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by kmm 6y ago
I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but why wouldn't the non-obfuscated versions be able to compile themselves?
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by kmm 6y ago
The flowlines of any vector field cannot intersect, because that would mean the flowline has two tangent vectors at that point. For smooth vector fields, they cannot merge either, an intuition for that is perhaps that you could theoreticall
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by kmm 6y ago
Isn't that better than the US average?
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by kmm 6y ago
An AA battery holds about 4 watt hours of energy, or 14.4 kilojoule. Dividing by 9.81 m/s^2 times 1 meter, yields about 1.5 metric tons. Not quite 360, but still quite a lot.
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by kmm 6y ago
It's of course just more anecdotal evidence, but in my experience if you dare to mention the possibility of the virus being man-made on Reddit, regardless of the nuance and sources you add, you will get torn to shreds. This is not just
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by kmm 6y ago
I'd expect a not insignificant amount of image hosting sites to throw away unrecognized chunks, especially if they contain a few dozen kilobytes of data. It might even make sense for privacy or security reasons, just like EXIF data is
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by kmm 6y ago
While it's true that the finite age of our universe and the expansion of space explain the paradox in the universe we live in, I don't think those are necessary conditions, nor is the dark sky proof our universe is not infinitely
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by kmm 6y ago
Different tissues are protected by different types of antibodies. A vaccine injected subcutaneously will mostly induce an IgG response, a type of antibody present in blood and extracellular fluid. This could still possibly allow a virus to
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by kmm 6y ago
Immunological memory has a few aspects, one of which is like you say the memory B cells, which take over from antibodies after a while. If I'm not mistaken however, there are also long-lived plasma cells which keep producing very low l
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by kmm 6y ago
If you look at the study you'll find that of the 71235 people who reported not being ill, exactly 0 have residual symptoms. I'm assuming selecting the option would have been in impossible in the form. If you have (or think you hav
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by kmm 6y ago
13050 people report having had covid, but only 361 had had a positive test? How reliable is it that those without a test actually had covid? What if people with lower cognitive ability are more likely to falsely report having had it. >
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by kmm 6y ago
I think this is the story referred to: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/those-win9x-crashes-on-fast-mach...
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by kmm 6y ago
> This applies for ISS even more (it is huge and thus a lot of drag) Wouldn't drag be proportional to the surface area, hence the square of the length scale, whereas orbital energy is proportional to the mass, which is cubic in the
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by kmm 6y ago
> [0] Yeah, in Dutch, there are two articles: "de" which is gendered, and "het" which isn't. Compare to French "le" and "la", which are both gendered, one male and one female, and there's
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by kmm 6y ago
I don't think that's very plausible. I believe children don't consciously think of the language they're learning, let alone about linguistic abstractions like gender, tense, case,... The concept of a correction doesn&#x2
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by kmm 6y ago
Changing the scenario is the exactly the point of why I am unsure increasing the number of doors gives true intuition. In the original problem with the original scenario, people intuitively think switching doesn't matter, when it prova
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by kmm 6y ago
That explanation never worked for me, because you can turn it around to the situation where Monty does not know where the car is. Say there are 1000 doors, and you pick door 429. On his way to open door 429, Monty stumbles, falls, and acc
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by kmm 6y ago
The survey in that study always left me with some complicated feelings. How is it possible that 100% of family doctors get this wrong, and what does this mean for their core competencies? Don't get me wrong, I'm humble enough to u
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by kmm 6y ago
Conservation of matter is as exact a law as they come in chemistry, let alone biology. The part of mass lost as heat doesn't even match up one part in a billionth. As soon as it becomes relevant, you're not doing chemistry anymore
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by kmm 6y ago
That is not necessarily true. It's possible for a vaccine to elicit a stronger or longer lasting immune response than the pathogen itself. For example by adding adjuvants https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunologic
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by kmm 6y ago
The one on a keyboard you type letters with, not the one you open houses with.
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by kmm 6y ago
But the hypothesis of dark matter fits all of the evidence, while no alternative theory of gravity comes close. That's what makes dark matter so attractive to physicists. I'm not shunning the idea, I've worked on alternative
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by kmm 6y ago
Of course, apart from how the actual implementation works I don't think many people have a problem with that. And if it was just that, Wigner's friend wouldn't be nearly as interesting, it would suffice to say that if quantum
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by kmm 6y ago
We're veering away from physics here, but isn't consciousness actually quite "magical". It's beyond remarkable to me that stimulating nervous tissue, composed of quite mundane things like protons and electrons, yiel
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by kmm 6y ago
Would that not be impossible because of the lack of effective cooling in space? The only way to get rid of heat in space is by radiation, which is a very inefficient process. Assuming temperatures cannot rise above 100°C, every square meter
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by kmm 6y ago
That's averaged over all ages. For people under 50, it's basically nil, on the order of 1 in 10,000. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v...
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by kmm 6y ago
Just like with radar, it's an active process. The telescope emits radio waves, they are reflected by the object, and the telescope receives the reflected waves. With clever tricks they can then get a hint of the size or other parameter
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by kmm 6y ago
Could you expand on that? Do you mean that they are predictable or possibly artificially steered? In mainstream linguistics sound changes are assumed to be random. Some are more common than others of course, but there's no saying what
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by kmm 6y ago
It might be completely useless, but that has an etymological reason. Correlation derives from con + relation, where the n assimilated to the following r. On the other hand, corollary ultimately derives from corona with some diminutive suffi
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by kmm 6y ago
I'm afraid that's a common myth. For starters, there isn't really an objective measure of how conservative or old-fashioned a language is. But even subjectively, there's not really a reason to perceive American English a

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