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by conistonwater 6y ago
> Imagine what it took to develop the photos in space and beam them back to earth. For one type of satellite that I heard about, the US were dropping the film canisters and catching them in flight, to develop later: https://
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by conistonwater 6y ago
The quote in the article clearly says they can get their deposit back in full, if I understood correctly. Not everything that's wrong is illegal. > You will receive an email in the next 1-2 days when your new agreement is ready for
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by conistonwater 6y ago
I imagine it's legal because it's a deposit, and also because caveat emptor , i.e., people are free not to do business with them. If people want to deal with random bullshit, that's their personal decision. In general, &quot
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by conistonwater 6y ago
As far as I know, quitting smoking cold-turkey is one of the hardest ways of doing it, and most people change their habits gradually over time, so I don't know that your example is the best here.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
I agree they aren't arguing for prohibition at all. I don't fully believe what you said about health campaigns because, for example, obesity is also really bad for people and none of the existing campaigns against it had much of a
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by conistonwater 6y ago
But the next follow-up question to what you said would be, why should we focus on only the risk of death to determine harm? E.g., what happens if I exercise and drink a moderate amount of alcohol per week? I believe, AFAIK, I get worse re
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by conistonwater 6y ago
I got it from searching on google scholar, there were lots of papers on it because it's both a buzzword and a seemingly effective training technique for even high-level athletes. The basic issue with the whole concept is that it's
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by conistonwater 6y ago
No, of course not, but that's not the correct protocol for HIIT. The first few intervals definitely don't get you to max heart rate, that's why the rest periods are kept short.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
HIIT means all-out sprints with short rests in between, but that's (unfortunately) not how it's presented in social media sometimes. No matter your shape, running all-out sprints in that particular way will get you to the max hear
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by conistonwater 6y ago
> even if it's just getting outside and seeing other people in passing as you run past There is nothing social about that at all, that's just not what the word means.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
That is technically correct, technically.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
I would say technically the point of a prediction market is to predict things in advance of them happening, so I think you might get people who sensibly disagree with this point of view. But in the article it's a little confusing, be
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by conistonwater 6y ago
Isn't it some kind of an opinion fluff piece in the "Lifestyle" section?
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by conistonwater 6y ago
> Running outdoors had all of walking’s problems, but faster, and with sweat. The Japanese (I don't know if this is true or not but I heard it's a true fact) have a term called forest bathing , meaning to spend time surround
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by conistonwater 6y ago
P/E means price-earnings ratio, earnings means profits rather than revenues. E.g., Walmart has P/E of 28.6 but Price/Revenue=0.68 ( https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/WMT/key-statistics?p=WMT )
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by conistonwater 6y ago
At least where I live, the lottery profits (around 50% of revenues, IIRC) are largely used for charities and just various social organizations and stuff, like sports. I'm not really for lotteries personally, but I think what you said
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by conistonwater 6y ago
Well, why do you think Robinhood is valued at $11.7e9 on $0.68e9 in revenue? It's not people investing a fraction of their pay cheques once a month.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
This is false, and your description of how to analyze/compare errors of iterative algorithms is also wrong. In short, if you have an algorithm with error n*eps compared to m*eps+tol, there's no a priori reason why one would be gre
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by conistonwater 6y ago
I also found the paper hard to read, but check page 6 of the pdf at http://www.brophy.net/Downloads/AIL%20Class%20on%20Reality%2... ( Adventures in Curved Spacetime , Eduardo Guéron, Scientific American Vol.301)
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by conistonwater 6y ago
This is a perfectly realistic technique that has already been seen in use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnvh08GBOII
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by conistonwater 6y ago
In numerical code the distinction between exact closed-form solutions and approximate solutions (through Newton's method and the like) is just not that meaningful. What determines speed is how much arithmetic you have to do, and it&#x2
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by conistonwater 6y ago
I wonder how it happened that the inner loop here ( https://github.com/oliverphilcox/Keplers-Goat-Herd/blob/3a0b... ) with N_it=5 is 2 times slower than the inner loop here ( https://github.com/o
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by conistonwater 6y ago
One "silly" reason why minor failures result in flying back to the original airport is sometimes that the original airport is some sort of hub for the airline with plenty of equipment and personnel for maintenance, which makes it
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Chernobyl Disaster and Matthew Walker’s “Why We Sleep”(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
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by conistonwater 6y ago
This doesn't sound right: according to Wikipedia, the cost of the Perseverance rover is $2.7e9 total over 10 years, whereas the cost of SLS is $2.5e9/year (figure for 2020). I agree that it's a jobs program, but the rovers on
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by conistonwater 6y ago
Can't you just use mod(x, 1:n)? Or mod(i, eachindex(vals))?
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by conistonwater 6y ago
Bear in mind those are Canadian dollars, not the regular dollars, so the price tag is always going to be a little more confusing for the non-Canadians.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
> Yes doing the walrus operator inside brackets works. Yes of course it's going to be doing weird things. Is this really surprising to anyone? Yes, it is in fact extremely surprising that an expression does something different bas
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by conistonwater 6y ago
> I submitted my case based on written law and the judge said it did not apply to me and ordered me to omit the law from my submission, before the trial hearing. I wonder what this means? I don't fully trust that guy to accurately
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by conistonwater 6y ago
I also find this confusing. Article 7 says > When assessing whether consent is freely given, utmost account shall be taken of whether, inter alia, the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is conditional on co

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