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Withdrawn. Time to go to bed.
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>What is this experiment to prove I'm not lucid dreaming? For decades magician and debunker of supernatural claims James Randi placed a new object on his dining table every month, and offered a million dollar prize to anyone who cou
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Reader added context: humans are an inherent part of the universe.
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Fossil provides a mechanism called "shunning" for removing content from a repository. Every Fossil repository maintains a list of the hash names of "shunned" artifacts. Fossil will refuse to push or pull any shunned arti
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Also recommended are the books by Alan Flusser, including the classic Clothes and the Man .
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That's like saying the only limiting factor for the Titanic reaching New York is the big hole in the side of the boat.
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Great news! Just like all the other times!
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I did not look at the source paper before posting, but the paper makes it clear you're right. However, the Wikipedia page titled "Phosphine Oxide" states that reduction of the oxide back to its original state is straightforwa
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ReacTcl: Reactive Programming Infrastructure for Tcl(wiki.tcl-lang.org)
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Anything that creates hydrogen radicals could conceivably be used to construct electricity-producing fuel cells. Fuel cells normally radicalize hydrogen by contacting hydrogen with platinum catalysts under extreme conditions, requiring expe
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Not to worry, the sun is seeking us where we are.
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If a warrant has been issued, the police have no choice but to arrest you as soon as they encounter you. The matter is out of their hands. They're under orders by the judge who issued the warrant to take you. The application for the wa
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Has a warrant for your arrest been issued? If so, your lawyer could file a motion with the judge who issued the warrant to quash it, since the information on the warrant application about the identity of the offender was false.
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I agree with you and the developments you mention are serious problems. But all those developments were catalyzed by political and economic policies put in place or actively enabled by politicians who were enthusiastically elected and re-el
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The cat will be visible via the photons it emits in accordance with the blackbody radiation curve. The cat will look like a body glowing in the infrared spectrum.
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What the hell is an "object scripting language"? I'm skeptical, but if there's a natural mapping of JavaScript objects to HTML element hierarchies, and an easy way for JavaScript to parse structured information received
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Don't worry, Tcl is also being proposed as the internet scripting language standard. I'm sure wiser heads will prevail.
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Linked article claims that a vaccine was developed late and had minimal impact. Elsewhere, the case has been made that the vaccine was developed and deployed rapidly before the virus took full hold, and halted the pandemic in its tracks. h
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His timing may have been just a bit off. Research seems to be zeroing in on the brain stem as the zone where consciousness ultimately arises. https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2021/03/the-hidden-spr...
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Sounds like someone ought to step up and pitch themselves as the new domain registrar for Tonga.
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The bottleneck on large-scale farming is always nitrogen fertilizer. The only adequate source of nitrogen is ammonia manufactured from petroleum. So Brazil's chief challenge will be obtaining adequate ammonium fertilizers.
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Listening to "Nutbush City Limits" today.
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> no amount of government control can prevent bank failures This is an absurd statement that makes you sound like a child. The USA went 50 years without a bank failure after Roosevelt's reforms during the Great Depression. After tho
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Would you destroy your professional reputation and make yourself unemployable for one year's worth of salary?
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Normalize employment contracts guaranteeing a year of salary as a condition of relocation.
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Linked article says nothing about bank employees returning pay.
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You don't seem to be getting it. If your generation's attitude is defeatist, then it's your defeatism that will shape the character of the country. In the words of Pogo: "We have met the enemy and he is us."
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Another observation: millennials now outnumber boomers.The older generation can't hold them back anymore. Millennials can vote into existence the policies, priorities and lives they want. From here on, the USA is a reflection of the
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Nothing in the linked article suggests that the Treasury Dept. is actually considering this. On the contrary, it contains a quote by the treasury secretary dismissing the idea.
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Imagine that before the industrial revolution, on clear moonless nights the Milky Way would cast a shadow.

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