brippalcharrid

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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
The [perceived] consequences of ending a marriage seem to provide more of a disincentive to men, so they are more likely to persist in a marriage that they feel they would be unable to leave (and then have to support multiple households, et
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
I suspect that this was one of the first years that reports from that conference were made available in a digital format, and that the way that issues like this have been dealt with subsequently has taken into account the likely impact of s
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
That's an interesting idea, but a lot of people in the profession would reject a move like that, as it would put downward pressure on their earnings (amongst other things): > BMA meeting: Doctors vote to limit number of medical stud
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
The British Medical Association is in a position to veto changes to the number of medical students being educated in the UK, as its members have a monopoly on providing medical training, which is why they hold votes on such things at their
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
I wonder how this works in the case of identical twins, in which a person could independently contract to distribute a likeness that was indistinguishable from that of the other person.
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
That's an interesting take. What leads you to think that the artist is speaking out against child abuse, though? What do you we have to go on here that would allow us to assign that intention to them?
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
Don't worry, you will increasingly find that there are trusted media and scientific sources who will tell what it's acceptable to think. Otherwise, people will be at risk of reaching different conclusions. "The Party told you
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
Archived: https://archive.ph/Z501w
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
Severe Covid can have systemic effects (as can a lot of viruses), but mild and asymptomatic cases (in which people are developing T cell immunity following proximity to a person who has been infected, without the need for antibodies) typica
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
The immune reaction to SARS-CoV-2 tends to happen at the boundary where the immune system encounters the pathogen (your mucosa, and the respiratory epithelium, where T cells and Natural killer cells hang out), but the immune reaction to the
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
Yes, but if we can't attract the world's foremost virologists to programs that we have some degree of control over in the middle of international cities where they can engage in serial passaging of airborne HIV in the morning, and
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
The best time to develop a Strategic GIF Stockpile would have been 20 years ago; the second best time is now. Horrors would await if our geopolitical adversaries gained the upper hand and had the ability to restrict our access to memetic we
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
The treaties in place to restrict biological weapons have exclusions that permit the development (and use) of incapacitating agents. The DoD/NIAID/Daszak/Fauci model has been that a hostile nation would release a biological w
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
A lot of the precursors are made in Wuhan [1], and then make their way to labs in Mexico before the product is sent to the US [2]. 1. https://archive.ph/5HZFc 2. https://www.wsj.com/story/inside-the-mex
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
A healthy domestic cat would also come in ahead of him, in a hypothetical scenario where it cared to, but I suppose they are quadrupeds with very flexible spines.
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
Further violations will lead to the balances of your close friends and family being adjusted by -20%, and the balances of acquaintances being adjusted by -5%. Help protect against the threat of misinformation and safeguard your Balance for
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
Even not using live ammunition in the guns that you're firing into the air during celebrations would be enough to avoid this particular problem.
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
You might want to ask Whole Foods/Amazon about that: > Store-risk metrics include average store compensation, average total store sales, and a “diversity index” that represents the racial and ethnic diversity of every store. Stores
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
My experience of using Strava on a mid-range Android phone several years ago was that readings were splayed horizontally across (road-side) paths by five or ten meters in many cases. Now that I have a Garmin watch, I am gradually closing in
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
I recall that Modafinil was used in a study with US Air Force pilots and it was found that they could continue to operate for 120 hours without sleep and without significant loss of function.
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
Nonetheless, having a set of reality-according convictions that can be (and which are) practically applied appears by far to be a dominant factor, especially when you consider how many of the alternative explanations (eg. endocrine disorder
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
There's no reason why certain physically and calorifically dense foods (eg. Christmas pudding) couldn't necessarily be combined with oxidizers and fitted into solid rocket motors, which could then be used to launch significant chu
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
I thought you needed a 5DmkIII to get 1080p, because the 5DmkII has USB2.0 and is limited to a 200Mbps transfer speed (using MJPEG). And the HDMI resolution is much lower than that.
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
Shallow depth of field also means that the video codec only has to concentrate on encoding detail in the [narrow] focal plane. In my experience, the results are stunning (50mm f/1.2L @f/2.0 and diffused LED video lights), and the
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
Or perhaps our unconscious bias is providing a motivation to project meanings onto other people's words.
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
A person doesn't need to add much friction to a hobby that they would otherwise dabble in opportunistically during their leisure time for it to become a pursuit that isn't practical without structuring various other things in thei
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
This article seems to be suggesting in Scenario 5 that under certain circumstances a person (in the US) can receive the full (appraised) market value of a donated art work as a tax deduction: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
You mentioned it was on a trail; normally you'd only have a peloton on a paved road where the event organizers had checked the surfaces beforehand. You get some fairly close formation riding in (road) club runs as well, but riders are
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
Yes, but anything can be a race if you set your mind to it, which is why we have terms like the "Embankment Peloton" to describe a class of aerodynamically-optimised road cyclists that commute eastwards during rush hour on their w
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by brippalcharrid 4y ago
You'd need more than a few postgrads over the course of several weeks to synthesize a rogue planet, though.

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