This post is indeed on .ml.

If the United States uses “market-oriented” mechanisms, it’s supposedly because they are more efficient, right? How come nationalizing companies is now considered cheating? And how is it that the answer isn’t simply doing it too?

Good job!

One tip, try this change:

if first_char != last_char {
    is_palindrome = false;
    break; // stop comparison
}

Best wishes in your Rust adventure!

All software has bugs. Modern “vanilla” distros aren’t especially buggy though. Install Mint or Ubuntu, if you need a network adapter make sure it supports Linux, then just use it like you would any other system.

Could you be more specific? What bugs have you found? What distros have you tried?

Losing weight and not sleeping face up may help in any case.

If you usually feel tired or sleepy during the day, it could be sleep apnea, which can have long term negative effects on your health. In that case, see a doctor, who will usually perform tests while you sleep and then may prescribe CPAP. If that doesn’t work or you find it too uncomfortable and the apnea is severe, you may be offered surgery.

There are some commercial devices that might help. Nasal strips are an option if you suspect your nasal passages could be compromised (deviated nasal septum). Chin straps and other devices that position your jaw do help in some cases wherein the issue is in your throat, especially when combined with CPAP.

Edit: also, don’t take medical advice from people on the internet ;)

As other commenters point out, not since the extinctionof Neanderthals, Denisovans, etc. But even if it were possible, the hybrid would not be fertile: our chromosome 2 is a fusion of two chromosomes that are separate in other related species, so there’s no way meiotic crossover recombination could possibly work.

Most based answer. Hope you succeed!

Nah we’re indeed working on it!

somewhere with less ethics

Hysterectomy is the standard procedure, but obviously isn’t performed if the patient doesn’t want it (which in this case is idiotic, but removing organs without consent is never allowed). The reason she flew abroad was not that her doctors would force her to undergo hysterectomy (which would be against medical ethics), but simply that they had less experience in placenta accreta surgery. Many patients that suffer this complication aren’t in such a ridiculous situation, and keeping their womb is an interesting option for them, it is routinely offered in mild cases. Since placenta accreta is very common in China, there are many doctors there who are specialized in it, that’s all.

That’d be an interesting timeline to live in. I can definitely see that story happening irl in many places as the downfall of the empire goes on.

My thought too. But I see anti-imperialist sentiment growing in Africa, so I wondered if that was a likely scenario too.

DNA contains coding and control regions. Changes to the coding regions are rare, most of the evolutionary stuff is happening within those control regions instead. Mutations there are more likely to result in interesting effects by affecting the way genes activate and interact, while the coding regions do the heavy lifting.

Losing some feature could be as simple as a mutation that permanently switches off the control region of a gene, even if the gene itself and the interactions formerly coded around it still work. Over time, those accumulate mutations and degrade, since they are not useful and therefore evolution doesn’t preserve them, but they are still there. For example, we have an inactivated gene that used to make an enzyme that would break down uric acid. So we get gout, but our ancestors didn’t.

Maybe mine is a weird way to explain it, but here it is. It’s up to the rules to decide what is an unfair advantage and what is not. You can make sports categories based on gender, or body weight. You could theoretically make them according to muscle mass, or maybe even blood androgen concentration. But here the rules only say “men and women”; if you think some people might still have an unfair advantage under that scheme, that’s okay, but going down the lazy path of leaving basically everything unchanged exept you restrict some women from participating in “women’s” sports is the worst possible way to handle it. It alienates people by refusing to grow beyond an outdated model.

Underrated comment.

The atmosphere is just about 10 kg/m^2 in sectional density; the manhole cover was very likely higher than that, wouldn’t that mean the cover’s mass should have come out at the other side, intact or not?

I’m a beta-lactam antibiotic.

Good for many tasks, but rapidly becoming useless.

I mainly use it to get a general direction/names/sources when I want to learn about someting but don’t know where to start. So far it’s the only use case for which I’ve found it reliably useful.

It starts out as a tube and folds into its final shape, but I’m suprised it can be reversed, holy crap…

I fully intend to go on with the project! Right now it’s not good enough to be interesting, but the results so far are too promising to not give it a chance.