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ebg13
7y ago
That's a fair response. I've given you an up triangle.
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7y ago
> "This thesis doesn't fall apart on basic scrutiny" is the entirety of its point The thesis DOES fall apart on basic scrutiny. The chart represents the entirety of the exploration, and the chart doesn't support shi
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ebg13
7y ago
No, that's just the style of the blog. The post has zero supporting data other than the chart.
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ebg13
7y ago
> The chart below summarizes our research. The chart is some cherrypicked bullshit that ignores the importance of outlier rejection. Put your thumb over Google, Zoom, and Tesla and then look at the chart again.
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7y ago
> It does not seem like there has been huge health consequences due to microplastics, so microplastics are probably pretty safe for humans. How are you deciding that there hasn't been huge health consequences?
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7y ago
Even the most expensive portable dry herb vaporizer on the market today has a terrible user experience compared to the cheapest cartridge pens. The herb compartments are very small, which means that you have to refill them literally every c
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ebg13
7y ago
Uh oh. What are they going to do when they discover that there aren't any average pilots? https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-... (HN discussion: https://n
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ebg13
7y ago
The URL should be https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210589
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ebg13
7y ago
I always see cutesy names attached to photo filters, but do they actually mean anything?
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7y ago
I'm getting tired of coming up with original responses, so I'm just going to link to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21049392 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21049422 and https:
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ebg13
7y ago
> Not sure who downvoted or why I don't know (wasn't me), but, if I had to guess, I would say probably because it's a throwaway joke and has no relation to the article.
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7y ago
The story is that her blood turned blue, not that she was treated by a doctor. _Of_course_ she was treated by a doctor! Her blood turned blue!
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ebg13
7y ago
No it is not. A woman's blood turning blue is the story. Being treated by doctors when your blood turns blue is expected and normal. Blood turning blue is not expected or normal.
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ebg13
7y ago
"Woman's blood turns blue after benzocaine ingestion" is the story. Being treated by doctors is not.
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ebg13
7y ago
"ceci est un point NOIR -->" ... "<-- BLANC" is hilarious, because it is of course wrong in an inverted medium.
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7y ago
I wonder what goes through the minds of the guardian's editors when they write titles like this. "Woman treated by doctors" isn't a story. One hopes that _everyone_ whose blood turns blue would be treated by doctors.
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7y ago
> I'm assuming this is methemoglobinemia or something analogous to that You don't have to assume. "Woman, 25, diagnosed with methemoglobinemia" is the first sentence after the title. > The two meds I can think o
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7y ago
> By default, the biggest value from this is catching unexpected runtime exceptions with certain values (the edge cases you don't think of yourself). So it's a fuzzer?
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ebg13
7y ago
Does this do anything other than assert that functions return the right basic type given extremely basic inputs? Is naive type testing a thing that people actually bother doing vs testing that the functions actually do what they're sup
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7y ago
From the kickstarter page under "How Does it Work?": > "The Decaf Pouch is full of beads that are made of a natural mineral that attracts and binds caffeine. Through a physical process called adsorption, the caffeine mole
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ebg13
7y ago
Is that a bag of montmorillonite?[1] Is this to see how much coffee hipsters will pay for dirt? [1] - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09168451.2017.13... "Caffeine adsorption of montmorilloni
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7y ago
> Aaron Schwartz Swartz
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ebg13
7y ago
If you don't want someone else to do something that costs you money, you're going to have a bad time if you don't prevent them from doing it.
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7y ago
While both great games (we ignore III), the Myth games were better classified as real time tactics, not real time strategy. There is no growth past the beginning of a campaign. There is only range, terrain, and formations (veteran survivor
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ebg13
7y ago
> My assumption is that waste, fat, energy process is complicated, and that something happens during sleep that the body gets rid of stuff, and if it doesn't have enough time to do that, it will just leave some things in place. Th
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7y ago
It is a crazy notion and you weren't careful about your testing. So far it sounds like you didn't actually measure the weight of your consumption and excretion. You just assumed they stayed constant. You also assume other things l
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7y ago
> I found that you don't lose weight until you sleep. Unless you stop breathing during the day, this is super absurd. All non-water non-food weight leaves the body as exhaled carbon (and I suppose also trivially as radiated heat e
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7y ago
You'd end up with an empty reading list.
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7y ago
I want to echo this comment from close04: > In the video from the article it looks pretty realistic from a relatively high vantage point (drone several meter high) but from the regular driving position it's still pretty flat and at
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7y ago
> The reason being, anything s3cmd can do, rclone can do better. Right ? But is it better than s5cmd?
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