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by kian 5y ago
Wuhan Virology Institute is not located near a natural reservoir.
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by kian 5y ago
Genetic screening is looking for a particular genetic disorder. Polygenic screening looks for more than one genetic condition at one time.
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by kian 5y ago
So far, these posts are fluff, but this does not mean that just because humanity did not succeed in mathematically understanding harmony in the early twentieth century that it must be impossible.
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It is also possible that they read just about anything on mathematical music theory, where representing chords as sets of integers modulo twelve is standard.
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by kian 5y ago
Piano has also been my go to this pandemic. I've also been finding a lot of joy in applying my programming skills to music as well. What are you using to convert MP3 to MIDI? How accurate is it?
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by kian 5y ago
TERF both manages to connote something that should be stepped upon and is used to box in a person's opinions to a caricature so that a label can be applied (a stereotype, in other words), rather than listening to what they say. I'
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by kian 5y ago
Pretty sure it's still considered rude.
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I had a teacher in high school, specializing in ancient latin and greek, who told me about the musculus --> little mice connection. He was also a very strong Austrian -- to demonstrate the reason, he pulled up his shirt sleeve, made a cl
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by kian 5y ago
I'd love to hear your explanations re linear algebra on all of the above, but most especially with respect to music composition.
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by kian 5y ago
At the risk of mis-stating the hypothesis, the book is more about the active coupling or entrainment of bio-rhythms between individuals as what 'love' is. That we are able to regulate the bio-rhythms of others with our own, and we
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by kian 5y ago
I've used both. Induction stoves are magical, and I also love gas. If you were going to electrify, go induction and you might even enjoy the fact that many things get to temperature faster.
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I would highly recommend "A General Theory of Love" as the antidote to belief in the last example you gave. A poetically beautiful book.
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It is to discourage unlawful activity on the part of law enforcement.
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by kian 5y ago
As it is too late to edit my comment, I wanted to write this here, rather than sending a private email, dang. I apologize if the questions of myself and other users on this site today has set you on edge - and I am sure that today, in publi
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by kian 5y ago
I believe the principle of charity is enshrined in the HN guidelines. There's no need to assume ill intent here, either on my part or on the part of many others who believe in the bedrock, foundational principle of free speech. I don&#
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This explains the flagging. It does not explain the 'duplicate content' article from CNN on the origins of the Tank Man photo, which I believe requires HN moderator activity.
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@dang, I think we need an explanation for why Tank Man-related content on Hacker News has been disappearing all day. I usually trust HN to be a bastion of free speech, and if there isn't some kind of proportionate response here, I don&
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by kian 5y ago
Bullying individuals is not new. Arguing that bedrock principles of legal justice like innocent until proven guilty are quaint and antiquated in the face of the 'horrors' of the accusations (odd that they should apply to serial ki
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by kian 5y ago
Are you saying you not only had an allergic response afterwards, but that your new allergies persist to this day? If so, very interesting. I wonder if a severely-heightened immune response could cause your body to sensitize to otherwise har
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I feel like programming in a point-free style is the closest to writing prose that coding gets for me. A composition of named functions in sequence is essentially a functional sentence. The ability to effortlessly re-arrange the product on
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by kian 5y ago
It's a shame that the third book is so unrepentantly a young adult novel, by comparison to the much more mature first two books.
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We are not saying to "postpone" history lessons, but to contextualize them with other historical facts that are more important. While the holocaust is extremely important, I believe that a celebration of their shared culture, incl
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by kian 5y ago
The first step to doing something about it is actually believing you're capable of it. I believe what the person you are responding to is trying to get across is that if we first focused on the achievements of a people, then when they
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"... upskilling initiatives ... put the onus on workers to improve themselves in order to improve their job-market prospects and the American economy in general. In so doing, they make individual what is clearly a governmental and soci
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by kian 6y ago
Vaccines for tetanus don't cause lockjaw. Vaccines for measles don't give you bumps all over your body. Most vaccines, except for those that used to work by actually infecting you with a related virus, do not cause the same sympto
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by kian 6y ago
The only prescription this article appears to make is "Positive Construal" -- thinking of potentially traumatic events as opportunities for growth, learning, and forming tighter social and community bonds seems to prevent them fro
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Saline solutions dissolve mucous.
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A clarification - this isn't just 'blood clots', it is an extremely rare form of blood clotting that has a 40% risk of death, in a population that has an extremely low risk of death from COVID, where it works out to be 7x as
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TLDR: acting for the Theater and Vaudeville requires not only speaking in odd ways to be heard, it also requires one to exaggerate to project one's facial expressions and gestures. It took some time to get out of the cultural habits th
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While true, a source and its causal sinks are still not identical. To whit - in a large enough free society, some will choose to offer themselves up for enslavement. Since freedom begets slavery, freedom is slavery. All’s well that’s Orwel

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