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by ddxxdd 5y ago
So are we to believe that, out of 200 million square miles on this planet, this novel bat-related coronavirus just naturally emerged within 8 miles of a facility that specializes in novel bat related coronaviruses? During a season when bats
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by ddxxdd 5y ago
>let's hope it doesn't do a "Game of Thrones". Don't get your hopes up too high; "The Expanse" is often nicknamed "The Expense" due to its high special effects budget. Amazon Prime may decide
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by ddxxdd 5y ago
The basic summary: G-forces on an British fighter planes' fuel caused the engine to cut out during a tactically important nosedive. This problem was fixed by a fuel constrictor, designed by a "diamond-in-the-rough" female eng
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by ddxxdd 5y ago
I feel like I'm being gaslighted by half the people in this thread that are saying that "have been being watched" is a normal phrase. For context, I was born and raised in Northern NJ with Jamaican parents, and have lived in
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by ddxxdd 5y ago
There's the fact that not many Americans can name more than 3 countries in Africa. And the ratio of people mentioning "Africa" rather than a particular nation in Africa is much high than the ratio of other continents being me
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by ddxxdd 5y ago
More risk* [0] [0] https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210128/china-using-anal-sw...
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by ddxxdd 5y ago
I have heard, from some corny Discovery Channel survival show, that the bottom can filter out salt from the water. So if you're surrounded by ocean with no fresh water, the bottom is the place to go.
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by ddxxdd 5y ago
If you try to apply the Peano Axioms on pithy aphorisms, you're gonna have a bad time.
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by ddxxdd 5y ago
"Externalities" isn't the right word to use here; Bitcoin miners pay for the resources they use to mine Bitcoin. But there is a positive externality associated with Bitcoin, in that it serves as a check and a balance against
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by ddxxdd 5y ago
How long before someone comes up with a cryptographic approach to anonymizing bitcoin exchanges? Perhaps exchange #1 could hold a database with bitcoin addresses and PGP-encrypted information about the bank accounts/mailing addresses o
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by ddxxdd 5y ago
It's unavoidable when discussing residential heating. Just use google for automatic unit conversions, and be grateful that we didn't need to invoke the cumbersome unit of "R-value" to measure insulation!
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by ddxxdd 5y ago
10 air changes per hour is a lot; I believe the current recommendations for average climates is 3. And we're looking at the margins; 1 air change per hour can do wonders for preventing the spread of disease and improving air quality, c
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by ddxxdd 5y ago
Nope, because they will both end up at the same temperature, namely, the average temperature halfway between the two previous temperatures. In a countercurrent heat exchanger, the hot air will get colder and colder until it is at the same t
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by ddxxdd 5y ago
This explains why certain aircraft have wing tips: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_tip
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by ddxxdd 5y ago
Have you ever heard of Aumann's Agreement Theorem? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aumann%27s_agreement_theorem If scientists are looking at the same data and the same set of facts, then they cannot disagree. Back w
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by ddxxdd 5y ago
People can spend their entire lives studying one tiny aspect of our immune system; there are so many interacting, irreducibly complex systems that the average layman can be overwhelmed. But there are simple things that can be explained visu
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by ddxxdd 5y ago
>Of course, that flies in the face of all efforts to make things green…which involve better insulation, sealing windows against leaks, more air filtration systems and etc. If anyone has a half-hour of time to waste, you can look into the
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by ddxxdd 5y ago
Apparently the CDC has yet to catch up to 19th century physics. The physics of small particles moving in the air ("Brownian motion") was completely figured out by Einstein back in 1905. Given a virus' size and weight, it shou
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by ddxxdd 5y ago
2 weeks of asymptomatic spread has been known about since late January (edit: in 2020). [0] And Fauci said at one point (2/14/2020): “There is no reason for anyone right now in the United States, with regard to coronavirus, to wea
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by ddxxdd 5y ago
>As the reader can see, job cycles in the post-supply-side world (which began in the 80s) are significantly weaker than *job cycles in conditions in which the wealthy paid a higher percentage of their income in taxes [presumably in the 5
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by ddxxdd 5y ago
Moving is one of many concerns. Big businesses generally have a higher elasticity of demand for many goods and services, compared to the poor and middle class. This translates to big businesses being willing and able to raise prices, lower
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by ddxxdd 6y ago
This is more akin to lossless compression than the transcription of a territory onto a map.
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by ddxxdd 6y ago
>Not even electromagnetism is a single formula "dF = 0" represents all of Maxwell's (homogeneous) equations in terms of "differential forms". With the right pattern recognition, the right definitions, and the rig
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by ddxxdd 6y ago
>pi has an infinite number of digits, so all of the energy in the universe can't possibly be enough to compute it. If the universe is also infinite, then you could calculate Pi with X% of the universe's energy, where X is an ar
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by ddxxdd 6y ago
The president's full speech before the protest is here: https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-tr... Can you point to a place where he specifically encouraged trespassing or violence in a way th
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by ddxxdd 6y ago
A universe where 1 + 1 != 2 is a universe filled with self-contradictions and so cannot exist. It's like imagining a universe where True == False. It's not a hypothetical, it's a logical impossibility.
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by ddxxdd 6y ago
The answer to your query is supply and demand; if taxes go up, then (ceteris paribus) the supply curve shifts upward. It costs more money to make the same product, so either the price must go up, the quantity sold must go down, or some comb
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by ddxxdd 6y ago
This reminds me of a question posed by an online user of a message board I frequent: Will the likes of Deep Blue and Alpha Zero kill competitive chess? My initial thoughts were, "No, of course not! Cars and trains didn't kill trac
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by ddxxdd 6y ago
I'm a day late to this immense comment chain, but my point is that Bell's Theorem specifically rules out local hidden variables unless scientists are forced to choose never to conduct an experiment that will expose those local h
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by ddxxdd 6y ago
It's extremely unlikely that the universe compels scientists to make certain measurements at certain times in a conspiracy to make quantum physics look real. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism

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