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Artificial pet?
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I agree, the question was just badly worded. I would answer "other" to "I have always believed the world is round." Like everyone I began in ignorance and only later was educated enough to "believe the world is ro
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Suggest changing link to original article ... https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/earth-has-more-trees-now-t... In particular, the psmag.com article introduces an error in the tree canopy loss/gain graphs that
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Reference to actual paper ... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0411-9.epdf?refer...
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> The whole idea of bullshit jobs is based on people's own assessment of their work? I think some of it is that people think about their job in the context of an ideal world. There are blizzards of paper that wouldn't be neces
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrim... Interesting, I'd like to read more commentary on this act. Anyone?
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Their stock dropped 5% because the market perceived ‘slowing digital subscriber growth’. So not all good news even for NYT.
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> We want our work to be disseminated as widely as possible! Of course! So few people in the world read these papers already, it is absurd to deny access to interested minds. Publicly funded research needs to come with open access stri
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> While it is true that the solar wind has stripped Mars of much of its original atmosphere (due to the lack of the planet's magnetic field), and that any man-made atmosphere on Mars would eventually be dissipated by the solar wind
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We've long known that we need more nitrogen. One idea is to use ammonia asteroids, which do double duty as a greenhouse gas ... http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mfogg/zubrin.htm
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They also gained access to the employee's vehicle. But, yes, shifting pay from hourly to $2/package shifts a lot of the unpredictable elements of delivery to the employee. I can't imagine they'd get away with it in the
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16 House 3D Printers Available in 2018 https://www.aniwaa.com/house-3d-printer-construction/
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The internet is mentioned in passing, but the reason that English is dominating is that the vast majority of science, engineering and academia in general is published in English, and then is quickly added to the English language Wikipedia.
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I think the fact that he is making money from the videos puts the situation into a different category, so that publicity rights come into play ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights
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> I wish fewer op-eds got posted to HN It's important to know what beliefs are circulating. They can have an impact regardless of truth value.
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This particular cognitive bias is formally known as the ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identifiable_victim_effect
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Here's the paper ... Examination of the Long‐Term Subsurface Warming Observed at the Apollo 15 and 17 Sites Utilizing the Newly Restored Heat Flow Experiment Data From 1975 to 1977 > The Apollo heat flow experiment (HFE) was conduct
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My understanding is that, like SpaceX, Tesla's goal is to build a large number of the required parts in house, enabling rapid design iteration. There is also a goal to automate a large proportion of the manufacturing process, although
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A few additional details from an interview with a local recycler ... > One big problem, he says, is mixed paper — newsprint, magazines, junk mail. China no longer wants it. So it’s being sold to smaller markets in India, Vietnam and othe
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The governor of Chiang Rai, Narongsak Osottanakorn, was quoted as saying: "I am the one who invited @SpaceX because my friend works there." https://twitter.com/yayqe/status/1015287476284346368
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In the end you need just too much collection area - more than the square footage of each floor put side to side. It's easier to put the 'collection area' somewhere remote as solar panels and bring in the light as electricity
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Anti-depressants can let you feel normal for a while, it's a way to find your will again. If you refuse all treatment options, you are going to have to find a way to continue on through your projects. You should continue on through th
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What's our best understanding of the process of quantum decoherence? Are there open questions? Problematic engineering issues?
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Here's an answer from someone who "worked with IBM until earlier last year as Watson architect" ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15456211 It's reasonably in depth and appears sincere. tl;dr: it&#
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tl;dr: > methane emissions in 2015 were about 60% greater than estimates from the EPA’s greenhouse gas inventory: a 2.3% leakage rate compared to the 1.4% estimate from the EPA. “Instead of coming from the well to the pipeline, the gas i
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We have this. In addition, putting recyclables in the trash incurs a fine. As you can imagine, grey-area items definitely go in the recycle bin.
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Here's the study ... https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/420273/ Ego is measured by answering questions like ... > “At the moment, I have high self-esteem” (1 = does not apply at all, 7 = applies completely). I'm
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> Facial recognition is not a hard problem Low quality facial recognition is easy. High quality facial recognition is hard.
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CNN[1] says that it is "Nearly 20 groups of Amazon shareholders ... which include the Social Equity Group and Northwest Coalition for Responsible Investment." [1] http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/18/tech
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Is this usual in Germany? To me it seems to be a fairly extraordinary step, almost theatrical.

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