fabian2k

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by fabian2k 4y ago
Decline the edit suggestion or roll back if the edit is not an improvement. You don't have to argue here for edits that are not obvious and clear improvements. If the user repeats these edits, just flag for mod attention. Edit wars can
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by fabian2k 4y ago
The actual rule here is about question where every answer is equally valid, so asking for pure opinions ( https://stackoverflow.com/help/dont-ask ). Questions that have multiple potential answers are valid questions in g
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by fabian2k 4y ago
I'd really, really like to see links to specific questions that were closed for allegedly bad reasons. These posts complaining about SO almost never contain them, so we're only getting half the story. Stack Overflow can be a rathe
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by fabian2k 4y ago
I still find it sad that a huge amount of effort was put into testing two drugs based on bad initial data. Both Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin simply were never as promising as some people claimed, but both pretty much hijacked the entir
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by fabian2k 4y ago
Why is this position left-leaning? It's only left-leaning from a US perspective.
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by fabian2k 4y ago
Air is mostly nitrogen, and that isn't dangerous.
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by fabian2k 4y ago
Generalizing over the entirety of Europe is not useful, the countries and political positions are too diverse for that. And at least in Germany I don't see anyone questioning universal healthcare. There are of course discussions on the
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by fabian2k 4y ago
I don't mean a majority supports this position, I mean that really nobody opposes it at all. The US Republican position on health care is entirely outside the German political spectrum, it does not exist here in any party that is repre
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by fabian2k 4y ago
Having universal health insurance available for everyone is a consensus opinion in Germany, no party disagrees with that. In the US "socialized medicine" is a controversial topic.
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by fabian2k 4y ago
It's from a comedy show, but it does describe a part of the current US political spectrum well. A significant part of US conservatives make claims that are simply wrong, not just a different political opinion but just outright contradi
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by fabian2k 4y ago
Memorizing things is not useless. Learning concepts and principles is more important, but you also need some amount of facts memorized to make use of them. For example, I had to memorize the structural formulas for all amino acids in univer
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by fabian2k 4y ago
Kinda hard to say anything here with only the abstract. The interesting part for me isn't so much the test method itself, but whether the biomarkers used here are actually good for anything. And as already mentioned in another comment,
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by fabian2k 4y ago
You're assuming that the vinyl chloride burns perfectly and all of it will be converted without residue, which I don't think is a safe assumption. The products of burning it are less problematic than the original, but setting it o
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by fabian2k 4y ago
I'm from Germany, if not being able to remove a book from the school library riles you up that much, you probably would hate it here. Children are required to go to school, there is no home schooling possible. You also can't remov
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by fabian2k 4y ago
So what exactly is so objectionable in The Handmaids Tale that high school students should never be exposed to?
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by fabian2k 4y ago
Children are not the property of their parents. I do see the attitude that parents should be able to fully control what content their children are exposed to as problematic. The school is full of education professionals, we're not in a
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by fabian2k 4y ago
The books in a school library should be roughly appropriate for the age of the students. So while I think this is important for e.g. primary school kids, older kids should be able to read a large part of literature. I don't think paren
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by fabian2k 4y ago
The difference between the old stories from Hersh and the new ones is that the old ones have corroborating evidence and documents or images. Abu Ghraib wasn't just alleged by a single anonymous source, there were pictures and other evi
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by fabian2k 4y ago
There are restrictions on the sale of dangerous chemicals, and in general the vendors that sell chemicals simply don't sell to private persons at all. I'm not sure where the exact legal boundaries are, and whether the typical stuf
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by fabian2k 4y ago
It's very easy to give bacteria certain antibiotic resistances, the mechanism is pretty much identical to the one used to make them green fluorescent in these kits. You transform the bacteria with a plasmid, they take this up and produ
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by fabian2k 4y ago
Any genetic modifications would require an S1 laboratory in Germany, that is not something any private person could do. You would have to go to a university or company with an approved S1 laboratory to do such experiments.
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by fabian2k 4y ago
I wouldn't call it very easy, it's certainly routine in the lab but still can be a lot of effort. This also has to include purification, not just synthesis. And without a real lab it can get much more difficult. And many proteins
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by fabian2k 4y ago
The effect of salt is quite limited, changing the other parameters is much more powerful. But yes, it requires different equipment that not everyone has or requires more manual effort than a simple coffee machine.
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by fabian2k 4y ago
Putting basic chemicals into an acidic solution to make it less acidic is trivially obvious. The interesting question here is what this does to the taste of coffee, which can be heavily influenced by the water. I would have suspected that t
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by fabian2k 4y ago
That's really more of a hack, there are better ways to avoid bitter coffee. If you use a light or medium roast and can adjust grind size and temperature, the coffee doesn't have to be bitter.
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by fabian2k 4y ago
I understand that OS and browser vendors want to protect users from all kinds of exploits, but it's extremely annoying that essentially any new and unknown binary is treated as if it contained a virus. Windows will show a warning dialo
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by fabian2k 4y ago
SEPA Lastschrift is very safe, you can easily revoke any charge. So giving out your account number here is not a significant security risk. And otherwise credit cards and Paypal are the main choices. You can probably just save your credit c
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by fabian2k 4y ago
Is there any kind of protection against termination while being pregnant in the US? I know there are very few protections like that, but this does seem like a case that would come up more often in the situation "fired because they got
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by fabian2k 4y ago
There was general dissatisfaction with her work and multiple other things she was criticized for.
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by fabian2k 4y ago
In EF Core for example you have to specify which relations to include, either using ".Include()" or transforming the entire query with a "Select()". In the latter case this works pretty much automatically as long as you

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