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Circuit Symbols

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A circle with an A in it means that the circuit has committed a sin and has been marked as punishment.
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marcrichter
110 days ago
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tbd
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JayM
110 days ago
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Ha!
Atlanta, GA
alt_text_bot
110 days ago
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A circle with an A in it means that the circuit has committed a sin and has been marked as punishment.
silberbaer
97 days ago
You mean, the Avengers tower has been... oh, what am I saying, it's Stark's building, of *course* it has.

Cuisine

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My connection to it goes way back, to my early days, when I was just a cloud of primordial hydrogen collapsing in the darkness of space.
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fxer
202 days ago
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I’ve always loved this chart of binding energy showing which elements can only make energy via fission, and which can only make it via fusion. With iron sitting right at the top like a bastard tyrant king

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/A-Lepine-Szily/publication/234065870/figure/fig1/AS:300141371248640@1448570687476/Binding-energy-per-nucleon-B-Z-N-A-as-a-function-of-the-mass-number.png
Bend, Oregon
diogro
201 days ago
Ha! I took intro physics with Alinka Lepine. Super nice lady.
alt_text_bot
204 days ago
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My connection to it goes way back, to my early days, when I was just a cloud of primordial hydrogen collapsing in the darkness of space.

Paper Title

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CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT: The authors hope these results are correct because we all want to be cool people who are good at science.
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CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT: The authors hope these results are correct because we all want to be cool people who are good at science.

Confounding Variables

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You can find a perfect correlation if you just control for the residual.
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marcrichter
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jgbishop
712 days ago
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Where did you go, Alt-text Bot? We need your services once again!
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chrisrosa
712 days ago
Mouse-over works for me in Brave/Chrome.
breach_trapdoor
712 days ago
Long press on the image in mobile to see the alt text. Or hover over it in the browser.
jgbishop
711 days ago
But I'm so lazy!
lograh
710 days ago
alt-text bot was too good for this world. We were unworthy and impure, and now must face the bleak future without its grace.
cosmotic
682 days ago
I'll take no alt text bot over that time there were two.
ReadLots
712 days ago
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ouch

Star Wars Voyager 1

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There's some flexibility depending on your standards for measuring runtime and the various special editions. If you still want to have a party, I'm sure you can find some combination that works.
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marcrichter
1429 days ago
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:-D
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There's some flexibility depending on your standards for measuring runtime and the various special editions. If you still want to have a party, I'm sure you can find some combination that works.

Heists And Escapes

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The interactive experience is built on a single theological framework that unites Dante, George R. R. Martin, every major heist movie, and Erin Gloria Ryan's "Kevin is dead" Home Alone theory.
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marcrichter
1681 days ago
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Hah!
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The interactive experience is built on a single theological framework that unites Dante, George R. R. Martin, every major heist movie, and Erin Gloria Ryan's "Kevin is dead" Home Alone theory.
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