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Getting further and further from the point... Du you claim that surgery could be performed under placebo-anaesthesia? Why or why not?
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You don't know if patients treated with a placebo feel a benefit, you only know that they report feeling a benefit. What's the task of the physician? Is it to relieve the patient's pain or is it to get the patient to shut
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No, there is simply no way to measure pain. Sorry about that, deal with it and just demonstrate the "placebo effect" of something that can be measured. Hasn't happened in ~50 years of breathless reporting on it, though, h
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What was measured in that study and how? I can't see it from the abstract. Edit: also, how's that relevant? Acupuncture and sham acupuncture are the very same thing, so what's the placebo (no treatment) group here?
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How am I supposed to know and how is it even relevant? The point is, the "placebo effect" (this is actually incorrect usage of the term) only seems to affect things that can't be measured. Why don't placebos heal infect
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> Do you think optimism and hope should be outlawed? Irrelevant. But do I think selling (nothing but) hope and optimism should be outlawed? Hell, yes! For anything else, you couldn't get away with this argument. You can't
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> Chang says that the paper is evidence that subtle, nonverbal factors "can have a large impact on the experience of pain" and Chang is wrong, wrong, wrong. The phrase should have been "can have a large impact on how th
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The press release is a lie. Looking at the diagram at the top, and reading just the abstract of the linked study, it's clear that the whole idea is to degrade plastic waste (through pyrolysis and/or oxidation) and use the degradat
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Unbelievably bad reporting on top of weak studies. From the article: "...showed that young men who smoked just before puberty produced sons who were more likely to be overweight, beginning in adolescence." So I looked at the stud
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All of this is made up nonsense. Only 14 radioactive fission product isotopes end up in the final waste form, and they are in an inert oxide form. Their decay chains are short and hardly change the chemistry, if anything, it becomes more
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> the earliest nuclear powers all got into the nuclear plant game to make weapons grade material You got that exactly backwards. These five states all used production reactors to make their weapons Pu, which didn't produce useful p
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> Instructions in the CPU happen one after another https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superscalar_processor > a CPU will never execute later instructions before earlier instructions https://en.wikipedia.org
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GP complains that nobody can explain to him why he should switch to Haskell, but when somebody tries, that's "elitist signaling"?! You know what, use whatever makes you happy, while we continue to avoid success at all cost.
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Fine, I'll bite... (1) "Haskell is unreadable because the business logic gets buried under layers of technobabble." Not observed in practice, and not a property of the language anyway. (2) List of many things that are supp
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Cute how none of this relates to the article. Why do you have a list of straw-man bullet points to rattle off whenever someone says "Haskell"? Who hurt you?
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Ammonia and hydrazine could work. I mean, as fuels, not as a PR stunt, obviously.
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You're not wrong. The point is that these anti-proliferation arguments are internally inconsistent. To be honest, I think the anti-proliferation concerns together with the ridiculous million year horizon were made up in order to have
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Why would anyone store 1TB of data in highly redundant JSON? Stored as protobuf, I estimate it would be 8x smaller. A custom binary format would be smaller again. Not only is that smaller, which saves storage and transfer cost, it's
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Imagine a factory. All those moving things, power tools, conveyor belts, cranes, pumps, etc. are driven by electric motors.
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This is all completely backwards. The dangerous fission products have half lives of around 30 years. If we consider them useless (they aren't), we can easily bury them. People will be able to read warning signs in 300 years, and rock
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I own my computer and I want to own the software running on it. What's "bizarre" about that "ideology"?
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A dehumidifier is an air conditioner, but packaged in a way that doesn't allow it to work as one. (The upside is the easy installation.) Suggesting a dehumidifier to avoid AC is ridiculous.
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Right, and that's not rational, is it? He's probably mentally ill and should be treated professionally.
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> It's what and how much you eat that matters. It's only how much you eat. Conservation of energy still applies, and 3500 kcal are still a pound of fat. It doesn't matter where the calories come from, they always end up
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> your body will reduce expenditure to match the reduced intake No, it won't. You need about 2000 kcal/d just to maintain body temperature. That's assuming a constant heat output of 100W. A bit less is surely possible,
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I'm not aware of any comprehensive report, and it looks as if there is nothing to report on. Had CWT ever turned mixed plastic waste into oil, they wouldn't be bankrupt. But they are, so nobody bothers with their "patented
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MSO works and TDP was a scam. TDP was sold by Changing World Technologies as a tech that turns any waste into oil by reacting it with water. A cursory inspection reveals that this cannot work out chemically, and it didn't in practice.
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Maybe, maybe not. But the UK parliament gets to propose legislation, doesn't it? The German Bundestag sure does.
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> which unelected officials The European Commission. Remember, the Commission gets to propose legislation, the Parliament (which you elect) doesn't.
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> Leave a comment there explaining the assignment. Please don't. This is a perfectly understandable idiom in C. Don't explain the language in your comments; that's the job of a text book, which should be read by anyone b

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