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by Jabbles 6y ago
The claims would not be unsubstantiated. Science allows you to make predictions about the world. Here we can "predict" that 5G does not cause Covid with near-certainty. We have a vast amount of evidence that it is true. Reducing t
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-53285610
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The distinction is that one is unlikely given the evidence and caveats, and one would require completely rethinking the knowledge we have of how viruses work and how radiation works. It's the difference between 1e-2 and 1e-10. I would
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One thing that has annoyed me this year is the inability of (some) scientists to pour scorn where it is deserved. Instead they cower behind technically accurate phrases like "there's no evidence 5G can cause Covid". We would
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Even better, they're using mass which will allow the same recipes to work on Mars. /s
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The important factors for Vitamin D are that it's cheap to manufacture and has well known (low) risks. We have reasons to believe that it might help fight Covid, especially in deficient individuals, even if we do not have controlled st
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I wonder if this is antitrust related? Offering services for free just because you have excess cash certainly prevents competitors whose only business is photo-related.
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Note that ITER's output is heat, rather than electricity. Maybe the heat will be useful, but it's an important distinction.
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Well you don't need to optimize for productivity , you can optimize for enjoyment, stress-levels, ability to do admin. And presumably on Tuesday you would have the energy to do something fun with your kids. Also, huge numbers of peop
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That won't go away, software will still be needed for when states inevitably change their timezones.
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This sounds extremely useful, if it's as accurate as it sounds - scaling this up to test literally billions of people a day would be a major factor in controlling the pandemic, and far easier than scaling physical tests.
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That's how I interpreted it too, but I'm still surprised it's not 10x. I would have thought that paying the drivers is a major expense, and collecting "real" data 24/7 would be a priority.
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"Only" 74,000 miles in driverless mode. That is less than I expected. Executive Summary https://storage.googleapis.com/sdc-prod/v1/safety-report/Way...
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The moon is getting further away, but slowing down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_acceleration#Quantitativ...
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Of course without the word "flying" the headline loses some of its impact. The European Aviation Safety Agency is still examining the company’s request to have the vehicles certified to fly.
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Before commenting you could at least search for the word "tie": The probability of an electoral-college tie is <1%
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I have used Anki productively, I think it's a great tool, and should be a component of learning in many fields. But I can't help but think it could be a lot better, a lot more efficient, perhaps even 2x more. Anki allows you to cu
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by Jabbles 6y ago
Surely the Mastodon team are very concerned with moderation? Given that everyone agrees it is vital for the success of the project (or any social network), why would they consider it outside their purview?
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Surely the problem with large servers is that they're difficult to moderate, difficult to grow a sense of community, and all the other problems that lead the OP to suggest that 5000 is a vague upper limit. If you are going to go with b
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As Mastadon increases in popularity, how do they plan to make the choice of server easier? If 5000 remains a rough optimal size, how will then how will the next 10M users choose from 2000 servers?
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I definitely remember popups being around for a long time. They used to open a new window (no tabs back then), but ofc now they do it in the same site.
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It sounds like you went without any cars - did you forego taxis etc as well?
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I remember, long, long ago (2011) there was a similar story about a Google account that was banned, and Matt Cutts himself looked into it and came back with a boring, corporate, legalease answer that was most unlike him. https://
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News about the recent study seems fairly balanced IMO https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53753458 I don't expect major public health shifts to happen within a month of a paper being published, especially during a p
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It's not inappropriate to use "actress" yet. But consider that we used to have the word "doctoress" to refer to a female doctor. Using that feels weird.
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No, they should be reproducible if run with the same seed.
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That is covered in the next blogpost: https://alexgolec.dev/knights-dialer-logarithmic-time-editio...
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gives ? perhaps it does now, but it was certainly non-determinstic when it was first released, which is also when it was used for policy decisions. See for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23099386 But how usef
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It reminds me of the covid models, particularly the infamous Imperial model. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CovidSim The question is whether it's useful to have a model at all, or whether it's better to just r
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Indeed - the OED gives 419 senses of the verb "put", including as varied as to put (a person or animal) out of (his or her) misery Cricket. (a) (Of a fielder or wicketkeeper) to hit or break (a wicket), dislodging a bail; to pu

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