Jeema101

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by Jeema101 9y ago
Of course alcohol increases the risk of some cancers - it's a known carcinogen. On top of that it can be highly addictive. On the other hand, though, it's something a lot of people enjoy as as social lubricant, and there is also
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by Jeema101 9y ago
That might happen now that this study has been published! Let's not forget that medical science is ongoing - the idea that aspirin could prevent heart attacks probably seemed like quackery at one point too.
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by Jeema101 9y ago
Lung cancer doesn't just affect smokers, though. People who have never smoked still have a lifetime risk of about 0.5%-1.0%. And the study was studying self-reported non-smokers in addition to smokers. "We found that B6 and B12
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by Jeema101 9y ago
Paint has always been a handy tool for me for making annotated screenshots as well as lightweight image manipulation. I use it on a fairly regular basis at work. I forsee the result of this being lots of people Googling 'download ms p
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by Jeema101 9y ago
Yep. For them it's not immediately obvious if the cost of a website will help in generating more business. They might be interested in help with online advertising combined with a basic website landing page, though...
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by Jeema101 9y ago
There's only one long term solution to this problem if the countries involved want to assure that the remaining sunken ships aren't looted: salvage the ships themselves and put the wrecks in storage or museums.
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by Jeema101 9y ago
It's anxiety-inducing for me just to look at. I would never work at a place with an office environment that looked like this.
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by Jeema101 10y ago
...and in the US state and local taxes on fuel are around $0.50 a gallon... Edit: which words out to around $61 billion a year in taxes, if you assume about 26mpg avg.
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Or next time you buy a new car, just keep your old one as a project. That's what I did when my old car died. I was originally going to sell it for parts on Craigslist, but then I got the crazy idea in my head to buy some tools and att
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by Jeema101 10y ago
I'm not sure where that guy is getting his data, but I think the average stock market P/E when 10 year treasury rates are in the 4-6% range is more like 19. But maybe he's looking at 'forward P/E' or something
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by Jeema101 10y ago
Exactly. Who is going to want to live underground in a freezing wasteland for the rest of their lives after the initial novelty of 'being on Mars' wears off? Nobody even does that here on Earth, so why would they want to do it o
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by Jeema101 10y ago
They were terrible outdated planes that should have never been flown into battle, but they did at least serve one important role at Midway by diverting the Japanese fighters at just the right moment so that the US Navy's dive bombers c
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by Jeema101 10y ago
It's also much easier to get unstuck in the snow with a manual because you can rock the car back and forth between 1st and reverse. Also you have the option to start in 2nd gear to prevent spinning tires and sliding when starting from
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by Jeema101 10y ago
As a whole, sure, but real incomes have still been flat for the last 15 years so. The average American worker can feel that his or her standard of living is no longer increasing: http://www.multpl.com/us-average-real-income
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by Jeema101 10y ago
What it really comes down to is that people aren't going to care one way or the other about your social justice causes when they're struggling to put food on the table due to the effects of outsourcing, automation, globalization,
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by Jeema101 10y ago
I was just at the American Computer & Robotics Museum in Bozeman, MT not too long ago. It's pretty small but they have some interesting stuff - for example, an Apple I donated by Woz, a control module from a Minuteman ICBM, some Ap
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by Jeema101 10y ago
Seems possible in theory, and a car's A/C system already does just this. They'd just have to collect the water that normally drains from the A/C evaporator. Could be some issues with contamination though - you don'
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by Jeema101 10y ago
There have been many claimed sightings since then, though, including one in 1995 by a wildlife official: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine#Unconfirmed_sighting... It's not out of the realm of possibility tha
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by Jeema101 10y ago
I remember as kid just being in awe of the game mechanics and the graphics in those Sierra games. It was fun just to explore and type stuff in and see what was possible, even if you had no hope of ever finishing the game.
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by Jeema101 10y ago
Avoidance in the form of 'trigger warnings' may actually worsen the underlying problem for people with PTSD because avoidance can strengthen the underlying fear. Successful treatment often actually involves confronting the fear, l
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by Jeema101 10y ago
They also had to be better than all the other competitors. There are hundreds of manufacturers from the early days that no longer exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_automobile_man...
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by Jeema101 10y ago
That's kind of a simplistic explanation, though, because it does not account for WHY there is this sudden rise in xenophobia in the UK. The fact is that economic inequality in the UK has been rising for a long time. I would argue that
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by Jeema101 10y ago
"Should the analog headphone jack remain on our devices forever? If you think so, you can stop reading." Better remove our legacy analog hearing while we're at it...
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by Jeema101 10y ago
A mish-mash of coding conventions is understandable, given the fact that coding standards may not exist in the first place, or can change over time, etc. Long functions which have grown over time are also understandable, given the realities
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by Jeema101 10y ago
There is none, which is why it won't happen. The Moon on the other hand: it's orders of magnitude closer, and there's actual profit potential for tourism and possibly other things (producing fuel to deliver to low Earth orbit
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by Jeema101 11y ago
That's the thing: how many others tried and failed that have all but been forgotten? Small successes and small failures accumulate exponentially over time. Maybe in some parallel universe those guys became the multi-billion-dollar co
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And the fact that he even delivered, to me, is a testament to his superhuman programming abilities. Especially considering that this was all in assembly langauge. And the Atari 2600 is notoriously difficult to develop for, even as assembl
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by Jeema101 11y ago
Agreed. Easy to say self-driving technology is ready to go when your test environment consists of Southern California. Now try it in the Midwest at night, with unplowed snow on the highway, and none of the lane markings visible.
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by Jeema101 11y ago
The von Neumann probe is an interesting thought experiment, but practically speaking, what reason would there be for anyone to ever create one (assuming it would ever be possible)?
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Get on Youtube and Google and search for '{car make & model} {repair}" - you might be surprised what you find. There's a lot of online forums for specific cars, and a lot of people posting repair videos on Youtube. It al

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