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by benchaney 5y ago
The onus is inherently on the person making the claim to support it with evidence. That is just how burden of proof works. That aside, people supporting their own claims with evidence provides a whole host of secondary benefits. It makes it
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by benchaney 5y ago
That is incorrect because it fails to take into account that the elderly are much more likely to be vaccinated, and also much more likely to die from COVID.
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by benchaney 5y ago
I liked the explanation, but I find the bit at the end confusing. Don’t the electric fields carrying energy need current in the wire to form? How are they carrying energy before the current propagates through the wire?
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by benchaney 5y ago
> Well, several posters in this thread have made it clear that they intend to replace real meat with fake meat over any objections. I think this is reasonable to be upset about. …why? I don’t see why you should care at all. It doesn’t af
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by benchaney 5y ago
I disagree. That Twitter thread is a terrible look for the people participating, but NPR comes out of it looking fine. They reported the situation from Martha’s perspective. If Martha is worried about being able to find collars why would it
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by benchaney 5y ago
Try is article is from 2016, and also basically incoherent.
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by benchaney 5y ago
What on earth are you talking about? Significant is plain English word with a straightforward meaning. How is it "fancy" or a "buzzword"? As for what it means: "important and deserving of attention; of consequence&q
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by benchaney 5y ago
You are confusing statistical significance with practical significance. A difference of 0.00000001% can be statistically significant with enough data, but it will never be practically significant.
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by benchaney 5y ago
Something I have been curious about for a while: How thick of a cable would you need to implement this strategy with traditional cables? I’m imagining something like a large oil pipeline, with a diameter of a couple feet. Is this viable?
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by benchaney 5y ago
This is incorrect. Creating a charge gradient in a system increases its mass-energy. In this situation the potential energy is dramatically larger than the rest mass of the precharged person. Edit in response to your edit: what it shows is
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by benchaney 5y ago
The article is a little unclear, but I don’t think that is true. It sounds like the subsidy is that they are allowed to do depreciation in a nonstandard way, so that it benefits them.
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by benchaney 5y ago
It is completely reasonable to be concerned about what happened, particularly in light of the psychiatric communities abysmally poor track record on respecting human rights. It isn’t a “dangerous cultural pathology” or “hand wringing” or “p
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by benchaney 5y ago
That doesn't actually work. You can't measure local noon accurately enough for it to give a useful longitude. My celestial navigation textbook estimates the accuracy of this method as 15' under the best possible circumstances
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by benchaney 5y ago
I don’t think this actually benefits navigators and astronomers. You just can’t predict local area noon based on clock time without additional data. Even when you have that data, it won’t be accurate to the second anyway. Even if you are at
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by benchaney 5y ago
Andy Weir, the author of the Martian, just came out with a new book called Project Hail Marry. It’s premise is similar to what you are describing. If you liked the Martian, I highly recommend it. It’s one of the best books I have ever read.
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by benchaney 5y ago
Why are you comparing traffic fatalities in Seattle to mass shooting fatalities in the entire country? That makes no sense. In any event >40k people died from traffic fatalities in the United States in 2020[0], so a few orders of magnitu
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by benchaney 5y ago
Being able to function without good documentation is not the same as thinking that it is a good idea. One is a useful skill, the other is idiocy.
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by benchaney 5y ago
Well, there is a global pandemic going on right now. Normally that would seem kind of sleazy, but these days, that is what everyone is trying to do.
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by benchaney 5y ago
I ask again, discussion among who? If someone reading this keeps Shabbat traditionally and uses voice activated technology on Shabbat (or knows someone who does), please speak up. I would like to hear about your practice. Otherwise, I would
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by benchaney 5y ago
Fair enough, although not everyone who went to Hebrew school keeps Shabbat. I will say, for the sake of combating misinformation about Judaism, that people who keep Shabbat traditionally, but also use voice activated technology on Shabbat a
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by benchaney 5y ago
The reason I say that eruv uphold the spirit of the law is because it is permissible to carry within walled cities. If it wasn't the intention of the law to make carrying outdoors completely off limits, then it is hard to see why an er
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by benchaney 5y ago
The comment I was responding to was a fair question. I didn't mean to imply otherwise. That said, your comment contains several significant misconceptions, and you are far too confident despite not having any idea what you are talking
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by benchaney 5y ago
Is there? Among who? I'm not aware of anyone who keeps Shabbat who uses voice activated electronics.
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by benchaney 5y ago
There are limits to how big they can be, and they can't contain large bodies of water. It does also defeat the point. That may not be a compelling argument if you don't know what the point is, but there is one.
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by benchaney 5y ago
Withholding lifesaving medication from people so that they trust you more is idiotic and irresponsible. I don’t know how anyone could possibly have thought that it would work.
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by benchaney 5y ago
There isn't a delta because E=mc^2 isn't just describing a reaction, or a conversion. It is describing the fundamental equivalence between mass and energy. It is true even in situations where ΔE and Δm aren't defined.
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by benchaney 5y ago
> In reality, only a handful of people in the world understand in detail all the intricacies of the various ways our body interacts with drug substances. That is not science, and it is not what is meant when people talk about trusting th
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by benchaney 5y ago
The problem is with how they are handling their data. You don’t have to know anything about biology per se to see the issue. It is entirely mathematical. By the way, the medical establishment has a terrible track record surround use of and
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by benchaney 5y ago
A country can have more than one problem. It is deeply foolish to suggest that only one of them can be the "real problem".
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by benchaney 6y ago
It’s possible that it would be more expensive to upgrade than to replace in many cases. While I support expanding nuclear power capabilities in general, a straightforward rule like “don’t decommission old plants as long as fossil fuels are

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