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by hagy 16y ago
Concerns of breathing in this silicate have been popping up a lot in this discussion (especially concerns about silicosis). I’d just like to point out that we’re discussing very small quantities; nano-coatings of ~100nm, only 15-30 molecul
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by hagy 16y ago
There is actually a little more to getattr in that __dict__ just has attributes local to that instance where as getattr (also instance.attribute syntax) also accesses class attributes, non-bound methods, and properties. Additionally, these
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by hagy 16y ago
A few comments here have discussed microwaves influencing biochemistry by non-ionizing mechanisms. To address these concerns, it’s easy to show that microwaves cannot provide enough energy to alter any biochemical pathway unless one imagine
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by hagy 16y ago
Duress is where someone forces another into a bad position, eg by setting the house on fire first. Duress only implies impaired judgment of the contract signer as due to immediate fear; it doesn’t imply the other party created the situati
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by hagy 16y ago
Custom hardware for chemical physics has been tried multiple times before since the late 70s. I’ve heard most companies only found financial success through bloated government contracts and the custom hardware only provided limited advanta
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by hagy 16y ago
I thought about this a while a back, and as ridiculous as their TV ads are, I do believe they serve a purpose: getting members of the general public to start with go daddy when they want to create a website. I’d wager a significant portion
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by hagy 16y ago
In my experience, having python as the root node for multithreaded C/python programs generally doesn't present a problem. When calling into external C functions through ctypes, the GIL is released such that multithreading at the C-level is