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by kirrent 5y ago
The EVA suits continue to operate on only oxygen though, which makes sense given that internal suit pressure is a major challenge for manoeuvrability as was famously demonstrated by Alexei Leonov during the first spacewalk. This does mean t
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by kirrent 5y ago
"That this subject [imaginary numbers] has hitherto been surrounded by mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and
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by kirrent 5y ago
Exactly, the post is a Scott Alexander post so he'd never object to the concept of priors. There's nothing wrong with having a strong prior that the volcano's not going to blow up this year, that it's just the wind not a
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by kirrent 5y ago
I'd steer clear of Hari. Having listened to an interview with him I found interesting I did a fair amount of digging into the sources of his claims. Some of his claims were known and fairly uncontroversial in the medical establishment
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by kirrent 5y ago
How do you block light away from the focal plane? There's been research headsets with incredibly long and convoluted indirect light paths so that an attenuation layer could be inserted at a separate focal plane. There's also out o
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by kirrent 5y ago
How is a federal Australian court able to pass on ruling on abortion when, in Australia, those cases relating to state law would be heard at state courts?
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by kirrent 5y ago
For the moment, the best independent evaluator seems to be Stripe themselves. Hopefully they'll keep updating their apparently excellent evaluations: https://stripe.com/blog/first-negative-emissions-purchases htt
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by kirrent 6y ago
It's not so much that they continued operating. Everybody was still using their products after all and there was no alternative anyway. It's not even that they passively sat on it. It's that, in the same vein as the tobacco c
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by kirrent 6y ago
> I haven't come across a QM book so far that explicitly (i.e. with an example) demonstrates how one morphs into the other as a variable, say size, changes. Ehrenfest's theorem would be an example where Newton's 2nd law is
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by kirrent 6y ago
There's a discontinuous boundary? That's news to me. It's pretty well known that classical mechanics is reproduced by quantum mechanics in the large scale. There's no discontinuity between the two. There's also a wh
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by kirrent 6y ago
The film is absolutely gorgeous. As one example among many, I'm blown away every time that plane gently drops down behind Esterhase and Smiley on the runway.
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by kirrent 6y ago
They're all popular enough features for Samsung to keep making the Galaxy XCover phones.
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by kirrent 6y ago
Douglas Adams wrote about his experience swimming with Manta Rays in an article which is, to me, amongst his best bits of writing ( https://douglasadams.com/dna/980707-08-a.html ). As a kid living on a boat on the east c
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by kirrent 6y ago
One of my favourite facts about Jervis Bay Territory is that while: -It is counted as part of the ACT for senate representation. -It is part of the seat of Fenner in the ACT for the house of reps. -It is governed under the laws of the ACT.
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by kirrent 6y ago
Just that if you have a quantum system, such as a qubit consisting of the |0> state and |1> state with a combination over the two (called a superposition) represented by a|0> + b|1> then a and b can be complex. This is in contra
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by kirrent 6y ago
Of course they are. By design the flash cards are small atomic pieces of knowledge that can be answered simply. If the grand overarching concept is a web of interconnecting ideas, then the flashcards are supposed to help you maintain that b
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by kirrent 6y ago
The name for this effect where people try to hoard the more valuable currency is Gresham's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law
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by kirrent 6y ago
I've sailed with dolphins plenty of times. They've tended to lose interest when I was on a windsurfer or dinghy after a minute or so, no matter what speed I was doing. On the other hand, when I've been on a cruising cat, they
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by kirrent 6y ago
It's hard to work out the actual cost of each SLS. Especially when you're trying to take development costs into account. The lowest sensible estimate I've seen is $3 billion, but if you amortise development costs over ten lau
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by kirrent 6y ago
You might as well say "what any government who is trying to enforce revenue transfers from spotify and youtube to their local musicians is trying to do is called a state-funded music". "What anybody who is trying to enforce r
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by kirrent 7y ago
That seems like a little bit of a cherry picked article to support your point. Scrolling through the front page of that website the top article is an opinion piece by Joe Biden which writes about the importance of supporting young people an
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by kirrent 7y ago
If only earthquake modelling was so simple as to say you were overdue for an earthquake simply based on accumulated stress. Unfortunately, the Gutenberg-Richter law is not prescriptive, but a time independent statistical observation which a
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by kirrent 7y ago
At least one disincentive is that if you do find an amazing new antibiotic effective against certain strains of antibiotic resistant bacteria, antibiotic stewardship means the medical community will try and use it only where necessary to sl
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by kirrent 7y ago
I assume these tradeoffs you're thinking of might be proroguing parliament for political intent, purging anyone Cummings can't dominate from the cabinet, withdrawing the whip from anyone wanting to vote their conscience, attacking
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by kirrent 7y ago
Yes, but you're already bandwidth constrained when getting grib files through a satphone which often means using coarser grids over a smaller area (constraining your options) less frequently. Not the largest limitation, but better band
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by kirrent 7y ago
I used to live on a boat. It'd be nice to have access to the internet when I do so again even coastally. I can't even imagine how much of a boon getting internet access across an ocean would be. Not only to help with boredom, but
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by kirrent 7y ago
"laying the groundwork for his eventual emperorship". Worth pointing out that Julius Caesar was never emperor and its difficult to say that he really aspired to such a position. Yes, he was dictator for life but Sulla had fairly r
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by kirrent 7y ago
And, don't read patent application publications and mistake them for patent publications. The USPTO labels the granted publication with a B after the number. In this case, the granted patent ( https://patents.google.com/
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by kirrent 7y ago
Well, DEMO, the demonstration power station to follow ITER is estimated to have a Q of 25 and output of 2GW. Whether that's viable will then be less about the physics and more about the cost that they can get subsequent designs down to
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by kirrent 7y ago
You're right about better superconductors leading to more compact and cheaper reactor designs, but many, if not most, of those designs are still tokamaks. To say that the bleeding edge has moved beyond tokamaks is just wrong. To take y

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