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by Merrill 7y ago
p53: Regular or super? Increased p53 expression under the endogenous promoter protects “super p53” mice from tumorigenesis without the undesirable effects of premature aging. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/articl
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Tickets for all violations result in points. Speeding points depend on the amount over the limit. Total points in last 3 years are one factor that goes into insurance pricing. It's a social anti-credit system.
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>Making photocopies of paper currency of the United States violates another section of the code, Title 18, Section 474 of the U.S. Code. Also forbidden under the statute: printed reproductions of checks, bonds, postage stamps, revenue st
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They changed flight control computers from Honeywell to Collins when going from the 737 to the 737 NG. Seems like a new system.
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>Landing contracts for key systems on the Max cemented a relationship with Boeing that Collins had long cultivated, in part by creating what its chief executive in 2002 called an “enormous sea change in a very long legacy business."
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>It consists of a period of abstention from earthy delights like sex, drugs, and, in some extreme cases, talking to other people, for 24 hours or more. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vb5qb9/dopamine-fas
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Best Buy is big enough that the OEMs build models specific to Best Buy, sometimes with lesser features or components. Laptops, especially.
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>that thing you bought last week may not ever be in stock again. Like at Marshalls, or any of the various deep discount odd lot stores. Reliability is not inherent in brick and mortar.
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It's already routine to do genetic screening of in vitro embryos before selection for implantation. It is done to check for some of the more common deleterious genetic variations. But there is no reason that they couldn't check fo
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>because if you sprinkle magic on top, you can sell people anything. WeWork?
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Interesting. Thanks.
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Other disincentives to sell are fairly high realtor commissions and fees, as well as capital gains taxes on the amount over the exclusion, which isn't very high given CA prices. Think of Prop 13 as "rent control" for homeowne
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>It is currently estimated that around 4 per cent of the population are unaware the man they call their father is not their true biological relative. That is for the UK. It may vary a lot by ethnoreligious and socioeconomic groups in dif
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But like other things, such as social media, big data, and blockchain, it makes it harder to establish secure fake identities. Inhibiting the creation of fake identities inhibits both criminal activity and covert operations of law enforceme
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It should be very valuable for counterintelligence to check the legends of enemy agents. If the DNA of the suspected agent identifies relatives that are implausible given the provided back story, further investigation may reveal that the le
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Priority is a big deal for academic researchers, the people who write journal articles and books. When I worked in development, organization was formal and collaborations were informal. People shared ideas and exactly who thought up what wa
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>On December 13, 2018, the 787th Boeing 787 was delivered to AerCap, the largest 787 lessor. By then the 787 had flown 300 million passengers on 1.5 million flights and opened 210 new nonstop routes. There have been 894 deliveries throug
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Illinois isn't particularly sparsely populated compared with the rural areas of the Dakotas and Montana. It's not uncommon to drive over 20 miles for groceries. Closer towns might have a convenience/general store, but prices
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Reading and writing are unnecessary for much of the population given the progress in speech to text and text to speech algorithms. We can go straight to learning how to express ideas in speech and learning how to locate, access and understa
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"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion." George Bernard Shaw Shiller is well known, but many of the courses in economics are by professors that are not well known from lesser universities
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Is there some organization that fact checks these online courses, so that we can know which contain actually valid, true information and which are just some professor's opinion on the subject?
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The problem with current initiatives for regulation is that they are attempts to regulate how Big Tech does business. Outside of some specific limits on business transactions, such as forbidding tie-in sales, antitrust does not limit the wa
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It was a relief when some of the worst bullies finished 9th grade and dropped out.
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Not paywalled - "Colombian woman’s genes offer new clues to staving off Alzheimer’s" - https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/colombian-woman-s-ge...
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They do seem to have a decent CS grad school program. They are tied for 30th with 6 other universities in US News. https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-sch... But Urbana-Champaign is 5th and should
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According to US News, University of Chicago is "Unranked in Best Engineering Schools". https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering... The high school student needs to ask the question, "
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The ozone hole was mostly fixed by changing refrigerants. This was fought at first until it became apparent that substitute refrigerants could be produced. At that point, the refrigerant manufacturers and the manufacturers of air conditioni
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A plastic bag is about 5.5 grams. 10 bags of groceries would be 55 grams. A gallon (US) of gas is about 3350 grams. So if you drive 5 miles round trip in a car getting 20 miles/gallon for local driving, it uses 837 grams of gas. The oi
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No Nordic Noir? e.g. Henning Mankell. Lots of history, but only Barbara Tuchman on WW 1. I recommend G. J. Meyer "A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914-1918" and "The World Remade: America in World War I".
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They are starting in the flat and rural Merced to Bakersfield segment. The hard parts are getting from Merced to San Francisco and from Bakersfield to Anaheim.

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