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by sitharus 9y ago
A seed transported by bird is more likely in my (pretty uninformed) opinion than a tuber. As a relative of the bindweed it produces a small fruit that is eaten by birds.
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by sitharus 9y ago
They do, but much like a potato the outer skin contains the germination layer. Exposure to salt water and sunlight slowly destroys this, and salt water dehydrates the inner flesh. They do not survive to germinate.
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by sitharus 9y ago
You’re correct, an airline autopilot can do all that under _continual pilot supervision_. The autopilot also cannot communicate with ATC so pilots will adjust the flight path in flight to account for ATC instructions and changing weather. I
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by sitharus 9y ago
The same way those 32-bit libraries call the kernel now - they marshal the call to 64-bit land. A lot of the user space is compiled separately for performance and to maintain ABI compatibility so this would have to be taken up by a third pa
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by sitharus 9y ago
No, it means MacOS will no longer have a 32-bit runtime but this does not prevent the CPU executing in 32-bit mode - just that all system calls have to happen in 64 bit mode. Wine will have to be a 64-bit application linked to the 64-bit li
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by sitharus 9y ago
Yes it relies on Google keeping their key (or keys - there's nothing wrong with having multiple valid certificates for a domain, especially if you're the registrar) private. Google keep their key private, Amazon keep their key, St
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by sitharus 9y ago
Yes, but you can obtain other info without the keys, such as SSID locations. Personally I’m doubtful, unless the satellite was in geostationary orbit then it wouldn’t have that long over each location. I guess if it was in a Molniya-type or
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by sitharus 9y ago
I guess technically democracy doesn’t _require_ privacy, but a central tenant of most western democracies is the secret ballot. The government shouldn’t know who anyone voted for. Losing privacy will allow the connections to be made even if
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by sitharus 9y ago
That’s an insecure system. All Eve needs to do is get hold of that third-party key. It’s like requiring all homes to be master keyed with a key held by the police - you need to find an officer willing to take a photo of the key for a few th
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by sitharus 9y ago
While I can’t comment on if it would be possible from orbit, there are two components to receiving a radio signal - transmitter strength and antenna gain. These work together to provide a signal clear enough to be amplified in to something
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by sitharus 9y ago
One of the super-fun aspects of coeliac disease is sensitivity increases with lack of exposure to gluten. The longer you’re on the gluten free diet the worse the symptoms are. Of course it could be that you never noticed how bad it was befo
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by sitharus 9y ago
For the most part cross-contamination is the major issue, but it’s a bit more complex than that. Oat proteins are similar to the giladins in wheat that trigger coeliac disease. Certain oat cultivars are more similar than others. This means
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by sitharus 9y ago
Coeliac disease is a genetic autoimmune disorder where your immune system attacks the small intestine causing atrophy of the villi which leads to lack of nutrient absorption. It’s diagnosed by the presence of anti-Gildain antibodies in the
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by sitharus 9y ago
Easily. Even as a full time software developer (full stack, SQL Server, C#, Typescript) I barely use the function keys. Everything's bound to chords I can easily hit without moving my hands. Of course, your set can be completely differ
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by sitharus 9y ago
It depends a lot on where you go. Both Australia and Canada are easy to go through cashless, except for small stores due to the card fees. I don’t know about Canada but Australia has capped the card fees so debit cards are more popular than
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by sitharus 9y ago
Cashless transactions don’t have to go through the card networks. Here in New Zealand around 2/3rds of all retail transactions are done via cards because many years ago the reserve bank mandated free inter-bank transactions. This means
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by sitharus 9y ago
Australia has regulated interchange rates so credit/debit card acceptance has been higher. Credit cards are capped at 0.8% and debit cards are lower. Mastercard published a list: https://www.mastercard.com.au/en-au&#x2F
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by sitharus 9y ago
I was in Canberra for a week late last year and I never used cash, everywhere took debit cards. Some had a surcharge for using debit over eftpos but I didn't see any shops or restaurants that were cash only. Market stalls were, unlike
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by sitharus 9y ago
Hm, looking at those numbers if you went by the worst possible readings, and assuming 4 espresso coffees a day with the average length of 30ml you'd get 0.042mg/ml * 0.030ml * 4 = 5.04µg of lead According to https:/
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by sitharus 9y ago
Not major infrastructural bridges, there's a list on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures The US seems to have a lot, but there are a lot of bridges in the US. Construction is pretty ri
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by sitharus 9y ago
It looks like a typical cable-stayed bridge. Often spans are installed in advance of cables by omitting heavy elements, like the deck, so the span is self supporting. The cables are then installed and anchored and the deck is fitted.
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by sitharus 9y ago
In addition to lacking wheat pre-agriculture there's a reasonable amount of evidence that the modern increase is due to the elimination of gut parasites - previously the increased immune activity in the gut was beneficial ( https:&#x2
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by sitharus 9y ago
I too would love those projects to be tackled. Unfortunately a clock engineer doesn’t make a good sanitation engineer. As much as we wish human ingenuity was interchangeable it isn’t. Also a lot of the countries with problems have political
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by sitharus 9y ago
Yes, but 3-phase AC motors require less maintenance and are more efficient than brushed DC motors. Most traction applications are now using AC motors with inverters instead of DC.
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by sitharus 9y ago
It’s also a difference of expectations. I live in a non-US country where escrow services never took off and consequently nobody expects fraud protection from financial service providers. The banks cover unauthorised use but not authorised t
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by sitharus 9y ago
Technically yes, you can imitate the web Twitter client and scrape that. However it’s against their terms of service. Also technically it’s hard because it’s undocumented and they can change it at any time with no notice, which would cause
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by sitharus 9y ago
The interesting bit is in the final few paragraphs. I too was hoping for more on the medical research.
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by sitharus 9y ago
It's a standard chassis yes, but the powertrain is made by the teams. It's to force the manufacturers to concentrate their developments on the EV powertrain (cooling, inverter, motor etc) instead of aerodynamics and suspension. Th
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by sitharus 9y ago
They even have a fleet of branded cars they drive around competitor's events to promote themselves: https://twitter.com/Oracle/status/935647345823309830 They promise to cut your Amazon bill in half. I guess t
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by sitharus 9y ago
Yeah, I had a brainfade with reading comprehension. The OP is of course correct.

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