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This article isn't saying it doesn't work. It is saying we do not yet have enough evidence to use it outside of a trial setting. The medical field requires a high bar of evidence before allowing a treatment for general use. This i
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> I sometimes wish would include "In our current model", "We now think that", or some other qualifier. There is actually good reason to think quarks aren't fundemental. Even ignoring the empirical shortcomings of
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If something goes wrong it is very hard to debug unless the relevent information is in the logs. Unfourtuantly, the build system doesn't know what information will end up being relevent, so it just shows everything. Needing to sift thr
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More spoilers below: They actualy did a fair amount of geopolitical manipulations. That formed most of the plot. In the end, it turned out to be MAD that saved us, but setting up the MAD scenario involved secrecy from them (or else they wou
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Protons that could cause controlled visual hallucinations in people. If they can cause that level of interference with our nervous system, they can kill us. Even if they were somehow limited to visual hallucinations, a well timed hallucinat
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Spoilers below: The Three Body Problem trilogy breaks down if you think about it too hard. The in-universe explanation was that the aliens did want to destroy us, and had an attack fleet heading towards us. However, the attack fleet was r
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> There are clear signals that this vaccine is more dangerous than any other vaccine brought to market thus far. You need to be more specific than "this vaccine". [0] lists 21 vaccines that are "approved", and an addi
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For California: https://govt.westlaw.com/calregs/Document/IEEDE2D64EF7B4F168... See tables V-6 and V-7
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> nobody had to pay for this fork Actually, everyone had to pay for that fork. Excel is a paid product, and isn't even included in the cost of Windows. It is, however, bundled with MS Office, which includes Word, which is even more
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California law is more strict. There is a whitelist of allowable reasons, consisting of: seniority, "a merit system", quantity and quality of producrion, and the catch all > (D) A bona fide factor other than sex, such as educat
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Prohibiting alchohol did so much damage to society that we passed a constitutional amendment to repeal prohibition. The crimanalization of marijuana has already done damage to society that will take generations to repair. I find it very dif
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I can get it to recognize pi fairly consistently if I include a serif on the right leg; although I still haven't been able to get it to rank pi as the first choice.
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The James Web telescope was supposed to launch in 2007 (and should be launching in November), and began development in 1996. Hubble was launch in 1990, and have 5 servicing missions for repairs and upgrades, with the last one being in 2009.
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Unfourtuantly not. The only one I have worked with was really just a normal assembler with a big library of in house macros.
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How far back to you want to go? There is no definitive start point for C, as it grew fairly organically out of B and began as a living language. However, a reasonable approximation for C 1.0 is The C Programming Language (Kernighan and Ri
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That depends. rlo() is not the only function that is allowed to have synchronization primitives. It is possible that before rlo() is called, some other code modifies x, and all threads use some synchronization primitive to guarantee that th
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by gizmo686 5y ago
You want a macro assembler. C is not a macro assembler. C was never supposed to be a macro assembler. It was designed as a cross platform language, which fundamentally means you are programming to an abstract machine, which necessarily mean
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Tesla's autopilot has a guarantee for its accuracy. If that drops to 0.00001%, then that is a problem, because the autopilot functionality is failing to meet its requirements. If that drop in accuracy happens because of a technically c
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If you are a software company, then paying market rate for quality developers is table stakes. It is an expensive market to operate in and you care competing with very well funded global competition. Most small business are not that. If you
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It is not about translating intent accurately. What you need is for compilation to be fully specified. Anywhere where there is multiple correct ways to compile something introduces a risk for bugs that only show up with some compilers. If y
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> The docs are super well done and available on our homepage after you login! What docs? I made an account and haven't learned anything from the docs that I have not already reverse engineered in a minute from the two sentence comme
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Anecdotal data that you do not collect yourself is subject manipulation (both deliberate and incidental) by the people who do collect it. There are over 300 million people in the US, you can collect anecdotal data for just about any narrati
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What do you mean by 'vaccine ban'? We had one of those [0] when the vaccine first came out and we had limited supply. This has not been a thing for months. What we do have is an 'unapproved drug ban', and a policy of tes
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The issue with the 401k is that it is essentially an anti-progressive tax. It is there as a way for the government to encourage and subsidize retirement savings; but it does so by providing a 1:1 deduction on taxable income (with a choice o
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Relying on pensions is not ignoring retirement. It is assuming that you will receive the benefit you were promised as part of your compensation. Not getting your promised pension is the same as your 401k balance being confiscated by your br
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Using Michael Phelps as an example, because his talent is extremly quantifiable. According to wikipedia, his career best 200m short course freestyle time is 1:42.78 [0]. In contrast the cobsideration time for 2019-2020 high school boys 200m
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Graduate students often get payed both a salary and free tuition. No journal forbids collages from paying their grad students in order to publish said students, which is what the NCAA is doing.
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In theory, I think is a good idea. An even better benefit in my mind is that it addresses the original articles complaint by providing a form of means testing without actually means testing. The free compartment is available to everyone wea
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Part of the problem is in being one of the only services that offers itself for free. If the homeless don't have ready access to showers and basic hygiene products, but do have ready access to public transit, then you get a lot of unhy
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> The problem is when one can't really explain why the simpler approach didn't work. Another benifit I have found is that in studying the problem to understand why the simpler approach doesn't work, you find out that it ca

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