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by n0rbwah 7y ago
Not that those alternatives aren't great but for your daily liquid intake, you're probably better off with beer, cider or wine than the hard stuff.
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
The 1940 Summer Olympics was cancelled, not postponed.
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
They're going to help the impoverished founders to become millionaires.
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
At this point, I'm not sure to see any reason for them to lie about it except for the force of habit.
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
> 1) the antibodies from the drugs were unable to break up the plaques (in which case the drug is the issue) Shouldn't it be possible to have a look at the patients brains to see if there's any difference in plaque formation in
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/f19uc8/debunking...
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/f19uc8/debunking...
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
Oh, that's entirely possible. I just heard that for this particular virus (the bat virus believed to be the ancestor of 2019-nCov), transmission to human without an intermediary was very unlikely since the bat version used a receptor t
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
As was the case with SARS, it's believed that the virus made the jump from bats to humans through another animal intermediary. It was determined to be civets for SARS and I heard it was believed it might be pangolins for the new virus
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
> From what I understand the virus is treatable though highly contagious. As of now, there's no treatment for it. At best you treat the symptoms and hope the patient's immune system does its job. Some antivirals might have he
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
If they really believed in it, they could start by giving the example and hope others follow.
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
The fact that some (supposedly) technical users on HN are annoyed by this noisiness should be enough to tell you that the system's badly designed and that you can't expect most users to configure their feeds the way they'd id
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
Out of the box, you can edit remote files with > :e scp://user@myserver[:port]//path/to/file.txt It creates a temporary copy and upload it on save. For more complicated editing, sshfs would be the way to go.
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
Starting smoking while in an environment with smokers helps you socialize and be part of an ingroup. When you leave that context, all you've got left is a costly habit that's a pain to quit. But, not saying yes at that point might
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
In his afterlife, JRR Tolkien lives in middle earth as Tom.
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
Any app you've got in mind? The only one on https://search.f-droid.org/?q=firewall doesn't seem to be of interest for that purpose.
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
From the article, it sounds like they also use these tools to fight regular crime: > The European official said NSO spyware had enabled his team to learn details of a separate gang of violent bank robbers and weapons traffickers and have
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
Maybe Famine's also at work in our own world? > "CHOW contained spun, plaited, and woven protein molecules, capped and coded, carefully designed to be ignored by even the most ravenous digestive tract enzymes; no-cal sweeteners
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
If the tool you have works well for your use case, looking for and learning to use a "better tool" can be a waste of your time with little benefit.
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
You know Lindows used to be the name of a Linux distribution whose main focus was trying to look like windows and offering some compatibility with windows through wine? It was still a Linux distribution and back then, no one had ever though
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
That's really a bad example. Timers are just standard units that are executed at regular intervals instead of at startup/when a specific file is requested/when another service is started/etc. It makes perfect sense for t
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
"I just thought she was a late bloomer your honor, her manager assured me she was 18 going on 19"
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
Not really a serious advice but there it is: if you can fix some of it with some light photoshopping, do it. Plenty of women do it too and for many of them it's not at all light. Think of it as polishing your CV by omitting some embarr
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
I bet many geologists would consider themselves lucky to observe some major geological events. Just as long as it's safe enough for their person.
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
I think it's just a few individuals of each generations that are responsible for most of the world's ills while the others were either just trying to survive or thinking "there's not much I can do about it, let's ju
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
There's already a transpiler to compile python to Javascript. The question is: why would you want the hassle to add that tool to your pipeline and the added complexity of debugging your frontend code?
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
All I take from this article is that there's no consensus among experts whether speech was possible for homo sapiens' ancestors. > Based on these results, most researchers agree Neanderthals were capable of emitting and hearing
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
I didn't know we had any idea when speech started or even what form of proto-speech preceded and when it could be said it evolved to speech. Homo Erectus emerged 2 millions years ago, I'm not aware of anything that says speech cou
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
Many people writing personal diaries/letters probably didn't do so with the intention of it being saved forever in a publicly available, easily searchable archive. Yet such data is invaluable to historians and can give us a window
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by n0rbwah 7y ago
And do you have any reason to think that countries with subsidized childcare have more antisocial behavior than those without to support your claim?

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