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by docbrown 8y ago
In addition to Italy, Europe as a whole is pretty picky when it comes to olive oil. As an anglo who was introduced to authentic olive oil imported from Greece.. there is a very serious distinct taste difference between cheap and legitimate
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by docbrown 8y ago
>This has been the standard for a while now. Why does higher edu charge more? Because they can!!! Partially true but there are many other reasons why. Personally, I always thought it was administrative bloat which in turn put higher cost
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FDA Seeks Ban on Menthol Cigarettes(wsj.com)
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The lens itself is never going to be able to change, correct. When we get into implifying the problem by “bringing up the ISO” though, this is where you’ll run into problems. Anybody can raise ISO from 800 to 3200 but then you run the risk
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by docbrown 8y ago
Without pushing the cost astronomically high with f/1,4 lenses, it seems as if Night Sight somehow algorithmically allows the standard f/1,8 camera to shoot two-thirds up and allow for these low-light, long-exposure shots. It’s ho
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by docbrown 8y ago
Your comment made me go back to articles on data sharing 23andme does with companies. At first I read your statement about cilantro but it seems these are just the type of questions companies are paying big money for. >For now, though, 2
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by docbrown 8y ago
IMO, even the translation of “a person fell to the ground” is representing someone who is overworked and tired. Of what, we may not know, but the feeling he is trying to portray to us is that of emptiness and loneliness. Like the screw, nob
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by docbrown 8y ago
Reading through the poems, one in particular stood out to me, ‘A screw Fell to the Ground.’ While it was done eight months before his suicide, the context seems to be relatable to how he may have been feeling—mostly the sound of “someone” p
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by docbrown 8y ago
For those of us without a NYT account, one part I found interesting from the WSJ report on the topic was their carefulness regarding pulling the trigger prematurely. While the FDA is trying to decrease the attractiveness of menthol, they’re
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by docbrown 8y ago
I’m sure Healthcare.gov contractors had a lot more bureaucracy and protocols they had to follow—especially security—regarding a project of this magnitude than a cubicle engineer at FB. Granted, the original launch was botched, trying to com
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by docbrown 8y ago
I think this sums it up with some loose ends. Freep at the Detroit Auto Show: [1] >Bill Ford said the company sees an opportunity to build on its legacy and provide leadership in the rapidly changing mobility industry. Electrification is
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by docbrown 8y ago
One thing I always thought fascinating about Gates was his candid relationship with feces. mindfuplay’s comment reminded me of the famous glass of shit water Gates drank from his Omniprocessor project [0]. But within that 2015 article, Gate
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by docbrown 8y ago
>”These deep structures in the thalamus and brainstem help our visual cortex to filter important information from the flood of visual input even before we consciously perceive it.” Interestingly, it seems that the more the signal timings
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by docbrown 8y ago
>The law you quoted appears to say it's illegal to discriminate against Unemployed Ursula for being currently unemployed, so she should have the same shot as Younger Yenina and Late Larry. It doesn't say her year of unemploymen
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by docbrown 8y ago
>I'm just saying from the perspective of an employer evaluating two candidates, if all other things are equal, and one took a year off and one didn't, and the employer chooses the candidate who was at work continuously, they we
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by docbrown 8y ago
If there’s a 30 year limit, why are tombstones that are >30yrs still standing in most cases? One of the oldest cemeteries in my town has dates going as far back as mid-1800s and I don’t think they go through periodically and dig bodies u
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by docbrown 8y ago
Even with the case having to be brought to the SC, I wonder if this is Mexico’s initial step toward attempting to curb the drug cartels. With the states legalizing recreational marihuana, that has already slowed down a lot of the over-the-b
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by docbrown 8y ago
>As I understand it THC aggravates symptoms in people predisposed to psychosis. This seems to be similar reactions to those who take doses of LSD and other psychedelic drugs.
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by docbrown 8y ago
Is there any updated texts that you or anyone else would recommend for people new to C?
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>How have politics become so corrupt? Anonymous dark money being funneled into politicians pockets, a complete lack of oversight on many departments and overall complacency from many people who now view the security state as a safety mea
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by docbrown 8y ago
one of the problems with Fentanyl is how our hands are tied when it comes to inbound shipments. Rogue laboratories in China are a pill-mill for these synthetic drugs. >Over the last decade, federal officials say, the Zheng group mailed a
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by docbrown 8y ago
>Old people might say it's just part of getting old. This is true to an extent. Motor and cognitive skills may diminish slowly with age but memory impairment diseases like Alzheimer’s and Dementia are /never/ a normal part
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>The problem with this is people easily underestimate the potency and use too much on top of the issue of varying amounts of fentanyl used to cut increasing risk. this is especially dangerous amongst users who are relapsing and initially
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by docbrown 8y ago
Drugs are still getting stronger and deadlier and much cheaper. This is obvious when you look at the a spike in Fentanyl use compared to other narcotics. While the amount needed to get high is lower, the potency is much higher. In addition
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by docbrown 8y ago
>Could this very well just be increased access and availability to Narcan Without looking up data right now: yes edit: whoever claimed my comment is inaccurate should look at the stats for Naxolene usage on opioid users ( https:/&#x
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If i’m not mistaken—using MIT’s OWC as an example—these courses are basically carbon copies of lectures they give their students. The instructors are still teaching on the campus to IRL students. The only difference is that these are then p
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by docbrown 8y ago
Here is a link from the comments that includes a high-quality PDF of the text instead of page scans: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33283/33283-pdf.pdf?session_i...
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by docbrown 8y ago
Within the parent comment and beyond, it seems people are putting emphasis on a change in temperature but do not state a deviation from the average 98.2°. Even if we did have it though, I don’t think having a longitudinal look at someone’s
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by docbrown 8y ago
The study, Microfluidic Flow Cell Array for Controlled Cell Deposition in Engineered Musculoskeletal Tissues , is from the current issue of Journal of Tissue Engineering, Part C: Methods . [0] [0] https://www.liebertpub.com&#
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Engineers develop process to 3-D print cells for human tissue(unews.utah.edu)
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