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If it turned out that going from amino acid to DNA/protein life is only possible by chance, then this an argument that there were at least 1e1000000 or whatever number past universes to allow to produce life.
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Windows approach is not the only alternative. Simply provide API to create a process in a suspended state, then adjust its properties based on pid/handle and then start the process execution.
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Self-replicating proteins can happen by a chance. And if the chance is too small for the life to happen accidentally in the known universe, then this is an argument that there are more than we can see or there were many universes in past.
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Past data pretty much never predict sudden big jumps in value of financial products. Those are fat tailed and one may need literally trillions of data points to infer their probability distribution.
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The article mentioned Akershus hospital in Norway. It is a big 6-floor building. For taller buildings deeper drilling is required, but still should possible. But I guess for really toll buildings one should focus on improving isolation as p
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With tall buildings an option is to drill to 300 meters or deeper, https://hvac.okstate.edu/sites/default/files/pubs/papers/201...
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With oil the solution is trivial. Switch to electrical cars while generating electricity for them with modern efficient coal plants using German coal. Not only it will be cheaper and reduce geopolitical risks, but it will drop CO2 emission
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The only problem is retrofitting older buildings. That is somewhat expensive, but entirely possible especially with ground source heat pumps.
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If energy usage is removed, then surely there is enough oil and gas in other countries to supply Germany.
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It is possible within few years. Most of the gas is used for heating. Switch that to heat pumps. Then for electricity to run those pumps upgrade the existing coal power stations to the latest technology that gives 45% efficiency from the ex
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A good example of the situation is cellulose. Various animals can eat it. Yet trees continue to flourish for hundreds of millions of years since biological machinery to digest cellulose is very energetically expensive and slow.
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There are some military installations on the island that can reflect the radar signal and that are placed on top of the island, close to 40 meters above the see.
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There is an interesting speculation that perhaps most of its way the missiles where in either in the radar shadow of the Snake island or the island added sufficient noise to hide the missiles.
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Itanium tried to move branch prediction to the compiler from CPU. Plus it’s failure was not necessary related to CPU design, it can well be a bad business execution. The grandparent comment is about a compiler generating multiple code copie
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In fact there is a magic wand. Germany should just drastically reduce meat consumption or at least stop growing pigs. Animal agriculture is huge energy sink. I cannot find exact numbers, but CO2 emissions from animal agriculture in Europe i
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German government was perfectly aware how Russia used money they receive for energy resources. Chechen wars, Georgia 2008, annexation of Crimea and war in Donbas 2014. Moreover, sanctions against Russia imposed in 2014 were very weak and ma
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90% is overtall efficiency including losses due to ventilation. Such system with its heat exchangers is not cheap, but long term it pays off compared with less advanced heater.
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A good oil-burning heater has over 90% efficiency. Even no so good and cheap one can get over 70%. The best industrial electricity-generating plants that runs on oil has efficiency bellow 60%.
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For a guy in Siberia various climate models show that the global warming will improve life. Winters will be much milder, agriculture will be less risky.
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The study run for 3 months and people were under calorie deficit, which is typical time scale when the lean mass starts to shrink. In general intermittent fast is not a good way to loose fat precisely for this point. In Russia there are fa
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Fasting is not malnutrition. A typical human even lean one has enough fat to survive without food for 30-40 days without significant loss of lean mass. This sets us quite apart of other animals including apes. One starts to loose lean mass
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It also gives body the time to recover from adverse effects of unhealthy food.
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Such a sad story. With women the experience is typically worse on average when they talk to doctors as the doctors even female one trust them less than male patients. Even feminists advise to go to a doctor with a husband or male relative o
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Holding bitcoins to protect against unacceptable losses with shorts is a very bad idea. Such holding assumes that increase in stock price for mining companies may only come from bitcoin price increase. Yet the companies are exposed to many
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You just need to write 1 to /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo , like in sudo sh -c 'printf 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo' Writing 0 re-
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To prevent overheating on my X1 ThinkPad under Fedora I set the CPU governor to the power safe mode. As an added benefit it makes the laptop almost silent even when using all the cores/threads to compile huge C++ code base that may the
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Chromium finally switched to C++17 this year. The switch to C++20 will happen much sooner given that PNaCL support will be finally removed this summer.
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The sad part of lack of sum types in Go is that the select operator is kind of a typical sum type operation to pick up one of sum type branches. So the language has this notion, but it is extremely limited.
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Ada had only CSP at the start of eighties and then gained mutexes to allow for more expressive and efficient patterns. It is very puzzling for me why Go went with CSP and added a lot of language support for it like the select operator. А da
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The measurement problem of QM arises only when one tries to define an interaction of a classical measurement device and a quantum system. But everything is quantum at the end. So there are no classical devices. In general the appearance of

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