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by ridgeguy 8y ago
Beans and rice ≠ protein, and yes, carbs are giveaways. But that's not all good. Anecdote here, but I knew two competent, capable seniors (each on Social Security) who in fact ate canned pet food because it was a source of meat that th
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
I find your absolutist view remarkably blinkered, indeed unrealistic in the fundamental sense of the word. I wonder if you suddenly incurred uninsured medical expenses of oh, let's say, 20X your net worth or annual income, whether you
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
>How else do you fund curation? Academic institutions have financial incentives in seeing that their faculty publish. When faculty get grants, there's almost always an overhead component that goes to the grantee's institution.
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
This is my wife's lot. Chronic refractory migraines. We're looking into the recently FDA-approved monoclonal antibody (CGRP target) migraine drug. It would change her life if it even cut out 10% of her headaches. To the topic, yes
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
>So mutating for airborne transmission among humans is just not on the evolutionary agenda here. Airborne transmission isn't an evolutionary agenda item. It's an evolutionary event with a non-zero probability of occurring, so f
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
Not an expert (but a background in neurophysiology). Synaptic pruning (deleting synapses) is an important part of neural development. Here's a ref [1] with a couple of paragraphs (see "Synaptogenesis" and "Synapse Prunin
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
No - as the immediate prior post correctly stated, stored energy increases linearly with m (flywheel mass) and as the square of rotation rate (omega^2) So a flywheel having 0.1m rotor mass spinning at 10 omega stores 10 times as much energy
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
Yes, flywheels are used for phase matching at some grid intersections. For example, http://beaconpower.com has installations that do this. There are FERC rate schedules for this service that make it a profitable application for
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
No expert here, but I lived through times when calculus was deemed beyond the capabilities of high school students. This was clearly incorrect. As I said, no expert in AI & ML, but I don't see anything that differentiates them from
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
In 2013, the CPUC mandated installing about 1.3GWhr of grid energy storage by 2020. Installation of de facto additional capacity appears to be underway. Brief summary: [1] Absent base load or other dispatchable, non-renewable generation, en
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
It might be here [1]. Around 5:00 minutes, the vehicle seems to shed smaller objects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc0_wZat4nI
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
http://sci-hub.tw working here (Safari, MacOS) Sunday 8am in CA.
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
This. I bought a 2015 from the Apple refurb store rather than a new 2016 model for just the reasons you cite.
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
It might be that airborne transport imposes barriers that smallpox didn't evolve to meet. Perhaps something like resistance to degradation by UV in sunlight. If so, maybe the apparently large cohort of viruses that do survive airborne
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
My home is on a septic tank. We flush TP. No problem so far (18 years).
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
Looking online briefly for definitions of "delete": "remove or obliterate (written or printed matter), especially by drawing a line through it or marking it with a delete sign." "synonyms: remove, cut out, take out,
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
From the article: "The new study, in Cell, found that boosting mice’s levels of the naturally occurring molecule NMN, which humans also have, increased levels of another called NAD+." NMN is nicotinamide mononucleotide, available
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
In light of Mr. Jones' history and considering what he accomplished during his 18 months employment at Marriott, he may be on a more ambitious path than some of those more advantageously situated. I wish him well, and I hope someone wh
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
I don't know you, but I understand your loss. A wife, a best friend...leaves a big void. Lean on your friends.
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
And the combustion products include lots of water and hydrogen chloride, which combine to form hydrochloric acid. The gritty aluminum oxide (another combustion product) is probably a pretty good particulate sponge for holding acid as it coo
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
No, not for her. But $50K could be life-changing for lots of people. $50K donated to a battered women's shelter would probably do more good than $50K spent cloning a dog. And I speak as one who has a dog whom I love so much that if I h
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
I think cash cliff effects are harder on the poor. If your friend comes up a dollar short, she'll miss paying for something. She'll have to choose among food, gas, electricity, rent, meds - all the things & basic services with
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
That linked story never gets old.
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
Honest answer: I'm 68 years old. I've seen the drug war, surveillance of US citizens (the two things you listed), the slide of America into oligarchy, and a host of other issues that I care about get worse, hardly believing it cou
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
The better response to this situation is to vote in a different government, not to beggar our nation through tax fraud. If you don't like what our government is doing (and I'm with you on the examples you cite), put in the time an
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
A question from ignorance (I don't have any of these devices), but couldn't the weirdly unique accent problem be solved by reading a list of standard vocabulary words a few times to the device while training for accuracy?
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
Actual numbers, haven't tried to calculate. But the heat load due to atmospheric friction would be immense and immediate. The US built an antiballistic missile system that included a missile called Sprint [1]. It accelerated at 100G an
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
Maybe fabrics, too. Last November, I visited the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. There were woven fabrics that showed lovely colors and designs after at least 4 millennia. Our forebears had lots of coloration options for their art. I doubt they
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
Yes! Just to name one, glaucoma doesn't degrade vision in its early stages (when it's more easily treatable). There are so many things that can happen to your vision, at high life cost. Get your vision checked regularly.
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
Perhaps a cheap lens/illuminator attachment for smartphones could be engineered for retinal imaging. If this method could be adapted to phones, many more people could be checked at low cost.

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