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by briantakita 2y ago
It wasnt too long ago when the scientific institutions whipped up hysteria & paranoia against the public & dissenting scientists. Where dissenting scientists & researchers where fired, blacklisted, & harrassed. Protecting on
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by briantakita 2y ago
The general public was harrassed by law enforcement due to the policies based on pseudoscience. Playing my nano violin.
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by briantakita 2y ago
> I didn't look because a claim without evidence can be dismissed without evidence I did look & could not find anything. I think marketing fuels a hysteria against raw milk. The reason why vendors say it's "not fit for
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by briantakita 2y ago
> The "ones you meet" are the ones who didn't die Can you link to any instances of an outbreak of disease from unpasturized milk among the Amish people? Or even among the general population? All I know about is one time ov
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by briantakita 2y ago
There are 6 X-class flares. Solar Flares can cannibalize each other. If the different flares travel at different velocities. Leading to a larger impact. Obviously, we were not able to measure how many solar flares came from the Carrington E
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by briantakita 2y ago
https://biomedres.us/pdfs/BJSTR.MS.ID.003709.pdf https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-...
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Strong geomagnetic storm reaches Earth, continues through weekend(noaa.gov)
7 points by briantakita 2y ago|4 comments
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by briantakita 2y ago
Title was shorted from published journal title to fit within Hacker News size limits.
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Establish and apply surrogate model for human Ebola disease in BSL-2 lab(sciencedirect.com)
1 points by briantakita 2y ago|1 comments
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by briantakita 2y ago
I have been hoping that isomorphic JS would take over PHP for a long time. Sadly these complexity gurus have been sucking the oxygen out of the room for over a decade now. I think it's the corporate "front end developers" who
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by briantakita 2y ago
Complexity is like a Ponzi Scheme. Ponzi Schemes are effective with sales. Midwits love Complexity & love Ponzi Schemes. Midwits drive the markets due to their population being large.
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Belgium's ports: Chinese electric cars: 'parked here for a year, sometimes more'(lemonde.fr)
2 points by briantakita 2y ago|0 comments
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by briantakita 2y ago
I can see a DEI program as promoting the social values of an institution. A position that I once had was this. If all ethnic groups have a bell curve of intelligence. All things being equal, the ethnic groups would have similar distribution
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by briantakita 2y ago
> @dang can we please update this title to actually reflect the source title: "Controversial paper claims satellite 'megaconstellations' like SpaceX's could weaken Earth's magnetic field and cause 'atmosphe
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Megaconstellations like SpaceX's could weaken Earth's magnetic field, atmosphere(livescience.com)
19 points by briantakita 2y ago|40 comments
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by briantakita 3y ago
> These discussions are starting to worry me. There isn't much point to talking about the climate until we can start looking at this issue as a matter of "how do we increase human flourishing," which should be a universal
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by briantakita 3y ago
Is it as efficient as recycling plastic bottles? Effectively in the landfill & ocean. Theory & marketing science fiction are all well & good...But let's have some success with existing recycling programs before assuming tha
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by briantakita 3y ago
Why is Base58 used instead of Base64?
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by briantakita 3y ago
Plasma is a "unicorn field"? Explain how its replicated in a lab. Have interstellar clouds been observed in space? Is there a possibility that we are not able to observe all interstellar clouds in space? Has "dark matter&qu
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by briantakita 3y ago
Is clouds of plasma in a dark state considered in these calculations?
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by briantakita 3y ago
> - The built-in web server is sufficient for small projects and avoids the need to pull in various dependencies. ElysiaJS is a good library when you do need a bit more with the routing + middleware. It has great benchmarks as well.
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by briantakita 3y ago
I found Bun to be faster. Monorepo support is a bit kludgy though. Once you know of the workarounds, it's ok. See my comment on https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/5413#issuecomment-1956... AFAIK, Pnpm
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by briantakita 3y ago
Browser environments don't have EventEmitter. Different event APIs between browsers & nodejs. A library (3rd party or custom) is needed to make event code isomorphic.
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by briantakita 3y ago
I was not aware of trkl. Well done! I wrote rmemo (Reactive Memo) which solves the same problems & is a similar size. Different semantics though. https://github.com/ctx-core/rmemo Nanostores is also small https:&#
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by briantakita 3y ago
Perhaps mentioning the tradeoffs between a simple easy to explain example vs a more obvious comprehensive example. With links to more complex code bases? With a before & after?
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by briantakita 3y ago
> Anything wrong with that? It only works in browser environments.
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by briantakita 3y ago
Since reactivity is not baked into Javascript. Adding reactivity is going to add abstraction overhead. It's meant to be used if it's needed. Not necessarily a default way to work with state. In my experience, the big benefit is th
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by briantakita 3y ago
Context + reactive memo functions is a powerful way to manage global state. Context namespaces adds more resolution to grouping Context state. These patterns have served me well over the past decade in javascript/typescript development
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by briantakita 3y ago
I'm disappointed that this was a partisan piece. The behavior described is bi-partisan. The news agencies described as "gutted" behaved in abusive manners against ordinary people of the opposite political perspective. When on
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Rapid Changes in Earth's Magnetic Field over Past 100k Years(agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
2 points by briantakita 3y ago|0 comments

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