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by Octokiddie 3y ago
> ... On that call, Powell and most of his colleagues reluctantly endorsed buying defaulted Treasury securities — an unprecedented move to maintain financial stability — if a legislative debt ceiling solution did not come in time. This i
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
> Close to nothing of what makes science actually work is published as text on the web I appreciate the author didn't find a good product-market-fit. But the above claim makes no sense and isn't supported in the article. The au
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List of Coupled Cousins(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
Title ("Price") is misspelled.
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Even the Fed is cutting jobs – for the first time in more than a decade(cnn.com)
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
The premise of the piece depends on making a connection between BBY and the US. I'm not sure it works. > In the American context, my personal view is that Bill Clinton and George W. Bush presided over Bust Out 1, Barack Obama orches
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
The article doesn't define "Epic Book." Is it just a really long book? Is there something more to it? How many pages is the cutoff?
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
> Japan’s steps to bolster the birthrate haven’t been successful, while authorities have been hesitant to accept large numbers of migrant workers to make up the shortfall. It's hard to imagine how Japan can keep on the current path.
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
> Does it matter if psychologists have an incorrect understanding of neural evolution? One answer to this question is simple: We are scientists. We are supposed to care about true states of the world even in the absence of practical cons
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
The title fits into a broad pattern of misdirected attention about atomic weapons. The cover story is always "energy" but the underlying truth is all about weapons. It's the same for every country, too, it seems.
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
Physical newspapers and books. Not trying to be cute, but it's very easy for these vanishing technologies to, well, vanish.
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
Cutting to the chase: > He claims he spotted a bullet resting on the top of the back of the seat. He says he picked it up, put it in his pocket, and brought it into the hospital. Then, upon entering Trauma Room No. 1 (at that stage, he w
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
Has anyone ever written a book on what makes bad writing?
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
Can anyone offer evidence that this is not due to low demand, with insufficient disk space being used as an excuse?
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
What's the metric for programmers who prevent the team from building the wrong product?
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
The original study reports only in vitro data. Call me skeptical about the sweeping conclusion in the title. https://www.jci.org/articles/view/169671
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
> The capsule was found in 2023 when the monument's base was removed from the site. This is a reminder of how quickly things are forgotten. In this case, the presence of the time capsule was forgotten within the span of less than 20
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
The guy in the background looks fake.
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
It seems to be getting more popular here to link to a twitter blurb, which links to the actual article. In this case, the blurb adds zero to the discussion, if anything adding blatant misinformation. This is the actual article: https:&#x2F
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
> But the tiny insects have been causing outsized devastation to the forests in recent years, with officials grappling to get the pests under control before the spruce population is entirely decimated. Two-thirds of the spruce in the reg
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
The alarmist tone of this article inspires zero confidence in the reporting. For example: > Climatologist and weather historian Maximiliano Herrera went so far as to call it [35 C+ temperatures in winter] one of the most "extreme we
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
Oddly, the author doesn't follow their own advice. Nor do they support the claim on which the entire article depends: > People only really learn when they’re surprised. The idea that people learn when surprised is not surprising. Th
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
The tweet does not link to a paper reporting a "replication," but rather two theoretical papers. The title is therefore misleading.
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Narcissism of Small Differences(en.wikipedia.org)
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Facekini: Meet the woman behind China’s most infamous beach accessory(goldthread2.com)
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Dozens of papers co-authored by Nobel laureate raise concerns (2022)(nature.com)
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
> The reasons for this dire situation include: decimation of habitat by logging and suburban encroachment; building of roads that cut off access to the water which it needs for spawning; predation by foreign species such as house cats; a
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
> “It’s definitely been extremely difficult,” Musk said in Twitter Spaces livestream event Musk hosted with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr last month. “Basically, our revenue is cut in half because we didn’t toe the line.” He added it’s been a “h
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by Octokiddie 3y ago
It's surprising to see so many comments here jumping to the conclusion that the article is pointing the finger at carbon emissions. It's not. The article doesn't credit any single cause with the drop. Nor does it spin any sol
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> "We found ten spherules. These are almost perfect spheres, or metallic marbles. When you look at them through a microscope, they look very distinct from the background," explained Loeb, "They have colors of gold, blue, b

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