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by wl 7y ago
> ancient Egyptian in that he tried to create a different symbol for each word This is not how Egyptian hieroglyphs worked. An common example 𓉐𓂋𓂻 - pr (v) - to leave 𓉐 is a house. It represents, here, the sound pr, which is the Egyptian
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by wl 7y ago
For those who are unaware, this is a standard factory code for safes.
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by wl 7y ago
Is there a way to hide particular channels from search results? There are a handful of channels that post videos I have absolutely no interest in, but they do really well in YouTube's search algorithm.
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by wl 7y ago
I'll heartily endorse Legal Insurrection's coverage, but with the caveat that they've got a bone to pick against "social justice" and leftist campus activism. It doesn't seem to get in the way of them reporting
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by wl 7y ago
That's exactly the argument I'm dismissing. It's not much of a miracle for the orb to transmit light as one would naïvely expect. Rather, it suggests that somebody didn't do their homework.
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by wl 7y ago
I never liked the explanation for the crystal orb. Oh, Leonardo knew about optics, but he painted the orb naïvely to show some sort of miracle.
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by wl 7y ago
Volt for volt, doesn't AC have higher transmission losses than DC because of the skin effect? I was under the impression AC was what we chose for the grid because transformers make it cheap and easy to step up and step down voltage.
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by wl 7y ago
Phenylephrine's efficacy as a decongestant when taken orally is dubious. Still, it doesn't mean it's a useless drug. IV phenylephrine is a standard drug used during anesthesia to counteract the hypotensive effects of opioids
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by wl 7y ago
> We need to end off label use. Saying a drug is approved for one diagnosis and then allowing it for any other diagnosis is, in the modern age, simply crazy. One might as well not have fda approval. The approval process itself is what&#x
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by wl 7y ago
> Ericsson take the radios in their cell towers or picocells, redo their tape-outs for phone scale, and end up with a workable mobile radio? Ericsson used to make cellular chips for mobile devices. They decided to leave that industry rat
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by wl 7y ago
> This character has all the hallmarks of a quack. The judge's decision is questionable at best. This is an adversarial system, not an inquisitorial one. It's not the judge's job to decide the truth of the matter without b
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by wl 7y ago
THD is a measure of non-linearity, which adds harmonics not present in the original signal. Yes, the standard tests use sine waves, but the results are applicable to other signals. Just because most people don't listen to sine waves fo
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by wl 7y ago
The reporter. https://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-reporters-compensa...
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by wl 7y ago
Loud motorcycles inflict sensorineural hearing loss on anyone unfortunate to get too close to them. I think that's an adequate basis on which to complain and demand something be done about it.
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by wl 7y ago
It's defense in depth. Yes, sterile technique is used to minimize the occurrence of surgical site infections. Sterile technique, when performed 100% correctly, isn't perfect and prophylactic antibiotics are standard to help mitiga
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by wl 7y ago
If we're having a discussion about long-lived firearms having an effect on the market for new firearms, select fire is so rare (175,997 pre-86 transferrable as of February 2016[0]) as to be irrelevant. [0] https://www.nfatca
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by wl 7y ago
Some people collect coins. Or cars. Others collect guns. You don't have to shoot a gun to appreciate it. My great grandfather's service revolver? It's a link to the past, not a range toy.
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by wl 7y ago
What kind of "fun shit" are you thinking of? Select fire is rare and expensive. Open bolt semiautomatics? Eh, some people are into collecting such things, but closed bolts are just as fun to shoot. Just about the only somewhat rea
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by wl 7y ago
f.64 wasn't exactly about realism, either. Black and white film (though they didn't have much choice). Burning and dodging to add drama. Depth of field way beyond what eyes would perceive.
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by wl 8y ago
I remember the spatial finder making my life difficult in the MacOS 7 days. For example, if I had a parent and child directory open at the same time in list view and then expanded the child to drill down to another directory, the finder wou
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by wl 8y ago
What pushed you over the edge to the Audeo?
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by wl 8y ago
It's been awhile since I've paid attention to the field, so apologies if I get this wrong. I was under the impression that cuprate superconductors were unsuitable for use in MRI magnets because they only superconduct across cluste
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by wl 8y ago
A superconductor suitable for use in an electromagnet that could be cooled with liquid nitrogen alone would be practically "room temperature" as far as these things go. Liquid nitrogen is cheap and abundant, as opposed to liquid h
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by wl 8y ago
Quite possibly nothing. A USB charger following the USB Battery Charging Specification has a resistor < 200Ω across D+ and D-. Just putting -200 V on D- and doing nothing to D+, there's not a completed circuit. If the charger uses t
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by wl 8y ago
WISP is very useful in rural areas. It's less compelling as an alternative to wired services in the dense urban environments where we'll see 5G deployments. You're going to have to run all that fiber, anyway.
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by wl 8y ago
Rockets waste a lot of fuel punching through the atmosphere at lower altitudes.
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Especially with the tax reform, most folks will be taking the standard deduction. Making the common case easy is still worth pursuing, even if some people will still itemize.
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"The code" is the attempt to keep the person alive. "Coding" is used as a verb either for performing "the code" or to describe a person dying.
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Manipulating dials on displays is not good design, whether it's with a mouse or on a touchscreen.
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This settlement seems grossly inappropriate. It seems very likely that this practice, which lead to deportations, caused far more than $12 million in damages.

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