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chemicalnovae

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    Comment #43922348

    The parent said exercise though right, not weight loss? Exercise can/does lead to weight loss but it's certainly not the only benefit and might not even be the most important one.

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    Comment #43111329

    Sure, and most small organic molecules are an order of magnitude smaller than that definition.

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    Comment #41316709

    > And? That span is within an individual's lifetime, which is not very long in the context of human history. As of now there's zero sign any entity with regulatory power is doing a…

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    Comment #41316143

    I didn't go and look up the others but this argument by similarity, at least when applied to asbestos says the exact opposite to the claim you're trying to make. It's generally con…

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    Comment #40304976

    He might not have been able to explain why _but_ I'd bet anything he would have wanted to if he could.

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    Comment #38948055

    Isn't crypto used in these places simply a more convenient form on pinning to the USD than due to any inherent properties of the crypto itself?

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    Comment #38920906

    > Please, (a) for your own sake and (b) for the sake of open source innovation, use the tool that you admit is better. This is...such a strange take. To follow your logic to an ext…

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    Comment #38836212

    100%, I had to pop into the HN comments after opening it because I wasn't sure which it was! Though perhaps there is something we're missing that the target audience would more qui…

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    Comment #38246112

    I mean...maybe: https://www.space.com/diamond-rain-atmosphere-uranus-neptune

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    Comment #35065646

    I mean, maybe deep fakes are _better_ at sowing distrust of information than other forms of propaganda but it seems disingenuous to treat it completly differently.

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    Comment #34540210

    Don't be embarrassed, its what computers are for! I've done the same thing recently too. It honestly feels like a better use of a high-core desktop CPU than have it sit idle 99% of…

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    Comment #32305301

    Take a look at k3s[0] for lighter k8s. [0] https://rancher.com/docs/k3s/latest/en/

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    Comment #31722363

    The essence of this is true of basically every PhD in a quantitative field. I think its one of the things that makes people walk away after starting.

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    Comment #30703463

    Lots of chatter here about alternatives that all seem to miss the point that the alternatives suffer from the same filesystem performance issues that this release claims to improve…

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    Comment #28637237

    > The entire point of a corporation, as a governance structure, in general is to limit liability for its shareholders. That's true for all corporations not just facebook. Its the r…

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    Comment #26313789

    Probably yes, but only if it was happening a lot; I don’t know what the cross-over point would be though that you’re better off just keeping the drives spinning...

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    Comment #23374800

    I was first put onto this book by my PhD supervisor while writing up my dissertation. Revolutionised the way I wrote English for the better.

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    Comment #21571284

    I'm torn between wanting it to be VR exclusive so that it takes full advantage of the interesting differences between VR and reg. gaming, and wanting it to be non-'VR exclusive' so…

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    Comment #21406802

    It seems the shark might disagree with you on that.

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    Comment #21023048

    More to the point then, is there anything that sits between the high quality generalist journals and generalist scientific magazines (Nat Geo. and the like)? I can and do read Natu…

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    Comment #19276894

    Yes, I don't know if this is the canonical way but you can use QEMU to build them [0]. [0] https://servicelab.org/2018/09/13/platform-aware-docker-imag...

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    Comment #18986407

    Native speaker here and I thought the exact same thing. Was actually a little disappointed it wasn't about the kitchen appliances.

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    Comment #18901205

    I mean...it's actually green and gold. But seriously, I can only think of a handful of official things that use the "official" colours, lots of sports teams but not really used by …

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