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Now if only the CO2 emissions went down while the price of electricity went up, this could be a success story.
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60 years ago, when nobody knew anything about fusion (so not a very different situation from today...), the stellarator was the favored design. The advantages are obvious on paper (which is all they had back then): continuous operation, m
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Molten salts are hot! SCNR. Seriously though, molten salts are great heat transfer media, a bit like water, just at higher temperature and still low pressure. They are also completely immune to radiation damage, which is a big deal if you
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> the "less privileged" user You can have multiple user accounts, they don't need to be associated 1:1 with living people.
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The linked MSDS says "dioxane-dione-dimethyl-polymer", which is better known as PLA. It contains dioxane in the same way table salt contains sodium.
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E.T.Jaynes: "Probability Theory, The Logic Of Science"
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Statistics establish a correlation between a child having been spanked and the child growing up into a stupid and/or violent adult. Correlation is not causation. The alternative to corporal punishment most commonly offered is to &quot
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The article seems to say FPGA on a high latency bus can only accelerate workload that are streamed via DMA, and implies that a general purpose accelerator has to be closer to the CPU. Sounds like a coprocessor, like putting an FPGA into th
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And it's not okay. It's fraud.
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Absolutely. That's why you have a control group which gets a placebo. Then you can test if the medication is more effective than the placebo. At least that's how it worked until someone looked at the term "placebo effect&qu
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Absolutely correct. It's called Münchhausen Syndrome. What "helps" these patients isn't the placebo, it's the attention. (And it "helps" them in the same sense in which the next fix "helps" th
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You're wrong, at least according to Wikipedia. But I don't want to argue semantics, I just want one study that shows a measurable (not self-reported) effect. Just one. Please?
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Does anyone know of a study that finds an actual placebo effect? As far as I can tell, there are two distinct effects, and both are meaningless. The first "placebo effect" is observed everywhere, and is simply reversion to the
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For the first proof-of-concept reactor? That's borrowing trouble. If the things works at all and the only remaining problem is the tritium supply, funding won't be a problem anymore.
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Oh no, not at all. The context is the whole problem, because this is an awful analogy. Maudlin confuses "I think this proposition is false, but I don't know how to prove it." with "This proposition is neither true nor
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Why do you think it needs to be enriched?
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> No amount of just grinding out the digits and checking will ever prove it: there are always more digits to check. This guy doesn't know how mathematical proofs work. If the above was close to reality, nobody could ever proof Ferm
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> The energy, land, and water required to produce 1 lb of beef is several times greater than It also tastes several times greater, and in exchange is several times more expensive. > Not saying we need to stop eating beef completely, b
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Mao Tse Dong, is that you? Sorry, but the idea that everything can be fixed by draconian regulations imposing arbitrary limits is simply evil. And if implemented (China's one child policy comes to mind), produces more unintended than
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> Consider sexual education efforts in developing nations Is this a joke? Do you really think people in poor(!) nations don't know how children are made? They do. They want 10+ children, because that's their retirement fund.
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The Strategy Pattern comprises a single interface with a single method. In other words, the Strategy is a function, so it's entirely appropriate to say the FP equivalent of the Strategy Pattern is "function". Objects and
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There's a 2018 update/rehash here: https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2018/04/13/FPvsOO.html Not that it adds any value, it's exactly as confused and pointless. Uncle Bob is getting ol
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Ever noticed that the person who appeals to your sense of duty is always your boss who doesn't want to give you a raise?
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> The number of papers the average researcher is being asked to review is increasing. "No" isn't just a word, it's a full sentence. Just refuse to review for free, demand an appropriate consultation fee instead. If t
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But note the crucial difference: In the case of the Therac-25, this was merely the explanation, and explaining what causes an issue is crucial to fixing it. It was treated as a software problem, and the vendor was liable. Here it's
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Well, the long version is this: "When trying to reject the null hypothesis (sensu Fisher), absence of evidence (for its invalidity) is not evidence of absence (of its invalidity)." Fisher wasn't the only statistician, he wasn
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Dehumidifiers are not a new thing, I have one right here I can observe. It either runs or it doesn't, so it either consumes 200W or it doesn't. It doesn't regulate the temperature of the condenser, the condensing water does
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If that is indeed what GP meant, then no, truthlikeness is completely irrelevant to Bayesian reasoning.
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groan So when they write kW/hr, they mean kWh/h, which is kW, because they expect readers to be confused. But if that's the power of the machine, it shouldn't vary. Just like my car produces 70kW, not "7-70kW&#x
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"Skywater is an ideal solution for [...] Cooling Tower water recovery" Hilarious. If it was possible to recondense the evaporated water and somehow reject the heat to the air, there wouldn't be a cooling tower! Thunderfoot i

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