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by ejolto 7y ago
You're right, it's both.
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by ejolto 7y ago
I think the GP meant "If the soil has been frozen for hundreds of thousands of years, how does it contain mammoths that lived < 10000 years ago". Either the permafrost is younger than "hundreds of thousands of years"
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by ejolto 7y ago
That makes no sense in context of Norwegian as "get burnt by" is an English idiom. Closest Norwegian equivalent to getting burnt I can think of is "å få lang nese" which translates into "to get a long nose", e.
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by ejolto 7y ago
I'm interested in knowing what the consequences were for the source nest from the sudden influx of a million escaped worker ants, positive or negative.
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by ejolto 7y ago
That is really cool. Do you know if the source code is available somewhere? Would be interesting to try running it on modern hardware.
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by ejolto 7y ago
What are you insinuating? That atmospheric research causes heatwaves in Europe?
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by ejolto 7y ago
The Mathematica screenshot can't be from 1988, it seems to be running on ubuntu 10 or newer judging from the title bar buttons look and position. Edit: This is from 88 https://twitter.com/WolframResearch/status&#x2
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by ejolto 7y ago
Must be a Poland thing. The hostels I've stayed in in western Europe have all had dorms.
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by ejolto 7y ago
This is exactly what I meant. Thanks for sharing your experience.
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by ejolto 7y ago
Fungi are not plants though. Fungi are actually more closely related to animals than plants [1][2]. Plants not getting cancer is irrelevant when talking about cancer rate in mold/fungi. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by ejolto 7y ago
Dude. CBD is antipsychotic[1] and thus might help people with schizophrenia. THC is psychoactive [2] and should probably be avoided by people with schizophrenia. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22716160 [2] ht
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by ejolto 7y ago
Boeing also has the model number on a plate in the doorway. Of course if you can read it, you've already boarded.
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by ejolto 7y ago
Who is limiting my right to go ice climbing or paragliding? There's no government ban on those activities?
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by ejolto 7y ago
In the caption of the video "WATCH: AI helps clear cannabis conviction backlog".
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by ejolto 7y ago
He quit Google last year, he's working at a blockchain startup now.
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by ejolto 7y ago
Bringing butter, peanut butter or mayonnaise on a hike is not about eating more but about carrying less. 300g of butter for example is about 2150 calories, enough food for a day for a small person. Compare that to pasta and you would need t
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by ejolto 8y ago
What stimulants do the energy drinks contain? Caffeine and nicotine? Hardly comparable to amphetamines..
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by ejolto 8y ago
Unix time starts counting upwards from zero on January 1st 1970. It's a joke. If they had Unix computers in the lander they would have had to use negative time since the first moon landing happened in 1969.
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by ejolto 8y ago
Could you expand on this? How wide was your experience? What signs did you see of it coming? And what should you have done in your opinion to stay more employable?
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by ejolto 9y ago
Even if it wasn't fake the viking age ended before 1100 after Norway had been christened.
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by ejolto 9y ago
He talks about using the measles virus as an attack vector. Measles is an extremely contagious virus.
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by ejolto 9y ago
> That's like spending $1 if you've got $100 in your wallet. You are off by an order of magnitude.
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by ejolto 9y ago
Norwegian living in Switzerland here. Taxes vary from canton to canto but are much lower than both Sweden and Norway in general, you will be better off financially in Switzerland. I will probably move back to Norway at some point though. Th
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by ejolto 9y ago
The SiC handles temperatures > 200C fine. The problem with COTS SiC components is that they use aluminum wire bonds that don't hold up well at those high temperatures[1]. There has been research done to evaluate platinum and palladi
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by ejolto 9y ago
Europe is also working on returning to Venus. Electronics meant to withstand the conditions on Venus are being developed at KTH in Sweden[1]. They are also Silicon Carbide based [2]. [1] https://www.kth.se/en/forskning&
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by ejolto 9y ago
Instagram has a slick, easy to use, minimalist ui. Fotolog.com looks messy in comparison.
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by ejolto 9y ago
Unix and C is more known, so that would be my assumption too. In fact I can't name any IBM made OSes or programming languages.
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by ejolto 9y ago
If we are moving the moon, we might as well just move the earth to a higher orbit further from the sun.
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by ejolto 9y ago
If you crash the entire asteroid belt into Mars, its mass will increase by half a percent.
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by ejolto 9y ago
Do you mean terraforming Earth or Mars? Handling global warming will probably be easier than terraforming Mars.

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