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901.
by kurthr 3y ago
Yeah, there wasn't really an ozone hole... in the northern hemisphere. Why did everybody talk about it so much and spend so much effort fixing it?
902.
by kurthr 3y ago
I guess you're saying that oil at $100/barrel makes sense and I wouldn't disagree... That's about where it's been +/-$20 except during the crazy swings caused by the war and pandemic (remember it went NEGATIVE)
903.
by kurthr 3y ago
Well, it may be political, but the reason that European gas prices rose dramatically in Dec 2021 (there were many articles in Bloomberg and FT) was due to Gazprom restricting supply... it's almost as if they new something? Maybe they w
904.
by kurthr 3y ago
Don't forget the Ukraine war which pushed oil and natural gas prices through the roof as travel really started to open back up. Since energy is an input to most of the economy 50-100% increases in pricing will have a significant effect
905.
by kurthr 3y ago
The answer from a Pro was Genlock so you match the 23.97. "It doesn't matter if you drop a frame every once in a while, you're going to see it a dozen times... as long as it's not the same dropped frame!"
906.
by kurthr 3y ago
Yeah, I can't say I'm hoping for the LLM/AI replacement to start at the top, but it often seems like that's the best "bang for the buck". There's a lot of gibberish spewed and arbitrary dice-roll decision
907.
by kurthr 3y ago
I always thought of the Hilbert Transform and Z-HIT as the complex Laplace like substitute for Fourier and DFT analysis. Having never used them or SSB in particular, is that an fair analysis or am I missing something important?
908.
by kurthr 3y ago
It's interesting to me that people worrying about PFAS at 0.004 ppt levels consider Reverse Osmosis filters made from PTFE membranes a way to remove them. What are the PFAS levels in the membrane? Who tested it? Charcoal filters are on
909.
by kurthr 3y ago
If the cost is reasonable enough, it doesn't even have to be crafted for the individual, simply target them with one of multiple ads, which are modeled to have the highest (positive) effect... If you're not going to interact with
910.
by kurthr 3y ago
Which explains why I've been getting ads for brides' maid dresses. However, it also seems as if a tuned LLM could look at the corpus of my on-line profile (mail, FB, HN) and produce a model of my attention and commentary (positive
911.
by kurthr 3y ago
You should visit. A dialect that millions of people speak separated by thousands of km, income, and livelihood is not equivalent to the language difference between Swiss Cantons, it's closer to the difference between Lombardi and Napol
912.
by kurthr 3y ago
Hmm, is this why there are subtitles on reality TV shows based in the south? Suburbia is fairly uniform, but not so much the urban or rural areas. I would expect culture shock between NY and Dallas, Seattle and Atlanta, much less Salt Lake
913.
by kurthr 3y ago
Exactly, public schools pay about 3x cost ($30k/yr vs $10k) price for each of the (learning and other) disabled kids which private schools and charters completely avoid. It's just cost shifting and the only solution would be to sh
914.
by kurthr 3y ago
The problem with measuring USA, China, Russia is that they are so large and diverse that you'll get very different results depending on where you are. It would be like saying "Europe". Apparently, they used the largest 5 citi
915.
by kurthr 3y ago
An excellent example of the Overton Window. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
916.
by kurthr 3y ago
Beetljuice 2 is closer than you think! https://bleedingcool.com/movies/beetlejuice-2-new-conjuring-...
917.
by kurthr 3y ago
One possible explanation for the effectiveness is improved creatine transport. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2021.79559... Research Sponsored by... Monster Beverage Corporation
918.
by kurthr 3y ago
They're waiting for genetically manipulated true breeding male flies. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9274970/
919.
by kurthr 3y ago
I worked on display drivers and TCONs, but mostly for mobile/laptop rather than TVs/Monitors. I'd be fairly shocked to see the defects you're describing coming directly from within a device, but going through multiple tr
920.
by kurthr 3y ago
I think your point is that 1/1000 frames would need to be 6:5 at 120Hz? I'd be more concerned with the automatic black frame insertion most LCDs do to increase contrast.
921.
by kurthr 3y ago
I've stayed with people in Sendai before and after 2011. Based on the snarky prancing I don't think you have, dude. Watch footage of that event again and repeat the words, "People can understand this kind of risk". Over
922.
by kurthr 3y ago
What if the Tsunami had hit Tokyo? How big would that disaster have been? Sendai is a much smaller city and it had over 100k destroyed buildings, 15k dead or missing, and well over 100k without shelter. Estimates of the damage to infrastruc
923.
by kurthr 3y ago
It's the same 20-25ug daily for adults in all the major western sources: EFSA, NIH, NHS, Mayo, Harvard. Yes, there are recent studies (2020s) suggesting it should be higher and likely the RDA will rise, but you should really be taking
924.
by kurthr 3y ago
Money is what keeps it going, if you just want to look at the # of transistors. The problem is that the advantages of modern process "scaling" have stopped being advantageous except for a few uses, and profitable for very few (one
925.
by kurthr 3y ago
I'd love to understand the downvote venom, but what what do you call in-content sponsorships after you've paid for YouTubeRed, if not ads? Are they not advertisements for products? Or ads only count, if they're auctioned word
926.
by kurthr 3y ago
Yep, see CNN! Remember when you paid for cable so there weren't ads (yeah, I'm old)? The best was a retrospective (20th or 25th) on CNN one NewYears in the early 2000s, which had old footage of CNN. In one of them, the anchors wer
927.
by kurthr 3y ago
That's not true at all. There are many advertisements/sponsorships within large YouTube creator channels now. It's regularly 1min or more in every 10min of video. I don't mind so much, because they are skippable and sinc
928.
by kurthr 3y ago
I'm not sure how variable this is, but I've definitely experienced unwatchable levels of ads (mostly on mobile/Android). Having an ad before you even know if the content has interest is already a challenge (eg a how to video)
929.
by kurthr 3y ago
Sorry, but PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) may be a PFAS (per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances but not a Perfluorooctane Sulfonate PFOAS) however, it is definitely not a PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid). Your link does not contain a reference to
930.
by kurthr 3y ago
All the carbohydrates will be coated with Acrylamide or burnt to a crisp. Acrylamide is believed to be a carcinogen (Acrylamide is converted to a compound called glycidamide , which causes mutations in and damage to DNA) and shown to be in

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