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8y ago
OP probably played AAU, the competative league for youth basketball which is more intense than a local school league.
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8y ago
BBC documentaries are the only exception - it seems that it requires public funding to avoid trying to make documentaries entertaining in a way that defeats the purpose of watching a documentary.
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8y ago
It seems that this could be pretty easily mitigated by using a low power bluetooth headset to connect to the nearby cell phone to avoid putting the higher powered signal near your head.
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8y ago
If you need people to design their websites around your companies HR metrics collection for them to work, then your HR department's metrics are the problem. The easiest way to improve productivity at your company could be to drasticall
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8y ago
Sounds like what some one would do if they got a golden parachute from every failure.
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8y ago
It says it targets prototrophs, which are microbes that use the same nutrients as the parent organism. In this case it appears the microbes have a similar metabolic pathway in common with plants to uptake the pseudo sugar.
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8y ago
FPGA pcie card sounds like what you want, I'm not sure if it would have less driver problems though. https://hackaday.com/2018/02/17/catching-the-pcie-bus/
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8y ago
I'm not sure the distinction between entertainment and news is clearly discernable for those audiences and seems to just use comedy as a platform for a predefined political agenda, more like Bill Mahr than Jon Stewart.
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8y ago
How would sociological innovation be defined and measured?
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8y ago
If you were familiar with fox news, you would understand that it is mostly propaganda driven content targeting the under educated and elderly.
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8y ago
The president is immune from legal liability.
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8y ago
That would be a neat foia project - request graffiti datasets.
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8y ago
Cops work is often refered to as duty or service, obviously inflated terms but no one would accuse you of being an ideological zealot for using them. Agenda seems neutral by comparison.
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8y ago
Ice changes densities at different temperatures. I'm not exactly sure what that would do to food, but you can add water jugs as a thermal mass to reduce the temperature swing.
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8y ago
Whether it seems like a trick or not depends on your background.
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8y ago
Plenty of jobs pay less than a living wage.
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8y ago
It's a CaCO3 layer that keeps lead out of solution by raising pH.
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8y ago
To get a better filtration effect you need to force air into the root zone through an active carbon layer in the soil media. That is the method used in the original nasa paper and subsequent public labs designs when trying to remove VOC
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8y ago
You mean plants?
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8y ago
To aid other researchers interested in replication by sharing the methodology and references to other existing research, since other people might find different results.
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8y ago
Taking on a known extreme risk isn't the same as taking on an unknown risk that exists due to the negligence of others.
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8y ago
Nicotine is more toxic than tar and other substances, as measured by the LD50; it's just that those substances are all really hot and carcinogenic. 360 mg / 6 = 18, less than 1 pack has a lethal dose of nicotine. However, since up
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8y ago
According to your source the ld50 for nicotine is 6 mg/kg. Although the dosage taken is relatively low, nicotine is still way more toxic than most things people consume on purpose.
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8y ago
Humans don't have the cellulase enzyme necessary to digest cellulose, the primary component of vegetables. Cows and other grazing animals do, which is why they can efficiently use plants to gain energy and mass. Humans eat meat because
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8y ago
Excellent America painting, really captures the passivity of the country and the spirit of this thread. https://odomojuli.store/products/america
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8y ago
A lot of things: the high rpm motor powering it, the combined area of the blade edge that is higher than the area of the wing edge, and the higher pressure differential between the air behind the propeller compared to the air in front of it
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8y ago
It's much harder to prove a negative. What evidence do you have that there are? If you consider the way these drugs must be administered to be effective - with a co requisite therapy session - it seems obvious that the conscious effect
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8y ago
Yea, it's quite the meme. Akira the Don is my favorite artist doing this and he's been very prolific this year. Lofi hiphop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OKnUk59pZk Some of his best work has motivational or ph
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8y ago
So you think by creating a negative association with AI, adoption will be delayed?
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8y ago
Solar and wind are environmentally dependent sources that aren't possible in all locations or times and are unlikely to work on their own. Even when they are generally available, they don't have the same utility for industry as a
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