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by tomerico 7y ago
I’m surprised that the penalty for attempted murder in China is only 3 years in jail.
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by tomerico 7y ago
I imagine that it's more nuanced - people expect biometric security from their phone today. The Pixel 4 removed the fingerprint sensor, relying on the face recognition. I imagine that what happened is that the full functionality wasn&#
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by tomerico 7y ago
The trunk itself is estimated to be only a few hundred years old. When the trunk dies but the root system is still alive, it may sprout a new trunk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tjikko
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by tomerico 7y ago
If you'd like to estimate your demand curve, you could run experiments where your landing page shows different price points to different users.
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by tomerico 7y ago
The camera bump(s) actually work really well with phone cases, allowing the phone with case to be thinner and flat. Since almost everyone carries their phone in a case, it seems like a reasonable solution.
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by tomerico 7y ago
They would. that is what happens with any heritable trait. It's clearly documented for example for height.
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by tomerico 7y ago
How often do you clean your hands after touching your eggs. When handling raw meat, I always clean my hands and separate the working surfaces. For eggs, I don't.
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by tomerico 8y ago
“a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.“ Seems like a reasonable fit
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by tomerico 8y ago
In practice, dental implants are more work to maintain being much more difficult to properly floss. This leads to bone absorption and receding gums.
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by tomerico 8y ago
Is 980nm in the range of body heat radiation? In other words, would you be able to have "night vision" in full darkness by seeing the heat from animals?
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by tomerico 8y ago
From /r/space: Image of the occultation profile vs actual shape: https://i.imgur.com/PNh4nmX.png Each line is the same star viewed from a different point on Earth. They arranged for telescopes in a long line North
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by tomerico 8y ago
I wonder how difficult it is to add some clock syncing and time-of-flight measurements to ensure a certain distance. If the speed of light is to fast, maybe using sound could work.
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by tomerico 8y ago
The article's premise was that you can maintain the current quality of monitoring while increasing sleep quality with simple changes, and that increasing sleep quality will improve the patient's recovery.
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by tomerico 8y ago
To be fair, 15% is what they take as fees, and the rest is the shipping cost, which are likely realistic to expedite shipping a bag in the US.
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by tomerico 8y ago
This might be genetic for you two. The article is about environmental stress changing the sperm.
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by tomerico 8y ago
That's the key part. What CPC case teaches us, is that if we could find a good alternative to Fossil fuels, we could likely eliminate their use.
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by tomerico 8y ago
If you look outside, you are much less likely to get motion sickness vs, for example, looking down at your phone. I get to try it every time I go to a theme park, on a fast rotating ride, if I look inside, I get dizzy and sick, but looking
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by tomerico 8y ago
While I definitely agree that there are large privacy concerns when collecting health related data, I disagree with the sentiment that it's always a bad idea. There is a huge net benefit to modernizing medicine and getting to an AI tha
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by tomerico 8y ago
Can you clarify more? My experience as an immigrant to America is that Americans tend to foster a culture of ultra competativeness on everything, including academics.
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by tomerico 8y ago
Brain volume does have a (small) correlation with iq in humans. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2770698/
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by tomerico 8y ago
In Energy the number is missing the huge amount of temp workers that the industry tends to have
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by tomerico 8y ago
I wish the law allowed investors to reinvest the dividends and postpone the tax event. This would have improved the current skewed state.
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by tomerico 8y ago
It likely would have been simpler - being single for example is almost and automatic deny.
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by tomerico 8y ago
Any metric can be abused if you try to optimize it at all costs. You can easily increase average user satisfaction by reducing the usage by less satisfied users, it doesn't mean you improved things.
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by tomerico 8y ago
I actually see this market much harder to protect (assuming self driving becomes a solved problem). With Uber, as it is today, you have the strong forces of a network effect (where drivers are stuck because the passengers are there, and the
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by tomerico 8y ago
Using low units (liters) so that the numbers look big, can be misleading. To put it in perspective: The CO2 mass in the polar ice caps is 1/5000 of the mass of earth atmosphere The water mass underneath is 1/4 of the volume of wa
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by tomerico 8y ago
The site actually has this option. Choose two passport to compare, and click on the link “best third passport”, and select your country
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by tomerico 8y ago
The ceremony might be a matter of culture, and less about religious belief.
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by tomerico 8y ago
Can you please cite relevant studies. Especially around dental cleaning.
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by tomerico 8y ago
For those looking to compare levels between the mentioned companies, I found http://levels.fyi useful

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