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by pcrh 10y ago
Well... the Dutch are very enthusiastic for more landfills, I gather.
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by pcrh 10y ago
The decline of fishing as a profession over the past 40 yrs is due to changes in technology and catchable stocks, not the UK's membership of the EU or the Common Fisheries Policy. Plenty of people who benefit from large EU subsidies vo
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by pcrh 10y ago
Perhaps you should investigate how good the EU has been for UK fishermen. Fishing quotas are based on historical catches, which the UK had a very large share of due to its geographical position. UK fishermen then sold their quotas to the Sp
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by pcrh 10y ago
For one, too frequent transfusions results in toxic excess levels of iron in the body, as humans cannot actively remove excess iron. This occurs in people with thalassemia treated with blood transfusions. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih
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by pcrh 10y ago
In summary, absolutely nobody thinks about your startup or product as much as you do. You need to pitch at their level, not your own.
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by pcrh 10y ago
Most people commenting on economic inequality are referring to inequity, i.e. that there are people who receive benefits disproportionate to the value to the work they contribute or the output they create. Few people object to higher reward
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by pcrh 10y ago
I like the ideas put forth in this article. I wonder, though, if "distillation" is a re-casting of "scholarship" as considered by the humanities. People studying topics ranging from Biblical Studies to History to Literat
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by pcrh 10y ago
Yup, and highly penetrant. Luckily it was caught before the worst consequences manifested themselves. What made you think of hemochromatosis?
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by pcrh 10y ago
In the absence of an underlying vulnerability, it would seem pretty unlikely that stress alone would be sufficient to cause CFS. Many people have very stressful lives (including being refugees, being under regular fire, etc) without getting
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by pcrh 10y ago
I may be splitting hairs, but "chronic fatigue" is a symptom. When its aetiology is unknown it is often classified as CFS. I would not be surprised to find that as medicine progresses many cases of CFS become re-classified. Certai
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by pcrh 10y ago
Chronic fatigue can be caused by undiagnosed organic illnesses. Personal anecdote: I had CFS for several years, and when the diagnosis (an easily treatable genetic condition) was eventually made, and treatment taken, I was better within a f
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by pcrh 10y ago
I don't think they're proposing to scale up to that level, which would indeed result in excessive costs. Even scaling-up mice experiments would be quite costly, and beyond the size of most research grants. There would have to be n
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by pcrh 10y ago
The article refers chiefly to repeating mouse or rat experiments. The obstacle there isn't what level of training researcher has (as long as it's sufficient), but who is going to pay for it. At the scale proposed (a 6-fold greater
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by pcrh 10y ago
Investing in the stock market is secondary to the actual investment into activities performed by the companies that constitute it. Thus, investments decisions made within such companies are those that promote their growth (or not). In thi
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by pcrh 10y ago
Melancholia by Lars von Trier is another great movie about the earth colliding with another planet. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1527186/
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by pcrh 10y ago
Vast areas of Africa are perfect for agriculture... it's a big place.
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by pcrh 10y ago
Some cores taken from the mud at the bottom of the trench might answer this.
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by pcrh 10y ago
This is interesting. I wonder if the tolerance of the mouth to heat (relative to other areas with a thin epidermis) is also related to cooking.
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by pcrh 10y ago
Given that polychlorinated biphenyls are so much more abundant in the deep sea trenches than even "In grossly polluted areas, like the Liao River in China" the scientist in me suspects that something other than pollution might be
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by pcrh 10y ago
Pretty much everything is subject to multiple taxes. For example, the money you spend after income taxes are deducted may further be taxed by the means of sales taxes. Or, the money you invest from your taxed income might be subject to capi
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by pcrh 10y ago
This phenomenon is exacerbated by selling leases rather than freehold rights. A leasehold may expire after 99 years, at which point it reverts to the original freeholders and can be sold again. In this manner the same land can be sold repea
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by pcrh 10y ago
I'm in favor of inheritance taxes as I see it as taxing income of the inheritors. I don't see any rational reason why income from this one source should be exempt of taxation.
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by pcrh 10y ago
The French paradox (and similar observations for the Japanese) is most easily explained by the fact that they eat smaller portions than the Americans. Anyone traveling from Asia or Europe to the US is easily astounded by the large portions
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by pcrh 10y ago
There's no association of human body temperature with latitude. So endogenous human thermal regulation is efficient enough to deal with the normal range of terrestrial environments inhabited by humans. And when it can't (if you&#x
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by pcrh 10y ago
The latest study on the matter is unfortunately paywalled by Elsevier... until March this year. You can read the abstract here: "The Combined Landscape of Denisovan and Neanderthal Ancestry in Present-Day Humans" https:/&#x2
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by pcrh 10y ago
The distribution of Childrens' performance tends to be Gaussian. Salaries not so much...
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by pcrh 10y ago
What would the plume be? Would the helicopter produce a dumbell-shaped heat signature?
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by pcrh 10y ago
gov.uk is surprisingly easy to navigate and use.
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by pcrh 10y ago
Yeast isn't essential to define bread. As a Seán, you might know that Irish soda bread uses sodium bicarbonate as a leavening agent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_bread
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by pcrh 10y ago
>A bread is a solid stable foam Another engineer I'd bet :-)

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