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by pcrh 8y ago
>Kapton tape Is that duck tape for spaceships?
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by pcrh 8y ago
You need to add the UK to your super-Schengen list :-/
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by pcrh 8y ago
There is merit in having a deductible, however there are several ways in which this system is flawed. First, employers should be out of the healthcare equation entirely, except in as far as either taxes or salaries are used to fund health c
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by pcrh 8y ago
I agree with you, too bad you've been down-voted...
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by pcrh 8y ago
The major expense in home purchase is the purchase of the land, not construction. So rising construction standards are not the prime drivers behind current high prices.
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by pcrh 8y ago
I doubt an argument based on lack of profit would hold in other cases of intellectual property infringement by a major corporation.
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by pcrh 8y ago
Why was the royalty payable only on unused stamps? Surely if a royalty was due, it should be on all stamps that used the image?
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by pcrh 8y ago
Perhaps. However, EU legislation only covers a limited number of areas, mostly to do with trade and standards. With a few additional areas such as migration within the EU itself. That is, it has limited impact on purely national matters, or
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by pcrh 8y ago
The council of ministers (delegates from each member state) can veto any legislation proposed by the commission or parliament. In Germany, USA, etc, the demos elects the president, in the EU the president is proposed by the council of minis
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by pcrh 8y ago
> I wish that the EU structures are reformed into something that resembles a "standard" modern democratic government The problem with that is that it would give democratic legitimacy to the EU parliament and commission. This wo
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by pcrh 8y ago
It's useful to your argument that you excluded the famines in Ireland and India under the British. Let alone slavery, etc.
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by pcrh 8y ago
I doubt populating the moon or mars would have reached that level. Consider Antarctica, it is vastly easier and cheaper to live there than even in near earth orbit, and it has huge untapped natural resources, yet the population of Antarctic
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by pcrh 8y ago
The chart shows all persons, and all ages. You can see the decrease in child mortality at the left of the curve, and the relatively small change in the age of the oldest at the right part of the curve. In the central part you can see where
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by pcrh 8y ago
The median may not have changed much, or even the age of the oldest. However,the distribution has changed significantly. Check out this chart of mortality curves from 1851 to a forecast for 2031. Mortality curves they have become much more
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by pcrh 8y ago
"Condo" stands for 'condominium", i.e. the building is mutually owned. In the UK it would be the equivalent of each flat owner owning a part of the freehold for the building. So in a condo all owners are mutually respons
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by pcrh 8y ago
The article describes a situation where your co-worker is potentially doing something unproductive, and how you can get them to change. The situation where your own boss is making a mistake, and you yourself have to carry out their instruct
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by pcrh 9y ago
"The dose makes the poison". It would be too broad to claim that all serine hydrolyases are susceptible to all organophosphate compounds. For example many pesticides are organophosphates, yet have little effect on humans.
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by pcrh 9y ago
Indeed. It's quite hard to make a profit from selling your own home in Belgium unless you have lived there for a long time. However, it appears that these extra costs are what prevents the Belgian housing market from inflating the way
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by pcrh 9y ago
I stand corrected... I was thinking of serine hydrolyases more generally, most of which are not significantly affected by organophosphate neurotoxins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serine_hydrolase
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by pcrh 9y ago
The OPCW reports on Syria's chemical weapon efforts can be found at the link below. Syria has been making and deploying chemical weapons for quite a while. https://www.opcw.org/special-sections/syria/
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by pcrh 9y ago
Just for your information, the mechanism of organophosphate nerve agent toxicity does not involve serine hydrolyases. It involves acetylcholinesterase. https://chemm.nlm.nih.gov/nerveagents.htm
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by pcrh 9y ago
IKEA assembly is trivial for most humans. But that is not the point of the article. The point of the article is that it is non-trivial for humans to make robots able to do what they can do easily themselves. The IKEA task was likely chosen
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by pcrh 9y ago
Noob question here... why is stroke order important? Surely if the final result is the same, why should the order in which the strokes were formed matter?
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by pcrh 9y ago
Thanks for this post -- it was an education!
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by pcrh 9y ago
"Malaysia" includes Sarawak, which is on the same island as Borneo and home to about 8,000 orangutans who are also threatened.
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by pcrh 9y ago
In the same vein there is the famous cover of Mariah Carey's "Without You" by Valentin Hasan, known as "Ken Lee": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI
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by pcrh 9y ago
Probably there would be "signal decay", but one can still make sense of a text when many of the letters are missing. So the decay would have to be more than 50% for the message to be completely useless. Also, a million years is qu
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by pcrh 9y ago
That's a bit revisionist. Millions of people were out demonstrating against this war. My own realization that people were being mislead was Colin Powell's speech at the UN. The evidence he presented for WMD was so flimsy it was la
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by pcrh 9y ago
>There is no precedent for invading a nuclear armed state. The Argentine invasion of the Falklands might be considered an exception to that.
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by pcrh 9y ago
Wikipedia could be encoded into DNA and them spliced into species that are very long lived, geologically speaking, such as horseshoe crabs. Absent any negative selection against "wiki DNA", they could remain readable in millions o

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