Cogito

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by Cogito 5y ago
The point you are replying to is that stainless steel is unnecessary, because 'normal' steel will ast more than 1000 years in the conditions described.
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by Cogito 5y ago
That sounds incredibly fun! We were repeatedly banned from playing "Stretch". 2 players stand facing each other with their feet together. They take turns throwing a knife into the ground, and their opponent must move the closest f
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by Cogito 5y ago
A small note, but actuaries do a lot more than capital reserving, and even then the regulatory aspect (while important) is not the only consideration. I am not an actuary, but I have done a lot of actuarial work in a small insurance company
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by Cogito 5y ago
For any liquid in microgravity the name of the game is ullage. Gasses will self-equalise, but liquids clump together and stubbornly refuse to move the way you want them to. The typical solution, which is in the context of relighting a liqui
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by Cogito 5y ago
I agree with most of what you say. Here in Australia we held back from giving certain vaccines (the mRNA vaccines we have available here) to some demographics when the virus was suppressed here, until the risk from a new outbreak meant it w
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by Cogito 5y ago
Suppose someone wants to minimise the total risk of injury and death to themselves and their community. Is your position the rational position for them to take? What is the motivation for your position?
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by Cogito 5y ago
The original claim was a qualified 'impeccable' - "the current ones with an impeccable record" - that is the original response was that the current covid vaccines are as safe as the other safe vaccines we have. The follo
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by Cogito 5y ago
> 2. I expect a vaccine to significantly (VE >90%) reduce infection probability for at least 10 years. These vaccines ain't that. Why do you expect this, and do you think it's a reasonable expectation? Do you shrug off flu v
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by Cogito 5y ago
It's never "all mosquitos" it's "all of these 2-3 types (Anopheles) of mosquitoes that are vectors for human pathogens". The ecosystem impact is still super important to understand, but it's reasonable to
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by Cogito 5y ago
Your example is misleading because of your choice of characters (and to some degree typeface), not your choice of alphabet. You would have the same problem (and people have had the problem) using the characters 1, I, and l in identifiers. T
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by Cogito 5y ago
I was surprised to find out that these contract provisions are legal in Australia. I'm not sure if there has been much discussion on the topic here, but it's something I would definitely like to see changed. At least there is no
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by Cogito 5y ago
I don't have any specific resources to recommend, however I'll give my take on the foundations of 'numbers'. We use the label 'number' to refer to a broad swathe of mathematical objects, objects that are differ
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by Cogito 5y ago
> > New Colonies may be either agricultural or mining colonies; rarely, resort colonies > Maybe resort colonies are not fun to write about. Actually... Star Trek TNG has a bunch of episodes about Risa, which is a whole fricking ful
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by Cogito 5y ago
I remember reading something about the legality of changing lanes in an intersection in different jurisdictions, and a quick google gives me this [0]. The consensus seems to be that it's legal in many places, however a dangerous lane c
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by Cogito 5y ago
Just in case you missed it, the person you're replying to asked a focused question about the new FSD Beta software. The investigation you reference stems from previous versions of the softawre. The broader context can't be ignored
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by Cogito 5y ago
No idea if you know this or not, but I use the thread collapse button judiciously to skip these long sidethreads (after reading the first few subcomments...)
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by Cogito 5y ago
An aspect of this I find fascinating is the different ways photos from Mars are coloured. The cameras they have sent are quite good and can take 'true colour' images. From the raw images they can be coloured as if a human was stan
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by Cogito 5y ago
A mathematician was exploring a proof, and was shown that the avenue of inquiry they were making could not possible lead where they wanted to go. As a consequence they stopped investigating that path and potentially, as they were shown why
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by Cogito 5y ago
Git is (has been) in the process of rewriting many shell commands etc in C. There are a few reasons for this, but part of the reason is to make Git more portable. This work is slow, and a lot of the progress seems to be driven by the Google
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by Cogito 5y ago
If you're not familiar, John Baez is consistently a nexus for interesting conversations like this one. Read the archives and his twitter for more.
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by Cogito 5y ago
Proving that one branch of a tunnel system does not lead to the open air is advancing the knowledge frontier. It's not as 'advancing' as finding a tunnel that does lead to the surface, but it is still useful. I think I agre
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by Cogito 5y ago
Was about to reply with this exact sentiment. If the page is about you or your service, propose the updates in the talk page (ideally with reliable third-party sources).
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by Cogito 5y ago
I just subscribed a week or two ago, probably from a post here on HN. Can confirm it's been great so far - interesting content and the right length for a weekly newsletter.
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by Cogito 5y ago
The author addresses that in a comment [0] This part might not be entirely accurate due to a lack of image data around takeoff and landing. I had to make my best guess from reference video taken by the Perseverance rover on a previous flig
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by Cogito 5y ago
I love this! Something similar is the Archibald Prize's 'Packing Room Prize'. The award is chosen by the gallery staff who receive, unpack and hang the entries, with 52 per cent of the vote given to head packer Brett Cuthber
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by Cogito 5y ago
Cases keep being imported, and escaping quarantine. Not quite 'popping up'. The game could have multiple levels of 'border closure'; Australia has relaxed border restrictions over the course of the pandemic.
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by Cogito 5y ago
The streamlines don't need to meet for Bernoulli to apply. That statement, that the upper airstream flows faster because it has to meet up with the lower airstream, is wrong and easy to disprove experimentally. So, putting aside that s
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by Cogito 5y ago
I'm not sure how you're connecting that quora discussion to what we were saying above, but I think the confusion comes from what 'thrust to weight ratio' means. Helicopters and planes are both pushing down on air to gene
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by Cogito 5y ago
I'm not sure if this view undersells aero or rocket engineers more. Rocket engineering uses an immense amount of both modelling and physical testing. No-one says "Well I've got the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation, so let's g
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by Cogito 5y ago
It's the exact same principle for planes and helicopters. If a plane isn't producing more lift than weight it will fall, just like a helicopter. Planes work by pushing a wing through the air, helicopters by spinning it. In both ca

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