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   by avsteele 6y ago

   Doesn't this just push people to more tracking cookies? How are sites supposed to know what sources are driving their traffic? Whether visitors are coming via email campaigns, google, etc?
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   by avsteele 6y ago

   There is only one salient question: per-mile is the danger of Tesla's FSD more or less than not using it? All other questions are second order, and almost besides the point unless we have reason to suspect regulation of self-driving wi
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   by avsteele 6y ago

   As a working physicist I think the authors suggestions are not likely to improve education. Discussions of Kuhn are just not appropriate for secondary school science education. These classes are for teaching the bare basic of bio, chem, and
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   by avsteele 6y ago

   This seems quite bad. They really bury where to change these privacy setting too. Account settings->advanced-> and look for two check boxes under 'Privacy' section
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   by avsteele 6y ago

   Futurama already did it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=Bs7EAzbzCNE
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   by avsteele 6y ago

   Very cool, good job.
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   by avsteele 6y ago

   This is the most important part of the essay: Uncertainty remains, research sometimes conflicts and biological pathways aren’t always clear. There are competing theories about whether the sperm count decline is real and what might caus
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   by avsteele 6y ago

   My company can create some of the highest density cold Rydberg (Cs) atom setups in the world. We use our tech for focused ion beams, but I'm interested in this application. Our equipment isn't 'miniature' but everything
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   by avsteele 6y ago

   This is nice. For those downplaying it, remember, an SBIR application is quite onerous and the reporting requirements and non-negligible. It takes a while to get a response (though this is improving), the approval rate is low 15-20% when I
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    by avsteele 6y ago

    Good article. For more on this subject try: https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/08/11/how-many-undetec... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52199285-science-fiction...
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    by avsteele 6y ago

    This article is a lot of hot air interleaved with 'concerns' of anonymous people worried that they won't have control over people's speech. It boggles the mind that you could work at Signal and not know that goes with th
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    by avsteele 6y ago

    You can self host syncing service pretty easily: 1) Get a Synology NAS. 2) Install the 'Synology Drive' package 3) set up 'Quickconnect' (~DDNS) 4) Remote backup can be though a number of providers (e.g. Backb
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    by avsteele 6y ago

    Thanks for the additional info. Can't agree with your analogy though, that just isn't how the web functions. Seems like a pretty clear business-to-business issue that should in no way involve the gov.
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    by avsteele 6y ago

    I can't understand the support for this scheme among readers here. As I understand it (correct me if I'm wrong) The AUS government passed a law aimed at a making a specific search engine pay other private entities for including li
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    by avsteele 6y ago

    I don' understand this point. Have any other search engines agreed to this pay-for-news-clicks scheme? Whoever is popular next will face the same pressure.
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    by avsteele 6y ago

    And I'm assuming they mean incarcerated (jail+prison) and not just 'jail'. Most of the people in jail are awaiting trial, people in prison have been convicted.
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    by avsteele 6y ago

    While I agree with the conclusion. People tend to overestimate the fraction of people incarcerated for non-violent drug offenses. It is only ~15% https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html
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    by avsteele 6y ago

    Thanks for posting that article. That article is going to be a bad one for convincing people. They overstate COVID lethality and downplay people's worries about the side effects. If this article is representative of the public messagin
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    by avsteele 6y ago

    This fact about medical bankruptcies is not correct. It derives probably from Sen Warren's work, but the study is quite shoddy. (e.g. it defined as a medical bankruptcy as any bankruptcy here there was >$1000 of debt at the time of
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    by avsteele 6y ago

    Thank you for this.
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    by avsteele 6y ago

    According to the EFF link below they don't need to be a holder. If the software is for breaking locks they can submit a take down notice under section 1201. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/github-yo
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    by avsteele 6y ago

    I have tried to use FF for year now and I am about to dump it. I want Mozilla to succeed, but there's no way I cold recommend it to friends/family, which is the major thing. Non-major websites, and even big name ones like Intuit
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    by avsteele 6y ago

    > "vitamin D is a powerful nuclear receptor-activating hormone of critical importance, especially to the immune system." This just means there is a plausible mechanism of action. It in no way implies positive health effects for
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    by avsteele 6y ago

    I've had people incredulous at time dilation effects in relativity. I give them the example of this having been directly measured in the 70's. There, they put one clock in the lab and another on a jet and flew it around a bit. h
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    by avsteele 6y ago

    This is an interesting article but I'm as much or more interested in the bigger picture of what to use going forward. I haven't found the killer app for lab notebooks . Any ideas form the community? Requirements: * simple fo
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    by avsteele 6y ago

    But I thought dark matter candidates needed to not interact with EM radiation in the same way ordinary matter does. Black holes are perfectly capable of absorbing light, wouldn't this effect be seen? Perhaps they are so point-like that
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    by avsteele 6y ago

    Are there any experts here who have read the report? If so I have two questions. 1) How qualified are the congressional investigators to evaluate technical decisions in the MCAS design? 2)Second point: Notably, the article is quite vague a
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    by avsteele 6y ago

    This is 100% not correct. It is just made up, fake. https://twitter.com/BonaguraESPN/status/1301644428025540608
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    by avsteele 6y ago

    Article fails to defend the NYT in any substantive way, and the writer makes obvious their biases with statements like: S.S.C. supporters on Twitter were quick to identify some of the Times’ recent concessions to pseudonymous quotation—Vir
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    by avsteele 6y ago

    "falsely shouting..." all should listen to Chris Hitchens on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z2uzEM0ugY