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barabba

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    Comment #39793526

    I hope you don’t really believe that’s a fair comparison.

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    Comment #36953833

    I strongly disagree with this view. We don’t even know if such material can exist, and the intersected odds of it 1) existing 2) naturally and 3) us stumbling into it in the short …

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    Comment #33332615

    That's a rather creative expectation to form from that sentence.

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    Comment #32262699

    How so? 1) The stretch in the comment I replied to was referring to calling the area below the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul as belonging to Eurasia. I simply pointed out there is no …

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    Comment #32261858

    I don’t see why that would be a stretch at all.

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    Comment #32261847

    The definition of “Middle East” is a rather flexible one, and can definitely include continentally European Turkey. It’s a political concept at least as much as a geographical one.…

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    Comment #29134935

    So you're saying that "fat people eat too much" is a statistically inaccurate statement?

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    Comment #24103312

    I haven't suggested anything. What did you mean when you said that "we already know children aren't being affected"?

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    Comment #24100528

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunosuppression Non-deliberate immunosuppression can occur in, for example, ataxia–telangiectasia, complement deficiencies, many types of cancer, …

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    Comment #24100432

    Children are susceptible to infection, and long term consequences are not clear.

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    Comment #19152209

    Am I mistaken or there is no support for bookmarks / table of contents in the pdf reader? This makes reading a lot more difficult.

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    Comment #18920360

    conflict of interest?

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    Comment #15295127

    Saving mill I ons! ;)

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    Comment #12814112

    Thanks a lot for the feedback!

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    Comment #12803591

    Can I ask you which model you did buy? I am in the process of doing precisely the same and wondering if their acrylic models are isolating enough. Silicon apparently isolates bette…

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    Comment #4834042

    I perceived it more as an "ad hominem" attack to a competitor than as a service to the backers, go figure...

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    Comment #4834022

    Turns out the Arduino guys were well aware of the issue a month ago: http://smartduino.com/arduinotmtrademark-intimated-us-to-clo... . So I guess the unresponsiveness is on their s…

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    Comment #2466824

    First post on HN, but after reading about 50 pages of this book since morning I feel it really deserves a praise. I'm a student working on a metaheuristic focused MSc thesis, and I…