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6y ago
That's typical for the whole industry of the texts and books of the authors who sell their stuff by writing about the "old prophecies." I also expect that the said claims aren't what Newton wrote, but are the new "i
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I was also at first confused, and I find the problem as published in 1894 (i.e. almost 130 years ago) much clearer: "A circle containing one acre is cut by another whose centre is on the circumference of the given circle, and the area
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When taking about probabilities, one usually can recognize a reasonable threshold. In practice we do exactly that with most of the medicine: there could be some small chance that somebody can have health problems because his body responds u
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So the end was probably supposed to be "I'm sorry I can't show you anything because one ball broke in no time, and later another one simply disappeared."
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6y ago
The old swf I've tried worked, as in, it showed the content, but the visual output wasn't the same -- the lines around the drawn objects were much thicker. I still don't know how one is to watch the old swf content to replica
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6y ago
It's more complicated than just that: the sites are designed that they just don't work if the browsers don't show them the cookies they saved before. And there's the whole story about the "third party cookies"
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6y ago
"It’s still unclear how ubiquitous this behavior is among pandas" ... "And if the idea pans out, it would be a bit baffling, Dr. McShea said. Pandas, like other bears, have very thick coats of fur. “They are adapted for cold
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To explain, Europeans aren't happy when they learn about either of these "features." They typically can expect more protection in Europe, albeit with the tendency of worsening in the last decades, where the influences... come
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The papers I've read use virus growth in cells, and even electron microscopy. I don't even know how you managed to claim now that only PCR is used in all the relevant papers. It's no use for me even trying to discuss with yo
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As far as I understand it's not about "get in" it's more about "get in every time" that is the issue having: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment combined with that "one i
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Traditionally, it's not about the phone, the technology is meant to provide the effects one hears with the complicated 5+1 speakers and similar setups (typically today called "home cinema" etc), where you can "hear"
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To elaborate the absolute numbers: around 1 in 55000 vaccinated were affected by the side effects in two years, so even if everybody in the UK was vaccinated with something causing such side effects, that translates to 1200 with the side ef
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6y ago
> might turn out to be ... Oracle Linux Is CentOS the upstream for Oracle Linux? Instead of which comes CentOS Stream and then the question is what will Oracle do? Would they even try to keep the old CentOS concept alive?
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She is indeed the first person to get the "vaccine." The material that those in the trials received is usually being referred to as a "vaccine candidate" because it haven't passed the trials and it isn't offi
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The news report that both the first (Margaret Keenan, 90) and the second person (William Shakespeare, 81) were vaccinated at the same "University Hospital, Coventry." So it's not that only one person was vaccinated there? Are
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Does anybody know if any product of "established professional audio companies" has built in "gyroscope and accelerometer" and can remap "the sound field so it stays anchored to the device, even as the user’s head mo
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Possible "reduced viral load" by those who are vaccinated simply doesn't mean that that load is below the threshold which makes somebody not infectious. In practice, it could, for example, mean that if such persons spend two
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The whole Pandermix risk is much smaller than the risks in the current pandemics. Narcolepsy is very rare disease and even increased risk due to that vaccine remains very low as absolute value and it only appears high if it's expressed
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For those who didn't know, the mentioned "DNA sequencer" device is the smaller one on this page, the bigger already has a display and its biggest dimension matches iPhone X (but it's thicker and wider) so also relatively
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The editors of the title there constructed different meaning from what the text is about. It's actually about one "universal vaccine candidate ." In the media, that shouldn't be called a "vaccine" in this phas
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Yes, only based on the animated image I guess that the goal of the tool could be to encrypt just the passwords which are expected to be present in some plain text files in some bigger setups. It would help to have some explanation of what t
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> I haven't seen any other method of measuring viral load in the upper respiratory tract than PCR. So we came to the truth: you didn't try to read how the researchers perform their research, even if they do publish their method
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As I've read: "As for why he's chosen to reveal this information now" ... I've just thought "because he has something to sell"! And sure, just a little later in the text: "Eshed provided more informat
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The claim is that Newton figured out the dates from the Book of Daniel. The book of his about his conclusions was published in 1733 (he died in 1727) and is available in different formats: Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Obse
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It wasn't that much "a mystery" , more that there were those who lived in denial, like Mach. On the positive side, much before Mach, there was obvious scientific progress. Not much later after Lavoisier: https://en
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Yes, modern chemistry starts with Lavoisier's "Traité Élémentaire de Chimie" (1789) and development of chemistry as a science took a lot of time: only in 20th century the existence of atoms was finally proven. Up to then ther
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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.1979.000... "Newton’s ‘derangement of the intellect’. New light on an old problem, P. E. Spargo and C. A. Pounds, 1979" And regarding the documented s
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From the site which is selling it: https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/english-literat... Newton "left behind vast manuscript writings on biblical exegesis and other theological subjects, p
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https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/17/yeah-apples-m1-macbook-pro... WebKit compile time: "2020 13-inch MacBook Pro with Intel CPU: 46 minutes and 10 seconds M1 MacBook Pro: 20 minutes and 43 seconds" An
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The paper, and the papers it references, disproves your wrong theory that you repeated many times in more messages on this page about "lower respiratory tract" being more relevant for virus transmission, which is still wrong, as i
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