- Aug 2020
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Although public health officials have warned that the presence of antibodies does not guarantee immunity from the disease, the common perception that this is the case makes the issue of bogus tests nothing short of a matter of life and death.
Take away: COVID-19 infections result in antibodies in almost all cases. These antibodies probably give immunity to future infection for at least some time, although how long is still not known.
The claim: The presence of antibodies to SARS-CoV2 does not guarantee future immunity from future COVID-19 infection.
The evidence: COVID-19 has not been present in the human population long enough to know how long immunity will last. There is some evidence to suggest that having COVID-19 typically leads to antibodies will provide at least some immunity to future infections. The vast majority (>90%) of serious (1-3) and mild (4,5) COVID-19 infections do result in the production of antibodies and it has been found that neutralizing antibodies provide immunity to reinfection in monkeys (6). We do not know how long immunity lasts. The best evidence is from the related coronavirus infections SARS and MERS. SARS and MERS infections result in antibodies that last for at least 1-3 years (7-9).
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- https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa344/5812996
- https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/early/2020/05/13/13993003.00763-2020.abstract
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0897-1)
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396420302905
- https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.11.20151324v1
- https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.13.990226v2.abstract
- https://www.jimmunol.org/content/jimmunol/181/8/5490.full.pdf
- https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13/10/07-0576_article,
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5512479/
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Asymptomatic spread of coronavirus is ‘very rare,’ WHO says
Take away: Dr. Van Kerkhove appeared to refer to only “asymptomatic” individuals and not “presymptomatic” individuals in her statement. Clarification from the WHO, and public availability of the data leading to the claim, is needed for proper interpretation. At the current time, existing published data indicates that a significant amount of SARS-CoV-2 infections are due to individuals who did not have symptoms when they spread the virus.
The claim: According to the WHO, asymptomatic spread of coronavirus is ‘very rare’.
The evidence: This statement is attributed to WHO official Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove during a recent news conference. It deserves greater clarification from the WHO, but Dr. Van Kerkhove appears to make the distinction between “asymptomatic” and “pre-symptomatic” individuals during her comments. This distinction is essential for proper interpretation of her statement. “Asymptomatic” refers to persons who test positive, but who never display symptoms throughout the course of their SARS-CoV-2 infection. In contrast, “presymptomatic” individuals are those with confirmed infection, who do not currently display symptoms, but later go on to develop COVID-19 related symptoms (fever, cough, loss of taste/smell, etc).
Importantly, the distinction between asymptomatic and presymptomatic can only be made retrospectively. From a clinical standpoint, if someone currently has no symptoms, but tests positive, there is no way of knowing at that time if they are “asymptomatic” or “presymptomatic”. Preliminary data estimates that around 20% of SARS-CoV-2 infections are truly “asymptomatic”.
If “asymptomatic” individuals were rarely involved in transmission of the virus, this would be an important finding, but from a practical standpoint if “presymptomatic” individuals still spread the virus (as the data indicates), then the rationale for preventative measures still stands. Early studies [1] [2] have estimated that up to 40-60% of virus spread occurs when people don’t have symptoms. Preventative measures such as social distancing and universal mask wearing have been implemented to prevent the spread of virus from individuals not currently demonstrating symptoms.
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- Jul 2020
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stackoverflow.com stackoverflow.com
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There's a few other questions on StackOverflow regarding how to structure YAML files for i18n, and I don't think there is a 'right' answer to your question. If it works for you, then great! I would say that any answer you get will be completely subjective, and more about i18n and translation management rather than anything specifically to do with the Rails way.
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www.cnn.com www.cnn.com
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The vaccine uses messenger RNA (mRNA), which are cells used to build proteins -- in this case, the proteins that are needed to build the coronavirus' spike protein, which the virus uses to attach itself to and infect human cells. Once the immune system learns to recognize this target -- thanks to the vaccine -- it can mount a response faster than if it encountered the virus for the first time due to an infection.
This explanation is garbled and misstated. Genetic material is stored in DNA in the nucleus of the cell. Messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules carry the information stored within the DNA to the rest of the cell. Both DNA and RNA are a type of molecule called a "nucleic acid." Once outside the nucleus, the information in the messenger RNA can then be read, or "translated," to create proteins, such as the spike protein used by SARS-CoV-2. These proteins in turn carry out a wide variety of tasks that allow cells to function. This process is known as the "Central Dogma of Molecular Biology".
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code-examples.net code-examples.net
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JSON parsing is always pain in ass. If the input is not as expected it throws an error and crashes what you are doing. You can use the following tiny function to safely parse your input. It always turns an object even if the input is not valid or is already an object which is better for most cases.
It would be nicer if the parse method provided an option to do it safely and always fall back to returning an object instead of raising exception if it couldn't parse the input.
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kentcdodds.com kentcdodds.com
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Performance optimizations are not free. They ALWAYS come with a cost but do NOT always come with a benefit to offset that cost.
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dmitripavlutin.com dmitripavlutin.com
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Even having useCallback() returning the same function instance, it doesn’t bring any benefits because the optimization costs more than not having the optimization.
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bugs.ruby-lang.org bugs.ruby-lang.org
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I agree in general splitting an array, according to some property using the order of the elements (no take_drop_while) or to some other array (this request) is more difficult than it could be.
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- Jun 2020
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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"Splitters can be lumped more easily than lumpers can be split"
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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For example, if error messages in two narrowly defined classes behave in the same way, the classes can be easily combined. But if some messages in a broad class behave differently, every object in the class must be examined before the class can be split. This illustrates the principle that "splits can be lumped more easily than lumps can be split".
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www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
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“The alarming truth,” warned the researcher, “is that the average number of permissions requested by a flashlight app is 25.”
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“Asking for too many permissions is dangerous,” ESET malware researcher Lukas Stefanko explains. “These permissions can be misused as an exploit to access more device components, such as call logs, phone numbers, and browsing history.”
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At the heart of Google’s challenge has been so-called permission abuse—millions of apps requesting the rights to access device data and functions beyond those needed to deliver their own functionality.
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The security feature in Android 11 is a long overdue crackdown on this permission abuse.
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www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
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Google’s novel response has been to compare each app to its peers, identifying those that seem to be asking for more than they should, and alerting developers when that’s the case. In its update today, Google says “we aim to help developers boost the trust of their users—we surface a message to developers when we think their app is asking for a permission that is likely unnecessary.”
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www.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com
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Surveillance Technology Will Only Get More Intense After Covid. (2020, June 2). Bloomberg.Com. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-02/what-could-the-nsa-do-with-coronavirus-surveillance-technology
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- May 2020
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kellysutton.com kellysutton.com
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This policy allows the test suite to stay green while letting individual teams decide when they would like to put in the effort to write more deterministic tests. They may choose to do so right away, or delay until they work on the feature again.
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www.dailywritingtips.com www.dailywritingtips.com
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The element dem in epidemic, endemic, and pandemic comes from the ancient Greek word demos, which meant people or district:
Interesting how a word (pandemic) that literally means "all people" has ended up (only) meaning a disease that effects all people. Yet nowhere in the word does it say anything about a disease.
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www.britannica.com www.britannica.com
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Taxonomy, in a broad sense the science of classification, but more strictly the classification of living and extinct organisms—i.e., biological classification.
I don't think the "but more strictly" part is strictly accurate.
Wikipedia authors confirm what I already believed to be true: that the general sense of the word is just as valid/extant/used/common as the sense that is specific to biology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy_(general) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy_(biology)
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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"linked data" can and should be a very general term referring to any structured data that is interlinked/interconnected.
It looks like most of this article describes it in that general sense, but sometimes it talks about URIs and such as if they are a necessary attribute of linked data, when that would only apply to Web-connected linked data. What about, for example, linked data that links to each other through some other convention such as just a "type" and "ID"? Maybe that shouldn't be considered linked data if it is too locally scoped? But that topic and distinction should be explored/discussed further...
I love its application to web technologies, but I wish there were a distinct term for that application ("linked web data"?) so it could be clearer from reading the word whether you meant general case or not. May not be a problem in practice. We shall see.
Granted/hopefully most use of linked data is in the context of the Web, so that the links are universal / globally scoped, etc.
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wordpress.org wordpress.org
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This topic is not a support question
This is hard to answer because I don't know what they classify as a "support question". For example, are bugs classified as a support question? So if it's a bug, should I check this or no?
What is the purpose of this checkbox? If you could describe that, it would make it much easier to answer the question.
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stackoverflow.com stackoverflow.com
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Many 3rd parties has some magic parameter which blocks the cookie, but doesn't block the functionality of the element, and I'm looking for something like that. For example brightcove player has a data attribute. Video is working, cookies are not set.
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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generic-sounding term may be interpreted as something more specific than intended: I want to be able to use "data interchange" in the most general sense. But if people interpret it to mean this specific standard/protocol/whatever, I may be misunderstood.
The definition given here
is the concept of businesses electronically communicating information that was traditionally communicated on paper, such as purchase orders and invoices.
limits it to things that were previously communicated on paper. But what about things for which paper was never used, like the interchange of consent and consent receipts for GDPR/privacy law compliance, etc.?
The term should be allowed to be used just as well for newer technologies/processes that had no previous roots in paper technologies.
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- Apr 2020
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github.com github.com
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It's amazing what new can do for clarity. This is exactly what I meant, but couldn't figure out how to phrase at the time.
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- Mar 2020
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www.iubenda.com www.iubenda.com
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you have less direct control as you must rely on the vendor’s adherence to IAB’s guidelines for compliance.
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Directly blocking the vendor scripts (using another prior blocking method), then executing them only after consent has been collected. This method requires more implementation work and it’s a bit slower in terms of execution time, but it allows personalized ads to be served from the first page view (where consent hasn’t been collected yet) and gives you more direct and solid control in regards to ensuring compliance.
pros:
- allows personalized ads to be served from the first page view (where consent hasn’t been collected yet)
- gives you more direct and solid control in regards to ensuring compliance.
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matomo.org matomo.org
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Did you know accurate data reporting is often capped? Meaning once your website traffic reaches a certain limit, the data then becomes a guess rather than factual.This is where tools like Google Analytics becomes extremely limited and cashes in with their GA360 Premium suite. At Matomo, we believe all data should be reported 100% accurately, or else what’s the point?
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hypothes.is hypothes.is
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Create a note by selecting some text and clicking the button
How to make a note. A 101 with me
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stackoverflow.com stackoverflow.com
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I thought I understood Ruby error handling until this week and ran across this question.
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- Jan 2020
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a private library is not an ego-boosting appendages but a research tool. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means … allow you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.
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- Dec 2019
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newpipe.schabi.org newpipe.schabi.org
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Our goal is to make the internet a more free (libre) place and open it for everyone
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- Nov 2019
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Local file Local file
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github.com github.com
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The chosen approach pushes a lot of complexity out of the core. As a result it might take more code to achieve certain functionalities. This is the price of flexibility. And that's the primary design goal of Reactabular.
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- Oct 2019
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ieeexplore.ieee.org ieeexplore.ieee.org
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) Blockchain MemoryWe let LL be the blockchain mem-ory space, represented as the hastable L:{0,1}256→{0,1}NL:\{0,1\}^{256}\rightarrow \{0, 1\}^{N}, where N≫N \gg 256 and can store sufficiently-large documents. We assume this memory to be tamperproof under the same adversarial model used in Bitcoin and other blockchains. To intuitively explain why such a trusted data-store can be implemented on any blockchain (including Bitcoin), consider the following simplified, albeit inefficient, implementation: A blockchain is a sequence of timestamped transactions, where each transaction includes a variable number of output addresses (each address is a 160-bit number). LL could then be implemented as follows - the first two outputs in a transaction encode the 256-bit memory address pointer, as well as some auxiliary meta-data. The rest of the outputs construct the serialized document. When looking up L[k]L[k], only the most recent transaction is returned, which allows update and delete operations in addition to inserts.
This paragraph explains how blockchain hides one's individual identity and privacy, while giving them a secure way of using the funds. In my opinion lot hacker ransomware are done using block-chain technology coins, this and one more paragraph here is really interesting to read about how blockchain helps protect personal data. and i also related this this hacking and corruption or money laundering
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- Jul 2019
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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ports many programming languages and markup languages, and functions can be added by users with plugins, typically community-built a
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- Jun 2019
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crumplab.github.io crumplab.github.io
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packages.bib bibliography file
Would be nice to know how this differs from book.bib
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- Apr 2019
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hypothes.is hypothes.is
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Technology is in constant motion. If we try to ignore the advances being made the world will move forward without us. Instead of trying to escape change, there needs to be an effort to incorporate technology into every aspect of our lives in the most beneficial way possible. If we look at the ways technology can improve our lives, we can see that technology specifically smartphones, have brought more benefits than harm to the academic and social aspects of teenagers lives, which is important because there is a constant pressure to move away from smart devices from older generations. The first aspect people tend to focus on is the effect that technology has on the academic life of a teen. Smartphones and other smart devices are a crucial part of interactive learning in a classroom and can be used as a tool in increasing student interest in a topic. For example, a popular interactive website, Kahoot, is used in many classrooms because it forces students to participate in the online quiz, while teachers can gauge how their students are doing in the class. Furthermore, these interactive tools are crucial for students that thrive under visual learning, since they can directly interact with the material. This can be extended to students with learning disabilities, such as Down Syndrome and Autism, research has shown that using specialized and interactive apps on a smart device aids learning more effectively than technology free learning. Picture Picture Another fear regarding technology is the impact it has on the social lives of young adults, but the benefits technology has brought to socializing outweighs any possible consequences. The obvious advantage smartphones have brought to social lives is the ability to easily communicate with people; with social media, texting, and calling all in one portable box there is no longer a struggle to be in contact with family and friends even if they are not in your area. Social media can also be used for much more In recent years, social media has been a key platform in spreading platforms and movements for social change. Because social media websites lower the barrier for communicating to large groups of people, it has been much easier to spread ideas of change across states, countries, or the world. For example, after Hurricane Sandy tore apart the northeastern United States, a movement called "Occupy Sandy" in which people gathered to provide relief for the areas affected was promoted and organized through social media. Other movements that have been possible because of social media include #MeToo, March for Our Lives, #BlackLivesMatter, and the 2017 Women's March.
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- Mar 2019
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Supplementary methods
0.3.9.1 of the Configurable Pipeline for the Analysis of Connectomes [15] (C-PAC, http://fcp-indi.github.com/C-PAC/), which integrates tools from AFNI (http://afni.nimh.nih.gov/afni), FSL (http://fmrib.ox.ac.uk) and Advanced Normalization Tools (ANTs; http://stnava.github.io/ANTs) using Nipype (http://nipype.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
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- Dec 2018
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kfitz.info kfitz.info
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It’s the nature of the more more more culture: if you can run two miles, isn’t it better to run five? If you can write an article about something, isn’t it better to turn it into a book? If you can speak in four places this semester, isn’t it better to add on just… one… more…?
It's like the old saying, I can't turn a profit with low numbers, so we'll make it up in volume.
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- Sep 2018
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www.mnemotext.com www.mnemotext.com
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keenest attachments, and whose natural gifts may be, if we do not squander or destroy them, exactly what we need to flourish and perfect ourselves—as human beings.
Kass' implications in the quote indicates the potential biotechnology has on the human psyche. Although biotechnology has the ability to forge new paths in curing feeble human (or in essence, any living thing) traits, such as sickness and suffering, it can be further exploited to enhance physical traits. However, Kass' tonality shines light that when this technology is fully developed, humans will lose sight of what they formerly relied on "keenest attachments" Therefore, it is of great significance that the limbs (keenest attachments) are used to "...perfect ourselves-as human beings." and not misused or ultimately destroyed.
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- Oct 2017
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arvrjourney.com arvrjourney.com
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factors
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vivo
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- Sep 2017
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We the people
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I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton’s Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas.
Allusion
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www.youthvoices.live www.youthvoices.live
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I’m pretty good at it
Explain more of what you are good at.
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- Feb 2017
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static1.squarespace.com static1.squarespace.com
- Jan 2017
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devhist.hypotheses.org devhist.hypotheses.org
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Paraphrasing Craig Muldrew’s findings, James B. argues that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries beer was more important as a source of energy (via calories both from grain and alcohol) than as an alternative to water (p 66
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- Oct 2016
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mixupload.com mixupload.com
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Earn money with your music simply selling your tracks on MIXUPLOAD Upload WAV files to participate in wordlwide music catalogue & get more opportunities
Earn money with your music simply selling your tracks on MIXUPLOAD Upload WAV files to participate in wordlwide music catalogue & get more opportunities
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- Aug 2016
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rbms.info rbms.info
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VISITS
I'm not sure exactly where this would fit in, but some way to reporting total service hours (per week or other time period) would be useful, esp as we start gauging traffic, volume, usage against number of service hours. In our reporting for the Univ of California, we have to report on services hours for all public service points.
Likewise, it may be helpful to have a standard way to report staffing levels re: coverage of public service points? or in department? or who work on public services?
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- Jul 2016
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www.menshealth.com www.menshealth.com
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You’ve loved sports as long as you can remember, and squeeze in as many as you can: football in the fall, basketball in the winter, baseball in the spring and summer. The problem, at least in the eyes of some of the adults in your life, is that your love is too promiscuous. You feel constant pressure to pick just one
This quote right here matters to me because it relates to my situation, which is having to playing two sports at the same time. But I don't feel like I'm promiscuous because even though I play other sports than soccer I don't take it serious as much as soccer.
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- Mar 2016
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web.hypothes.is web.hypothes.is
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What about extensions for other browsers? We’re working on that. The next supported browser is likely to be Firefox.
I'm writing this note in... Safari!
I thought hypothes.is could only work with the Chrome applet.
Still looking for a way to use hypothes.is from a tablet.
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- Feb 2016
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www.cornucopia.website www.cornucopia.website
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wildlife whic
consider adding a comma, like so:
"... wildlife, which is..."
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(link)
Two considerations:
- This seems to me to break in style from your previously-established convention for links & citations (i.e., a consistency error); and
- Should it be before or after the period? (unsure of what conventions say).
Consider changing from "(link") to some other options? Two that come to my mind (neither of them quite ideal) could be moving it to "support for climate change denial" and/or changing it to "(An excellent read/article/essay by Vice magazine delves into this [issue/topic] [, here].")
NB: I include optional phrasing in square brackets [ _ ].
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‘It’s impossible’‘It’s possible, but it’s not worth doing’‘I said it was a good idea all along.’
source? not necessary, but (for my mind, at least) helps its appearance.
also re: Style: I have no idea what the style recommendations / conventions are: I see you started with a big icon of an open-quote. Q: Is it customary (e.g. in magazines, the New Yorker, etc.) to include an identically large-icon-sized close-quote?
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- Dec 2015
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www.tomorrowtoday.news www.tomorrowtoday.news
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The goal of “Making the world work for everyone” is vague and can be in-terpreted in many ways. I believe that is it’s power.
- consider whether or not to lower-case the M in "Making." (I should probably ask an experienced copywriter or professional editor, actually... There is probably a "one right answer" in this instance, although I'm not certain.)
- Change it's to its (that is, remove the apostrophe)
The possessive form of "it" is an irregular form of possessive in lacking an apostrophe, probably to avoid confusion with the contraction of "it is."
(This is yet another grammar rule I memorized in public schools. :p)
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- Oct 2015
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www.gutenberg.org www.gutenberg.org
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our conference about fair ladies
What do scholars sit around talking about? Cute girls.
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To glut the longing of my heart's desire
Faustus, despite all he's been given, is still missing one thing:
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let us see that peerless dame of Greece
Faustus has incredible powers, and his friends want him to use them to show him a cute girl.
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- Feb 2014
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pressbookstest.trinfocafe.org pressbookstest.trinfocafe.org
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more comments!!!
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