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Re:Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose? on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @04:53AM (#41244077)
the lactose is converted in glucose, so probably yes, but it depends on the original quantity of lactose
Re:Map of Surnames in Europe on Thursday March 03, 2022 @12:56PM (#30544289)
Spanish site has a link to the Portuguese one - https://www.mapadeapellidos.eu/en/ - list of countries under the map
Re:Map of Surnames in Europe on Thursday March 03, 2022 @12:53PM (#30544241)
The data sets are the phonebooks from the 1990s - see https://www.kartezumnamen.eu/info.php
Re:Map of Surnames in Europe on Thursday March 03, 2022 @12:49PM (#30544168)
The Italian site (which is the original project) says: Surname maps have been obtained by processing data from telephone directories in the 1990s
Re:Map of Surnames in Europe on Thursday March 03, 2022 @12:39PM (#30544047)
Not in Romania (the Hungarian name Kovacs is #90, and the Romanian names Feraru/Fieraru are not in top 100) But Popa (priest) is #1, Popescu (son of a priest) is #2, Cojocaru (furrier) is #46 and Szabo (tailor in Hungarian) is #62
Re:Can mRNA Vaccines Defeat Herpes? on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @10:00AM (#29318550)
CRISPR will not be used to cure HIV (not in the way experimented in China) because the same mutation that confers resistance to HIV makes people more susceptible to infections by influenza and West Nile virus and it is associated with autoimmune conditions like Crohn’s disease and type 1 diabetes
Every country has an agency that regulates drugs and supplements. For Australia see https://www.tga.gov.au/complementary-medicines
which brand do you use?
we are smarter than humans of 200,000 years ago; symbolic. abstract thinking evolved 50000-60000 years ago (source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3048993/ )
both are hot spices; in many places dried chili peppers were used as replacement for black pepper
not necessarily seafaring people; the migration was over land, possible due to the lowering of sea level during the Last Glacial Maximum
Re:The curious history of NovaMin toothpaste (2018) on Friday April 02, 2021 @07:37AM (#26670593)
so they tested 2 Biorepair products, but only one was effective
Re:List of Leaf Vegetables on Monday February 15, 2021 @07:34AM (#26142117)
you missinterpreted that graph; spinach, chards, celery, parsley, letucce, endive, watercress, brassica, all are in Eudicots order. The outliers are scallions (onions, garlic etc.) that are in Monocots order.
Re:List of Leaf Vegetables on Monday February 15, 2021 @07:04AM (#26141939)
Re:List of Leaf Vegetables on Monday February 15, 2021 @06:58AM (#26141904)
red orach?
Re:Stonehenge may have been built in Wales and then relocated on Friday February 12, 2021 @10:16AM (#26114511)
There is any similar site for France or other European countries?
Re:EU hits Amazon with antitrust charges over merchant data on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @12:43PM (#25048663)
in Europe a supermarket buys the products; usually it will pay in 90/120/180 days and it has the option to return unsold items and will have advertising agreements for better/larger shelves, but everything is in the store is own by the store
not everywhere; in Romania butter must have 80-90% fat, and there is butter 3/4 fat with 60-62% fat, and butter semi-fat with 39-41% fat
this is not about comments, it's about a lot of other interactions, many outside Facebook apps and sites - Facebook has info about websites you visited and links you clicked and webpages you liked, and where and when you did that
Re:HPC Systems Special Offer: Two A64FX Nodes in a 2U for $40k on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @09:31AM (#24282273)
Fugaku supercomputer had a total cost of 1B$, and 160k cpus, so the cost was less than 6500 per chip, or 3600$ per 1.5 TFlops
Re:Amazon’s business model meets Sweden’s labor unions on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @05:52AM (#24130168)
My friends from Germany told me the small packages from Amazon are left at your door
Re:Bitoduc: A French dictionnary for CS related words on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @11:43AM (#23987927)
Valid acronyms in Italian and Romanian too.
use a different browser?
Re:Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth (2003) on Friday June 19, 2020 @05:50AM (#23572840)
It happened 300 years ago, but similar overtaxing policies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzungar_conquest_of_Altishahr
there are recommended serum levels for B12: >200pg/mL for Europeans
you can't sell frozen meat as fresh meat because it is obviously frozen...

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