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2y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to push it out of the way with some kind of charged field ahead of the space craft. But even if that's the case it would act like air and cause deceleration.
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> The neutrons and the antineutrons are made of multiple electrically charged particles whose electric charges sum to zero, exactly like the electric charges of all particles that compose a neutral atom or neutral anti-atom sum to zero.
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2y ago
This baffles me as well. A large group of people seem to immediately treat it as a foregone conclusion that smartphone bans are entirely positive. Nobody seems to even question the idea that we shouldn't ban things by default . The ev
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2y ago
Perhaps the real research doesn't find these bombastic results that "everyone knows are true"? The 'researchers' in the article had a conclusion, the experiment didn't agree with it and then thought of excuses
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2y ago
They aren't all ads, because the situation gets really muddy. If a website talks about an upcoming movie is that an ad? What if they were shown the movie before its release?
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2y ago
You will just get other kinds of advertisement. Ads that are technically not ads. Things like product placements, free promotions, word of mouth campaigns etc.
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2y ago
None of these sound like they are a very big problem compared to many alternative things people do. People talk about social media as though it's lead paint. I particularly liked that one Facebook study that is usually taken out of con
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2y ago
And the result is that the financial industry is basically untouchable. Everything is buried in so much red tape that it's impossible to compete. And the consequence is something we feel across society. Eg Visa and Mastercard picking a
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Corporations aren't real things. It's a group of people doing something. And people make mistakes. One of the objectives of a corporation is to reduce liability. If open and honest communication means that they end up liable, then
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2y ago
There are 10^80 atoms in the universe, therefore 266 bits are enough to give each a unique identifier. Due to how computers work maybe we can do two numbers: a 32-bit type or area code and a 256-bit counter. Or perhaps we just combine them
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2y ago
Have you ever considered wearing a helmet in day-to-day life? I'm just curious how far flights of fancy might go for people dealing with risk management constantly.
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2y ago
It's a rhetorical question because it's a ridiculous situation. If the police officer is too stupid to understand what's being said then they could ask for clarification. But of course they didn't, because how else cou
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2y ago
> and there's no known antidote. Isn't NAC (N-acetyl-cysteine) used for that? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537183/
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2y ago
Apparently the tax returns in Norway for everyone are public information. I'm surprised this hasn't caused enough problems that we would hear about it in news articles.
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2y ago
that all human vote counter in those areas are miscounting, and all in the same direction. And you can send observers that can watch the entire process.
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2y ago
I am
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2y ago
I've run into the same problem: if you want to share large files to a friend you need to either find a filehost that accepts very large files or use torrents (maybe something like irc transfer works too).
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2y ago
In other words: it's "easier" to make better monkeys than to scale up to produce something valuable. Or in other other words: random generation is highly unlikely to produce something valuable. Or in other other other words:
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Considering how little most adults seem to remember about what was taught in high school I'm not entirely sure how much value it provides. It sends me up the wall when people can't help their kids with the excuse of "I don&#x
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2y ago
Every assignment is done on the last evening. That's what night time is for, right? The last moments before the deadline is when the engine's firing on all cylinders.
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2y ago
Some users even support this these days. From "the law is the law" and "you shouldn't be in business if you can't follow the laws" to "serves them right for having X opinion!"
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It has captivated me too. At one point I realized that the set of real numbers will probably do the same (or a creative use of the set of natural numbers).
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The threshold is a lot higher than people think. I would be at the level of legal blindness without my glasses. I use my phone without glasses daily. A small laptop screen without glasses would be alright too, but desktop monitors are too b
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2y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but Ozempic doesn't cause you to lose weight, instead it controls your appetite. It's not something like DNP, right? 'Normal weight loss' here refers to eating the same amount of calories wit
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2y ago
Do they cause it in excess of normal weight loss in the same time period? I'm asking because regular weight loss that's quick will have both of these effects too.
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2y ago
This study made me question the Ultra Processed Food narrative: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31105044/ > Subjects were instructed to consume as much or as little as desired. Energy intake was greater during the u
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2y ago
When public health measures turn into "hello, we're now making your life worse" then yes, I am against them. Imagine you drink coffee your whole life. You rely on it. Now your government comes in and goes "coffee is now
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It's not a question of moral standing or identity but rather that public transport (and vegan) advocates would like to force you to live like they do. Those things gaining too much popularity threatens the way you do things. We have ex
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That's only true if you take into account VAT as well though. But you're right, the big taxation items in Europe are not the income tax, but the "social tax" and VAT. The first is added as a payroll tax (>30% in some
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In my opinion, the problem is the people. The EU is going in the direction its going with the support of the people. Every once-in-a-while you'll hear about how Europe is becoming less relevant, less competitive, and falling behind. Ma
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