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by Gatsky 4y ago
That was surprisingly banal. So much less interesting than this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErE7O5NceGQ Surely they could have used drones with leering red LEDs to apply the material. Alexander McQueen was one of a kin
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Sometimes I am left to wonder about the widespread criticism of science. Slow progress, broken publishing and career progression, terrible working conditions, prestige farming, poor mental health and exploitation of students, fake data, sta
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Varies by government, but the people are, look at what happened to the former treasurer.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
You are quite right to be cynical about academics talking their own book and institutional press releases. There have definitely been breakthroughs that cure people with advanced disease who would be dead otherwise. Anti-PD1 therapy in mela
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I didn’t use any expletives, abbreviated or otherwise [1], nor do I want to insult you. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20962330
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I think you are ignoring an important part of this question, which is what is going to happen in India and Northern Africa, where most of the population growth will take place over the next 50 years. I don't think these countries can a
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by Gatsky 4y ago
In TFA he says, to paraphrase, 'We aren't going all-in on EVs and lack of infrastructure is one of the reasons.' What do you think is the fastest way to get ICE cars off the road? Pretty sure what you outline in your comment
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Well I live in a very wealthy country by global standards, with lots of space and sun, and many climate concerned people clearly influencing politics, and plans to export renewable energy to other countries. And there is essentially zero ch
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by Gatsky 4y ago
These are all looking at various surrogate endpoints, and seem to be short term interventions. At best you could say they show saunas are safe for populations with heart disease. Cardiac and overall mortality would be the key endpoint to te
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Yeah, you are talking about a death penalty for corporations (corp-death). It’s been suggested before. Thing is that probably the main reason corporations were invented is to limit liability, thus enabling them to do amazing industrial and
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Do these frequent trading strategies ever account for taxation? Where I live, the returns compared to a buy and hold passive strategy would be cut by 50%.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Maybe not typically, but room temp superconductivity is a nobel prize level claim, and it seems that the experiment is not fully specified without the raw data.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
What about a country currently buying cheap Russian gas who wants to keep it that way.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Not sure how Nature lets through a paper like this without mandating the raw data is included and a detailed protocol to reproduce the results.
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Systematically Improving Espresso (2020) [pdf](cell.com)
43 points by Gatsky 4y ago|37 comments
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Also here: https://www.theage.com.au/national/international-scientific-...
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Seems that Russia's plan is to quickly make Donetsk and Luhansk part of Russia with their sham referendum, and then threaten a nuclear attack if anyone breaches this territory. The rest of the world will force Ukraine to stop their cou
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I would class this more as science fiction rather than prediction. You could preface each prediction with 'What would happen if..' and it is quite thought provoking. The last 30 predictions are paywalled mind you.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
This a long thread, the most useful parts of which are about copper mining and refinement. It would seem difficult to shed the dependency on fossil fuels for this process. Presumably carbon neutral synthetic fuels could find some purchase h
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by Gatsky 4y ago
The downside of this is that preserving 'heritage' architecture is a potent form of NIMBYism. It has reached ridiculous proportions in Australia, where ugly (but solid) architecture from 40 years ago needs to be preserved at all c
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How Tokyo avoided the affordable housing crisis(konichivalue.com)
39 points by Gatsky 4y ago|90 comments
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by Gatsky 4y ago
This is quite thought provoking. Whether you buy this analysis depends on your faith in human nature, and to what extent you think egalitarian pluralist utopias are feasible. It’s a bit like religion. There are obviously many terrible aspec
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The absurdity of Europe burning wood for energy(twitter.com)
359 points by Gatsky 4y ago|329 comments
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by Gatsky 4y ago
When some people were posting “fuck the queen” comments on the original “regina mortua est” HN megathread I thought that was pretty poor form. But I don’t have an issue with protestors. It’s a form of public accountability, which should gen
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by Gatsky 4y ago
This is going to be confounded surely... parents who use cannabis during pregnancy are not 'the same as everyone else except they use cannabis'. They probably, or might I say, almost certainly, have higher rates of psychiatric dis
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Yeah, PM2.5 is listed as a known carcinogen, and there is strong epidemiological data supporting the link between respiratory tract cancers and pollution. This work provides a mechanism for how this happens, where air pollution promotes the
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The modern male is struggling(ofboysandmen.substack.com)
3 points by Gatsky 4y ago|0 comments
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by Gatsky 4y ago
One has to consider why the cost is dropping... which has a lot to do with manufacturing in China. I don't take it as a given that in the geopolitical turmoil that seems to be developing, and the trend to deglobalisation, that the pric
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Confusing title. This is talking about a positive or a negative reminiscence, not the faculty of memory.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Yes, but that’s recent and after most of the data in the article was collected.

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