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by hwillis 6y ago
There are arguments for and against the turn signal looking like this. Its got longer periods at low brightness and its more visually complicated, vs. potentially the motion is more indicative or the fact that the light doesn't have a
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by hwillis 6y ago
Note that if this isn't working, you are probably too close to your screen. I had to move back several inches to see any of the crosses as still.
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by hwillis 6y ago
> I'm not denying the plausibility that it was simply a mistake with a highly contagious virus being studied in their Wuhan lab There are two labs in Wuhan. The institute of virology, and the wuhan CDC. The institute of virology i
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by hwillis 6y ago
> It may have been a different strain, or the antibody tests are garbage (or both), since they reported negative. Antigen tests are not terribly sensitive. If you get tested to soon or too late your antibody level will not be high enoug
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by hwillis 6y ago
That's because its a bit of a bait and switch. When people pull that out, it's about keeping existing plants running- extending them to run for 60+ years. That's pretty cheap, since the cost of fuel is tiny and you just nee
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by hwillis 6y ago
Absolute nonsense. Owners of nuclear plants are far more likely to open suits, and the suits against plants are over quickly and very rarely successful: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1901/ML19010A148.pdf Take SCANA
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by hwillis 6y ago
> For example, it's easy to find people who get anxious about xrays but not about flying even though it gives you roughly the same amount of exposure. A 7 hour flight gives you 1/5th (.02 mSv- 2000x daily background exposure) a
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by hwillis 6y ago
As written, the twitter thread is basically augury. Fitting a curve does not make it true; the processes of science, reality, academic research, and human discovery do not follow neat lines. They are messy. Even economics is a hell of a
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by hwillis 6y ago
ACollectionOfDiplomaticHistorySince_1966_ToThe_PresentDay# https://rixstep.com/2/20131001,00.shtml
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by hwillis 6y ago
This is ignorant; China has in recent years taken a hard line on pollution of various kinds. They already put a moratorium on importing foreign trash (which was a huge source of river pollution) and are banning single use bags and straws:
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by hwillis 6y ago
You absolutely are not. Shell is doing the cheapest possible thing; planting trees. It is NOT permanent and not sustainable. As soon as someone decides to cut down those trees, that CO2 goes right back into the air. Shell is also estima
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by hwillis 6y ago
And very few young children have tested positive. People under 18 are in the tens of thousands, iirc- 662 is a LOT.
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by hwillis 6y ago
It was almost nothing aside from the shortness of breath, although the loss of smell was distressing. Very mild soreness, minor weird and unproductive cough. The shortness of breath was unlike any sickness I've ever had and got me to
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by hwillis 6y ago
I'm good almost always! It's only once or twice a day that my breathing becomes sketchy enough that it dips if I miss a good breath. No need for oxygen therapy unless you're constantly hypoxic, AFAIK.
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by hwillis 6y ago
Before I got COVID, I didn't even really realize that flu was asymptomatic so much, and I didn't know it was so much deadlier to the elderly. Not a good realization that I had been spreading without realizing.
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by hwillis 6y ago
those fools making reactors with drains in them. So many cooling accidents could have been avoided!
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by hwillis 6y ago
Lower respiratory infections cause myocarditis extremely often. Subclinical myocarditis may well be universal in lower respiratory (lung) infections. Its one of the larger risk factors for heart attack- a flu vaccine can reduce your risk
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by hwillis 6y ago
I'm 28 and got it mid-March (from a roommate, I was already isolating at home but just sharing an apartment was enough). Last week I tested 60% of the expected level of gas diffusion at the Boston COVID pulmunology clinic. That's
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by hwillis 6y ago
It may be within your control, but it's essentially irrelevant. All livestock and manure cause <4% of the average American's emissions (bottom chart): http://css.umich.edu/factsheets/carbon-footprint-facts
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by hwillis 6y ago
> Ie deforestation for meat production is the dominant human made climate mover, not CO2 from energy use. No it isn't, it's around (under, really) 10%. CO2 from US transportation alone is 6.7 billion tonnes, vs 4.8 for all t
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by hwillis 6y ago
I'm fairly lay but imo GPT-3 demonstrates pretty soundly that huge models are no magic bullet- it's got >2x as many parameters as the human brain has neurons and it can't do long division. Dogs and other animals get by ju
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by hwillis 6y ago
it's 20k-40k miles depending on the sizes of the vehicles and the size of the battery. ~40 kWh, compact/subcompact on the lower end, and 100 kWh luxury sedan/SUV on the higher end. Phase to google is "cradle to grave&q
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by hwillis 6y ago
I've donated convalescent plasma for covid antibodies through the red cross twice now. In Boston at least, it's booked out about a month, so sign up asap if you can. From what I can figure -assuming your donation goes to the ver
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by hwillis 6y ago
> A: Solar panel wastes include heavy metals such as silver, copper, lead, arsenic, cadmium, selenium that at certain levels may be classified as hazardous wastes. Note that this is grouping together ALL kinds of cells, particularly cadm
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by hwillis 6y ago
Pretty sure all the S1000R years have fuel, but yeah it's as miles remaining. S1000RR didn't have anything until 2019. It never really made any sense, but now that race bikes have tire pressure sensors and full color LCD instrume
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by hwillis 6y ago
Your speculation about motors is incorrect; motors are actually more efficient the larger you build them. It's a property of the goodness factor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodness_factor It is profoundly foo
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by hwillis 6y ago
AKA joule counting- for normal li-ion it gets you to ~5% most of the time, up to 20% off at the start and end. That's assuming the voltage stays constant the entire time- in reality the first bit is at 4.2+ volts, and the last bit is
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by hwillis 6y ago
> but I'm not aware of any high-resolution ultrasonic sensors for land robots. Sound cameras are very cool- passive sonar, but they're audio frequency and not usually depth-sensing. There's a lot of room for improvement t
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by hwillis 6y ago
??? You absolutely do not want consensus anywhere near an election. Consensus is not about agreeing on the total balance of transactions, it's about agreeing on individual transactions. It implies that multiple people know what you
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by hwillis 6y ago
So basically you didn't look at the link, because the castings -which, again, are new- are part of the safety cell. They are not the rear extruded rails. If you had specified an adhesive when you first wrote the comment, sorry- I mana

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