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by xenonite 7y ago
Impressive, a gene analysis shows that SARS-Cov2 is the first known SARS virus that has genes for docking at furin activation sites. And furin sites are not only in the lungs, but also in the liver and small intestines. This may explain why
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by xenonite 7y ago
Exactly, the German mainstream/government mainly is "no fear", and the opposition naturally criticizes that the wrong decisions have been made, and that the state is not ready. At the same time, the German mainstream/gov
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by xenonite 7y ago
Haha, in Germany it is the other way round. Lets simply say, people who liked Obama and dislike Trump are rather _not_ afraid of the virus.
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by xenonite 7y ago
No, for the roads it would be better to have the weight distributed on more "area", hence: more wheels and bigger wheels for the same weight. And this does _not_ require more trucks, just more wheels below each truck. However, an
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by xenonite 7y ago
Indeed, trucks greatly damage roads. For example a 2 tonnes car has 2 axles, hence a=1 tonne per axle. A 20 tonnes truck with 2 axles has b=10 tonnes per axle. Then, the road damage per axle increases by a power of four [1], i.e., by (b&#x2
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by xenonite 7y ago
Who pays? Well, as it’s not free, the users pay for it. And you can buy it in the Apple/Google App Store, or if you really wish, with Bitcoin in the Threema Store. Regarding the privacy concerns: the end to end encryption can be valida
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by xenonite 7y ago
Threema, a well-proven app, already convers the use case of no phone number. Instead, each user has his or her unique id. https://threema.ch/
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by xenonite 7y ago
I find the headline misleading regarding the effect on creativity. In fact, no effect was found. Hence: Caffeine boosts problem-solving ability and shows no sign of altered creativity.
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by xenonite 7y ago
Yes, it’s a parody of a widely used classic medium.
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> “The SOS signal is what most people know, but the downside is it is very curvy,” says Krebs. “Most of nature is curvy – it is rounded hills and lakes and streams, so curvy blends in.” > In the military Krebs was taught to use the le
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by xenonite 7y ago
The BMW logo always looked like a wheel to me: a blue-white rim, and a black tire. Although I would understand if they depict a low-profile tire in their logo, instead removing the tire altogether appears bit off to me. Hence, it seems like
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by xenonite 7y ago
They „denote by MIP the class of languages that have multiprover interactive proof systems,“ and by „MIP∗, the ‚entangled-prover‘ analogue of the class MIP. Informally the class MIP∗, first introduced in [CHTW04], contains all languages tha
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by xenonite 7y ago
The link should be changed to the publisher‘s page where the pdf is linked. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jmv.25728
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On the other hand I should add that the staff was cut or changes, with severe impact nonetheless. From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22446649 : > However he did indeed cut the people tasked to deal with pandemics.
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.. Trump didn’t succeed in slashing the budget, however. > Trump’s budgets have proposed cuts to public health, only to be overruled by Congress, where there’s strong bipartisan support for agencies such as the CDC and NIH. Instead, fina
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by xenonite 7y ago
Could you elaborate that?
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Characteristics of and Important Lessons from the Coronavirus Outbreak in China(jamanetwork.com)
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by xenonite 7y ago
On the contrary. The age-grouped death rates in your link do not consider the comorbidities. Indeed, the problem with the coronavirus is that a better immune system can yield an overly intense immune reaction. If this happens, it yields a b
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Corona Virus (Covid-19) Vaccine Development Breakthrough(migal.org.il)
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Sadly, running a franchise business can become quite abusive too.
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by xenonite 7y ago
Oh cool! Have never heard about that but it looks like quite an interesting idea.
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by xenonite 7y ago
I am still on El Capitan so I share your disappointment. However iPadOS can be used for this app as well.
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by xenonite 7y ago
This gives snother example where the old-generation Lego Technics bricks shine. Besides their circular holes at the side, these still connect at their top and their bottom side with regular Lego studs. I wish these bricks have a comeback. W
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by xenonite 7y ago
great, those were the days! However, you got me with Slackware, I started with SuSE Linux instead.. ;)
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by xenonite 7y ago
Great to see this little tribute to NIBBLES.BAS. Anyone else who learned coding Microsoft QBasic/QuickBasic with Nibbles at an age of six? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibbles_(video_game)
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by xenonite 7y ago
It seems the CHF 1000 note has the highest value among all.
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by xenonite 7y ago
For UK: https://skinflint.co.uk/
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Coronavirus: First reports of clinical data from initial cases(thelancet.com)
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Let's say that preview shouldn't discourage "buying for the shelf", with the plan to read the book one day even if that never happens. I presume this accounts for a wealth of turnover in the book market.
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by xenonite 7y ago
tldr: the train journey starts in Porto (Portugal), stops in Paris, Cologne, Warsaw, Moscow, Beijing, Hanoi, and ends in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam). Total distance is 17.000 km, and the journey takes 275 hours (12 days).

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