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1. Not human; not belonging to or produced by or appropriate to human beings
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Roux [1] is a cooking mixture of wheat flour and butter (or other fat). It is the basis of many types of French sauce for cooking.
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The Afterlife Delusion
Is there an afterlife? The science of biocentrism can prove there is, claims Professor Robert Lanza
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Cutting Edge: Training the Fascial Network (Part 2)
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Picture a young girl of about three or four years old and imagine that she is set free on a playground. What would you see? A little girl at play would undoubtedly be a bundle of energy, climbing, jumping, runni... | web |
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Chapter I - The rise of Jewish Monotheism (continued.)
Source: Social Democrat,Vol. XII, No. 3, March, 1908, pp.117-119;
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It's one small step in the history of space flight. But it was one giant leap for computer-kind, with a state of the art artificial intelligence system being given primary command of a spacecraft.
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It should be that because O+ blood(which is my blood type) has all antibodies but no antigens that all other blood types including O- would be incompatible making O not a universal donor so why is O the universal donor.
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Redis (REmote DIctionary Server) is key-value in-memory database storage that also supports disk storage for persistence. It supports several data types: Strings, Hashes, Lists, Sets and Sorted Sets; implements publish/subscribe messaging paradigm and has transactions.
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“You can’t turn a virtual corner this week without tripping over a discussion about the US minimum wage,” Cardiff Garcia writes in a rather comprehensive round-up of the issue. You can add President Obama to Garcia’s list of people who’ve tackled this topic lately — not to mention the t... | web |
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Could you tell me what common the Greek hysteros "the latter" has with origin of "out"?
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64-bit computers have been around and well for a long time already. Most applications have 64-bit versions that can benefit from larger memory capacity and improved performance thanks to the architectural capabilities of 64-bit processors. Developing 64-bit application in C/C++ requires much attention from a programmer... | web |
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If I understand correctly, Thucydides actually called his book just History. If that is correct, then at what point did it become known as History of the Peloponnesian War?
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Tunisia, Egypt and Libya Look to Computer Games To Help Stabilize The Region
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If f is a real-valued function defined on a connected open set of real numbers, and f is injective and continuous, is the inverse of f continuous?
I realize that in general the inverse is not necessarily continuous, but I believe that in this case it is.
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Recall that a Poisson algebra is a commutative algebra $A$ along with a bracket $\lbrace,\rbrace: A^{\otimes 2} \to A$ which is a Lie bracket and which is also a derivation in each variable. The Poisson center of $A$ is the subalgebra of those $f\in A$ such that $\lbrace f,\rbrace : A \to A$ i... | web |
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Mecklenburgh Square and its garden were part of the Foundling Estate, a residential development of 1792 — 1825 on fields surrounding and owned by the Foundling Hospital. The Square was named in honour of King George IIl’s Queen, Charlotte of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz. It was begun in 1804, but for various... | web |
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I have twelve items, each having a value, v. I'd like to group them into 6 pairs that are the best distribution of value across the set. I'd like them to be distributed in such a way that I have the least variance between the best pair by the sum of the value in that pair with the worst pair.
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The moment polygamy was announced as a practice of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church), the myth was born and persisted: Mormon polygamy was a means for lustful men to (lustfully) have as many wives as they wanted. Polygamy was thought to be a system benefiting only the ... | web |
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$ABCD$ is a square with a side of length 4. P is on AB, S is on CD and Q is on PS such that:
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Big Ideas in Macroeconomics book review, Part 3: General Equilibrium
(This is Part 3 of my ongoing review of Big Ideas in Macroeconomics, by Kartik Athreya. Part 1 is here, Part 2 is here.)
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My book says a capacitor is two conducts being connected by an insulator. Now let's take a parallel plate capacitor to simplify the problem I have.
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Macadamia Nut, an oily, edible nut produced by several species of evergreen shrubs and trees. (Botanically, it is not actually a nut but the kernel of a fruit called a drupe.) The nut is spherical, with a diameter of 1/2 to 1 1/2 inches (13 to 38 mm), and is protected by a very tough shell. It has a sweet, buttery flav... | web |
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I'm not sure if this is even possible but can I show the stdout of a linux command via webserver?
The command I want to run is echo 'status' | nc localhost 4730 which returns a string with status of the gearman job server.
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If I had to decide what makes a good science teacher, it would be the ability to demonstrate how experiments fit into the proverbial “scheme of things”. Nothing kills interest in science faster than 1. not being able to accurately relay the structure of the big picture and 2. just tossing a bun... | web |
Range voting "Encourages honesty"?
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In almost all voting systems, including range voting, voters can gain "strategical advantages" by being dishonest in their vote.
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When configuring services in the DMZ to exchange data with the internal LAN which scenario would be more secure:
DMZ service pushes data to LAN service
LAN service pulls data from DMZ service
Which would be more secure, to expose service running in DMZ to accept connections from LAN or pre... | web |
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A #define macro-name macro-body is represented with an N_MAC_DEFINE stab with a string field of macro-name macro-body. An #undef macro-name is represented with an N_MAC_UNDEF stabs with a string field of simply macro-name. For both N_MAC_DEFINE ... | web |
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Why doesn't Java provide functions to get the key/value pairs in a HashSet like exists in Hashtable? It seems like a real pain to have to iterate over it every time you need to get at something. Or is there an easier way to do this?
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I am reading through a "Learn C" book right now and have come across a question I really don't understand. The point of the exercise is to find the problem with this code:
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In Mac OS X, what is the /.vol directory for? I noticed that Excel usually reverences files (while investigating in instruments) using a /.vol path. Is it a folder for temporary files, or does it contain links to all files in the volume?
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I heard that WiFi signals are not encrypted and can be read. Is there possibility to encrypt signal with software or hardware? I mean if WiFi card could encrypt outgoing signal and decrypt incoming signal it would work? Does that mean router also must do same thing to talk and understand WiFi ... | web |
Why is Friday the 13th considered unlucky?
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Karl Giberson's new book, Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution, reopens the old debate between religious doctrine and scientific theory—and claims that both are true. Giberson, a professor of physics at Eastern Nazarene College, and director of the Forum on Faith and Science at Go... | web |
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On some tutorials over the internet they can run a script on the current directory without doing:
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Uncertainty Regions for the Vacuum, Coherent, and Squeezed States
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Recently, an American soldier--as yet unnamed--was nominated for the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award. Only six Americans have been awarded the medal in the last decade, all of them posthumously.
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Mad Props: What to Know Before You Vote About… Prop 37
What It’s All About: Prop 37 requires proper labeling for most genetically engineered foods. What’s exempt: Alcohol and foods that are either certified organic, unintentionally produced with genetically engineered materials (but not genetically engineered themsel... | web |
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Deception in Othello
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Deception in Othello Deception is a reoccurring theme throughout the play which touches all protagonists at various levels. The plot is ... | web |
Protection from Whooping Cough
Why a Pertussis Vaccine Is Recommended
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Getting a pertussis shot is usually considered a childhood event, but once isn’t enough. Revaccination is needed to avoid the disease that’s also known as whooping cough…
Pertussis is a very ... | web |
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