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Comment · 4 years ago
Looks cool but did a very poor job of importing the first recipe I tried.
Comment · 4 years ago
And "git" is English slang for similar.

Dura is also an anatomical term for the tissue encasing the brain.

Comment · 5 years ago
No, there have been sham controlled trials of surgical interventions before, they're just rare. One example is kyphoplasty.
Comment · 5 years ago
The first line of the article:

"California is not keeping up with the energy demands of its residents.

In August 2020, hundreds of thousands of California residents experienced rolling electricity blackouts during a heat wave that maxed out the state’s energy grid."

How can you say baseline power is not desirable?

Comment · 5 years ago
Whatever you're imaging, it's likely it could be accomplished with the standard compliment of amino acids.
Comment · 5 years ago
I don't think we know that spacetime is quantized.
Comment · 5 years ago
It's hard to know what the side effects are since it hasn't been tested in humans and is not in a form where it would be a useful drug. We've had plently of promising drugs turn out to have unexpected and sometimes devestating side effects when tested in humans.
Comment · 5 years ago
The title is not good--lots of meds are betting than morphine...that's why we have all the other opioids: hydromorphone, fentanyl, remifentinil, sufentinil, oxycododone, etc.

If you look at the Nature abstract linked from the news article, all they claim there is that the analgesic effects can be, "as strong as morphine."

This also a protein which is inherently more expensive and difficult to turn into a drug compared with a small molecule.

Comment · 5 years ago
"Software is eating the world."
Comment · 5 years ago
I recently bought a Boox Note 2 for this and it works very well. I had previously tried reading PDFs and technical documents on my Kindle but it was pointless since it was so small. The Note 2 is just a little smaller than regular letter size paper and it runs a full Android operating system so it's easy to get whatever document management system you want to use working on it (including the Kindle app).
Comment · 6 years ago
Those eggs are not being levitated above the surface. I guarantee it. The pan would need be to be red hot to maintain the leidenfrost effect with a pan full of eggs. As anyone who has played around with the leidenfrost effect knows, since there is essentially no friction the little droplets of water skate around like pucks on an air hockey table. When you put your eggs in your hot pan cooking an omelette they do not float and flip out the side of the pan as they would if they were experiencing the leidenfrost effect.
Comment · 6 years ago
No one cooks omelettes like that. Where are you getting that from? If you actually tried this you would end up with burned, acrid eggs.
Comment · 7 years ago
That's not what the study it's about. If you can't be bothered or are not able to read the article, why would you feel compelled to comment?

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