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by mirimir 7y ago
Yes, same video.
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by mirimir 7y ago
I wonder who shot the footage. It seems like they asked for something, in a playful way. Both the men and women seem amused, or even flirtatious. The woman at 1:27 is clearly flirting, and the women at 3:56 and 4:06 stick their tongues out.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Huh. I see that some artificial vanillin is made from lignin, but I don't know whether natural wood decomposition creates vanillin. Do you have a reference for that?
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by mirimir 7y ago
Maybe not. But re scraping and indexing, there's a quid pro quo .
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by mirimir 7y ago
> In the area around Puget Sound, the University of Washington team found, the spicy residues that remain in wastewater end up flowing into the sound's inland waterways. > Of all the flavors trickling downstream, artificial vanil
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by mirimir 7y ago
Right, but who? LBJ and southern conservatives? The Mafia? Castro? And why use a shooter with such obvious Soviet connections? My best guess is southern conservatives who, among other things, hated him for backing down over Bay of Pigs. So
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by mirimir 7y ago
Huh. I live in a rural area. Tourism (hunting, fishing, etc) is the main driver for visitors. Now many locals do not want visitors, notwithstanding the money that they spend.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Inspired by Stephenson's Cryptonomicon , I do Aikido sword kata with a 2cm x 30cm steel bar. I move rather slowly, and don't put much momentum into the bar. So the practice forces good form, in addition to maintaining strength. E
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by mirimir 7y ago
Sure, but they might expect more work than you'd want to do.
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by mirimir 7y ago
That'd arguably be less convenient than nasal swabs. But on the other hand, it might be more sensitive for early infections, given that TFA notes: > Studies have also shown that SARS-CoV-2 can appear in faeces within three days of i
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by mirimir 7y ago
Interesting. That's also been done for recreational drugs. And artificial vanilla flavoring. I wonder whether sampling from sewage pumping units could be done. That might produce higher resolution data. But getting representative sampl
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by mirimir 7y ago
Yes. For many, it's "all y'all" ;)
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by mirimir 7y ago
I'd say "if y'all got".
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by mirimir 7y ago
Yep, sure is.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Maybe so. But doesn't HN scan for concerted behavior?
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by mirimir 7y ago
If it behaves like other coronaviruses, there's a pretty good chance that it'll be circulating indefinitely. So at long as at-risk people haven't been infected, they'll need to isolate indefinitely. As I see it, quaranti
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by mirimir 7y ago
OK, so my wife and I are both over 70, and she's immunocompromised. Even so, personal issues aside, I agree that a global shut-down for a year or more would be hugely, even unimaginably, disruptive. And I also agree that health impacts
588.
by mirimir 7y ago
I agree that effective medicines and/or vaccines would shrink the area aka total percentage of the population that eventually become infected. Although both remain unknowns, let's assume one or two years. Neither adequate supplies
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by mirimir 7y ago
I was thinking when as in before or during inflation. But maybe that's silly.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Thanks. Merging did seem improbable. I do recall the hypothesis about primordial density perturbations. There's a great animation about that in Takashi Miike's God's Puzzle .
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by mirimir 7y ago
OK, so this is less than 1% the size of supermassive black holes: > Weighing in at about 50,000 times the mass of our Sun, the black hole is smaller than the supermassive black holes (at millions or billions of solar masses) that lie at
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by mirimir 7y ago
My home office for years was a walk-in closet. Just big enough for a small desk and a chair. Because I'd turned my old office into a server room, and it was too noisy. But before I did that, I hacked used cube farm partitions into offi
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by mirimir 7y ago
I don't know about herpes, but I vaguely recall that people have been prosecuted for spreading HIV. Maybe even convicted, but I don't recall.
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by mirimir 7y ago
That's my default reaction too. And I am glad that I don't have a smartphone, or use my cellphone much. But still, I get the argument that quarantines and contact tracing are essential now. I may not be readily traceable, but I ac
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by mirimir 7y ago
Back in the day, before electronic communications, public health surveillance was just the best surveillance possible. So I believe that it's a largely artificial distinction. Even so, I agree that there are ways to do public health su
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by mirimir 7y ago
I believe that it ought to be. I mean, a computer is a computer, and unauthorized access is unauthorized access. No matter who's involved.
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by mirimir 7y ago
The "free market" response would be something like "when there's a shortage of them". But in fact, it's misleading to call them "contractors". Back in the day, they would have been called "temps&
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by mirimir 7y ago
> It should not be the simple act of accessing a computer contrary to the owners terms and conditions that is a crime, but the specific acts of searching for, wilfully accessing and sharing privileged information on systems where the per
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by mirimir 7y ago
There's a dark side to childlike questions. I've seen presenters at seminars destroyed by seemingly innocent questions. Also deponents, for that matter.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Before reading TFA, I was expecting more anti-RTFM advice. So I was surprised by the focus on asking childlike questions. I tend to ask childlike questions, but I follow up with explanation of what I've tried, and RTFM evidence.

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