While separation of duties does apply, the principle of economy of mechanism indicates that creating multiple virtual servers on a single host with software like VMware is creating a complex system.

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The presence of multiple orbiting companions is incompatible with the mechanism of stellar formation so they must be planets after all.

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The company received a patent in 1865 and created one of the most important lock inventions, the Yale cylinder lock, a lock mechanism that uses pins of multiple lengths to prevent the lock from opening without the correct key.

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They note that it hits only one unproven mechanism behind stroke and that it may be necessary to hit multiple biological pathways to get a significant effect.

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