mhz Pentium I with 32Mb of RAM (which was hopelessly obsolete even
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6y ago
People do leave home when they marry. In general, where I live, people leave home when they have to. People leave home if they can't find a job nearby, to study and to marry. Very few exceptions.
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6y ago
>The problem with allowing children at home forever is a lack of forced maturity. Why bother figuring out life as an adult when instead you can continue to live carefree as a child? Hey, you can figure out life as an adult even while liv
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7y ago
The plug insert looks remarkably well made. It looks to have been turned in a rather precise, if crude, lathe (look at the the detail of the groove). This is even more impressive if you think that the first real modern lathes only date from
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7y ago
The article was written before communism. I've heard from different accounts that communism has had a deleterious effect on people's manner. I don't know if this is true or not, but it's a reasonable explanation.
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7y ago
>But now you're asking a liberal arts student to study Calculus and derivatives, which are not easy topics and not something that useful in day to day life. Calculus is a high school subject where I live, at least single variable ca
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7y ago
That could be said for every infectious illness. So does every infectious illness have a psychosomatic component too.