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v8xi
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Comment #48981352
Thats super interesting I've never heard of this before. It seems that toxin gives a persistent increase in the activity of the sodium channel(s) that make cold painful. I imagine …
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Comment #48923199
Theres a guy Grant Harding on YT etc. who sends gas station pills for testing and some of the things he finds are scary. Seriously addictive drugs being sold OTC with no meaningful…
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Comment #48923017
are you not a true believer of the efficient market?
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Comment #47589706
next you should explain idioms
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Comment #47154256
As an adult that kind of feedback feels like a sales pitch. As a kid its unforgettable validation. Wonder when that change happened.
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Comment #46619266
I introduced this to so many people as the only one who knew how to play. Key is start the game with 3 cards and win the round quickly + be super diligent about the rules so no con…
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Comment #46619182
I used to play this a ton (often as a drinking game). The wiki does a good job of explaining the basics and I'd always do the no talking + point of order variants (+ a few others).…
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Comment #46278030
Just remains to be seen whether they can maintain capitalization long enough to find PMF
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Comment #45285938
i just picked up an ultimaker s5 for $400 on ebay with tons of extra filament and it worked off the bat. Been printing for almost 2 weeks straight and my daughter loves it :D
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Comment #42511987
Christmas 1999 my father's business had just gone under when the banks stopped lending after the dot com bubble. We didn't have any presents until Christmas morning when our church…
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Comment #42226002
Was going to say about the same - this is ~2500 years after construction of the pyramids. How do you coordinate something that massive without any form of writing?
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Comment #42018229
In graduate school we had to answer this on a test question and it took all of 5 minutes...should have published it, I guess
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Comment #41369089
Was curious what types of observations they'd do with this and found this site: https://www.universetoday.com/168209/the-big-fringe-telescop... From there: Dr. van Belle continues,…
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Comment #41162606
I think of geothermal the same way I think of tidal power - seemingly renewable but not really. Harnessing tides dampens the lunar oscillations surprisingly fast (as discussed here…
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Comment #41047067
If this works and becomes a common dental procedure I will be soooo happy. Every time I go to the dentist I ask them if anything like this is coming down the pipeline and they laug…
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Comment #40598735
True currently, but laser form factors are shrinking quickly. Reminds me of this article from a couple months ago where a team built (among a host of other sizes/use cases) a 20W(!…
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Comment #40598600
Surprisingly little compared to the volume of the oceans. Makes me wonder how much is in Mars' crust
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Comment #40467774
Also had this issue. I even tried a bunch of different reformulations/reinterpretation of the provided formula and nothing helped :(
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Comment #40159165
One of the advancements against EW is having on-device mapping systems (this goes back to the Tomahawk in the 70s) so that the projectile can adjust its flight in the absence of GP…
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Comment #39513491
This is what I thought the article was saying until I read it. But if most babies are cradled on the mothers left, that would lead to the babies left side being more interacted wit…
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Comment #38954835
Was curious what chatGPT would say: The result of subtracting 9999999999999998.0 from 9999999999999999.0 is 2.0. This result is due to the limitations in the precision of floating-…
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Comment #38489079
I just don't believe there is any change of a free lunch. The entire point of sleep is to allow your brain to rest and process...spend a week getting only light REM sleep and you'r…