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> It's more important for them that they keep their sovereignty and not hand it to corrupt unelected bureaucrats Joining EU doesn't hand over sovereignty, and the UK has now shown that leaving again isn't just a theoretica
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Fluoride occurs naturally in water, that’s literally how we discovered the effects of fluoride. People in areas where water naturally contained more fluoride had less cavities. Anything, including water itself, is toxic (not poisonous, but
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The painted wall was just a gimmick to make the video entertaining. What’s more concerning is the performance in fog, rain and other visually challenging conditions.
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In Norway I know the ketchup bottles (which is made from PET) changed the labels to be also made from PET, so it could be recycled with automated recycling machines. So I think something like that is what we want. The whole bottle should be
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There are two reactions against smartphones: There’s the predictable boogeyman reactions. All phone/tablet use is bad. But that’s not what this article is about. The other reactions are from those of us looking at measurable changes in
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Read these articles, maybe it gives some insight. The idea that you need high doses of vitamin D might not be as scientifically sound as you’d think https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-part-1-back-to-basi... http
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It should be said that there are experts that still argue strongly that we shouldn’t casually take large doses of Vitamin D. It’s not actually a vitamin. It’s a steroid hormone. You can easily be misled about how much vitamin D you need bec
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I really don’t understand why people complain about the efficiency of MagSafe charging. The impact is ridiculously negligible. Turn your thermostat by half a degree, or cut your shower short by a few seconds, and you’ve probably saved more
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And do they only watch science shows teaching STEM subjects? Or do they get to watch shows that have some emotional lessons as well? If so, what shows? I think people are reacting because Bill Nye is not even remotely in the same category.
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Plug in DIMMs just doesn’t make sense. Too much compromise on performance. And that difference is just going to get bigger as packaging technology continues to improve. RAM wants to have a connection with as many traces as possible, with th
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I don’t see how the article can plausibly argue that Bitcoin has won. How does USA creating a reserve of coins they will never sell change anything? It’s just as if the cap of bitcoins have been adjusted, which doesn’t fundamentally change
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But there's a reason we don't use those algorithms. We don't need out-of-the-box thinking that's so far outside the box that it's useless. With these kinds of circuits, they were so sensitive to the specific conditi
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Electric boats make a lot of sense when you can hydrofoil or glide. Candela had a demonstration of a long range trip in an electric hydrofoil boat, where they had range anxiety…. for the gasoline driven follower boat that the cameraman used
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I like this a lot, interesting to track whether it goes up and down. But the absolute ratio is probably completely meaningless, because the crypto total market cap is nearly meaningless. I could mint a billion coins and I could probably get
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Of course they can defeat Russia, if they’re tenacious enough. Just look at Afghanistan (against both Russia and USA). If the costs ends up being too high, eventually the attacker loses the will to continue the fight. Russia is running out
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Russia has energy independence and food security. China has neither. USA could achieve a lot just by blockading China, something China is in no position to challenge since most of their navy is a brown water navy. Yeah, they can probably fi
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I don’t see the issue. Videos like the one on Helios is one of the reasons I subscribe to his channel. I want to learn more about companies doing ground breaking innovation. Of course such a video has some PR aspects to it. Everyone knows
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Isn’t quantum scape at a similar stage as well?
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If we’re could get a breakthrough in fuel cells it’d be even nicer if it was an efficient fuel cell for a liquid fuel. And to get an efficient way to make it from CO2 and electricity. Though I think for ground transportation, batteries will
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Ah yes, the predictable “it’s propaganda” comment every time someone writes something that could be considered negative about China. It’s objectively true that China is an authoritarian regime. It’s objectively true that Apple has made itse
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But if this is like the internet, it’s not refuting the idea that this is a huge bubble. The internet did have a massive investment bubble. And I’d argue it took decades to actually achieve some of the things we were promised in the early
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Yeah, I’m also in serious doubt about this. At least for Taipei (could be regional differences)? I don’t live in Taiwan, but visit often. Last time we had dinner with another family and the kids got iPads/phones immediately.
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> If we are serious about a future where we have a global reserve of wealth that cannot be stolen away by inflation That’s a fantasy. The normal level of inflation (pandemic measures and such excluded) is just a consequence of the fundam
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Other than BYD, I would be very worried about getting spare parts for Chinese cars as well. Most of those car companies are in a very bad financial situation, in a country where the rest of the country is saddled with a crazy amount of shad
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These zones are generally densely populated areas, and in Europe they usually have low speed limits, and roads design to encourage driving at low speeds. To think that the minuscule difference in tire dust is significant at all, compared to
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The best theory I’ve ever read, wrote about miners working in caves with bat who came down with serious pneumonia, or something like that, in the area that the lab sampled viruses from. The viruses could evolve quite a lot in an immunocompr
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Does DeepSeek own enough compute power to actually leverage the higher efficiency of this model? Doesn’t help if it’s cheaper on paper in small scale, if you physically don’t have the capacity to sell it as a service on a large scale. By th
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How exactly? Is there any models that refuse to give answers about “the trail of tears”? False equivalency if you ask me. There may be some alignment to make the models polite and avoid outright racist replies and such. But political censor
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It’s the infrastructure and the expertise in training models that have been to purpose of the investments. These companies know full well that the models themselves are nearly worthless in the long term. They’ve said so explicitly that the
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False equivalency. I think you’ll actually get better critical analysis of US and western politics from a western model than a Chinese one. You can easily get a western model to reason about both sides of the coin when it comes to political

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