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This actually respects the license. The person who provided you the binary (the phone vendor, not KaiOS) must provide you the source that corresponds to your program (not the git history). KaiOS must provide the source to the phone vendor o
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... but they are vert good at speeading seeds by other means. BTW, vegetable farming, be it organic or conventional (especially conventionnel) isn’t exactly non-human animal friendly.
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There are two components to asthma: bronchial hyper-reactivity, and trigger factors. Trigger factors comprise allergies, physical effort, cold air, depending on the person. Allergies often get better with age, but their exact pathophysiolog
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Everyone has a threshold regarding the amount of suffering they are willing to endure rather than dying. Yours (and your grandfather's, per your other comment) may be high, but so isn't everyone else's. Suicide and euthanasia
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I'm a doctor, and what you're describing sounds like textbook asthma. It could be a mild form, but it may be worth it to have a second opinion. You may also want to buy a peak flow meter to quantify the obstruction when you have a
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> [...] is it too late for gums to have any effect? Or is it more like a total bacterial load [...] Probably the latter (from the article): """ A prospective observational study of [Alzheimer Disease (AD)] patients with
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Quoting the legend of said picture in the article: """Note that this chart does not show the spectral properties of the cones themselves (but they look similar). It represents the CIE 1931 colour space, which, simply put, co
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The migraine aura is rather well understood, it is the result of cortical spreading depression, a phenomenon where a "wave" of brain hyperactivity spreads in as a ring on the surface of the cortex, leaving a hypo-active zone in th
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Correct!
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Yes, and you lose a hemi-field in both eyes if you have a stroke in the visual cortex on one side of the brain. Central vision is preserved though, because the fovea projects to both hemispheres.
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The classical arts used to be the vectors of vital cultural information (music, poetry and story telling are mnemonic techniques). We then invented writing which made those media mostly obsolete. We're still drawn to those disciplines
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1) The younger you start consuming addictive substances, the more likely you are to become addicted. 2) Analysis and impulse control are not handled by the same parts of the brain, and those mature at a different pace. 3) Given how social t
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Artificial forests are bound to be less resilient than wild ones. The lack of biodiversity is a major concern, since we often take shortcuts by planting cuttings, which are genetic clones, or by using an initial pool that isn't suffici
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> Humans need at least one chromosome to be viable. I accidentally an whole X.
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Damore did not mention the variability hypothesis, but he clearly made his points in terms difference of distributions, implying that aiming for exact parity while using metrics that are biased in favor of males was foolish. At least that&#
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Industries and other activities (chess comes to mind). I personally think it is more likely than not to explain the discrepancy. That being said, I'm not necessarily in favor of a blindly meritocratic society for reasons I don't h
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I do! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/evo.12224 This is observed not only in birds vs mammals but also in insects (some have heterogametic males like mammals and others (butterflies) have het
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There's no doubt Strumia did a dumb, and while he may kind of have a point regarding the variability hypothesis, there's actually more to it. It comes down to chromosomes. XY individuals have a single X chromosome while XX individ
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Indeed!
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You can get that down to single cells, actually. Transcription factors (genes whose product activate or inhibit other genes) form regulation network that are equivalent in function to neural nets. There's also evidence of memory in sin
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Indeed, and it can even be done with HTTP/1: https://jacquesmattheij.com/the-several-million-dollar-bug/ tl;dr: a smart server can start pushing dependencies as soon as the request for a module comes in. Even with
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Tangentially, I remember reading a paper that was linking an auto-immune reaction to some hormone-like protein produced by e. coli and both anorexia and bulimia. Are you familiar with the subject? Has it been confirmed?
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That's fascinating, thanks a lot! I have a medical background, so I was familiar with how vaccination works, but not with the specifics of adenovirus!
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You are correct that the market forces were there before, and that the epidemics couldn't have occurred without industrial food transformation. Before that, how fattening food was was limited by biology and I suppose that it was slow e
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I never said it was white bread... Besides, I agree with the rest of your comment.
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> - Why can't poverty be causal? Because most poor people around the world are not fat and have never been until recently. In the countries affected by the obesity epidemics, it may be causal, but it doesn't explain why obesi
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Lots of correlates, Let's untangle that a bit... - Poverty can't be causal here, since it doesn't match either the timing nor the geography of the epidemics. - Intergenerational epigenetics is a secondary factor, but it can&#
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The fantasy that humans have unbridled free will is both pervasive and highly toxic. It conveniently ignores piles of neuropsychological studies on the topic and it is also used to justify "tough on crime" policies that do more ha
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The top earners are addicted to easy return on investment and can't envision a world where they can't rely on growth to deepen their pockets. Given their already tremendous wealth, they are powerful enough to brainwash the rest of
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Bread was the staple food for most of that period. GP was contrasting modern and paleo diet. It would be wiser to contrast 1918 with 2018 (and I agree with you that refined sugar and starch are most likely involved in the current mess).

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