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by pdm55 7y ago
Warning: Don't try this at home! One might win a battle, but not the war. My chess buddy magically started with "s q u e e z e" tiles at scrabble. He had obviously palmed them. My wife twigged later and he is now banned. By t
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by pdm55 7y ago
yes, protests are widespread and serious https://twitter.com/hashtag/InternetForIran?src=hashtag_clic...
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What's life like for a young Iranian? "With the sexes segregated at school and boys and girls discouraged from socialising together, trying to get to know members of the opposite sex is a huge preoccupation for Iranian teenagers.
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by pdm55 7y ago
Protests are about the increase in the price of petrol, a multi-faceted situation. Just one aspect is the money to be made from smuggling fuel: "According to foreign-based economist Mehrdad Seyed Asgari in an article on Radio Farda&#x2
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by pdm55 7y ago
Zack Booth Simpson might be interesting to talk to: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zack-booth-simpson-1084b3/ He transitioned from computers to biology.
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Dr Jim Fowler, from Ohio State Uni, explains Calculus concepts with simple examples, https://www.youtube.com/user/kisonecat/videos
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I forecast that plastics' cleanup and recycling, a hard problem, will have a lot of money thrown at it by governments. Many new petrochemical plants are being built in anticipation of increased demand for plastics from developing count
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by pdm55 7y ago
I also left science. (I am a male.) While I agree with all your points, I feel there are other points that enter the picture for both sexes. These are some of the reasons I left science: (1) Maybe I was too lazy - I certainly prefered to pl
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by pdm55 7y ago
If you are interested, here are some background articles about Apple's assembly plant in Zhengzhou, China https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/2188162/f... https://www.busin
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by pdm55 7y ago
One never knows when one might need a particular bit of mathematics. I wrote a mathematical model of DNA transcription events inside E. coli, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5425810/ . For this, I
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by pdm55 7y ago
Another new book just published on data privacy: Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age Hardcover – September 10, 2019 by Brad Smith (Author), Carol Ann Browne (Author), Bill Gates (Foreword) https://www
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by pdm55 7y ago
5. Draw a picture of the situation or challenge. It’s very common that this produces a more intuitive and comprehensible explanation or description
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beautiful graphics ... thx for link .... helped my understanding of Fourier Transforms
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Does anyone know where petrodollars fit in this picture? Do they give the US a particular economic advantage?
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by pdm55 7y ago
react code generator https://divjoy.com/
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by pdm55 7y ago
This quote might be relevant: “I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent — their place is the General Staff. The next
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by pdm55 7y ago
NASA's Apollo 11 Mission Report https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/A11_MissionReport.pdf Don Eyles' account https://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html Extract from Lunar Surface Journal
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by pdm55 7y ago
The Wikipedia article you referenced has much interesting information, including "China ... embarked upon a massive and expensive expansion of the Great Wall of China. In this environment, funding for naval expeditions simply did not h
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by pdm55 7y ago
I play regularly on chess.com. (I pay for a membership to avoid ads.) On these online sites, you quickly get matched with players around your skill level. I play 5 min games for the quick thrill. I just stick with the Queen's Gambit wi
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by pdm55 7y ago
I heard an ICU physician say that here in Australia a cause of death must be put on the death certificate and that the usual choice is "myocardial infarction" (heart attack). Whereas a better choice might be simply "old age&q
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by pdm55 7y ago
You could try looking in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797593
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by pdm55 7y ago
slides https://codingthematrix.com/ code http://resources.codingthematrix.com/
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by pdm55 7y ago
"Ultarmently" https://www.greggblanchard.com/easiest-way-to-spell-check-a-... spell check a website
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There are a few scattered comments. Try Search at the bottom of the HN page.
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https://repl.it/
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https://www.ossila.com/pages/black-phosphorus
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by pdm55 8y ago
Why graphene hasn’t taken over the world...yet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IesIsKMjB4Y
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by pdm55 8y ago
Yes, impressive results, but do we really want more tobacco plants? I think the appropriate test will be if the results are transferable to other species. And which ones would make the most sense? Algae, lettuce, spinach, weeds? Weeds make
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by pdm55 8y ago
More efficient might mean less CO2 consumed to simply produce an identical plant. Would have to trial it. Assume this genetic manipulation might even stunt growth in some species. Again would need trials. I cannot find the particular articl
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by pdm55 8y ago
I walked away from the university research world. I think about the projects I left behind nearly every day. My key project took 5 years and I felt that everything had happened too slowly to be worthwhile. How wrong I was: I finally had the

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