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WhiteSage

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    Comment #25080148

    In Spain you go to your healthcare doctor and ask, and they will usually grant you the blood test, but it depends on them. I never had any issues though.

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    Comment #24106688

    From the article comment section: > this is not a mistake. > Assume that the coder meant == 0 what is he trying to enforce. If these 2 bits (_WCLONE and _WALL) are set and your are…

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    Comment #24090155

    Beware the first link inside the article redirects you to a phising site (someone's server got compromised)

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    Comment #23832044

    Dark red nail polisher works like a charm to (semi)permanently turn bright blue LEDs into dim red ones.

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    Comment #23698668

    Plenty of mutations are already produced by faulty copying. This is how viruses mutate. An early organism would have very error-prone RNA copying. How would the cosmic rays, produc…

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    Comment #23664524

    Or this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acerinox_accident In May 1998, a caesium-137 source managed to pass through the monitoring equipment in an Acerinox scrap metal reprocessin…

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    Comment #23299282

    That does not seem a good paper. The only references on biology are quite generic books. Also the stated hypotheses are quite unfounded. As far as I know, there is barely any evide…

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    Comment #23295850

    Also not all DNA mutations produced by DNA damage are equally common, and some of the redundancy lessens their deleterious effect.

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    Comment #22991685

    I'm no expert in the matter, but I guess the problem is somewhat solved as the magnet then interacts with the field lines and these with the other magnet. It depends on how real yo…

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    Comment #22794191

    There is no denying that wearing masks slows the spread. But how much do fabric masks with no filter, which allow most droplets through, slow the spread? I would appreciate any in …

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    Comment #22776959

    It sticks to a virus protein, so you can use that virus protein to find it!

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    Comment #22724432

    What about HIV? 10 years "incubation" period and 100% mortality. If it was as contagious as the flu it would have killed almost 100% of the human population. Isn't it a scary thoug…

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    Comment #22603060

    In the east coast of Spain we have had great weathee (25+ degrees celsius) and it didn't seem to greatly influence transmission speed :(

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    Comment #21779883

    Yes, but DNA is very fragmented and degraded. All you can hope to do with it is some DNA phylogeny.

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    Comment #21592673

    Physical books have their advantages. Specially when reading technical books you find yourself going back and forth way too often to read a digital copy. Also no need to worry abou…

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    Comment #21370846

    Choose some hobbies and find some local community supporting them. Engage in lessons around them, or offer lessons yourself. It doesn't matter where, but do not wait for things to …

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    Comment #21311603

    The author of the article himself embarked in a crussade to ban limit EM emissions after publishing a meta-analysis which shown there is correlation between 10 year phone use and b…

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    Comment #21270127

    I'm sorry for your loss. When something bad happens I often find myself going back to Carl Sagan's words on the Pale Blue Dot [0]. Puts everything in perspective, and makes everyth…

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    Comment #21122511

    There is a bigger problem. If you keep adding 1 you only get all the elements for the integers.

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    Comment #21109484

    My tv remote works with lights on, why wouldn't LiFi?

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    Comment #21075817

    If it is a name it gets capitalized. If it is an adjective derived from the name (abelian, cartesian, euclidean, ...), it depends on the language, the author and the literature aro…

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    Comment #21040125

    Thanks for the reply. Amazing work :)

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    Comment #21036083

    Nice idea! I would appreciate a warning from the author specifying whether dbg evaluates its argument twice, as if so one must be careful with side effects when using it.

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    Comment #20872833

    I recently had this problem in an old Samsung phone. The spam was not directly coming from email, but from some other installed app which was somehow tricking S planner (Samsung's …

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    Comment #20076867

    C++17 includes the [[fallthrough]] attribute built into the language to disable the warning [1]. [1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/attributes/fallth...