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Oklahoma City Sonic Boom Tests(en.wikipedia.org)
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They ran a pretty solid analysis of the subject. Not only do they look at correlation, but they regress out the trend line and show a correlation in the noise. Correlation of noise typically does imply a causal connection. They also look at
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by blululu 5y ago
Related to this is one of my favorite Wikipedia Articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_of_animals
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by blululu 5y ago
First, this is an altogether improbably scenario (the odds of winning the lottery are good compared to this scenario ever happening). Site traffic follows a power law. A site at 200k down the list is almost never going to get such attention
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by blululu 5y ago
Not really a big contradiction unless you want to be really pedantic. Over the counter painkillers and prescription painkillers are very different beasts. Painkillers as a social ill pretty much exclusively refers to the latter. Nobody woul
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by blululu 5y ago
This sort of internet click hole is exactly what I enjoy most about Hacker News. Led me into an interview with Jack Eastman - the physicist turned screensaver designer who made the original flying toasters: https://sleepmode.hetn
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by blululu 5y ago
Maybe but no lawyer is going to say it’s probably fine to break the law since enforcement is lax, and the engineering team isn’t going to say we can stand by all the random code this we pulled from npm. The obvious thing to do here is block
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Agreed that being a politician should not be financially rewarding. There are lots of policy initiatives that can achieve this end. Using insider information is already illegal, but poorly enforced (probably the easiest step here). Implemen
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by blululu 5y ago
This is a pretty click bait title. Banning congress people and their families from trading any stock altogether is pretty extreme. There are laws against using material non public information in trades that are clearly being violated and th
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Well as a conservative he should support the same traditional ingredients that our founding mothers used to defeat the British in a bake off at the battle of Yorktown. Jokes aside, margarine sucks. Even if you don’t worry about the potentia
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by blululu 5y ago
The story I heard is that the association has a collection of traffic cones that were stolen under the influence of alcohol [0]. [0]: http://nanocrew.net/2005/06/23/vlc-cone/
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by blululu 5y ago
The bank owns the debt on the money that was used to buy the house, which is not the same as the house by any stretch. Having the deed to a house comes with a lot of strong legal protections.
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The size of an x-ray grows with power for two reasons: higher voltages require much more insulation, and higher energies require much more shielding. In medical contexts shielding is the big issue. I forget the exact figures but the mass a
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by blululu 5y ago
Reading this was less than helpful - I have nothing nice to say about this piece. It's just another copy of the genre of 'Metaverse' hype that is an agglomeration of fluff, buzzwords and content farm quality writing.
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by blululu 5y ago
Calls to end section 230 have come from across the isle. Note that without section 230 Twitter could have been sued for allowing Trump to post some of the things he wrote over the past 5 years. I recall a New York Times oped from last summe
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For those who haven't seen it, Marc Weiser's seminal work on Calm Tech is still very much relevant today: https://www.karlstechnology.com/blog/designing-calm-technolo...
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by blululu 5y ago
Maybe, though as a taxpayer, my perspective is more that they are overstaffed and overfunded since I see next to nothing in services coming from that department. Maybe throwing more money at an inefficient government agency will work on thi
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Absolutely not. There are plenty of studies indicating that narcissist tend to get ahead in institutional contexts and I see no reason to think academia to be less viciously competitive than anywhere else. As for psych departments harboring
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There are plenty of highly narcissistic people with tenure and psychology departments are somewhat famous for being permeated with varying forms psychic peculiarities.
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Needing to roll your car windows down is only a thing in certain neighborhoods and typically it is only the case at night. A friend used to have a car they parked in SOMA - where they lived - and they had their windows joy-bashed a few tim
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by blululu 5y ago
The simple answer is yes. You could make some elaborate post-modernist point about the impossibility of a value neutral perspective, and there is some merit to such claims, but there are also clear mathematical criteria that can be used to
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While I completely agree that waste is inexcusable and helium is really important there are many grades of helium and they are basically all industrial biproducts. The stuff at parties is mostly air and unsuitable for most scientific applic
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No, gold is an amazing substance in its own right. There are rarer and scarcer metals, but gold is special. This conversation relies in some part on the ductility and conductivity of gold to power our computers. It doesn’t tarnish and it is
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> While you might have had a poor experience, the rest of the market may have been willing to wait in 15 minute lines for $10 bottles of water. If you disagree with PE, the easiest way to "stick it to them" is to vote with your
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This is by design. When efficiency is pursued for greed, the gains typically only go into more greed and not into living a more relaxed life. Most modern economies still require 40 hours of work every week no matter how efficient production
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“To convey an adequate idea of a book of such various merits as that which the author of Typee and Omoo has here placed before the reading public, is impossible in the scope of a review. High philosophy, liberal feeling, abstruse metaphysic
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I would highly recommend reading Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle. It is one of the finest examples of travel literature and natural history in one text. It is also worth noting that the Galapagos play a relatively minor role in the book and a
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This is actually one of my favorite idiosyncratic policy initiatives. They are a pretty safe invasive species since they have only one food source that is already invasive, and as an added benefit, the Koalas would eat the leaves of Eucaly
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>> It's not a guarantee of success, but it's definitely not luck Luck favors the well prepared, but if you can do everything right and success is still an even toss up, then that is what most people would consider luck.
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It's not exactly what an NPS score of -83 means, but it's close enough and an NPS score of -83 is sufficiently awful that it should be considered a crisis for any business that does not have strong customer lock in. Actually a few

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