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> Doctors know about Vitamin D. Don't be so sure about that. When I first heard about the connection of D3 with the immune system, I asked a friend, who happens to be a cardiologis…

Nope, because according to me, if you're fat, it's because because you like sugar more than being slim, and if you're not vaccinated, it's because you can't do simple math. Looking…

You may be confused. At least here in Germany, we (mostly) implement 2G: "Geimpft oder genesen." -- vaccinated or recovered. (Depending on context, "getestet", meaning tested negat…

Indeed. That's why helmets are mandatory for motorcyclists. Helmets are to motorcycles as vaccines are to COVID. Neither guarantees that you don't die or need intensive care, but b…

> Stigmatising obese people, people who drink alcohol, people who do extreme sports, people who have children late in life. Where does it end? You sound as if you live in a weird p…

You are obviously an NF temperament, most probably the ENFP personality type. Extraversion/Introversion is the first distinction of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. I find it remar…

Not at the behest of The People? What a weird court. But more importantly, "to seize" means to "take possession", doesn't it? And you need a license to possess a teletherapy machin…

From https://web.archive.org/web/20140503013539/http://noticias.j... by way of Google translation: "Meanwhile, the ownership of the clinic's assets was being discussed in court, an…

Meanwhile, Rachel posted an update. Apparently, the whole section about how "the system got reworked" doesn't describe the proper solution, but her own (Rookie Rachel's) attempt to…

In this blog post, senior engineer Rachel talks nonsense about normalization and promotes a bafflingly complicated solution as superior to a simple one, without identifying the act…

I must be missing something, but the "solution" with the 3NF and five separate tables with their own indices seems artificial and like pointless overengineering. Isn't this solved …

Or maybe not. It was Navy training that destroyed TMI-2. Instead of worrying about the loss off coolant, the operators worried about the reactor "going solid", which is slang for "…

In April of 1986, the operators of a nuclear power plant turned of the coolant flow to their reactor under full power, just to see what would happen. Nothing happened. The reactor …

If Betamax is so much better than VHS, why is VHS a market success and Betamax a failure?

This might surprise you, but Haskell can do IO. It even has a name. It's called "IO". Shocking, I know. (IO happens to be a monad, which I'm sure someone will point out soon, but t…

"For CD [control diet], the source of carbohydrate included corn starch, sucrose and maltodextrin. In contrast, the HFCS-MFD contained HFCS as the primary source of carbohydrate at…

Very important document. Thank you and your friend "from the West" for making and preserving it!

It might be because managers talk all the time while saying nothing. So nobody really listens anymore. It was certainly true in most meetings I experienced.

> Fossil fuels have one of the highest energy densities What? The energy density of primordial fuels is six orders of magnitude higher!

And all that greed, corruption, corner-cutting resulted in two major accidents, which killed fewer than 60 people in total. What a condemning track record! One of these accidents h…

> People will either pay more or save money by changing their lifestyle to match the weather and seasons. Absolutely. People will soon adapt to Renewables by heating their homes on…

Wait, what? Coal plants operate with an upper temperature of under 600C, and they approach 40% efficiency. Why do you say it's only 20%? Either way, it sounds as if a coal plant wi…

How come? Conventional electricity plants also convert heat to electricity. That doesn't sound fundamentally different from your business. Was your input temperature too low? That …