aliasEli

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by aliasEli 5y ago
The main problem is see here is cooling. It will require energy and that might be a problem with earth quakes or attacks by North Korea. In that respect Svalbard appears to be a better location (although they are having some problems due to
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by aliasEli 5y ago
This appears to be a much more feasible problem than autonomous cars. The number of routes are pretty limited and they can be fully mapped in advance. Also boats move fairly slowly, and in most cases there are only a few of them so they can
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Anyone who has written software to import CSV files knows that in general it's a complete mess. Also, geneticists have been forced to rename certain gene names because Excel messed them up[0]. It would be nice if this standard would be
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Nicely written article. I would guess that using numbers started around the same time that trade (bartering) started. > Peter Watson dates the history of long-distance commerce from circa 150,000 years ago.[0] [0] https://en.w
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by aliasEli 5y ago
I fully agree with the author that it is extremely unlikely that AI will take over in the foreseeable future. > He seems unaware of limitations of AI as mathematically > argued by Nobel laureate Roger Penrose decades ago in “The >
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by aliasEli 5y ago
This article assumes that it is possible to determine if the mail has been read. For the methods to do this see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_tracking . For a real plain-text email you can only use Read-Receipts b
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Tenth of world’s giant sequoias may have been destroyed by a single fire(theguardian.com)
3 points by aliasEli 5y ago|0 comments
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Earth’s Underground Worlds May Run on Radioactive Decay(theatlantic.com)
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I’m a Physicist Who Searches for Aliens. U.F.O.s Don’t Impress Me(nytimes.com)
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Yes, you are right, it was meant as a reaction to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy4xWZ9IkXo Because that was also a recent video with Jeremy Corbell, I incorrectly assumed that all references were to the same video.
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US Understanding of the Pandemic Was Shaped by Messy Data(theatlantic.com)
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Debunking by Thunderf00t: https://youtu.be/Th4VlqQyVr4 (There are currently at least three threads that ultimately refer to the same video)
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by aliasEli 5y ago
A copy for EU readers: https://web.archive.org/web/20210528131648/https://www.myste... Debunking by Thunderf00t: https://youtu.be/Th4VlqQyVr4
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Nice debunking by Thunderf00t https://youtu.be/Th4VlqQyVr4
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by aliasEli 5y ago
These Apps only really work when a large part of the population uses them. It can only record a contact if both persons are using the App. This means that contact detection frequency is more or less quadratic to the adoption frequency. If 1
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Actually I believe it would be better if we never find the true origin of COVID-19. It has drawn attention to: - Improving handling of live animals - Improving lab procedures for biological materials If we would know the true origin, less a
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by aliasEli 5y ago
> Biological materials are hard to grow and store. In general, many diseases are highly species specific and/or affect only certain cell types. When you don't have a suitable cell line, the only real option is to keep live host
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by aliasEli 5y ago
> Second of all, why is YouTube so fixated on removing COVID-related videos? How about lawsuits? People who followed advice on YouTube (or their relatives) could sue YouTube. YouTube already has the technical means to remove video's
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by aliasEli 5y ago
I think a very important reason for Twitter's influence is that it is very easy to include tweets in an article. This saves editorial work. There is no need to paraphrase/extract parts of a longer article and so it mostly avoids t
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by aliasEli 5y ago
I would expect that this was fully automatic response, so there was nobody reading your message. Facebook somehow detected that your photo was too old. On the internet "fake" photo's are frequently posted and it is understand
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by aliasEli 5y ago
There are some strange things in the graphs. Sometimes the selects are faster with a higher number of rows. I would guess that is because the database keeps the entire fairly small table in memory. Also, it seems that the article only uses
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by aliasEli 5y ago
How about Switzerland? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_Switzerl...