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by dynm 4y ago
But they apparently require government photo ID that gets sent off into the cloud? You can most certainly get a regular credit card without that, so it doesn't seem analogous. They also intentionally hide this requirement so that you d
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by dynm 4y ago
It's treated as an obvious thing in this document, but I was surprised to learn about the <var> tag for mathematical expressions: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/
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I argue that studying the history of philosophy is philosophically unhelpful(tandfonline.com)
94 points by dynm 4y ago|156 comments
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Why ‟controlling for a variable” doesn't (usually) work(dynomight.net)
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by dynm 4y ago
Certainly you wouldn't, but keep in mind the blower in a home furnace is designed to push air through a filter. This is not the case with box fans, where (at least with the filters I used) the fan throughput vastly decreases when you a
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by dynm 4y ago
It is me! I'll note that I've also done experiments comparing the effects of taping and not taping around the filters, which you can see here: https://dynomight.net/2020/12/15/some-real-data-on-a-DIY
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by dynm 4y ago
If anyone's interested in a cheaper and less powerful version I've done tests on a DIY purifier that's based on a similar design: https://dynomight.net/better-DIY-air-purifier.html It costs around $100 to bu
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The Taboo Against Explicit Causal Inference in Nonexperimental Psychology(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
3 points by dynm 4y ago|1 comments
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The Cathedral of Statistical Control(dynomight.net)
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Vaccine development against methamphetamine drug addiction [pdf] (2020)(dynomight.net)
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Great Oxidation Event(en.wikipedia.org)
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Does Gratitude Increase Happiness?(dynomight.net)
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When Every Ketchup but One Went Extinct(atlasobscura.com)
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Healthcare outcomes with observational studies compared to randomized trials(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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Effectiveness Beats Accuracy(dynomight.substack.com)
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by dynm 4y ago
Yeah, probably the most difficult part of the entire process of making a bomb is enrichment. The uranium in uranium ore is 99.3% (useless) U-238 and only 0.7% (useful) U-235. These are chemically identical, so the only thing you have to go
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by dynm 4y ago
Alcohol even at a level of 1 drink a day is certainly associated with many types of cancer: https://dynomight.net/img/alcohol-trial/issues.svg However, light to moderate drinking might reduce the risk of cardiovas
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A Model for Journalistic Copypasta(dynomight.substack.com)
2 points by dynm 4y ago|1 comments
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Mirror Life(en.wikipedia.org)
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Litter and Circles of Internalization(dynomight.substack.com)
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by dynm 4y ago
Question for anyone who happens to be an expert: Is there any way to quantify how much better Webb is independently of the amount of time used to take the exposures? Like, could Hubble achieve the same quality of images as Webb if it was gi
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Boat and stones analogy for rocket equation(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by dynm 4y ago|0 comments
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Aspartame: Once More Unto the Breach(dynomight.net)
5 points by dynm 4y ago|2 comments
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Consequentialist Cognition(arbital.com)
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Social Dynamics of Bluetooth Speakers(dynomight.substack.com)
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by dynm 4y ago
Not sure if this is true, but according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identifier_for_Advertisers you can opt out of this on MacOS by choosing the "Limit Ad Tracking" setting.
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by dynm 4y ago
This article is all about climate change and cooking. But in case anyone is interested, I got interested in the health effects of gas stoves vs. induction a few months back. I was frustrated that no one seemed to give the magnitude of the h
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The madness of reduced medical diagnostics(dynomight.net)
87 points by dynm 4y ago|129 comments
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I spent most of April and some of May traveling around Ukraine(mattlakeman.org)
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Ethylene in the Food Supply Chain(dynomight.net)
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