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by alecst 5y ago
Your first paragraph is a wild guess. There’s no reason having parasites should make Covid-19 more severe, and many human parasites do not even multiply inside the body during their life cycle. In fact there’s even a paper floating around s
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by alecst 5y ago
So I studied physics and know a fair bit of stat mech. I, like you, know that the entropy is the weighted log of the number of microstates of a system. Does this help me understand that? What are the different states/outcomes? What are
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by alecst 5y ago
> Are you're saying that yes, I can draw a spark from the exterior of a perfect, unbroken, hollow metal sphere containing a van de Graaff generator and some batteries, or otherwise detect that there's any electrostatic activity
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by alecst 5y ago
Now take the charged sphere and connect it to ground with a wire. At the moment you connect it, what happens to the unbound charges that are on the surface of the sphere?
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by alecst 5y ago
If you put a charge inside a spherical ungrounded conductor, charges will move to the inner surface of the conductor to make the electric field inside it zero. The excess charges go to the outer surface of the conductor, uniformly.
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by alecst 5y ago
Cool, fun, inventive, challenging. Might enjoy it even more than Wordle. It took a second for it to load on my mac -- I thought maybe it was busted. Maybe page load speed is something to look into.
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by alecst 5y ago
Crypto is still the best for buying drugs on the internet.
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by alecst 5y ago
Sounds like you're in agreement then? I don't see how it's backwards. The quoted text says nothing about decision-making or weighing pros and cons.
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by alecst 5y ago
I don’t believe it either. I had gingivitis before flossing, now never. I also had cavities appearing between my teeth, but not anymore. I read these articles too a few years ago, and I wondered if most of the people were just bad at flossi
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by alecst 5y ago
Ok wow, that last point really fascinated me: > most cars are more aerodynamic in reverse than they are going forwards I tried to find more about it, but I could only find two sources. The first was a Mythbusters episode about a particul
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by alecst 5y ago
First of all this is the sci-hub link so you all can judge for yourselves. I think it's worth skimming the paper at least: https://sci-hub.st/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... In def
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Perpetual Stew(en.wikipedia.org)
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Braess's Paradox(youtube.com)
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How lithographs are made(metmuseum.org)
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by alecst 5y ago
Maybe you should have put this qualified opinion in your original post, since you seemed to imply that you knew that parasites always led to worse outcomes.
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by alecst 5y ago
Would be interested in your response to this. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.02.21250995v... > Conclusion Our results suggest that co-infection with parasitic co-infection appears to be associa
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by alecst 5y ago
In my physics PhD a meaningful portion of the department was religious. Had more to do with country of birth than the thing they were studying.
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by alecst 5y ago
I adore this. It's exactly the kind of thing I'd love to make for myself. The finished product is tiny, clean, and useful, and it's a nice contrast from the huge page bloat you see on so many sites. It definitely profits from
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by alecst 5y ago
If we take the study at face value, then even if the result is technically true (and robust, with a small p value), the effect size is small. The z-scored well-being differs barely at all between the median income and the lowest and highest
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by alecst 5y ago
Do you have a source for this? This is relevant to my work, but I don't know much about the implementation details of MySQL.
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by alecst 5y ago
Google Einstein’s proof of the Pythagorean theorem. I’ve won quite a few bets with it. :-)
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Helminthic Therapy: Personal Stories(helminthictherapywiki.org)
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by alecst 5y ago
Fascinating. I'd love to hear some recent examples about how you manifested food.
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by alecst 5y ago
Abhayagiri and City of Ten Thousand Buddhas are both reputable alternatives to Goenka Vipassana retreats, just to give you some things to look into.
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Land Value Tax(en.wikipedia.org)
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by alecst 5y ago
You're saying progressive taxation keeps people in poverty. The definition of progressive taxation is taxing the poor less and the rich more. Do you therefore see taxing the poor more as a means of elevating them out of poverty? That&#
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by alecst 5y ago
Do you ever wonder if it’s possible that some millionaires actually do want to be taxed more, for the greater good of society? Or are you only able to imagine the shadowy claw-handed cabal of millionaires deceptively arguing for higher taxe
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by alecst 5y ago
A counterpoint would be that what some call the intrinsic value is the expected future share price based on expected future revenues. There might or might not be future revenue for SNAP, but there is no revenue for a digital currency. But I
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by alecst 5y ago
My ex is a linguist, and she used to tell me about the “learning by forgetting” theory of the “phonological inventory” — which is a fancy way of saying “the sounds you can distinguish and produce.” The idea was that children were born able
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by alecst 5y ago
Tricky. In a book called “Ending Medical Reversal” the authors talk about how difficult it is to run a controlled study on diet all, and how the effect sizes are really small. That’s not to say it doesn’t matter — just that it’s hard to ge

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