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by acover 10y ago
Why is it wrong? If you reject the null hypothesis with a 99.5% chance it is not a type 1 error.
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by acover 10y ago
Does a VAT work? The regressive nature could be removed by an income based rebate or UBI.
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by acover 10y ago
No. China's one child policy only slowed growth.[0] Even if you halved the population immediately the co2 levels in the atmosphere would continue to increase despite outputting less. [0] - https://www.theguardian.com/wor
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by acover 10y ago
The biggest power consumer is electric heat/ac. http://www.torontohydro.com/sites/electricsystem/residential...
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by acover 10y ago
From PayPal musk got $185 million. $100 million went to SpaceX which paid for the 4 falcon 1 launches. Musk was nearly bankrupt due to SpaceX and Tesla but now they've made him a billionaire. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by acover 10y ago
You are right. There are thoughts that science can't explain or replicate.
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by acover 10y ago
> "Scientific knowledge is better than non-scientific knowledge." Isn't this a falsifiable hypothesis? If you analyzed various predictions made by scientific and non scientific knowledge then you could compare them and det
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by acover 10y ago
I could be wrong but if you wanted to test the hypothesis: given the rules of addition show that 1 + 1 = 2 can be deduced. The experiment would be to go about the deduction. It is falsifiable.
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by acover 10y ago
Yes. Maybe. Is it an axiom of the scientific method? [No?] Is it a tautology? [Maybe?] Are there other examples other than the basis of knowledge being knowledge? [?]
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by acover 10y ago
1+1=2 is falsifiable as it relates to an experiment. You could show that in an experiment that when you "add" a "one" and another "one" together you do not get "two". If it doesn't aid in underst
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by acover 10y ago
> Strong Scientism: Of all the knowledge we have, scientific knowledge is the only “real knowledge.” Stupid question. What is an example of a hypothesis that is not falsifiable by experiment but should still be considered "knowledge
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by acover 10y ago
> plus the Air Force always needs to have two providers Source? Wasn't ULA the only provider for years as Boeing and Lockheed argued it would be cheaper to merge.
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by acover 10y ago
There are several reasons: adventure, incentivize cheaper space travel, drastically improve humanity's chance at survival. Waitbutwhy has an amazing explanation of the how's and why's. http://waitbutwhy.com/20
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by acover 10y ago
AT&T literally did this. They charged users $30 more to keep their privacy. http://fortune.com/2016/09/30/att-internet-fees-privacy/
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by acover 10y ago
If someone chooses to use Facebook then why would they care if their ISP did something similar. I have never been harmed by targeted ads. Maybe someday but right now they just provide a bunch of free services. Not to be pedantic. If you don
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by acover 10y ago
Do people actually care? Https makes only reveals the domain not the content. Google/Facebook collect way more information. Everyone keeps using them. If given the choice of targeted ads vs an extra $30 a month I suspect most people w
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by acover 10y ago
One way he profits is in the expectations of self driving cars. If people expect it in 3 years and it to be 10x better than humans [to quote musk] then there is huge value in any company that can provide it. Tesla has a market cap larger th
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by acover 10y ago
You are mistaken. The pixel has the same 2 year support length of the Nexus series. iPhones are typically supported for 4 years.
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by acover 10y ago
It feels like users don't care about security. Nearly all Android phones are not running a supported OS.[1] As an Android user it appears my only choice is a custom ROM or buying a new device every 2 years. [1] - https://dev
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by acover 10y ago
I meant the root of the opioid epedemic was not unemployment but prescription opioids. I am not an expert but the overdose problem is not just about purity/concentration. Even ibuprofen has nasty effects over the long term. "Overd
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by acover 10y ago
Death can be prevented in opioid overdoses if patients receive basic life support and the administration of naloxone soon after opioid overdose is suspected. Naloxone is effective at reversing the cause, rather than just the symptoms, of an
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by acover 10y ago
Do you have a source for that? They appear to be a reputable, though conservative, think-tank [1]. I cannot find a rebuttal of the author's interpretation that the 91% statistic is largely due to reclassification. The author appears re
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by acover 10y ago
How do you deal with citizenship/visas?
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Source? > The Mars Radiation Environment Experiment (MARIE) was launched in 2001 in order to collect more data. Estimates are that humans unshielded in interplanetary space would receive annually roughly 400 to 900 mSv (compared to 2.4 m
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by acover 10y ago
There is a client library for accessing the files.