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Does this mean that it's possible blood thinners could help some patients with covid-19?

I reread the book every 5 or 6 years. I think it's excellent and there's not much that's similar.

This talk by Dr Sadoway is pretty amazing regarding his team's design for utility-scale liquid metal batteries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiRrvxjrJ1U It's an hour long, but it's well worth the time investment.

This is not merely a theoretical technology. A company has been created around this technology: http://www.ambri.com

(I am not connected to any of this, but I am quite excited by it.)

I was born and raised in the midwest part of the U.S. and I've been using "flabbergasted" for all my adult life (20+ years). Of course, I've always had a propensity for peculiar or anachronous verbiage.

I've lived in Kansas City for years. The Steamboat Arabia museum is a great experience. In the early days, one of the original guys would often be there and tell the whole story to groups.

Interestingly, they had a lot to learn about saving the artifacts. Since everything was submerged for so long in fresh water mud the wood artifacts would shrivel up when they dried up. For many months, they stored all the wood artifacts in one of the guy's backyard pool until they could learn how to properly transition the wood artifacts to a restored state.

My understanding is that the team at Mojang is seriously committed to their new mod-based vision; but that there are many technical hurdles they must overcome to achieve their goals.

Just looking at the patch notes for the 1.7, 1.7.1, and 1.7.2, it looks to me that they did some significant code refactoring and expanded the capabilities of the core systems. Additionally, they seem to have added new features to really enhance the multiplayer experience.

Among the changes I see as significant (either from improving the social experience, or from technical difficulty) are: + Achievements are now world specific + Gaining achievements now announced to other players + Servers can now have a “server-icon.png” that is displayed in the multiplayer list + You can see who’s online before joining, just hover the player count number in the server list + Links in chat are now clickable + Click on somebody’s name to send a private message

+ Added Stained Glass

+ Added a bunch of new graphics options + Added some shader tests (click on the “Super Secret Settings” a couple of times…)

* You can now have multiple resource packs loaded at the same time * Resource packs can now hold sound effects * Servers can recommend resource packs

* Network code has been rewritten * Sound manager has been rewritten

Well, if people don't actively use the Apple products they've bought then by definition they won't be having a good experience with them. If they're not having a good experience with Apple products then not only have the engineers and designers at Apple failed, but there will be no excitement or "buzz" that will inspire the owners of Apple products to buy new Apple products (for themselves or others) or recommend existing Apple products to others.

So, I don't think that the talking point is "bull". I think it was a grossly oversimplification of their business/design strategy.

That's a good question. I'll take a stab at answering it. (This is supposition on my part, it is not backed by links to wikipedia or anything.)

I believe the word "arbitrary" applies because Magnetic North pulls a compass needle in a specific way, but that technically, the needle points both north and south.

It is merely due to convention that we navigate by first finding magnetic north. It would be just as easy to navigate by finding magnetic south...mathematically speaking.

Though I've never worked for the large local telecom here in town I've had many friends and coworkers who have. I wish I had a dime for every time I've heard a story just like this (though smaller in scope). People have set up file sharing servers, game servers, whole warez team back ends...the works on hardware that was purchased & set up but never used. This is one of the primary reasons I've never wanted to work for Big Local Telco...

I too cut the Adobe cord a long time ago. I'm on Windows and started using Paint.NET a few years ago and have found that it meets all my needs.

I read it first when I was in my early 20s. I seem to re-read it about every 5 years. Though some of the language is dated, I find the philosophical musing important enough to take the time to refresh in my mind. Finally, the "me" that I bring to the book is different every time I pick it up for the next re-reading...which is to say, I find that I relate to the text differently over time.

I'm enjoying the debate of whether or not "religious institutions" (which I think is an important distinction from "religions") should or should not be considered non-profit entities. I personally feel that they should not be considered as such.

The only new reasoning I can add to the mix, is that quite simply, I personally feel "religious institutions" (again, not "religions" nor "faith") have too great a political power base in this country. I suspect that changing the tax rules on these institutions might in some small way shift the balance in a direction I feel is healthier for our nation's diverse culture.

Does anyone know if there are any lobbying rules that differ between non-profit and profit legal entities?

I've played Blizzard games for years and years. All the Warcrafts, Starcraft, both Diablos. When I was younger I played them more obsessively, these days my gaming has been rather casual.

I've been in the beta for a couple months. SC2 is great. The matchmaking is fantastic. The loss of LAN play doesn't seem that big a deal (to me) when compared to all the gains.

However, I feel that not being able to create a custom chat room for you and your friends to chat is a big miss. The chat feature of Battle.net 1.0 is probably the biggest reason why the Starcraft / Warcraft X / Diablo X community is so strong and so persistent. It is the various custom chat lobbies (friends, public, clan, special interest, etc.) that created the community in the first place. Facebook integration simply cannot compensate (and, in fact, seems rather silly).

My concern is that Activision-Blizzard is doing THEMSELVES a great disservice by eliminating chat rooms (well, that and the fact that I enjoy the community aspect). The reason I'm concerned is that I want the company to continue to thrive and make more good games. (That and also because I own a bit of their stock in my ROTH.)

Additionally, I think the lack of LAN play and aggressive legal pursuit of alternate servers is currently aimed more at getting Activision-Blizzard a slice of the eSports pie than preventing piracy. Anti-piracy is probably as solved as it's going to get.

I also use SumatraPDF and find it excellent.