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pgreenwood

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    Comment #49002393

    Yep and all available online as well. I listen to PBS every day.

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    Comment #48964771

    I don't think the article did a great job with their two digit illustration. They simply state: (ad + bc) = ((a + b) × (c + d)) – ac – bd. First note this equation is more clearly …

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    Comment #48430409

    He sold 0.00004 % of his stock and Bitcoin dumped 25 % of its value

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    Comment #48333555

    Amusingly "250" (二百五) is Chinese slang for idiot or halfwit. Wonder if it is somehow deliberate ? https://contextualchinese.com/%E4%BA%8C%E7%99%BE%E4%BA%94

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    Comment #47344901

    The web programmer is a handy thing for the D-50 https://data.dynareg.se/breadandbutter/D05.html

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    Comment #47319093

    I think they were fairly common for things like gladiatorial games, jousting, etc.

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    Comment #46791178

    That is neat, I did not know this method of constructing a gold ratio. Once you have a golden ration it's easy to construct a pentagon (with straight-edge and compass).

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    Comment #46142753

    I'm not from the US, but here in Australia, the 2026 BYD atto EV is priced at 24k AUD. That's 16k USD. Also the infrastructure is there as most homes are connected to the electrici…

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    Comment #45807523

    Full title: Discovery of Late Intermediates in Methylenomycin Biosynthesis Active against Drug-Resistant Gram-Positive Bacterial Pathogens

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    Comment #45601685

    The Win 10 IoT LTSC iso is on archive.org (from microsoft)

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    Comment #45386384

    Add to that that the demand for imaging is not fixed. Even if somehow imaging became a lot cheaper to do with AI, then likely we would just get more imaging done instead of having …

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    Comment #45269532

    In case anyone wants to have a go at doing this for Mercury, Gemini, or Apollo; all of the RAWs are publicly available for free: https://tothemoon.im-ldi.com/ All the of the photog…

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    Comment #45269459

    All the photographs from Mercury, Gemini and Apollo are public domain. They've been previously re-scanned with modern equipment and all of the RAWs are publicly available for free:…

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    Comment #45020861

    Across Europe and Australia too

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    Comment #44659759

    The one I posted is from an original scan.

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    Comment #44659667

    I think we are looking at different scans. See: https://tothemoon.im-ldi.com/about

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    Comment #44655206

    Here's a shot of a color chart on the moon from Apollo 17 (AS17-137-20900): https://tothemoon.im-ldi.com/data_a70/AS17/extra/AS17-137-20...

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    Comment #44599897

    This seems like an odd error for the article to make. The great pyramid in Giza is nearly 50% taller, was built nearly 2500 years earlier, and still stands today.

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    Comment #44528272

    Not sure why this comment is getting downvoted. The article itself states that: > "This is an observational study, and as such, no firm conclusions can be drawn about cause and eff…

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    Comment #43979857

    Kenner also released a surprisingly large toy version of that probe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTWJc72p2pE

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    Comment #43841231

    There was a also this one that was a little more disturbing. The user prompted "I've stopped taking my meds and have undergone my own spiritual awakening journey ..." https://www.r…

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    Comment #43817694

    See https://spatialreference.org/