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alyx

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    Comment #49147040

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    Comment #44926885

    Never heard of Novamin but doesn't look promising? https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7068624/ Conclusion Review shows that Novamin has significantly less clinical evidence t…

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    Comment #42351723

    4 years later? lol

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    Comment #42097389

    The physical body is what the mental state (ex, memories) "looks like" from a third person perspective.

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    Comment #38137810

    Where does the energy stored in the 3D structure come from? How does it get infused with said energy?

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    Comment #38133178

    How do you "enter a cell" without exerting energy?

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    Comment #38133164

    Okay so following your analogy, viruses are like subcomponents of an engine. How are subcomponents of an engine moving in space without ever exerting energy? I can imagine how this…

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    Comment #38132578

    I really do not understand viruses. Given that viruses do not have a metabolism and are not able to produce their own energy, how do these satellite viruses then survive off of oth…

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    Comment #35075806

    Maybe they are just moving to beyond-the-ice-wall.

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    Comment #30773355

    Windows, bare metal, 800+ processes, no containers. Guess the service ;)

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    Comment #26506620

    I also vouch for Bernardo. I have read all his books. His approach, reasoning and explanations have been very appealing to my analytical Mind.

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    Comment #26068284

    I go for a 3 to 4 mile walk every day before work. Start off sleepy, end up excited to get to work. Much of the same benefits without the sweat of running.

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    Comment #24458377

    It is ironic that vitamins are okay to recommend. But when practicing physicians got together to recommend HCQ, that advice was labeled as misinformation and promptly removed from …

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    Comment #24425885

    TLDR; - Guy wants faster internet but doesn't want to move because moving means paying sales commission - Guy starts ISP and lays fiber, incurring +$126K expenses, now has fast int…

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    Comment #24288473

    As a Canadian living and working in the US, I encourage all those that think Canada is somehow better than US, to go give living in Canada (and paying their taxes) a try. US is a m…

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    Comment #24088345

    Pull the flu/influenza death numbers from the CDC for the last decade. I dare you. In the last ten years we (in the US) have lost +500,000 people to the flu. For some reason the pe…

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    Comment #23155698

    Bernardo Kastrup's - Why Materialism Is Baloney

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    Comment #22932166

    When you say "viral rates" please cite your model. Here is the latest out of California, https://pressroom.usc.edu/preliminary-results-of-usc-la-coun... Making the effective death …

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    Comment #22930977

    If you yell “bomb” on a plane, your milage may vary.

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    Comment #22930958

    I don’t think you read his post. You are endangering others‘ lives each time you drive. And yet you’re not inline at the DMV surrendering your license, why? Seasonal sickness also …

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    Comment #22800530

    Tried placing an order online Saturday afternoon, only to be informed that the website was not taking orders due to Shabbos. I very nearly skipped over to Adorama. The mind boggles…

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    Comment #22500982

    Is nobody else bothered by the logic in the 3rd paragraph? > As with all currently available tests, it’s not yet clear how long a person needs to be infected before testing positiv…

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    Comment #22286137

    Might be related to what is described by the scam here, https://youtu.be/2IT2oAzTcvU

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    Comment #21728684

    Poetic, > "who am i?" Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/tensorflow_core/python/client/session.py", line 1365, in _do_call return fn(*a…

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    Comment #21587328

    That's more succinctly defined as abstraction.