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by brownbat 6y ago
I should have said "not uncommon" rather than "ubiquitous," but it appears it already is blocking malaria development in a small portion of mosquitoes. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-1612
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by brownbat 6y ago
Uncanny. I was also going to recommend that, maybe "ruthless prioritization," to emphasize that everyone is constantly busy and that these choices are sometimes unoptimizably hard. It would also draw a bigger distinction between t
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by brownbat 6y ago
Here's a really comprehensive overview of Microsporidia -- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5613672/ Still working through this and the original paper, but while it can cause encephalitis in
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by brownbat 6y ago
Original study in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16121-y
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by brownbat 6y ago
> All of us should be regularly lobbying our lawmakers to make student loans dischargeable by bankruptcy, I thought so too. This always made me so angry. Last time I posted a rant about that here someone urged me to read the REPAYE Act,
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by brownbat 6y ago
The course organizer believed in intentional dehydration, so there was no water until the 11 mile mark, with some trainers instead using alcohol when runners became thirsty. It was 90 degrees in the shade. The winner was periodically dosed
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by brownbat 6y ago
Since ammonia and LOHCs face some overlapping constraints I don't expect an order of magnitude difference in cost. But you're right, it would have been more useful with an explicit comparison. If you are seeing stuff that suggests
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by brownbat 6y ago
You're right to point out that tankers are phenomenally efficient, but that's _for oil_. Just as LNG is much more expensive to ship than oil, because of the increased handling complexity, any shipping of hydrogen is going to lose
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by brownbat 6y ago
You're right that there's a reason we constantly transport so much liquid fuel around the world. But the Europe and North Africa connection is already a relatively serious proposal precisely because of the efficiency gains. It&#x2
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by brownbat 6y ago
> which the Jitsi developers apparently consider to be fine I expected the devs in the link to get caught saying something like "Yolo! Move fast and break things!" Instead they had a pretty reasonable response considering the c
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by brownbat 6y ago
> because WE are unsafe Totally agree, a system is only as safe as it's operators, so it's totally reasonable to compare worst case scenarios. But if you run the numbers on those terms, that still doesn't fully explain why
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by brownbat 6y ago
VSauce tweeted a playlist of Conway's appearances on Numberphile, including that one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8kUJL04ELA&list=PLt5AfwLFPx... I found the one you posted especially moving, but the others wer
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by brownbat 6y ago
Sure, yeah. I actually studied in an advanced humanities program and have read most of the people he references. I worried a bit about the characterization. But since the labeling didn't really matter for my point I didn't sweat i
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by brownbat 6y ago
Feels a bit like it came from a markov postmodernism generator: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ Postmodernist arguments and critiques are like the blue/gold dress. Some people see it as pure obscurantism, just all
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by brownbat 6y ago
In the third video in the series he talks a bit about death, making his peace with it, understanding he won't get to see the solution to many difficult math problems, and the idea of unfinished business. Conway is fascinating to listen
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John Conway guest appearances on Numberphile(youtube.com)
1 points by brownbat 6y ago|1 comments
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by brownbat 6y ago
I posted and deleted a few comments. I don't know what to make of this and it's getting controversial. If it could be helpful, I'd love to improve it. I just don't know where it fits in ongoing discussions by prominent r
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by brownbat 6y ago
Not exactly, but the rebuttal includes: "As of 2nd March 2020, there are 111 nonsynonymous mutations that have been identified in the outbreak, these have been catalogued here in the CoV-GLUE resource 504 and can be visualised in Figur
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by brownbat 7y ago
Robin Hanson and other public intellectuals are engaged in ongoing debates about variolation, with several variations on that theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFnP5TK61aI https://marginalrevolution.com&#x2F
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by brownbat 7y ago
Dick's version of the Man in the High Castle has a good meditation on forgeries. Mostly when people buy art, they're buying provenance, proof that a celebrity artist in history touched this particular object. Forgers have gotten i
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by brownbat 7y ago
The intentional misspelling comes off as mocking and derisive, which risks undermining the point. But to that point... I'll admit I have been there. At times, if I'm just relaxing, constant corrections can feel pedantic, endless,
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by brownbat 7y ago
Sure. It's a really bad idea to try to time the market on a day to day basis. There's two sides to every trade, so you're generally playing poker against professionals with armies of quants. But this game really just proves t
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by brownbat 7y ago
> i havent heard of anyone commuting to work via paramotor Well, now you have: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/paramotor-daredevil... Article proves your point though. 10 miles in 30 minutes, required
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Airport retail deploying Amazon's Just Walk Out platform(zdnet.com)
1 points by brownbat 7y ago|0 comments
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by brownbat 7y ago
Self checkout is nearly ubiquitous in US grocery stores, where I barely ever wait at all for checkout. It's rare in places like convenience stores or the large pharmacies (would you call it a chemist if it sells overpriced groceries to
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by brownbat 7y ago
Just watched the 3brown1blue video today, which talks about exponential growth and fixes it to the latest actual COVID-19 numbers. Really helped it all click. https://youtu.be/Kas0tIxDvrg Edit: separate HN discussion: http
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by brownbat 7y ago
Does Schuyler Towne read hacker news? He made the point in one amazing talk (that included references to centaurs and American exceptionalism and possibly ancient sumerian) that we've long used locks not for security, but as a social s
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by brownbat 7y ago
> Navy vet here Article blithely suggests that support to the Navy is tantamount to mass murder. Vet calmly ignores that nonsense and simply provides an update for accuracy of ship and hull designation references. By the way, thank you f
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by brownbat 7y ago
These greenhouses and all the complicated local politics that go along with them are the subject of a great episode of Outside/In: http://outsideinradio.org/shows/ep45
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by brownbat 7y ago
It's interesting what HIBP reveals about both attackers and defenders. HIBP held a long randomly generated password I used exclusively on tvtropes. It was in plaintext in a pw dump, suggesting they weren't even hashing at the time

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