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bhk
3y ago
How weaselly. > "If [it] was undocumented there would be no documentation to share..." So... Maybe documentation exists. Maybe not. Either way, maybe they did not share it. Shouldn't the reporting make it clear how much of
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bhk
3y ago
Doesn't sound like science at all, does it?
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bhk
3y ago
> the problem doesn't actually allow you to interpret otherwise How so? The problem is typically presented as a single trial, with nothing that clarifies the intent of the host.
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bhk
3y ago
It appears they want to know whether the applicant identifies as someone with blue hair.
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bhk
3y ago
I can't find any evidence that she was ever charged with insider trading. The judge dismissed a charge of "securities fraud", which claimed that she had defrauded investors in her own company by making false statements to the
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bhk
3y ago
One thing TFA hammers home is that NASA is not to be trusted.
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bhk
3y ago
Also: https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/10366727318095667...
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bhk
3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7nsSoGXzio&t=2s
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bhk
3y ago
> There are no consequences for letting this kind of person fly ... Fixed it for you.
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3y ago
Kinzer reports a funny story. The officer dispatched to Basel "returned a report that Sandoz had ten kilograms of LSD on hand, which he correctly called a 'fantastically large amount'. [Allen] Dulles approved the expenditu
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3y ago
"The LSD movement was started by the CIA. I wouldn't be here now without the foresight of CIA scientists." -- Timothy Leary Subproject 6 of MK-ULTRA involved funding Eli Lilly to develop its own synthesis of LSD. The CIA em
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bhk
3y ago
How many CS or CE grads from CMU are actually exposed to all of these topics? Surely, "it is taught", but to whom and how widely?
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3y ago
Something like comparing a whisper to a jet engine, at least when there is a big brood. https://housegrail.com/how-loud-is-cicada-in-decibels/
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3y ago
But from the same paper: > One such theory is that health and longevity are related to differences in medical care. The present analysis provides limited support for this theory. Life expectancy for low income individuals was not signifi
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bhk
3y ago
One thing that boosts conspiracy theories is the existence of conspiracy agencies in the government.
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3y ago
Homicide is not back to 2019 levels. Check out the graphic in this article based on the same report: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/new-fbi-report-shows-us...
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3y ago
> The 10,000+ citations of his work now point nowhere, and it makes no difference. One has to wonder about the practice of citation in modern academia, when not one in 10,000+ is consequential.
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bhk
3y ago
We're these deaths from activism or with activism?
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bhk
3y ago
Yes. And Jose Chung's From Outer Space was brilliantly original, tightly constructed, and hilarious at times.
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3y ago
That page also says: > The all-hazard siren system can be used for a variety of both natural and human-caused events; including tsunamis, hurricanes, dam breaches, flooding, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, terrorist threats, hazardous ma
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3y ago
Oh, so disagreeing with their conclusions might trigger vengeful retaliation, but actually threatening their power will not?
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3y ago
Sunscreen blocks UV, not cosmic rays, which is the radiation for which jetliner passengers receive an unusually high dose. The glass in the windows probably blocks 75% of UV, and UV exposure is associated with other types of skin cancer, n
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3y ago
Regarding VM/core/chip/motherboard boundaries ... A number of vexing CPU security vulnerabilities have resulted from a general class of optimizations that share cache resources (memory, TLBs, branch prediction tables, etc.) a
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3y ago
They said physical processor core , and elsewhere just core . That does not mean chip.
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3y ago
Once you "dedicate cores to specific VMs" you will find that chip designers can also screw that up, just like they can screw up protection within a core. So you might as well proclaim that "impossible to get right" preem
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3y ago
"Ah, it looks like you have a nice academic career going here. It'd be a shame if something were to happen to it..."
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Double down? Repeatedly? I posted a link to an article with its headline, and only later, when rebutting a comment that implied the article was about something "completely different", I mention that the article is about the Oskv
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3y ago
The ArsTechnica article was about a paper by Morten Oksvold that claimed that 25% of cancer biology papers contain duplicated data. One nuance is that his approach only focused on one easily identifiable form of fraud: Western blot images t
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> ... if we click through ... So you deflect from the entire content of the article with that distraction? And then an additional misdirection regarding retraction? Why?
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BMJ: Time to assume fraud? https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/05/time-to-assume-that-hea... Study claims 1 in 4 cancer research papers contains faked data https://arstechnica.com/science&#
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