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Farmers use anhydrous ammonia that bounds with water in the soil and then bonds to the soil. I don't know that farmers wear anything special when applying it, but there are safety procedures. I work with a farmer and he was telling me
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>but I suspect they don't even approach a significant fraction of Air Pod owners. A significant portion of Air Pod owners buy them solely because they are the apple brand of ear buds and don't think about it beyond that. A basi
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2y ago
Is that enough? The DNA is mostly available now right? Do they just buy it or do they need to procure their own?
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Plus 104 million euros seems like a normal amount of money to spend updating the curriculum for an entire country. This is likely just updating the curriculum over a few years from older books to newer ones and basically unrelated to the di
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>and lugging 30 pounds of books around every day means I now have scoliosis. Doctors claim that heavy backpacks don't cause scoliosis, but can make the associated back pain worse.
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2y ago
>With a PDF reader, well, goto that other section, scroll down to the piece I wanted, now goto the first section again and scroll down again and wait what was that back thing again goto and scroll and scroll and goto and descent into ins
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>I'm a sucker for paper but I'm resistant to the idea that all of these things are irreplaceable This, I'm really comfortable with technology, but I feel like a boomer when I watch kids that have grown up with it their ent
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>Physical books are still better than e-readers because you can put sticky notes on the pages, jump back and forth between pages quickly, and even start to know where pages are simply based on how many leaves/pages are split between
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>I definitely agree that just giving kids a laptop/chromebook instead of books is not working. I'm not really sure why people are pretending it's an either/or situation. Plenty of things are taught just fine or better
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>which users would expect to be working whenever they are wearing the headphones (or at minimum, whenever music is playing). Why would that be the case?
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> Apple execs knew that this would negatively impact a subset of users' batteries and were at least OK with that Seems like every 6 months or so they come out with an update almost specifically designed to do that for their phones a
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>It's like the author has never heard of balance bikes, but they're very common, and have been for over a decade. Every time a post like this comes up a bunch people haven't heard of them. I'm sure it helps, especiall
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Full time employees? 1700 employees from 90 countries sounds to me like they are counting anyone that's ever contributed anything as an employee.
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I don't understand the distinction you're trying to make.
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>down from nearly 4,000 a week Do they really pay that many people to work on development? That's 100 fulltime jobs.
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2y ago
What's weird is the subs that will ban you for simply commenting in another sub, especially for just one comment, even if your comments are contrary to the theme of the sub.
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There are so many different versions of Oregon Trail, you might have played the old version first but substituted the graphics and game play you remember with a later version you also played. Not to mention that imagination fills in a lot o
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>I used to dumpster dive for old compsci books at the end of semesters. It's how I learned java, c, perl, vim, and SQL. I'd always grab old books from school and work, but honestly they are horrible to learn from because things
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They are meant to be used with an external keyboard and mouse, you don't need a stand to use a laptop normally.
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Exactly, that's the joke. If it had been an issue on Windows the default response from folks here would be to switch to Linux instead of trying to get to the root of the issue. Guess I should have included an /s on my comment.
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I think it's pretty obvious why this material should be available. >If there isn't a clear motivation, people will assume the worst. This is just a weird assumption.
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>From what I can recall, it was complicated by the fact that I wasn't "next of kin", which would limit the data I'd have access to. My state has a process for claiming unclaimed funds that banks and such report to the
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>names like MCMAHON as MC MAHON, and/or vice versa. My mom has a Van name and it's hell trying to use government and insurance websites, because they'll take the space out or add one in irregardless of what you use when si
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Isn't this one of those problems that switching to linux is supposed to fix?
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>But not to ban games running on actual gambling? As long as FIFA still has lootboxes it's hypocritical. I'm ok with banning lootboxes.
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>You could play it for a hundred hours and still have absolutely no idea how to play Hold'em. On the flip side, it's super similar to those video poker machines in bars and restaurants. If you allowed the option to increase the
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>You know the brain is about the consistency of jelly, right? If you were to induce cavitation, that could cause quite a bit of brain damage in nothing flat. They use them on pregnant women's fetuses, so I imagine using one on an ad
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I don't really get the point, it'd make more sense to just not host these people than to take their money and turn around and donate it to someone else.
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>“Hey, I saw you were checking out our service. Let me know if you have any questions!” I had this happen for a service we already had implemented at my company. I created a new account just to make sure it was working because we had a f
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2y ago
No, I'm not underestimating it, I'm explaining how other people think.
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