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by avaldeso 6y ago
> I personally know at least two people who do not have to work because of the amount of money they made from bitcoin (they were very early adopters). Coincidentally, that's exactly how a Ponzi Scheme works.
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by avaldeso 6y ago
>educating and empowering women across the globe, including giving them control over family planning. What a strange point, backed by a TED talk. While I agree with it (empowering women), I don't see how it fits in the context of th
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by avaldeso 6y ago
> Jobs also had pancreatic cancer. It's just about the worst cancer you can get. Over 95% mortality rate. Jobs had GEP-NET cancer, which have 5 years OSR of 70% at stage IV. It's a slow growing cancer, very survivable and even
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by avaldeso 6y ago
> There’s also Emperor of All Maladies (and his other book Genes) from another author that may be of interest. Author name's Siddhartha Mukherjee. Great book, focused more on history of oncology than the biology of cancer though.
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by avaldeso 6y ago
> Linguist Thomas Sebeok, building on earlier work by Alvin Weinberg and Arsen Darnay and working as part of the Human Interference Task Force, proposed the creation of an atomic priesthood, a panel of experts comparable to the Catholic
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by avaldeso 6y ago
Animatrix: Second Renaissance. Sick reference bro.
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by avaldeso 6y ago
Graphene? Are there consumer products based on any of the hype on graphene? Honest question.
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by avaldeso 6y ago
> Vision really disappointed in the penultimate. I think his character was hyped up a lot in Age of Ultron. Became disappointing seeing him go so easily. To be fair most overpowered characters where nerfed in Endgame. eg. Fat Thor, Dr. S
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by avaldeso 6y ago
If they're so advanced why build colonies in extremely dangerous environments? There's a lot of better places out there
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by avaldeso 6y ago
This seems like a case of curicubaitsu, the Japanese art of writing clickbait headlines.
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by avaldeso 6y ago
Single Page Application. A single page running JavaScript to render different views without page reloading. https://medium.com/@NeotericEU/single-page-application-vs-mu...
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by avaldeso 6y ago
> On a side note, I like how The Expanse sidesteps the scientific issues of interstellar travel with alien magic. I thought the "alien magic" behind the gates technology was the same old K. Thorne wormholes. > On yet another
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by avaldeso 6y ago
Well, cancer is the second leading cause of death in the world.
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by avaldeso 6y ago
> No magically going to another galaxy in the blink of an eye. Spoiler alert. They do though, kinda. Thousands of systems but all in the Milky Way.
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by avaldeso 6y ago
Covid 19 death toll as September 28 is 1 million [1]. Not millions. Please, don't spread misinformation. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus
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by avaldeso 6y ago
I really don't understand the thing with the "Wuhan virus" name. We already have diseased named after places: Ebola, Marburg, Hanta, Junín, Lyme, Crimea-Congo, etc. Why the outrage now for calling it Wuhan Virus? Why it _has
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by avaldeso 6y ago
> Co Sider biology. What is the last major biology idea that made a huge public splsh? DNA? The human genome sequence? But are biologists stuck the world round? Of course not there have been hundreds if not thousands of notable biology f