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by istjohn 6y ago
Reading this, I wonder if the melting of the ice caps causes a measurable slow down in the Earth's rotation and an increase in the length of a day by moving mass farther from the Earth's axis of rotation.
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by istjohn 6y ago
That's actually helpful.
813.
by istjohn 6y ago
That uses a different mechanism. It cools the air and relies on convection. TFA specifically avoids cooling the air.
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by istjohn 6y ago
This is what gets me. I can imagine no space and no time. But in a reality without space and time, by definition, nothing happens. There is nothing to act or be acted on. There is no timeline by which to order cause and effect. But the Big
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by istjohn 6y ago
AOC's power will vanish the moment she breaks with the interests of her constituency. Bezos' wealth does not represent a continuing endorsement of his actions.
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by istjohn 6y ago
AOC's power stems from democratic support. Jeff Bezos' power stems from monetary wealth. It's the difference between oligopoly and democracy. No, there will never be absolute equality of power. Certain people will always have
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by istjohn 6y ago
Nonsense. The top marginal tax rates in the US used to be much, much higher than they are today.
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by istjohn 6y ago
You seem to assume that billionaires would throw a hissy fit and go off grid to Galt's Gulch if they faced a wealth tax. But maybe they are motivated by more than the concrete purchasing power of their wealth. If they are motivated by
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by istjohn 6y ago
> If you think billionaires are harmful, why? Equality? Economics? They already answered that: > The existence of billionaires clearly undermines the core principles of democracy which is that all people have essentially the same p
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by istjohn 6y ago
I didn't believe you, but: > The method works by staining sperm with a DNA-binding fluorescent dye. The bovine Y-chromosome-bearing sperm contain 3.8% less DNA than the X-chromosome-bearing sperm. Because of the dye, the male and fe
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by istjohn 6y ago
TFA links to this article which discusses the health pros and cons of cows milk: https://www.healthline.com/health/is-milk-bad-for-you
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by istjohn 6y ago
TFA cites eight peer reviewed articles to support his claims about the harms of canola oil. "We can't know anything" is an easier argument to make than taking an affirmative position one way or another, but it isn't insi
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by istjohn 6y ago
> Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power — that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude comp
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by istjohn 6y ago
And you can even electronically file with the IRS's Free Fillable Forms.
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by istjohn 6y ago
> A guide for beginners might be useful, but if you work with these things, it may be useful to learn how to approach security in general so that you will be able to learn how to secure anything, or at least know when you don't know
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by istjohn 6y ago
Actually, you're making my point for me. Banks don't typically hire physical pen testers at all, and yet our reaction to a bank robbery is not, "Well, that's just what you get for not taking security seriously." Nor
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by istjohn 6y ago
> The internet needs its own decentralized currency Why?
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by istjohn 6y ago
By your logic, bank robbers are simply a manifestation of market forces. What did you expect to happen with all that cash in one place with no armed guards?
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by istjohn 6y ago
> It's clear to me from my experience that there is not one single way children learn to read. That much should be obvious to anyone who spends a lot of time with young children, but the field of education clings to the idea of &quo
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by istjohn 6y ago
Sadly, I have less faith in my fellow Americans. I think Trump has proven that a sizable portion of America is happy to embrace "America first." A sizable portion of America is even unphased by policies that will kill tens of thou
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by istjohn 6y ago
> Bringing up Israel in causes that have nothing to do with Israel politics is antisemitism. Israel was invoked in a discussion of how American foreign policy colors domestic affairs. When a foreign ally is training our domestic police o
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by istjohn 6y ago
Wow, that's exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for the tip. Edit: I see that you're actually the creator. Thanks for making this!
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by istjohn 6y ago
What I'd like is a system to let me browse, create and organize my "notes," to use the Anki term of art, in a literate, flexible way. You could probably build it on top of Anki using tags and/or data hidden in HTML, but
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by istjohn 6y ago
> Further, if there WASN'T at one point nothing, where the hell did all of this something come from? That's easy. "All of this" came from what came before it, and all of that came from what before it , and so on, and
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by istjohn 6y ago
> The researchers removed the electronics from the insects after the experiments and observed no noticeable adverse effects on their behavior.
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by istjohn 6y ago
I don't think your link was wrong. It looks like they updated the article a few times.
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by istjohn 6y ago
I wasn't familiar with the term "attentional blink." From Wikipedia: "The Attentional blink (AB) is a phenomenon that reflects temporal limitations in the ability to deploy visual attention. When people must identify two
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by istjohn 6y ago
Or directly encode the message in DNA itself. I suppose the difficulty would be devising an encoding with enough redundancy or other features to preserve the information content over many generations of evolutionary pressures.
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by istjohn 6y ago
The article is cut off with that link. Use this instead: https://archive.is/YLHKw I should say, I'm not sure if that's the full article either.
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by istjohn 6y ago
I imagine it depends on your socioeconomic status. If you are working night shift 60 hours a week at a mindless sedentary factory job, you're probably more biologically suited to a hunter gatherer lifestyle. Although to be fair, agricu

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