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Comment #49130231
You bring up good questions, but you are making an assumption here: > The last thing I'll touch on is why did human society begin to rapidly change after we started following the s…
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Comment #49117914
Its based on the most common heuristic people have developed in regards to the phenomenon. What do you think about 'alphabet soup company' instead, referring to the tendency for na…
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Comment #49106266
When you raise the pressure the boiling point of water increases which makes steam which is hotter than 100C. This is not 'superheated' because it is still at the boiling point (wh…
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Comment #49100171
1. That didn't answer my question 2. Do you have evidence that the we are operating under standard economics when massive personalized data collection is being used in conjunction …
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Comment #49099596
What you are saying is that the amount of money people save getting discounts is made up by increases to the retail price for everyone else, and that this is equal to the extra mon…
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Comment #49098804
The autoclave does not superheat steam.
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Comment #49098768
How much did you know about the person you were selling to? Did you know what websites they visited or what past purchases they made or what time they went to sleep every night?
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Comment #49095181
> But if we want it to be steam, isn't that a bad thing? Not if we want the steam to be hotter. > Don't we want a nice big safety margin between our active steam temperature and th…
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Comment #49092410
Doxycycline is also a prescribed for acne, so there are a lot of teenagers getting 12 prescriptions every year.
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Comment #49092378
> If the steam condenses to water (for example due to raising its boiling point above the autoclave's temperature of ~125°C) that'd probably be bad If water boils at 100C then stea…
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Comment #49089699
Probably frowned on to bring in food stuff and make it in a bio lab.
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Comment #49087580
I'm pretty sure it is because when there is high pressure the boiling point of water is higher.
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Comment #49087459
> So the "political football" characterization is itself very political. According to your description it sounds completely accurate.
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Comment #49056650
You should look into emergence. An ant in a colony, an offer in a market, a drop of water in a weather system are all evidence that irreducibly complex things have simple mechanism…
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Comment #49031833
Are we socialist because we don't charge people for investigating crimes they report?
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Comment #49031508
Sounds like something we should remedy.
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Comment #49029512
> Love to hear all the time how the "free market" is ruining healthcare. Of course everyone knows a "free market" is when you have profit caps, supply restrictions (residency cap),…
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Comment #49029300
Unless bots subscribe to the subreddit they wouldn't count as members.
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Comment #49021369
Brave is on iOS and will block 'use the app' notifications'.
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Comment #49021131
Here are stats from from a 100k member subreddit with 15k unique visitors a day. * https://imgur.com/UTJyyl8
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Comment #48954145
I shall assume that as much thoughtfulness goes into your stock trading as went into that response.
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Comment #48950481
What does influence your stock purchase decisions?
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Comment #48872324
For those confused about what this means, my understanding is this: when quantizing a wave you can use sampling rate to derive missing bits, so using even one bit can work if you d…
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Comment #48807426
Some peer criticism from: Vanhove, J. (2026). Does multilingualism really protect against accelerated ageing? Critical comments on Amoruso et al. (2025). Journal of Multilingual an…
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Comment #48730744
I thought it was normal for the AI field to confuse people by repurposing other terms of art? To: "transformer", "lora", "diffusion", "hallucination", etc, we can now add "bubble".…