alwaysanagenda

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by alwaysanagenda 4y ago
how large can you scale electric airplanes with hyper-dense battery cells? I would imagine hitting the weight limit of traditional aircraft very quickly to get the same output of power. oil's energy per square inch still can't be
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by alwaysanagenda 7y ago
I recommend citizen journalists Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak who produce a twice-weekly media deconstruction on their podcast NoAgendaShow.com There are no ads or corporate sponsors or outside influences -- and never will be. The podcast h
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by alwaysanagenda 7y ago
It's pretty easy to "secure" the election. 1. Voter ID 2. Paper ballot electronically counted, paper stored as backup for any disputes or recounts. 3. No digital / computerized voting machines.
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by alwaysanagenda 7y ago
Generally speaking, there is a lack of vision at Apple that has slowly deflated since Jobs has passed. Jony Ive's departure to start a private design firm is confirmation of such, despite Apple being his 'primary' client. One
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by alwaysanagenda 7y ago
A very smart question, and a legitimate concern as well. This is precisely why I am generally against ML / AI in use to make important decisions, from what your insurance rate "should" be to how many taxes "need" to
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by alwaysanagenda 7y ago
Sample size is 998 and is only women. The study: https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article-abstract/doi/... >"Evidence suggests exposure to particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter <2.5 μm
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by alwaysanagenda 7y ago
For a laymen like myself, I fail to see how this is anything more than additional evidence for Pavlovian response. Are you an "expert" when you learn that a specific pattern of actions results in a reward? That's all that&#x2
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by alwaysanagenda 7y ago
I read this as: "The answer to the opioid epidemic is just some meditation and reducing your dosage. Everything is OK, guys. Really." Effectively, a native ad to prop up big pharma.
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by alwaysanagenda 7y ago
the hubris of man is that we have enough data to understand the earth at any given moment. https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0
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by alwaysanagenda 7y ago
The digital version of prep-er style hoarding for the not-far-off-inevitable apocalypse. Love the idea to make it run on simple 8-bit CPUs that will be scavenged Fallout-style, but seems to presume that no 'newer' technology would
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by alwaysanagenda 7y ago
A little research on the author shows she is: > an "American sociomedical scientist whose research focuses on sex, gender and sexuality, as well as the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS" and her own profile says: https:/&#x2F
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by alwaysanagenda 7y ago
Now that we've got SURE for economics, let's do one for climate change. After all, "publication bias affects every research field out there." Vox is basically explaining fake news without any sense of irony about how thi
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by alwaysanagenda 7y ago
Global sea-level rise, according to previous predictions, which are now certainly incorrect, could be twice as severe, according to our new predictions, which may also be incorrect. https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec999
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by alwaysanagenda 7y ago
He's the only one who could testify about the truth behind the DNC leak (Seth Rich) and the Podesta e-mails (phished). Neither were 'hacked' by the Russians. With the Mueller investigation effectively over, it's time to
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by alwaysanagenda 7y ago
hair slug
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by alwaysanagenda 7y ago
From Wikipedia: >"More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, that ever lived on Earth are estimated to have died out. Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to
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by alwaysanagenda 8y ago
Bengio is asked: What will be the next big thing in AI? > "Deep learning, as it is now, has made huge progress in perception, but it hasn’t delivered yet on systems that can discover high-level representations — the kind of concepts
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by alwaysanagenda 8y ago
A summary: Let's protect people from the ideas and content we think is bad to provide a better platform for our advertisers, then blame our focus on revenue as the reason for why we didn't focus more on censoring the content our a
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by alwaysanagenda 8y ago
Agreed. The entire article rests upon the assumption that once the cap is reached, and the government may not spend anymore money on subsidizing broadband, all those reliant on those subsidies are now in peril. It shows a narrow way of thin
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by alwaysanagenda 8y ago
You can't monetize the network.
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by alwaysanagenda 8y ago
Because the presupposition is that testosterone exposure in-utero is to blame. Without actually addressing this claim by medical professionals, everything else is manipulation of data to prove a point to address 'social policy' or
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by alwaysanagenda 8y ago
Has nobody recognized that not a single biologist, chemist, neurosurgeon, hormone specialist, neo-natal specialist, or just general medical doctor participated or helped produce this study? Here are the authors: Aline Bütikofer - Department
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by alwaysanagenda 9y ago
Let's do a little digging, shall we? Who is 80,000 Hours? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80,000_Hours "[80,000 hours is]...one of the nonprofits funded by startup accelerator Y Combinator in 2015...William Mac