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by Gatsky 6y ago
Another bizarre example of reinvention, but unmitigated by ignorance: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... For comment: https://eagereyes.org/series/peer-review&#x2F
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by Gatsky 6y ago
It is mentioned in the Royal Chemistry Society link [1] not to use pre-boiled water, since it has been degassed and will taste ‘flat’. This is true in my experience. I also tend to shake the tea vigorously if making it in a thermos to intro
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by Gatsky 6y ago
I agree. The single most important thing about any of us is that we are members of a civillisation that has run for thousands of years. Yet we constantly forget this, and the classics are a rich and vivid reminder. Another reason is that la
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by Gatsky 6y ago
I find Weinstein very irritating. This whole GU thing is just another example. It is the typical mix of “I have discovered the extremely important X, the establishment is oppressing me.” So far X has included a theory of everything, a cons
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by Gatsky 6y ago
Haven’t read the novel, but this is a wonderful review, perfectly constructed. Reading good writing remains unfailingly enjoyable.
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by Gatsky 6y ago
Well the top comments in crypto threads are never bitcoin fans complaining that hackers aren't drinking crypto Kool-Aid. Maybe they get downvoted to oblivion. I did say powerful, not ubiquitous.
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by Gatsky 6y ago
Yes, this is true of course. FOMO is a fallacy. Nonetheless, I think it does play a role in the nature of bitcoin criticism, which I otherwise find is somewhat odd and repetitive and moralising. You clearly don't have this problem - I
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by Gatsky 6y ago
Well what you say has some merit, but... Goldrush FOMO is a very powerful force. Not saying this applies to you, but I think some people can’t stand the cognitive dissonance of being a hacker and not getting into bitcoin, missing out on lif
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by Gatsky 6y ago
This is well written. It is not very balanced, the author obviously hates cryptocurrency. His main beef seems to be that software engineers had a hand in building it, and should know better. Well, to me the same principle could be applied t
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How much content is too much? Is the job of the writer merely to produce more and more content? New TV series which are slowly converting every original work of art into something that can be passively consumed on the couch. And the remakes
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by Gatsky 6y ago
What’s the point of a PDF when a fax would be sufficient?
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by Gatsky 6y ago
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bhp-ironore-blockchain-id...
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Peer review is an ok idea. Academia is the problem. I saw two wasps fighting on the carcass of a dead bird the other day, it was a very apt analogy.
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The temperature of the material is the same on the top and bottom (less than 0.1K difference they say). The mechanism is rather that the air molecules are entrapped in the nanotube coated under surface and heat up more, so depart with a hig
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by Gatsky 6y ago
Yes. I have heard of sexual favours being provided by a trainee to get into a (highly sought after) Dermatology training program. Another way to put it is that anyone who can be exploited will be exploited. The differences are only in frequ
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by Gatsky 6y ago
Signal seems to get a lot of unfair criticism. I think this is at least partly because they made something a lot of people actually do use. This would otherwise be quite a rarity in cryptography. This ‘statement’ is quite weird. Is it norma
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It’s obvious you consider bitcoin immoral, and are willing to grasp any negative aspect and distort it as much as possible. This means for example you aren’t bothering to understand the point that it is not the energy consumption estimate t
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by Gatsky 6y ago
That’s an upper bound on bitcoin power usage as I said, it is also a ‘horseshit’ calculation as per your classification. I’m not sure how equating it to driving down the coast is a meaningful comparison. Although the porn calculation is not
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by Gatsky 6y ago
The argument about CO2 emissions and bitcoin seems reflexive and ill-informed. The reality is, it’s very small. Bitcoin is estimated to emit 22 million tonnes of CO2, and that is based on country level energy generation mix [1]. In reality
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by Gatsky 6y ago
Yes, that's my point - the outcome would have been better, less people would have died. Italy was there as a stark warning, to the point where it was obvious that provinces with stricter controls did better than those without. The USA
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I don't think challenge trials would have really helped much. The issue is that obtaining an accurate estimate of vaccine efficacy in the real world is a crucial piece of information. There is a very large difference between a 95% effe
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There is one scene where Avasarala comes aboard the Roccinante and is dressed in a white textured jumpsuit straight out of Mass Effect. The camera lingers slightly too long on her, it is a clear homage imo.
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The virus can be controlled with appropriate measures to limit the death rate - see Taiwan, SK, Australia, New Zealand etc. If you want to argue that we could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives I would probably start there instead of
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Yes, in some parts it became like Game of Thrones in space, except with protomolecule soldiers instead of the white walkers.
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by Gatsky 6y ago
I think it is a little wrong-headed to emphasise the litigation aspect. Something that I think people don't appreciate is that as a patient, you want a real person to take responsibility for your problem because that is the basis for a
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by Gatsky 6y ago
Have tried DDG before but wasn't that impressed. Will give it another look.
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by Gatsky 6y ago
News corp, headed Rupert Murdoch, owns a lot of media in Australia. Most of this media is abjectly shithouse but heavily consumed by people aged 60+. Murdoch wields undue political power because of this, which induces elected politicians to
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by Gatsky 6y ago
I think this is possible because of the exclusivity of the equipment. These scientists have the luxury of being the only ones able to conduct this experiment, and presumably some long run funding to do it. If there were 5 different teams co
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by Gatsky 6y ago
On the most basic level we don't actually know who is buying and selling Gamestop stock. The narrative that the little people have taken down the elites may in fact be mostly false. Matt Levine talks about this in his latest column [1]
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by Gatsky 6y ago
Are these returns after tax?

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