WhiteSage

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by WhiteSage 8y ago
Looking at something behind the screen (if transparent) or reflected on the screen (if slightly reflective) should do the trick.
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by WhiteSage 8y ago
It did change! In fact now smoking is prohibited near schools and inside bars and clubs. Some people smoke, but not almost everybody as before.
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by WhiteSage 8y ago
The biggest issue is that gene editing techniques are not perfect yet, and the danger of introducing bad mutations at other places in the genome is real. Once the gene editing techniques work 100% of the time with no side effects this will
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by WhiteSage 8y ago
The unstable point is at the top of the crest. You would need a vacuum chamber with dampened vibrations to have any chance of it standing there, as any small deviation from a perfectly balanced position would make it fall.
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by WhiteSage 8y ago
You want the coefficients of the factors to be integers. That is why you can very seldomly factor them.
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by WhiteSage 8y ago
When I stop cold turkey I sleep a lot for a couple of weeks (10-13 hours per day), which is really useful when I'm stressed and cannot sleep. After the two weeks I behave normally again, but I never have the thought clarity that coffee
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by WhiteSage 8y ago
Thanks, updated parent post. How easy is to get your DNA sample contamination-free by isolating nuclei from dead cells in saliva?
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by WhiteSage 8y ago
From a saliva sample? How are they going to tell the bacterial DNA apart?
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by WhiteSage 8y ago
It depends on what you consider environment. We are part of the environment for those animals, and they have evolved to increase survival and reproduction in this environment that contains us. The bulldog health might be frail, but as a spe
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by WhiteSage 8y ago
Evolution often makes viruses less deadly, as it wants to maximize dispersion, and killing the host is usually not a good strategy. They will probably just try to mutate to cover those inner parts of the shell proteins.
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by WhiteSage 8y ago
In Spain it is forbidden to show results of electoral polls in the last week before elections, to avoid shifting the public opinion. It does not matter, you can get polls of all kinds by just lurking around in twitter.
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by WhiteSage 8y ago
I would guess it means "in some sense". In a measure-theoretic sense, for example. You need to give it meaning somehow, as you cannot really pick a "random" real number with any algorithm (most real numbers are actually
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by WhiteSage 8y ago
The title is slightly misleading. The study is only about neotame, and not artificial sweeteners in general. EDIT: Nevermind, only one article was linked. Thank you for linking the rest below.
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by WhiteSage 8y ago
I was hoping they would use this feedback to roll back the change. No luck though...
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by WhiteSage 8y ago
What is surprising is how small the error term is. For the sake of comparison, (1+10^-5)^(10^5) only gets five digits of e right.
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by WhiteSage 8y ago
In the case of alcohol the spinning is mostly due to differences in the density of the liquid inside the cilia of your inner ear cells when alcohol gets in and out of them, specially in the second case (some hours after drinking). It's