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by kleton 2y ago
Acetate from glucose requires oxygen
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by kleton 2y ago
A case where "cut" is its own antonym, and its unclear which sense is meant from the headline alone.
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by kleton 2y ago
Prices in Ancient Greece in Athens in the 5th century BC 1 loaf of bread 1 obolos The standard rate for a prostitute 3 oboloi 6 oboloi are 1 drahma, about 4 drahmai to the shekel. That coin is 1/16 shekel, so about 1.5 loaves
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by kleton 2y ago
This has been a perennial "story" for at least 15 years on English language internet, but for actual Chinese it's not really a thing.
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by kleton 2y ago
Mammals can safely get a pretty large fraction of their carbon and energy from acetic acid directly.
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by kleton 2y ago
The canned meats, "tushenka", also became a USSR thing after the US sent massive amounts of it as lend-lease food.
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by kleton 2y ago
It was one of the STEP interns that took down Google prod by modifying some config file by putting something erroneous into an automated tool. Everyone at the company was locked out, and someone had to physically access some machines in a d
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by kleton 2y ago
What if they released honey badgers in Florida? Not saying they're any more native than the pythons, but at least they have personality.
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by kleton 2y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-mi%C5%9F#Turkish
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by kleton 2y ago
> The large sandstone reef to the south east of the wreckage with a pinnacle at the blinder known as Birkenhead Rock slopes down to about 27 m at the edge of the sand, which runs roughly east–west magnetic. The slope of this reef is quit
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by kleton 2y ago
The article is wrong. The coordinates of the wreck can be found in the diving guide https://wikitravel.org/en/Diving_in_South_Africa/HMS_Birkenh...
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by kleton 2y ago
It was less than a mile to shore, but still amazing that one man made the swim https://maps.app.goo.gl/tLhRhBLb1DFMpCY56
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by kleton 2y ago
This one burns out quickly with regular daily use. Something near where the power cord comes in at the back.
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by kleton 2y ago
Archae have ether linkages in their lipids, bacteria and eukaryotes have glycerol esters.
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by kleton 2y ago
> The bright-yellow robot is the Norppa 300 norppa is the Suomi word for a seal, for anyone curious
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by kleton 2y ago
Given the replication crisis in the sciences, objectively this is probably a good thing, but the incumbents in the field would strongly push back against it becoming a norm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_cri
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by kleton 2y ago
What is the Coulombic efficiency? A paper membrane probably leaks a lot, but a state of the art ion exchange membrane probably runs $1k/m2.
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by kleton 2y ago
Oedipus Rex doesn't work if there are paternity tests but that doesn't mean it can't be appreciated.
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by kleton 2y ago
Different people could look at the same clip and assign different probabilities to P(ballot stuffer) vs P(Family ballot courier). It would depend on your Bayesians priors. If a person from a high trust society like Sweden or Finland were to
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by kleton 2y ago
Did you try very hard? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXAp8My7Js
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by kleton 2y ago
It's even what suomi call Sweden - ruotsi
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by kleton 2y ago
They won't know you're American until you open your mouth. There is such a wide variety of phenotypes in SPB that people will just assume you are a Russian. Russians these days mostly have friendly excited reactions to foreigners
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by kleton 2y ago
I wish they sold cmyk crayons and watercolors for children.
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by kleton 2y ago
google3, all the devex tooling was taken care of by other teams. Tons of useful library functions available to import, accumulated over decades.
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by kleton 2y ago
It was a nice jacket they were giving out though.
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by kleton 2y ago
Searching for "bacteria use perchlorate as terminal electron acceptor" it seems that the perchlorate thing is a simple matter of bioremediation, just give some bacterial an electron source (reduced carbon substrate).
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by kleton 2y ago
> [src, dst] is closer to human language In English, but not Telugu.
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Article doesn't mention ploidy, source paper says octoploid.
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> name attached Blameless (and nameless) postmortems are a cultural thing at google
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I'd always assumed these were cosmic rays

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