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Comment · 4 years ago
It's the difference between a plastic that eats mushrooms and a mushroom that eats plastic.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
IMO grammatical gender in Indo European languages (of which the Germanic and Romance language families are a part of) reflect how nouns and their references (pronouns, adjectives etc) are semantically linked by modifying the word endings of the latter to better reflect those of the original noun - I like to think of it as the equivalent of type suffixes in assembly language.
Comment · 5 years ago
I mean, it's quite likely the ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine has some effect against the virus in the early stages of infection, but their use needs to be balanced against their side effects, of which there are many. It's like how bleach kills cancer cells, but you really shouldn't be treating cancer with it...
Comment · 5 years ago
You're not wrong - the cornea (front of the eye) has about 3x the refractive power of the lens. Both function as converging lenses, and the only difference is that the refractive power of the lens can be changed.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
It seems like they're describing a phenomenon where a material remains in a metastable configuration associated with a higher critical temperature, even after the pressure is removed and the sample warmed to room temperature.

That said, the Tc of this phase is still fairly low at about 30+ K, so this does not superconduct at room temperature, regardless of the pressure.

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm leaning towards no at the moment - mainly because the hackers appear to be based in a different country, and because they appear to be brute forcing the WhatsApp verification code API. Also, his phone could still do outgoing calls when he tried it earlier.

He said that he got a ton of SMS verification messages from WhatsApp and random phone calls from Argentina, Mexico and the US over the past few days that he was ignoring - not sure how they managed to bypass rate limiting on that.

Comment · 6 years ago
There are mods that let you extend the physics range, but they don't address the underlying issue of the KSP physics engine bring numerically unstable over long distances
Comment · 6 years ago
Cost and availability, especially at the higher capacities. Note that HGST was bought out by WD in 2012, and WD started sunsetting the HGST brand in 2018.
Comment · 6 years ago
Some questions:

- How much would you expect to spend if you were to pay all the bribes? Are you unable to afford them, or is this more of a moral issue?

- Is there any reason why you are effectively purchasing agricultural land and rezoning it to industrial land, rather than buying existing industrial land? What is your plan if you cannot obtain all the necessary NOCs?

- Is there any utility/road/rail access to your land? If not, have you looked into how much it will cost to build the necessary infrastructure?

- Is the area at risk for natural disasters (especially flooding)?

Comment · 6 years ago
You could always keep Google Chrome open to rerun these specific queries, as the captchas are less irritating to solve then.

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