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Habitual total water intake and dimensions of mood in healthy young women: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25963107 Effects of changes in water intake on mood of high and low drinkers: http://www.ncbi.nlm
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4. An world-changing vision that people can easily understand and are willing to get behind. Less the product, more the future.
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I think the fact this violates the standard would be the greatest difficulty.
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Keyword is loan . The loan in question was repaid this year.
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There are [multiple desalination methods]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination ). My favourite is [reverse osmosis]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_osmosis ), though it does cost about $
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This is not a bug in vim. This is because Esc was historically used as a Meta key in lieu of the modern use of Alt. For example, if you use tmux, add the following to .tmux.conf: set -s escape-time 0 Other terminal multiplexors and
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I can imagine implementing a direct threaded Forth, but instead of code addresses being memory locations, code addresses are a virtual address; DOCOL and NEXT swap in the appropriate segment of code into memory where necessary. This could p
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Yes it was close to meco.
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You very much have to be flexible. Most valuable would be C and assembly knowledge (and knowledge of the low level details of both is pretty much required). As for tool writing, any high level language (perferably what your employer uses).
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> If there really does exist a direct linkage between the brain and the immune system The interaction of the CNS and the immune system has been more recently studied over the past 10 years. This field is known as neuroimmunology. The mos
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Indeed! Though mouse anatomy doesn't entirely transfer over to human anatomy. I interpreted your comment to refer to experimentation in humans, I apologise if I misunderstood. You seem to be surprised that our current knowledge of basi
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Lymphatic tracing is generally more often done with dyes in the case of removal of sentinal nodes due to e.g. cancers. However, there been work in injecting radioimmunoagent tracers into lymphatics especially in the case of melanomas. The l
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Sometimes I can't tell if people are being serious about their objections to this or if they are willingly oblivious.
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For time travellers: https://github.com/losvedir/ephemeral2/wiki/This-page-exists...
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Yes, git does use hashes, but git similarly doesn't work in that manner for the same reason. Git commits can only point to commits in the past and not future commits. It is not possible to update old commits like you suggest. The HEAD
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ID is a hash of the content so that's not possible unless you find a hash collision (highly unlikely with sha256).
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Inflation is meant to serve that goal.
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The SuperDraco offers deep throttling down to 20% so it's feasible with SpaceX's current technology (though I'm not quite so sure about throttling the Dracos currently on the F9), though I'm not sure about payload sizes
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It's primary purpose is to be embeded, so it has a similar interop interface to other embeddable languages: http://squirrel-lang.org/doc/squirrel3.html#d0e4060
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It's primary advantage over Lua is definitely it's better realtime guarantees.
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It's been around since <2003, so it's hardly new. It's primary purpose was a high performance scripting language for game engines. That being said I agree with you wrt new semantics and I would love to see a practical prog
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Generally it's anything that you can express using a probabilistic graphical model. It's mainly useful in engineering (real engineering), control systems, robotics, inference, machine learning and artifical intelligence circles.
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If you want to know about the history of similar language paradigms, look at logic programming. Similar to probabilistic programming, it is declarative, utilises an engine at run time, the user builds a model of the word then queries it, an
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That requires traffic on the socket to exist.
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The phrase "copious free time" is itself sarcastic, but it usually just implies "please be patient" rather than "I won't do it".
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I quote: > Some time ago we received a polite request from the creators of another app to stop using the word "plague" in our name because we were both using it. We prefer to spend our time and money on perfecting user experien
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What is it? Is it a fancy keyboard? Does it have a 6502 except with additional fanciness for I/O?
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I found his postmortem of qmail interesting reading: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf
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One of my favourite stories growing up.
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Your SATA controller must be AHCI compatible for this to work (i.e.: your SATA controller tells the OS whenever a drive is connected or disconnected). Look up SATA hotswapping.
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