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If citrulline were Rx-only in the US, then I doubt Doctor's Best would make it and I doubt Walmart would sell it: https://www.walmart.com/ip//150061958
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A dust particle in the middle of the room takes many hours to settle on the floor or other horizontal surface. During that air time, it frequently changes direction and rises and falls many times. Every time someone walks on a dusty floor,
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I was not writing metaphorically. Maybe I was unclear because I was trying not to cause offense. My question is, How would anyone know that there was a time in human history or prehistory when cats were the #1 predator of human ancestors? (
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How did people figure that out? Ever since the invention of writing, the #1 predator to humankind has been other humans, so we must go back to the time before written records to get to a time when cats were the #1 predator. My question is,
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Tobacco offers short-term relief for some the negative emotions (anxiety?) caused by schizophrenia. I have heard that it is very effective (and of course fast-acting).
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The problem is that not all of the software someone might want to run on Windows handles backslashes gracefully. There are situations in which for example VS Code will run git commands "behind the scenes" (without ever showing the
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When Pixar spun out LucasFilm in 1986, it was not worth very much because they had yet to produce any films or sell anything at all. 20 years later, Disney paid $7.4 billion for Pixar.
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Redhat is staying with IBM, not going to the spin-off: >Besides the Red Hat portfolio and Global Business Services, IBM will retain its systems business, software portfolio focused on big data, AI and security, and mission-critical publi
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And IBM's is currently $117 billion.
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>don't buy user-hostile devices Such as the Chromebooks many on this site like to rave about.
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6y ago
Have you tried browsing through mitmproxy? I have. It works, mostly, but is quite unpleasant.
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Thanks. (For clarification, in my daydream, my head is definitely higher than my feet.)
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When I daydream about something like this, it is so that I can keep my hips straight (the way they are when people are standing or lying flat). In my daydream, I am lying flat "on" ("against"?) a board, as if lying on a
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>The only transformative net effect . . . You write as if our institutions will always remain healthy and the only uncertainty our future holds is which groups or which individuals will get which share of the "pie" (or "pr
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You didn't catch my point, but never mind. (I probably should've written "a certain way of thinking about the morality of work and of money".)
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>don’t do the error of reducing the interaction to a vile matter of money The most important thing I've learned from reading antirez's blog posts is a certain way of thinking about the labor market that I'm guessing is muc
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6y ago
And since it is held together by violence, it is ok for you and your allies to use violence to oppose it, eh?
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In my experience Wordnet as an English dictionary is much worse than the dictionary (the New Oxford American Dictionary) included with Macos and iOS.
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frank2
6y ago
I misread. I appreciate the correction.
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6y ago
The wikipedia page you link to says it has a concrete core.
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The US military funded tor to give its employees a way to use the internet without divulging to the US's adversaries what sites they were reading.
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6y ago
You can buy deglycyrrhized licorice. Example: https://www.vitalnutrients.net/dgl-powder.html This product is usually used to improve health, not for its taste (though it does taste good IME), and does not contain sugar.
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I agree with you that it probably can be done. The question is whether it can be done without using more energy than it saves.
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Although his reputation would suffer by signing an order and then not taking steps to implement it, the current governor will almost certainly be retired or holding national office by the time it becomes possible (near 2035) to take practic
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Increasing O2 has physiological effects different from the effects of decreasing CO2. It is not just the ratio or difference between the concentrations that matter. For example, a major effect of increasing CO2 is to make the blood more aci
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That's not true. To pick the first example I was able to find: In United States v. Lopez, ___ U.S.____, 115 S.Ct. 1624 (1995), the Supreme Court invalidated, as beyond the powers of Congress under the Commerce Clause, the Gun Free Scho
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> consulting regarding your current employer The 6 defendants weren't Amazon employees.
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https://sci-hub.tw/10.1086/691462
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Sure, if you believe the figures published by the USSR's government.
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Oops: it was Wyse 55s I had (but they look just like the pictures of Wyse 60s I found on the web).
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