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by mr_overalls 6y ago
Alternatively, consider supporting an artisan by buying a traditionally-forged blade. https://www.etsy.com/shop/BrightForestForge
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From the article: "Repetitive DNA sequences are common throughout the genome and have always posed a challenge for sequencing because most technologies produce relatively short "reads" of the sequence, which then have to be p
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I think the person probably meant that they had to apply effortful attention while driving. Due to practice, the process is usually automatic/unconscious.
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I attended a university-based martial arts class in the late 1990s. A somewhat-elderly Asian lady (probably mid-50's) began attending classes and progressing through the ranks. She was kind of. . . well, a goofball. Transgressive sort
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Postgres vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use and Functionality – Reddit(old.reddit.com)
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According to Mayo Clinic, typical caffeine levels are: Brewed coffee (8 oz): 96 mg Brewed black tea (8 oz): 47 mg Brewed green tea (8 oz): 28 mg https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h... It's
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It's worth noting that much of his work at the patent office related to questions about transmission of electric signals and electrical–mechanical synchronization of time, two technical problems that show up conspicuously in the though
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Did the widespread adoption of GPS in the military cause a degradation in orienteering & map-reading skills?
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This is a baffling viewpoint to me. You realize that alcohol abuse isn't contagious, right?
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In addition to those systems, they use an Amazon-built private cloud. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-d...
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Exactly. I love the spirit and motivation behind Office Libre, but Excel and Word just _work_ for most basic tasks and an amazing number of corner cases. Open-source products just don't even come close. The only tools people don't
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by mr_overalls 7y ago
I'm not the person you replied to, but you might want to check out The Mind Illuminated by John Yates, a modern meditation guide (based on Buddhist practices) that delves deeply into mind's systems of attention & awareness.
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The Web Application Hacker's Handbook is also practically a must-read for those in the field. https://www.amzn.com/B005LVQA9S/
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I've heard this in a variety of meditation & martial arts communities. I think it's is more of a straw man that various groups use to build up the importance of their own methods.
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> intent of the framers The Framers were not omniscient, and the Constitution isn't a religious text. They allowed slavery, forbid women to vote, and held an 18th-century understanding of economics and science. While their design p
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by mr_overalls 7y ago
> it refers to the immoral fabrications and contextual transformations needed to maintain mass discontent with one individual person. It's a bit amazing to me that we live in the same reality. I can listen to Trump speak for perhap
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When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth – Cory Doctorow(craphound.com)
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Prime example: the NRO donated two unused spy satellites to NASA, each more powerful than the Hubble Telescope. https://www.space.com/16000-spy-satellites-space-telescopes-...
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Ten bucks says he retreats from the landsman's life to found an underwater city called Rapture.
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Exposure to a virus doesn't ensure infection - there is some probability involved, depending at least partially on the number of virus particles that you are exposed to, over what period of time. Viral load is literally a numerical exp
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If you're more at home in the .NET world, there's ClojureCLR: https://github.com/clojure/clojure-clr
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This kind of language usage isn't limited to fitting in socially in the business world. People use overly-elaborate language to appear intelligent or innovative, too. I once spent some time learning a martial art whose founder had repl
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I was on gear for more than a decade until a strange incident one morning made me quit. I had started meditating after my workout for about 20 minutes - standard "following the breath" stuff from Zen/vipassana. I'd been
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Yes. Looks like the culprit is: <td bgcolor="#000000"><img src="s.gif" width="0" height="5"></td>
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In an intro-level anthropology class I took 20 years ago, we learned about the competing models of human evolution: Multiregional vs Out of Africa. Perhaps they dumbed down the complexity for a bunch of freshmen, but I remember wondering th
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Generally, besides having a productive and globally-connected economy, a global leader will need to: 1) Function as a global policeman. Aside from serving domestic interests with this force projection, they will be expected to protect shipp
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Google is free - ads are expected. Microsoft is a paid product. Completely different situations.
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The trip from healthy patriotism to toxic nationalism (aka fascism) is sometimes a short one, friend. It's good to observe the signpots - and to heed how many we've seen already with this administration. https://forward
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There's speculation that the CCP is lying about the actual numbers of dead/infected due to 2019-nCoV, but this article is pure speculation based on a single screenshot. It's easy to change the numbers on Tencent just using th
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Stennis Space Center is also the location of a Naval Research Lab, and specifically the Naval Oceanographic Office and Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command. https://www.usno.navy.mil/NAVO https://www.public

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