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Comment #49247501
Fructose mixed with glucose, not sucrose (the same typo is in several comments here). Sucrose is composed of glucose and fructose linked together. When corn starch is processed, th…
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Comment #49235414
The immunoglobulin is administered proportional to body weight, ideally with most of it injected near the site of the bite. So one administration, but not necessarily one shot.
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Comment #49222304
Given the political will, that problem is straightforward to address with the permitting.
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Comment #49218603
You are arguing about accounting jargon. The card has to be tracked, the entries that track it fall under the label "liability".
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Comment #49150699
It's not really considered an import if a person is looking at all of the changes. They would just need a clear license from their users. (an import is when there isn't complete re…
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Comment #49136963
Pathetic is probably a better term. It is less dismissive of it.
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Comment #49135974
You know water is kind of big right?
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Comment #49117842
With logarithmic perception, it's about a 50% reduction in sound energy. My battery mower is quiet enough that I don't feel terribly rude mowing at twilight.
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Comment #49109057
My buddy's teenager has a collection of old systems, sort of does it as a hobby. I am not informed, but I guess they don't pay high for stuff.
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Comment #49096995
Probably the better way to look at it is that the finance charges are built into the price.
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Comment #49085153
I thought the current panic was that young people (not necessarily teens) weren't having enough kids?
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Comment #49085088
You mean government and society are an engineering exercise. You can't strip people of power and then say it's a democracy, at least not if words mean things.
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Comment #49076992
Do you think there is any way to convince you to value a broader community of people?
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Comment #49076494
It's not just a sit and ignore thing, this will hit design guidelines that factor into future project funding. For example, a few years ago they replaced the bridge over a river ju…
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Comment #49064437
Did you look at memory clocks?
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Comment #49043483
It's making crude predictions.
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Comment #49042660
I have an Ego pushmower. It takes like 2/3 of a charge to mow my lawn, with a 4 year old 5 amp hour battery. I'm not saving money over gas, but I'm not spending a whole lot more an…
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Comment #49006405
Here, in a small US town, the most frequent public music is one or two people ~destroying the speaker on their phone. Second is probably motorcycles blasting it over the engine noi…
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Comment #48995800
I'm perfectly happy to acknowledge that tomatoes are a vegetable in the kitchen. If you want to understand their reproductive biology, you are stuck understanding them as fruit. It…
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Comment #48992818
For the companies doing massive build outs, there's already significant pressure to improve effectiveness and efficiency.
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Comment #48986479
You are probably misusing disingenuous. It implies dishonesty (so intention).
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Comment #48983815
Talking about their product segments the same way they do is not being pedantic. Insisting on your personal definition is!
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Comment #48983256
Their data center business is selling gpus. They wrap them in a complete platform, but that's what they are selling. They do report it separately from consumer and business sales o…
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Comment #48979634
They do vegetation control in larger easements, the power lines/electrcity aren't the only possible factor.
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Comment #48973566
It's at least arguably about storytelling. You don't sit around the fire talking in verse for your entertainment. For instance, one of Homer's works is in the news due to a film be…