Jabbles

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by Jabbles 5y ago
> Boom plans to use fuel made from carbon removed from the atmosphere, meaning that supersonic travel will be carbon neutral from day one. If this is economically viable - say, within a factor of 3 of current fuel prices - it sounds like
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by Jabbles 5y ago
The number of possible chemicals is vast, due to the exponentially large number of ways you can combine the elements. So although every stable element is present in the average human, every possible chemical (or compound) is not. Recent dis
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by Jabbles 5y ago
"A consecutive sample of outpatients 55 years and older were contacted from daily COVID-19+ lab reports between September 24 and December 21 of 2020" What have the authors been doing since?
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by Jabbles 5y ago
The ICUs are full of people with suspected covid. Vaccinated people are less likely to have covid. 40% of Mississippi is vaccinated. Which point are you having trouble with?
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by Jabbles 5y ago
You've copy pasted something wrong
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by Jabbles 5y ago
For example: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/09/10/cullman...
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by Jabbles 5y ago
- sit at home 24/7 - wear a mask These 2 things seem rather different in magnitude.
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by Jabbles 5y ago
I think the crucial point is that although "you can never tell" with certainty, you can be pretty sure of many things.
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by Jabbles 5y ago
> StackOverflow runs on a couple of servers. Does it?
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by Jabbles 5y ago
I feel that scanning data that is present on a server the company owns is very different to scanning data that is present on a device that they have sold to a user.
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by Jabbles 5y ago
social distancing, handwashing, increased ventilation, wfh, contact tracing app, venue contact tracing, vaccines, rapid testing, temperature checking No idea if they're all ~10% effective, nor if you can just add percentages up like th
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by Jabbles 5y ago
The FAA's reputation in other countries is an example of soft power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power
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by Jabbles 5y ago
Yes. Refusing to get a vaccine now is harmful to yourself and others. The current vaccines are effective. A more effective intranasal vaccine may come, but you should protect yourself and others now .
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by Jabbles 5y ago
I don't understand how this could lift 650lb: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=20ft+*+3ft+*+3ft+*+2+*... = 28 lbs (13 kg)
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by Jabbles 5y ago
Many charitable causes are time sensitive. As you say though, it is a balance.
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by Jabbles 5y ago
This estimate suggests ~$800B https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-47391821
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by Jabbles 5y ago
Imagine the number and quality of textbooks you could commission from world experts in any and all languages for $300M, a single year at 20:1 price-to-earnings. Is the app obviously better? More engaging, to some, perhaps. More profitable?
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by Jabbles 5y ago
If I allocate more time to each interview question, then how am I supposed to judge between a candidate that completes it in half the allotted time vs one that completes it using all the time? Whether the time pressure is explicitly mention
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by Jabbles 5y ago
Do you have an example of a question or interview process that you think fits your description? I think a standard tech-company interview has a lot of time pressure, and providing more time would help many candidates considerably.
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by Jabbles 5y ago
A third way in which you are wrong is that AlphaFold derives a lot of its power by referring to previously-solved protein structures, or parts of them. It doesn't fold the proteins from scratch in an "alpha-zero" way.
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by Jabbles 5y ago
There is not a large industry of hobby submarine drones you can leverage - much more technical skill and effort would be needed.
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If you require more than 30 seconds to perform your experiment, you must instead compare this to an orbital flight.
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by Jabbles 5y ago
you need to do hard analysis that there cannot be once optimized, with all operations re-ordering that can happen The previous post demonstrated that this is extremely difficult, beyond the ability of cutting edge research for mainstream
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by Jabbles 5y ago
It's not true they offer no scientific value. A few minutes' continuous zero-g for relatively low cost is useful for some experiments. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/features/nasa-support...
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by Jabbles 5y ago
There's not really much point replying if you didn't read the article. Especially if you're trying to correct someone else. But yes, they did say that. https://archive.is/8xmAd
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by Jabbles 5y ago
I've no idea why 18% of people think a permanent 10pm curfew regardless of COVID is a good thing. But to add some perspective on the situation in the UK here is our (surprisingly good) government data website: https://corona
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by Jabbles 5y ago
Here is a nice table with the history of the budget: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Cos...
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by Jabbles 5y ago
For more examples of AI acting in unpredicted (note, not unpredictable ) ways, see this public spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRPiprOa... From https://d
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by Jabbles 5y ago
No one expects the science to be of practical value, but the development of the technology and engineering practices needed to perform the science may have many applications elsewhere.
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by Jabbles 5y ago
How much would HFT firms pay for lower latency between world stock exchanges? I think that could be a significant source of income.

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