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by derbOac 3y ago
But Figure 4F kinda suggests it's really unlikely for one to survive past ~300yrs or so? So, yes, not fixed but there is a survival curve (assuming their models are generalizable, which they very well might not be).
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by derbOac 3y ago
This seems important and was fascinating to read but it seemed difficult to quantify the lifetime of a state? When does one end and another begin? Are changes in lifespan over time due to actual lifespan changes, or changes in the meaning o
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by derbOac 3y ago
I'm not sure what to make of articles like this because, on the one hand, I appreciate someone trying to stay close to the data, but on the other hand, I don't trust the data they use, and feel like it could all be spun in differe
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by derbOac 3y ago
löyly which is a term for steam of off sauna rocks or stove https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/l%C3%B6yly
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by derbOac 3y ago
A couple of years ago I had the opportunity to walk on ice that was similar in a different region. It was fascinating to be able to see down through the water, and I realized at some point how unusual it was to have that many days below fre
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Reflections on the Decline of Science in England (Babbage, 1830)(gutenberg.org)
2 points by derbOac 3y ago|1 comments
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by derbOac 3y ago
A nice summary from a bookseller here: https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/reflections-on-the-decline...
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An Invasive Tick That Can Clone Itself Is Spreading Across the U.S.(smithsonianmag.com)
86 points by derbOac 3y ago|95 comments
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by derbOac 3y ago
But haven't real numbers served us pretty well in application as well, for most of the time? Modern physics is anything but intuitive in my opinion. Maybe reality isn't well described by real numbers, or maybe it is; but my sense
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by derbOac 3y ago
I actually prefer to just let the dishes air dry anyway because I've found they last longer. I've wrestled a lot with the issue the article is mentioning the last few years. It's Goodhart's law applied to efficiency test
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by derbOac 3y ago
Wanted to plug this alternative that was developed as a result. I have no association with this, just a fan of the design (the whole thing, not just the visual design): https://limereader.com/ I haven't posted much the
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by derbOac 3y ago
Interesting although not entirely surprising results. Some aspects of the results were hard for me to interpret though. Although some risk seemed to increase in a dose dependent way, some didn't. For example, with refined grains once y
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by derbOac 3y ago
I can't read the article but there's no explanation for why they would be interested in isoleucine in particular. They also seem nonplussed as to the mechanisms of any isoleucine-restriction longevity. As a result it comes across
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by derbOac 3y ago
Just out of curiosity, what kind of battery?
825.
by derbOac 3y ago
Not disagreeing with you or the OP about anything, but then this just raises the question for me of why not use facial recognition to screen against a no fly database (negative screen) than to verify identity (positive screen)? Or restrict
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by derbOac 3y ago
I've always had a sense that it's a combination of "readers of X" along with "people always interested in X's writing". Stuff about writing and publishing in general gets upvoted from time to time — I thin
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by derbOac 3y ago
I had the same thoughts. In fact, by showing the picture of the death star with the equatorial trench displayed so prominently the essay itself sort of primes you to make an error you might not have otherwise made. But the whole thing was e
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by derbOac 3y ago
This is all basically what was intended by the establishment of the USPS. The only reason why the internet isn't mentioned in the US constitution is because the technology wasn't available, wasn't even something they could en
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by derbOac 3y ago
This is outrageous to me, especially coming from a news outlet. As an American, though, I'm wondering if there's some UK legal context I'm missing?
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by derbOac 3y ago
Looping this back to some of the linked essay, I've always wondered if there's a way to make a social bookmarking system that's more decentralized or federated, through a browser plugin or something? Maybe something that&#x27
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by derbOac 3y ago
Do you have any links to stories on this? Not meaning to question the truth of what you're saying, I'm just interested in reading more about it.
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by derbOac 3y ago
This was interesting to me, and overlaps a lot with different things on my mind the last few years. The other day I was talking about something related with my daughter, for example, who was learning about rounding in elementary school — we
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by derbOac 3y ago
I don't think it's really about either of those things all the time (although I'm sure it's all sorts of things at different times for different people). From my experience with my wife, I think it was much more practica
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by derbOac 3y ago
Going to the Harding Icefield every 10 years or so has been sobering. The drive to the foot of the glacier is telling enough, with markers of where the glacier was at different years as you drive in. But hiking to find the edge of the icefi
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by derbOac 3y ago
I guess I agree with you (and others making the same argument) but feel like it is ultimately arguing that to support artists, you need to go outside Spotify, which to me implies something is broken about it. Maybe that's the nature
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by derbOac 3y ago
Yes, there was at least one meta-analysis several years ago that compared different diets to each each other and to exercise. I think there were actually two meta-analyses that came out about the same time, with slightly different foci, and
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Maersk to cut 10k jobs as shipping demand drops(reuters.com)
212 points by derbOac 3y ago|165 comments
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by derbOac 3y ago
I think the "how many people can do it" part is where things go astray. "Can" can mean "are capable of doing it" or it can mean "allowed to do it" and those are conflated under the current system. Plu
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by derbOac 3y ago
Salaries are a red herring. So are the number of physicians per se. We don't have a physician shortage per se, we have a provider shortage, and more generally, we have a healthcare provision shortage. What you really want to know is, i
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by derbOac 3y ago
I love manual transmission cars and miss them, and like Toyota cars, but couldn't really get behind something artificial like this. I mean, if Toyota made them and someone wanted one, more power to them, but I think for me I'd wor

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