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by akiselev 5y ago
> The mandalorian throws in droids that have machine like precision and just wipe the floor killing dozens of people in a firefight, taking no cover, and missing no shots, 360 no scope dual wielding. It broke a lot of unspoken rules abo
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by akiselev 5y ago
> the spike protein from a new virus and splicing it to the backbone of a known one like SARS The spike protein was already a defining feature of SARS-CoV when it emerged and became "known" [1]. That's why it was class
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by akiselev 5y ago
A refinery can leak explosive gasses that form a plume in or around the refinery that rises off the ground. Once detected, there's a fairly high chance that one small spark will set it off but it could be many seconds or minutes until
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by akiselev 5y ago
IIRC average basal metabolic rate is under 100 calories an hour when awake and about 50 when asleep. All it'd take is a can of Coca Cola to wipe out the difference.
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by akiselev 5y ago
> I'll join the chorus of the other sibling commenters here by expressing skepticism that any medication will at all help with anything . (emphasis mine) Right there in the first line. "Any medication", "at all&quo
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by akiselev 5y ago
I agree that communicating these concepts is hard, but that characterization of "very rare" and "impossible" only makes it harder. Pandemics are very rare . Flying unicorns shooting Ebola out of their horns are impossi
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by akiselev 5y ago
What's the point of professionals and experts if they don't communicate clearly and precisely? Why even have him on a podcast?
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by akiselev 5y ago
> Take some Sackler millions and you can feed a million hungry people, cure cancer, or expand our knowledge of the past. At best you can feed a million people for a day (you certainly won't be curing cancer) but you will launder t
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by akiselev 5y ago
What good does it do to launder puppy killers' money? See: Sacklers.
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by akiselev 5y ago
I'm kind of burned out on exoplanet discoveries since they're a dime a dozen nowadays but this title caught my eye because I've been rewatching Star Trek DS9 recently. The antagonist in the latter half of the series is the Do
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by akiselev 5y ago
Some Canadian provinces [1] and US states are beginning to adopt laws that apologies don't constitute an admission of liability. Hopefully, these catch on - it's ridiculous that we have to be so guarded about basic human decency b
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by akiselev 5y ago
> Its also important to remember that wilderness does not mean people are not there, so if you do something stupid thinking noones around so noone can get hurt, you might still hurt someone. And just because people aren't directly
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by akiselev 5y ago
My apologies, this discussion leans heavily into federally mandated jargon that has very recently been drilled into my head and it's all to easy to forget how overloaded the words are - as an SWE in my day job the irony is almost palpa
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by akiselev 5y ago
I only pointed out the Santa Ana winds to emphasize the "unplanned" portion. Even a 10-20 mph gust is enough to bash a skydiver against a rock outcrop, and (in my experience) that's the equivalent of a light morning breeze in
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by akiselev 5y ago
By that logic the only cause of death in GA is "plane hit the ground." When the engine stops working because it doesn't get enough fuel because there's nothing left in the tanks, the root cause is not putting enough fuel
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by akiselev 5y ago
I'm talking about crash landings in general. It doesn't matter what caused the emergency landing, what makes them dangerous isn't crashing into something at the end, but snagging an obstacle right before touchdown that sends
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by akiselev 5y ago
> Sure, but now we’re talking about a situation where your engine has already failed… That’s very different. What to do on engine failure is one of the first things they teach you after basic flight lessons. After that many instructors
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by akiselev 5y ago
> I’m not a licensed pilot, so I’m just arguing from my intuitive understanding of the risks involved. > But if it was me in that plane and I saw a 10% risk of serious bodily harm / death in trying to land and a 0.1% risk in j
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by akiselev 5y ago
> I understand landing on a small road would be possible in a plane like this, but since he's over mountains (3rd disclaimer, I don't know this area) - is it likely there would be roads available to him? Comments in the artic
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by akiselev 5y ago
I believe that's a distinction without a difference. Most scientists have a hard enough time understanding statistical significance in well controlled experiments and they are (ostensibly) trained for it. There's so much noise i
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by akiselev 5y ago
Of course they can, but they don't. It's extremely expensive and the vast majority of countries can't afford the massive upfront cost without nasty consequences. Most of the 32 countries with nuclear reactors built them using
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by akiselev 5y ago
> "Developing countries" with an axe to grind on USA already have dozens of research, or power reactors reactors. Right. This isn't about them. This is about all the other developing countries that don't. This is a
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by akiselev 5y ago
> Does it increase blood pressure? Yes. [1][2] Most studies are on electronic cigarettes and gum but they show the effects are dose/absorption dependent with pure nicotine, so pills are extremely unlikely to behave differently.
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by akiselev 5y ago
This is short sighted. This isn't about getting the genie back into the bottle but about sharing nuclear technology with developing countries that we otherwise can't help because they'd need a source of enriched uranium and i
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by akiselev 5y ago
> After that experience, my view of metrics-driven product development is that it's a way to offload the burden of thinking too hard or understanding where you're going. When people talk about metrics-driven product developmen
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by akiselev 5y ago
That question is a pandora's box that can't be given the nuance it deserves in an HN comment so I'll leave you with the Plato encyclopedia entry on naturalism [1] which was a philosophical debate which wrestled with this very
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by akiselev 5y ago
People don't get climate period. I was rather surprised to find out that my parents get a snow storm every year in late February or early March that dumps 1-3 inches of snow that takes several days to melt. They live not 40 minutes fro
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by akiselev 5y ago
> The difference between us on that matter would be that I would recommend leaning hypermedia, whereas, at the risk of putting words into his mouth, he would appear to lean SPA/RPC as the default approach. Isn't the default e
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by akiselev 5y ago
> Pick battles you can win. Know when saying the truth matters and when it doesn’t. Great rules to live by. My own little corollary: learn which rules can be bent and which ones to disregard completely. They're not all created - o
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by akiselev 5y ago
It's actually a sunshield [1] [1] https://webb.nasa.gov/content/observatory/sunshield.html

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