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by isthatafact 2y ago
The main difference would seem to be range. This is still a ballistic missile, launched into space, able to carry nuclear warheads. and I assume this was to make sure that it was not misinterpreted as a nuclear attack: "US official sa
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by isthatafact 2y ago
Similar to the top comment, I think of Apple as primarily a fashion company, and they have no real competitors in that area. Can tech fashion be its own market segment?
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by isthatafact 2y ago
Without knowing the details, Microstrategy stock, and especially their bonds, look like an overly complicated way of gambling on bitcoin. My guess is that a high degree of complicatedness of a bet can make it very compelling to certain type
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by isthatafact 2y ago
Intel also outsources to TSMC, I believe for most consumer chips, so not really very different from AMD. And I guess the trump tariffs would be mainly aimed at China not to CPUs made in Taiwan. You may be referring to Intel future plans to
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by isthatafact 2y ago
Unfortunately, unless you already know fact from disinformation on the specific topic, it is not possible to robustly identify which youtube channels are even attempting to deliver reliable facts. You may get hints because misinformation o
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by isthatafact 2y ago
I like it. The "water points" feature is definitely useful and easy to use. Finding/planning the next water stop is often the focus of a bike ride. Fountain locations seem to be reasonably complete -- I was able to determi
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by isthatafact 2y ago
> "If you go on left-leaning media, you can find comments that would be considered gross hate speech if it targeted any other group" That seems like just a rephrasing of the old meme that Trump voters are "delicate snowfla
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by isthatafact 2y ago
For some reason, the spacex screams sound nightmarishly terrifying to me.
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by isthatafact 2y ago
> "If you brake more aggressively, you will be involved in more accidents" Is that statement based on evidence? While that seems plausible, it also seems counter-intuitive to me. I suspect that many crashes happen because some
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by isthatafact 2y ago
That is pure nonsense. The IRS does not have anywhere near an $80 billion annual budget in total. Where are you getting those numbers?
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by isthatafact 2y ago
The problem could be avoided if the intersection had cameras able to notice the approaching bicycle and give it a green light.
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by isthatafact 2y ago
At first glance, the core counts appear competitive, but of course, comparing Intel "E cores" to "cores" is not at all fair. The comment made me curious about performance though. Here is an example of the 144 "E&qu
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by isthatafact 2y ago
In 2021. Healthcare is lumpy. One year is a short time relative to infrequent major incidents. Imagine if you had made that same statistic about health spending last April, or last week, or last Tuesday. That 1% would account for an eve
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by isthatafact 2y ago
When Gelsinger promised (in 2021) zettaflop systems by 2027, although there is still time, it seemed so absurdly optimistic that it is hard to trust anything he says. However, I think people really want to give him a chance on his long term
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by isthatafact 2y ago
To me, the headline is "wrong" because "lifting membership fees" means, very clearly, to remove them completely, the same way that to "lift restrictions" means to remove restrictions. I would just guess that wh
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by isthatafact 2y ago
> "All wings need a positive or negative when upside down angle of attack to generate lift." That would be true for symmetric wings, but is not the whole point of an (non-symmetric) airfoil or frisbee shape to generate lift whi
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by isthatafact 2y ago
I suspect an LLM could possibly handle generating the text in a quarterly report, as well as many mundane tasks, but not the question and answer session on the earnings conference call because nuance and judgment is required to communicate
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by isthatafact 2y ago
I was curious, so I checked that page and did not find the equation used to calculate the "score", only vague hints. Is there a formula, spreadsheet, or code that people could use to verify their score? Or is it indeed a mystery?
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by isthatafact 2y ago
> "You’re better off building parallel infrastructure and taxing cyclists to pay for it via licensing." yes, a parallel infrastructure would be welcomed by current cyclists and by many of those who now abstain from cycling beca
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by isthatafact 2y ago
That can work by widening sidewalks and designing them so that bicycles can cruise safely at full speed, protected from and prioritized over cars, and also clearly separated from the walking sidewalk so there are no unpleasant interactions.
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by isthatafact 2y ago
I personally hope that the solution to the handful or two of things that the LCDM model does not (currently) explain will be more interesting than a trivial tweak (which seems to have no physical motivation) to the gravity equation that MON
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by isthatafact 2y ago
I am no expert, but I do not follow. Nothing was added to the LCDM model there, so using the epicycle fallacy does not help the discussion. The research was simply done again with better accuracy.
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by isthatafact 2y ago
> Read the article this thread is about. It is one brand new paper. I am skeptical. Rotation curves are perfectly flat out to whatever arbitrary distance that they happen to be able to measure? I am very skeptical. > "particle
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by isthatafact 2y ago
> "The bullet cluster is so over-played as a refutation of MOND. "A lot of tweaking" basically reduces to adding sterile neutrinos, as one possible solution." If MOND requires "dark matter" to explain the bu
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by isthatafact 2y ago
Those ~100k year cycles in earth orbit and spin are not related to the present discussion of sunspot cycles and solar activity. And (while not clear in this case) usually when someone claims that a "pole shift" will happen, they a
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by isthatafact 2y ago
It is important not to conflate "I have a hunch that x will happen" with "theoretically motivated predictions". Also, you are conflating a mild temperature drop that would be expected to be caused by solar minimum with a
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by isthatafact 2y ago
From the wiki article: "he maintains that satellite measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation, believed by most astronomers to be an afterglow of the Big Bang, are actually observations of a glow from Earth's ocea
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by isthatafact 2y ago
> "Pumping CO2 into the atmosphere would then be the best thing to do to stave off this scenario." which makes for a very convenient distraction/talking point of climate-focused science deniers. I am no expert, but every
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by isthatafact 2y ago
I am no expert, but I am skeptical because the paper results looks way too perfect to be true. Then instead of doing statistical analysis with things like p-values or probabilities, they make wildly out of scope assertions like this: > &
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by isthatafact 2y ago
It really depends on the consequences to the point where that statement is essentially meaningless, but I do not see how this is a freedom of speech issue anyway. His lawsuit claims that he was fired "for trying to help fix bugs causin

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