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vmarovicon Polymers capable of killing bacteria without inducing antibiotic resistance

> A polymer that kills cell walls indiscriminately is hardly an acceptable solution for a human.

Human cells don’t have cell walls, so it would not affect them.

vmarovicon 16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines

What stoops the system from giving you someone else's id. From a person who voted just like you and registering your vote as it pleases under new id it wont give to anyone?

vmarovicon Vim.wasm

diw or ciw doesn't seem to work :(

vmarovicon Chekhov: “Cultured people must, in my opinion, satisfy the following conditions”

I don't know russian, but in croatian which is somewhat similar adding pre to infront of the word makes it stronger, does not change meaning. Like too beautiful or as beautiful as it could get. Though in russian it could be different. (edit or even more beautiful than it is allowed/expected/needed)

vmarovicon The JVM is not that heavy

"For both Node and Ruby you need a C compiler on the system which is hundreds of megabytes alone." Wait what? What c compiler is hundreds of megabytes?