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by Qem 1y ago
> it doesn't come into play until all of your children are at least like 8. Not all, but probably at least one. When it was usual to have larger families, it was common older children being tasked with some care/monitoring of
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by Qem 1y ago
I'm sorry for your loss.
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New study finds evidence of hepatitis C virus in cells lining human brain(medicalxpress.com)
3 points by Qem 1y ago|0 comments
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by Qem 1y ago
> A poll for the report carried out by YouGov in 14 countries found almost a fifth of people said they did not have the size of family they desired, with one in nine believing they would have fewer children than they wanted and 7% that t
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by Qem 1y ago
It appears they didn't cover cargo transportation in the analysis. Curious if it may be worth for large trucks, over 20m long, as there is a large area available to install panels, and cargo transport is a hard to decarbonize sector. I
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by Qem 1y ago
Unless the preson in question is over 102 years. IIRC that is roughly the age when mortality rates on average surpass 50% per year. Up until tha age you can celebrate your birthday and reasonably expect is more likely to still be alive by t
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by Qem 1y ago
When I graduated and got a job, one of my first aquisitions was a new game console and several titles. It sat mostly idle, because despite earning the money to afford it, now I lacked the free time. After a couple of years gathering dust I
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Illegal loggers profit from Brazil's carbon credit projects(reuters.com)
5 points by Qem 1y ago|0 comments
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by Qem 1y ago
I wouldn't count moa extinction as a natural one. It lived up to historic times, a few hundred years ago, and is well established humans had a big role in their demise. The jury is still open on other megafauna that went extinct thousa
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by Qem 1y ago
After the fake dire wolf de-extinction I wonder if they will show up with an chicken possessing slightly different plumage patterns and claim it is a moa.
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Giant, flightless bird is next target for de-extinction company(cnn.com)
2 points by Qem 1y ago|3 comments
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by Qem 1y ago
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250710205034/https://www.972ma...
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by Qem 1y ago
> Python's object model that can be summarized as "everything is a dict with string keys". Given this "it's dicts all the way down" nature of CPython, I'm curious if the recent hash table theoretical br
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by Qem 1y ago
> there are numerous examples of productive older mathematicians Curious about the extreme cases. Did any centenarians ever managed to come with an outstanding original math result? If it didn't happen before, I hope to see it happe
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by Qem 1y ago
I wonder how many years on average people can dedicate themselves to think deep about research problems, before they must stop thinking and start managing, or quit the race.
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by Qem 1y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstellung_effect
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by Qem 1y ago
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250625192717/https://thegrayzo...
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by Qem 1y ago
It ranked high in the floating point benchmarks the late John Walker used to publish in his site: https://www.fourmilab.ch/fbench/fbench.html
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by Qem 1y ago
Reminds me of this 2005 paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01679...
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by Qem 1y ago
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250630115719/https://thecradle... Full paper: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2025/06/20/202...
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by Qem 1y ago
> Half the cabinet of the current Israeli government has made public statements to the effect of wanting to starve everyone or kill all the kids. There's a database tracking those: https://law4palestine.org/law-for-p
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Polar scientist on Antarctic tipping points(theguardian.com)
5 points by Qem 1y ago|0 comments
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by Qem 1y ago
Does the conclusion hold for overweight people? While I was sub-80kg my sneakers used to last years. Once I passed the 100kg threshold I noticed my sneakers get worn-out after ~6 months, just walking. Makes me afraid the same happens to my
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Tidyverse Skeptic(matloff.github.io)
1 points by Qem 1y ago|0 comments
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India forcibly sterilised 8M men: One village remembers, 50 years later(aljazeera.com)
13 points by Qem 1y ago|0 comments
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by Qem 1y ago
I wonder if the increased awareness and regulation of trans fats ill effects has contributed to this drop.
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The solar system's greatest mystery may be solved(phys.org)
11 points by Qem 1y ago|3 comments
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by Qem 1y ago
The mystery they don't name in the title is Planet Nine. I checked the original paper[1], and it appears this is either a new paper, distinct from the preprint[2] previously discussed here a couple months ago[3], or the preprint was he
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by Qem 1y ago
I have no idea.
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by Qem 1y ago
> Seeing that tau is elevated during development suggests what that role might be. I think this reinforces the hypothesis tau buildup and Alzheimer development are linked as side-effects of fighting infectious diseases. One thing newborn

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