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Bird eyes are more sensitive to UV light than humans right? Better UV reflective coating would help them? Or a transparent film with a pattern of absorbed and reflected UV?
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Even trees will take nutrients from animals with a little help from fungal networks: https://web.uvic.ca/~reimlab/salmonforest.html https://depts.washington.edu/hortlib/pal/salmon-dna-in-trees
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Can you explain why? I heard about this, and avoided pointers for a long time because of a fear that comments like yours gave me. I then ended up realizing Java objects that I had been dealing with were just memory references, and that led
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In communication there are senders and receivers. You can receive something a certain way that was not intended by a sender. It's important to try to understand the intent of the sender. In this case, many cultures sending the message
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Which itself seems to be related to the word "guy" as in "guy wire" also related to "guide", "guidance", or "guidelines". Meaning to lead, direct, or conduct. To show the way.
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I think they might have meant they are all geometrically defined EM interactions.
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It's more like quantum information theory isn't it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_information
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It's more like statistical mechanics and the foundations of the second law of thermodynamics. Unless entropy is a damned lie. Which I'm not saying it isn't, but claiming such a thing is a pretty strong claim. Possibly one of
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Graphene is closer than quantum. We just need a process breakthrough for manufacturing and integrating it into products. You can even make graphene at home with a blender.
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While we're at, improve the citation system, so I the references become hyperlinks, and code artifacts can be accessed.
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In the same way that everything is physics.
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You can definitely teach your daughter both.
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"Someone" could make the comparison. (I personally don't, it's all too complicated for me) Trying to highlight different perspectives people can have, and to challenge readers to reflect on the use of violence. Pick any
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Someone could just as easily saying tech workers are destroying the world. Something along the lines of how technology dehumanizes and displaces us. That person could then move to a shack in Montana and start mailing bombs to the engineers
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Therapeutic dose to Lethal Dose ratio.
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That article does not state that "Republicans" tanked the economy. It says the economy is on average worse when a Republican is president. All the cited sources, basically concludes that the performance of the economy is almost en
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Google shut down Google Reader on July 1, 2013. Firefox removed RSS support in version 64 on December 11, 2018, approximately 5 years and 5 months later.
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I had ChatGPT summarize this paper for me. It's pretty impressive to me that a single post doc has this much breadth in a single paper. Convex Geometry - Brunn-Minkowski theory - Surface Area Measure Measure Theory - L
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Proton is a fork of Wine maintained by Valve with various teaks, patches, and optimizations for gaming. It also has a lot of preconfigured stuff and integrations for Steam.
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I thought of Martin Shkreli, but I think he might fall under your criteria of defrauding investors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Shkreli
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As long as the speed of light remains constant for all observers, who cares if everyone agrees on simultaneity? Distributed systems don't need to know what time it is, just what happened . Well known systems are implemented this way
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Firefox and Safari are nothing like IE. IE used to crash ALL the time, and a lot of those crashes could be triggered by really nasty vulnerabilities in ActiveX which had kennel level access in Windows.
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According to this the US GDP is 1.5 times bigger than the entire EU: https://statisticstimes.com/economy/united-states-vs-eu-econ...
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According to this chemist, those balls should be Amber colored. https://youtu.be/asAd-E5_HPo?t=1270&si=EmU4rOGHF_XLNSSX
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I disagree, they'd make way more money releasing the game to a wider audience and continuing the strategy with a larger pool of customers. Though the incentive to release is definitely weaker due to them making so much money prior to o
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DCS has the same model, and I think it's a fair price considering how much work goes into these assets.
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Star Citizen is playable now. The community overwhelmingly voted for the scope screep. Myself included. They could freeze the features now, fix the bugs, and finish the content and it'd be the best space game ever. But the vision is bi
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I played Chris Robert's stuff starting with Wing Commander in the early 90s. A lot of us did. He's not a scammer, we know who he is, flaws and all. The project might fail, though I don't think it will, but it really doesn&#x2
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It's definitely not a scam, just a highly ambitious project that spends more time on mechanics and infrastructure than content. The ships by themselves are works of art. And their main funding apparatus, so of course the put an inordin
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It's not a typo, it's 750 million. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-funded_crowd...

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