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by ars 2y ago
No, I did not misinterpret it. That study does not show what you think it does. i.e. the actual data does not lead to the conclusion presented. The actual data shows zero effect, the written conclusion is a work of fiction.
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by ars 2y ago
When the level of random variation is greater than the change attributed to an event it's not possible to claim an event caused something. The random changes overwhelm and possible change. If you want to claim a change anyway, the burd
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by ars 2y ago
Yes, that's the study that shows zero effect. The authors completely messed up in their write up of the study. That study is the definition of bad science. Watch this if you want more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by ars 2y ago
She explains better than I can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDsjeKo3u3o
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by ars 2y ago
These days everything is blamed on climate change. And when people point out natural variation, they get bashed. A recent example is the CA fires, there is zero evidence linking them to climate change - they did a study and found no effec
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by ars 2y ago
"Congress established a federal program in the early 2000s that collects a few pennies for every pound of fresh Hass avocados sold in the U.S., whether they were grown domestically or imported." I'm not OK with this. I know t
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by ars 2y ago
This video just drive home that using isospin and hypercharge is like using epicycles to describe the motion of the planets: It works, but it's overly complicated, and it's better to just use the actual thing (quarks, and heliocen
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by ars 2y ago
Does this mean I should start marking my variables (and function parameters) with Final? Up till now I always assumed the compiler would figure out on its own which variables were final, and optimize as needed. But this JEP makes it seem li
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by ars 2y ago
BTW isospin is actually how many up vs down quarks they are. It's not a fundamental property like spin or charge. It's an old term that was created before they knew that up and down quarks existed. Personally I find the term outda
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by ars 2y ago
> Talk to your dentist. They are experts in this field No they are not. The are experts are filling cavities and treatment. They have no additional knowledge of fluoride in water vs any other interested person. For that you need to talk
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by ars 2y ago
Men are also way less likely to go to Dr vs women. Yet this claims a bias against women as well.
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by ars 2y ago
"there was more movement of cerebrospinal fluid (opens a new tab) in sleeping and anesthetized mice than in waking ones" Does this have implications for people in long-term medical comas?
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by ars 2y ago
Same here. I installed, and I don't remember why, and I've never once used it.
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by ars 2y ago
There is no storage problem. A breeder reactor plus reprocessing means there is no waste in the first place, and also gives us 100 to 1000 times as much usable uranium.
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by ars 2y ago
> But nobody serious actually thinks you could simply multiply the tax rate by transactions to predict revenue This guy does: https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/099/2... I can&#x27
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by ars 2y ago
If you are wondering why this matters: It's not for a commercial product, it's to help understand why some materials superconduct.
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by ars 2y ago
Sanders means well in the things he does, but he's unfortunately very very .. how do I put this, stupid in his ideas. Even his own party never votes for his stuff because his ideas are always terrible. They are always emotional, but he
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by ars 2y ago
If they are far enough away from the star that's correct. i.e. if the star was a point source. But if they get close they'll slow down by interaction with the atmosphere of the star. Which is more likely than random chance because
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by ars 2y ago
It would probably shine like a blackbody based on whatever temperature it is. The surface of a neutron star is covered with a thin shell of protons and electrons in essentially random configurations, so it would absorb and emit light in all
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by ars 2y ago
Actually that's pretty unlikely - Earth will last longer than Voyager. The Sun becoming a red giant is the risk for Earth. We're talking 5 billion years here. But the voyagers have interstellar particles and dust to contend with,
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by ars 2y ago
Did you ignore the "one-time messages" part of my post? Or that you can delete messages? Apps these days are ultra privacy focused. It's not actually possible to monitor kids. It's just not.
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by ars 2y ago
They had this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_for_Internet_Content_... But it was bashed as a "censoring system", and now we have nothing.
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by ars 2y ago
This argument will only work when they get rid of encrypted and one-time messages in apps. Otherwise it's completely impossible for a parent to monitor their kid. It's quite something to tell a parent: It's your job to monito
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by ars 2y ago
I don't know these particulars, but a school I'm involved with is required to destroy unneeded computers, rather than selling them or giving them to students/parents because the government grant requires that. I think the ide
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by ars 2y ago
rexpop essentially confirmed that they are thieves and then said it's correct for them to be thieves. Saying someone is a permanent and irredeemable thief, is worse than saying someone stole something.
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by ars 2y ago
So basically because someone did something bad to them, they have become unethical thieves? And you're fine with it? (I know nothing about them, but your description of them ... yikes. You are making them out to be pretty terrible peop
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by ars 2y ago
Very few government functions are life or death.
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by ars 2y ago
> it should be phased in to allow This NEVER works. It just doesn't. Bureaucracies are self perpetuating, it's just their nature. Each person at the bureaucracy is 100% certain they are essential. The only way to shrink them is
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by ars 2y ago
Trump thinks the same way. So far he has not disobeyed court orders, but if he does he will do so for the same reason you would disobey him: because he thinks he's doing right for the country. That's the thing, everyone who disobe
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by ars 2y ago
It tastes like water. Romaine is better.

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