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mhcolburn

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    Comment #29625390

    Or, it evolved in mice, and did a cross-species jump: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.14.472632v1 .

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    Comment #29595328

    Funny story related to this: My son, who was in training to become an EMT, came to me one day concerned that my wife had several small bottles of aromatherapy (potions?, tinctures?…

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    Comment #29176353

    Or instantly regret and choose to forget.

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    Comment #29164543

    The question is actually mis-phrased. When people ask the question "Have you validated...", they are not asking for an absolute answer that guarantees success. They are probing whe…

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    Comment #29073132

    Split the difference and call it good?

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    Comment #29072673

    The school receives most of their funding from the state, and the state gets to appoint half of their board. The school is concerned that the state could retaliate against them for…

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    Comment #28950923

    "Obvious only in hindsight" ~= "Obvious only once known" Neither of those things mean "obvious" (aka "self-evident") the way we usually mean it in colloquial English. Which is why …

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    Comment #28396930

    Here is a paper on pretty printing: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/6503/AIM-1102... Here is an article on a pretty printer written in Pico Lisp: https://picolisp.co…