iak8god

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by iak8god 6y ago
Influenza viruses have a protective sheath that works better in cold weather and allows them to survive longer outside a host: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/flu-vir...
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by iak8god 7y ago
If I'm a person who doesn't actually need this to pay my rent, then I'm just going to use the rent voucher and take the cash I was going to use to pay my rent and stash that instead.
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by iak8god 7y ago
Amazon reviewers claim the 'Bug-A-Salt 2.0 Lawn & Garden Model' works well on palmetto bugs, which I think it just what they call giant roaches in Florida?
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by iak8god 7y ago
Also dangerous to inhale, so maybe not the best idea to be launching it into the air in one's living space.
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by iak8god 7y ago
Here's a quote from the Lancet statement: > Scientists from multiple countries have published and analysed genomes of the causative agent, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2),1 and they overwhelmingly conclu
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by iak8god 7y ago
Thanks. I also just found it in this article https://newrepublic.com/article/156444/abolish-iowa-caucus > ACRONYM’s CEO, Tara McGowan, is married to Michael Halle, a strategist for Pete Buttigieg.
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by iak8god 7y ago
Do you have a source for: Acronym CEO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_McGowan is married to an advisor for the Buttigieg campaign?
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by iak8god 7y ago
I've been using Wyze to keep tabs on a new pet while I'm not at home. It is very convenient, but I was pretty worried about privacy, even before that came out. At $25 to replace, it's probably worth risking bricking it to try
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by iak8god 7y ago
In the past 20 years the number of people who go to church every week has declined by 30%. That sounds significant to me.
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by iak8god 7y ago
I think you're seriously underestimating the decline of participation in organized religion in the US both during the second half of the 20th century and in the twenty years since. Here are just a few numbers to chew on from Gallop&#x2
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by iak8god 7y ago
> So the question is, this simulated brain, which is behaving very similarly indeed to a biological brain: does it have consciousness? Does it feel? I worry we'll never know the answer to this, even if we manage to pull off such a s
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by iak8god 7y ago
That may be, but for glasses at least a key measurement is pupillary distance , and it is like pulling teeth to get them to give you this. At my most recent encounter with an optometrist - where I had already selected and was in the proces
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by iak8god 7y ago
> when I come to the USA I try and take trains when I can. Yesterday I took the Amtrak from LA to San Diego... If you've mostly taken trains in the US on the coasts, or for long cross-country trips, you may have an overly rosy view
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by iak8god 7y ago
That's not been my experience playing with this on FB with photos restricted to friends-only viewing. Right-click, open image in new tab, copy that URL and you can view it from an incognito window that has never logged into FB on any a
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by iak8god 7y ago
> We do not owe it to the world to preserve existing diversity. How about if we compromise and just stop actively destroying it? > But diversity is not something to be preserved. Well, I want it to be preserved. The world becomes a mu
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by iak8god 7y ago
Hasn't white supremacy been a leading cause of cultural extinctions at least since the age of imperialism? > If the farsis do not preserve their culture, we do not owe it to them to do so. I don't feel I owe anything to this gr
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by iak8god 7y ago
RAM and storage are soldered to the motherboard: https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/501498/Is+it+possible+to...
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by iak8god 7y ago
> suggests to me that oil companies are funding politicians from their own states This makes sense. I assume they're expecting more out of this package than some stubborn climate change denialism.
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by iak8god 7y ago
Or maybe it's this [OpenSecrets - Oil & Gas: Money to Congress | https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?ind=e01&c... ]. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salar
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by iak8god 7y ago
Ah, thank you for clarifying. What are the issues with currently available open drug information resources compared to commercial ones? I can imagine they might have information about fewer drugs, or less up-to-date information, or not eno
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by iak8god 7y ago
I am still having trouble understanding the specific problem you want solved, and what an additional open drug database would add that DrugBank lacks but that is required to accomplish your solution. It seems like your frustration is mostly
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by iak8god 7y ago
Could you explain more what you mean, both about what problem you want solved and why this is not useable?
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by iak8god 7y ago
DrugBank contains interactions: https://www.drugbank.ca/interax/drug_lookup And is downloadable under a CC license: https://www.drugbank.ca/releases/latest The US National Library of Medicine prov
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by iak8god 7y ago
> 1. I never asked for anything more 2. you still charge me for more at a higher price They were going to raise their rates anyway, this is just an attempt to make it look like you're getting something more in exchange.
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by iak8god 7y ago
> I imagine publishing a dissenting opinion is tantamount to career suicide. Opinions are not publishable. It is so damaging to propagate the idea that some guys over there have one opinion, and then some other guys have a different op
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by iak8god 7y ago
I can get over "porcelain," but the Magit site would certainly benefit from better organization. You can skim the entire landing page without gaining much sense for what it's all about, and then it turns out that if you just
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by iak8god 7y ago
No, because people's biological clocks are synchronized with the rising and setting of the sun, not with some universal clock time.
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by iak8god 7y ago
> I'm curious about your comment about the migration from smaller towns - this isn't something I've heard about in the US The percentage of Americans living in rural counties has been shrinking. Gains are mostly in the sub
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by iak8god 7y ago
According to this video they're only keeping text transcripts, so... maybe a penny over your entire lifetime.
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by iak8god 7y ago
Here's the relevant page in Archive's scan of The Book of Saint Albans: https://archive.org/details/cu31924031031184/page/n111

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