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by taejo 6y ago
> I absolutely do. Do you... not? You can do a quick web search for "Arabic type anatomy" that will make it crystal clear for you. I also do not. When I search for that, I find articles like https://www.type-together
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by taejo 6y ago
From low Earth orbit, delta-v to Earth and to escape the solar system are about the same. Delta-v to fall into the sun is two orders of magnitude bigger.
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by taejo 6y ago
"How I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics" gets you a few digits further (but of course yours is plenty accurate for calculating)
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by taejo 6y ago
Can you name some examples? In Europe it's so easy and normal to organize a multi-national conference that it'd seem weird to start something that aspired to be international without inviting participation from multiple countries.
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by taejo 6y ago
For me, I check email every day and read or delete every new email before I consider it done. I open my RSS reader when I feel like it (2-3 times a week) and have some free time to read and enjoy.
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by taejo 6y ago
Did you use this in a contest? I seem to remember this exact thing being used to leak data in a contest.
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by taejo 6y ago
A fifty-year, interest-free loan is functionally a donation, IMO
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by taejo 6y ago
Just like if I'd done `curl > install.sh; bash install.sh` without reading install.sh or installed a binary package, both of which are done every day by people with work to do and without the time, skill and inclination to audit mil
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by taejo 6y ago
You're right that the recent efficacy studies of the COVID vaccines only demonstrated protection from the disease. That doesn't mean that they do not prevent spreading the disease, only that we don't know whether they do.
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by taejo 6y ago
They could make proof of vaccination an entry requirement. Combine that with widespread domestic vaccination and you've got a very good chance of containing any infections that make it into the country.
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by taejo 6y ago
> But outside of a hospital environment the masks provide little protection, especially cloth masks. My experience of talking to medical professionals is that they consider a number like 50% reduction in infections "very little prot
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by taejo 6y ago
How do you come up with this in the first place without elements of a theory like: + the causes of disease are the same as the causes of meat rotting + that cause is localised in space, and stays there over time
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by taejo 6y ago
I didn't mean to make any judgment about the "Turkishness" or "Germanness" of Drs. Şahin and Türeci. I just mean to clarify that BioNTech was founded and is based in Germany, just as Google is an American company (n
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by taejo 6y ago
BioNTech is not a German/Turkish company. It's a German company, two of whose founders are of Turkish descent.
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by taejo 6y ago
I'm not an expert by any means, but I do know that a lot of the speed comes from moving along the CHEAP-FAST side of the CHEAP-FAST-SAFE triangle, without necessarily changing anything on the FAST-SAFE axis. In particular, governments
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by taejo 6y ago
I wonder if there are HNers who would enjoy the work of Ambrose Bearce "There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang
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by taejo 6y ago
A genetic relationship between Finno-Ugric and either the Japonic or Turkic language families, if it exists, is so weak that most scholars believe there is no evidence for it.
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by taejo 6y ago
"But officer, this tiny slit in the wall is a fractal curve with infinite length"
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by taejo 6y ago
You responded to > He either had to pay $55, drive over 100 miles to appear in court, or not pay the fine and become a criminal. with a comment listing some unreasonable alternatives. You didn't list the reasonable alternative of ma
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by taejo 6y ago
The previous celebrity president already did that one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kifJ_mQdpZA
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by taejo 6y ago
That's completely unreasonable. What if he'd been on the West Coast, or overseas? Anyone can be forced at any time to travel any distance to New York because of a typo? Plenty of other places allow traffic tickets to be challenged
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by taejo 6y ago
"Twitter guy" could mean "person whose job is to post on twitter.com" rather than "person employed by Twitter, Inc."
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by taejo 6y ago
Which you can see him performing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSKKPuNoA1g
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by taejo 6y ago
bedrijfsgeheimen are trade secrets
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by taejo 6y ago
You need one for each plant, unlike a Roomba, but self-watering planters are a thing (and two dozen of them are probably cheaper than one robot)
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by taejo 6y ago
A term of venery is a specific type of collective noun: more or less, collective nouns for animals made up by bored aristocrats in the middle ages (or more recently, but in the same tradition). As a result, most are never used in conversati
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by taejo 6y ago
Yeah, with discs with holes in them.
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by taejo 6y ago
> PCR and sequencing blew away entire subfields of biology as being testably untrue. As a non-biologist I would love to hear of some examples of this
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by taejo 6y ago
You have to specify a directory for the find on Mac; it's only a GNUism to omit it.
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by taejo 6y ago
Or just continue not putting yourself in dangerous situations.

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