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by riahi 17y ago
A basic explanation is that fructose is metabolized very differently from glucose. Glucose is absorbed from the digestive tract and directly enters the blood; fructose is routed to the liver and converted into fat. Considering the differen
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by riahi 17y ago
I wonder if the fiasco is more a reflection of America's trends in car transmissions. Here probably around 90% of cars are automatic and people don't learn the underlying mechanisms of a transmission, rather they just learn to drive. Anecd
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by riahi 17y ago
The default zooming actions prior to the addition of multitouch zoom exactly like you describe.
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by riahi 17y ago
ماهواره بر سیمرغ To echo the sibling post, "Satellite-Bearing Phoenix" is an acceptable translation. Literally, it is "Satellite upon Phoenix", where Simorgh is a Persian mythical bird roughly equivalent to a phoenix of western literature (
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by riahi 17y ago
Prior to college, I only spoke 3 languages (Persian/Spanish/English) and didn't have this problem at all, since all three were learned when younger. However, in college, I took Portuguese for Spanish native speakers and got conversationall
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by riahi 17y ago
One thing I can say is that medical school admissions, while incredibly tough and competitive, is far more egalitarian than undergrad admissions. Med schools want the best students, period. They don't really care where you came from or wh
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by riahi 17y ago
This sounds like a med school interview, in all honesty. "So tell me about yourself"
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by riahi 17y ago
The College Board change to Java is not a recent development. The last year that CB tested AP CompSci in C++ was when I was a freshman in high school (circa 2002-2003). Since then, they have used Java as the teaching language. As someone
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by riahi 17y ago
Hindi and Persian are in the Indo-European language family, which provides a ton of similarities and possibilities for innate understanding of the underlying grammatical structure, which is not so much the case for Semitic languages (Arabic
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by riahi 17y ago
Betterzip supports 256-bit AES (Winzip Compatible) Encryption. However, it is not exactly cheap ($19.99 for a license).
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by riahi 17y ago
As far as I can remember, Jews haven't been thrown out of Iran. Expelled from Spain, discriminated against via the pogroms of east Europe, but at least in my family's city of Esfahan, Jews have always been welcome. Many have immigrated t
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by riahi 17y ago
It also picked up Persian while transliterated. That's impressive to me, because Persian does not have a standard method of transliteration.
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by riahi 17y ago
Here's a USB dome hub with 7 ports that weighs around a pound on Amazon with a $10 rebate (I bought one long ago from Circuit City with a large rebate)... http://www.amazon.com/Kensington-DomeHub-ports-Weighted-3311...
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by riahi 17y ago
I learned three languages when I was younger (Persian first, then English and Spanish at the same time) and can swap into them instantaneously. However, the languages I learned later (Portuguese and now some smatterings of Chinese) require
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by riahi 17y ago
You mean telomerases? Perhaps, but that also would probably increase cancer rates, as our own DNA copying enzymes would not have been increased in accuracy.
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by riahi 17y ago
The difficulty is that the Pre is a CDMA 1x-EVDO handset, which is really only compatible on a few networks (Verizon, Sprint, and a few other regional carriers). Unless Palm has a super-secret GSM one waiting in the wings, it could take so
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by riahi 17y ago
Donyaa means world in Persian, which was the first language of the Mughal Empire. The word then spread throughout Urdu and a variety of other Indian languages.
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by riahi 18y ago
Exactly how does this make us more secure, again? I can't imagine anything "critical" that is currently funneled through the internet. At the very least, there should be some examples where this would actually promote safety, rather than
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by riahi 18y ago
Even though his argument seems optimistic, hopefully he can reduce some of the crazy awards and "lost revenue" or perhaps expose some of the inadequacies in linking actual filesharing to a particular person.
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by riahi 18y ago
Emory University
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by riahi 18y ago
That's interesting, because staying truer to the latin would result in "Pienso, luego soy"
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by riahi 18y ago
It is possible that it meant three kilocalories instead of calories?
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by riahi 18y ago
The wikipedia article on Heavy water has some interesting comments to some of your later questions. In particular, it seems that high levels of deuterated water inhibits formation of the mitotic spindle, thereby preventing cell division. h
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by riahi 18y ago
The article implies that it is fairly warm in the tunnels, so unless the data center can be made cool...
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by riahi 18y ago
Also, a lot of native spanish speakers pronounce all initial r's as rolled r's.
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by riahi 18y ago
Reminds me of Montessori classrooms with mixed age-groups.
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by riahi 18y ago
Very interesting visualization, but you can also see the politics of today. Certain countries are selectively emphasized even though their relative size does not deserve it. In particular, Iran is a labeled circle in 2000 and 2004 when th
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by riahi 18y ago
Well, it is a different hybrid and more like a locomotive in that the engine does not power the wheels, but instead only serves as a generator. The other hybrids on the market (toyota et al) are parallel hybrids which only use the electric
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by riahi 18y ago
Wachovia's online account manager isn't bad. It's not flashy, but it shows transactions and can do ebillpay.
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by riahi 18y ago
I went to a Montessori school from pre-k to 5th grade. The school I went to was just completely different from any public elementary school I have visited in this country. Instead of a one-size-fits-all mentality for education, each teache

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