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by cowboysauce 2y ago
Uranium isn't the issue. A long half-life means that it's only mildly radioactive. Prior to being irradiated in a reactor, fuel rods can be manually handled safely. The majority of radiation being emitted currently is coming from
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by cowboysauce 2y ago
> I was kinda wondering where they got the idea from :) Parts of the country have been using roundabouts in highway interchanges for years. Western Colorado has a number of them. This one is close to 20 years old: https://www.
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by cowboysauce 2y ago
> However, it is going to be hard to leave the PNW because I love hiking and backpacking. I'd argue that the desert southwest is a great place for hiking though you obviously have to plan around the extreme temperatures. But the mo
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by cowboysauce 2y ago
Sure, ski towns have always been dependent on tourism. And the 5000 sq ft mountainside mansions have always been unaffordable for most people living there. But the difference is that there used to be affordable housing for the people who li
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by cowboysauce 2y ago
> “There are a lot of cities asking themselves this question,” says Goodman. “Are we a city anymore or are we just Disneyland?” This really resonates with me. I grew up in a ski town in Colorado. My family still lives there, but every ti
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Cystic fibrosis breakthrough has given patients a chance to live longer(theatlantic.com)
422 points by cowboysauce 3y ago|147 comments
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by cowboysauce 3y ago
> I would expect that this would potentially draw the ire of Google Chromebooks are pretty open. See official documentation at https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/HEAD/dev... which dir
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by cowboysauce 3y ago
Roughly 40% of the United States is public land and there are national parks larger than some European contries. Sure, it's not freedom to roam, but you still have access to significantly more public land living in the United States th
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by cowboysauce 3y ago
I'm curious, where are you seeing this? At least four people are dead and hundreds had their lives ruined in the aftermath. I'm struggling to think of a crime with a similar number of victims that has been posted here and people h
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by cowboysauce 3y ago
Would they even notice it though? Normal bolides of similar energy happen fairly frequently (see https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/fireball-and-bolide-reports for an example). And even if they did, would they interpret
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by cowboysauce 3y ago
There is an electrical variant of the effect, it just hasn't been well tested experimentally.
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by cowboysauce 3y ago
Right, but pairs of particles aren't relevant. The effect occurs for any particle that interacts electromagnetically. And the magnetic field is the curl of its potential.
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by cowboysauce 3y ago
The article's description of the Aharonov–Bohm effect seems kinda misleading to me. It's not that particles are being affected by a field that's not there, it's that the particles are affected by the electromagnetic pote
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by cowboysauce 3y ago
> So apparently the AI found some shortcut for doing the actual computational work. That is also surprising as weather is a chaotic system. Shortcuts should not exist. Why do you say that shortcuts should not exist? Even very basic state
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by cowboysauce 3y ago
No? I think it's rude to be excessively loud so I don't, especially not at night. I don't see this as really any different than "Does no one here cut in line?".
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by cowboysauce 3y ago
I think Hereditary would be a great movie if the ending were completely different. I was never sure exactly what was real and I really enjoyed that. Then that ending pops up like it was spliced from something else. I'm not sure if &quo
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by cowboysauce 3y ago
This isn't new. The US has been regularly doing these kinds of tests since the 90s and two took place last year. I'd be surprised if this was a specific response to Russia instead of something that's been planned for months.
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by cowboysauce 3y ago
>In general, why do individuals and companies appear (to an outsider) to have so much influence in the USA to 'press charges'? They don't. Individuals and companies cannot bring charges against someone. They can report a c
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by cowboysauce 3y ago
I mean sure. Cars, for example, are significantly more dangerous than airliners and people crash all the time. But if alien craft are as safe as cars then that just leads back to my original point that airliners are better at traveling safe
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by cowboysauce 3y ago
So instead of thousands of craft flying daily over the US, there are potentially millions commuting past Earth? And those crashes still happen despite an abundance of help nearby?
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by cowboysauce 3y ago
I'm asking if alien craft are a safer method of transport than air liners. Alternatively, if we replaced air liners with these craft, would fewer people die? If they are safer then the sky should be flooded with them to result in 12 cr
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by cowboysauce 3y ago
Commercial airlines apparently experience crashes at a rate of 6 per 100,000,000 flights. I wasn't able to find a figure from the testimony as to how many craft are claimed to have been recovered. The best I could find was an anonymous
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by cowboysauce 3y ago
> Do you use functions? Unless you're using Haskell or something similar, mathematical functions and what most programming languages call "functions" are very different and are better referred to as procedures. Mathematica
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by cowboysauce 3y ago
> Humans are overwhelmingly social creatures by nature and virtually every study of happiness shows a correlation to healthy relationships in your life. Do these studies actually show that there aren't people who, for lack of a bett
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by cowboysauce 3y ago
> Once you reconnect with nature, your immediate instinct is to reconnect with others. I have the complete opposite experience. I spend as much of my vacation time as possible hiking, camping, and backpacking alone. I go to places where
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by cowboysauce 3y ago
> https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00901 Granted, I'm not very familiar with the math behind things like compression and I skimmed a few sections, but this seems to be a criticism of the authors' methods and not
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by cowboysauce 3y ago
> You could get a false positive from a pre-biotic but molecularly complex planet, such as Earth in the 100 million years before the origin of the first self-replicating genetic-information-containing entity. That would still be incredib
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by cowboysauce 4y ago
It varies throughout the country. But for me it was: * Calculus I: limits, derivatives, integrals * Calculus II: More integration techniques (substitution, by parts, table), infinite series and convergence, basic numerical methods * Calculu
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by cowboysauce 4y ago
> The same goes for mass, what physicists call mass can be voltage for instance. You’re probably thinking of how a proton has a mass of 938 MeV/c^2. This is still a mass and not a voltage. 1 eV (electronvolt) is the amount of kineti
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by cowboysauce 5y ago
>and is mindlessly progressing along so effectively that despite all of our technological capability we can barely contain it. In theory we already have the technology to eliminate HIV. People taking PrEP have a >99% reduced chance to

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