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Not enough mushrooming in that case.

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + ... = -1/12

Here's another factor: The ISS is in a high inclination orbit that is excellent at overflying most of the US and Russia. Not so great as a base for deep space missions.

Both of these astronauts were multiple-mission space veterans before they left. They have space shuttle experience. Sunita has prior command experience on ISS. These two are basically the most veteran professionals that NASA has on the roster.

They have now been resupplied with clothing on a Progress module. I think it was like 45 days before that showed up.

They have both stated that they're happy for more time on orbit, and I'm mostly inclined to believe them.

I went to labcorp for a while when I needed monthly blood draws for my doctor.

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Side effects include all of your contacts calling you freakin nerd.

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No. I would like to go back to beans, please.

But the floppy diskette and the "hard disks" did in fact have circular discs inside that spin around.

I suspect that the word diskette was created as an analog to tape "cassette". With both diskette and cassette, the media is stored inside an enclosure, and you don't have to take it out manually.

Even worse if you think your idea is just the best darn thing to come along since sliced bread. And then Dr. 1995 comes along and lays out the whole thing in a footnote in a paper on a different topic.

I sure hope you have some peer reviewed clinical studies to back up a controversial statement like that!

The Geneva conventions are not monolithic documents, and they are not completely uncontroversial. I believe the article 51 you refer to is in a 1978 addon protocol that Israel has not ratified. For reference, there is a different article 51 in the original 1949 conventions, that talks about when an occupying army may conscript civilian labor.

Like any other international treaties, the conventions only apply to countries that have signed on and ratified the treaties. The United States and Israel have not ratified the additional protocol, so from their perspective they are not bound by the text.

The original 1949 conventions do have protections for civilians, but they are weaker protections. Ratiometric evidence of civilian casualties is heartbreaking, but unfortunately simply not relevant to the 1949 conventions. Under those rules, if a facility is used by your enemy to harm you, you can attack that facility. Period.

IDF is always careful to portray how they scrupulously follow the 1949 conventions when they speak to the media. Clear violations that become public are referred to investigation.

As in any war, some elements of IDF are almost certainly violating the conventions. But as a USian I don't think I'll get close to understanding the truth any time soon. I basically don't trust any news source coming out of that region any more.

"Watermelon Man" by Herbie Hancock has a beer bottle solo credited to Bill Summers.

If you've met the deductible for the plan year, the deductible is now off the table. And presumably you need to look at your policy to see what it covers after the deductible is met.

"50% before deductible" is an odd term that I haven't seen in an health insurance policy. Usually, coinsurance doesn't kick in until after the deductible is met.

criminal lawsuit?

What? Do they mean "criminal prosecution?"

That's cleanliness you can see.

Instead the story is that the source engine was located in the "Src" directory in their Visual Source Safe. And the Half Life 1 engine was in a separate branch named GoldSrc because it was about to ship real soon, and they needed to keep changes to a minimum.

I think a lot of people understand the concept of light-seconds, which can measure distance in seconds.

Allow me to introduce the gravity-second. 1 gravity-second of mass-energy is enough mass-energy to have a Schwarzchild radius of 2 light-seconds.

Set G = 1 and c =1. Then equations like r = 2m make dimensional sense.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometrized_unit_system

"gradient descent" is a jargon word for one kind of training method.

Could be your freezer cycling up and down. Mine gets real warm right after I load in a week of groceries. I also should probably store more stuff in the freezer for thermal mass.