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by leot 8y ago
Adding a bit of iron to the ocean -- the same as is released by a large volcanic eruption -- could do the trick. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/07/r...
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by leot 8y ago
Thank you!
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by leot 8y ago
Does anyone know of a pedagogically-minded quantum computer simulator?
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by leot 8y ago
There is no underlying platonic reality here to be discovered around the concept of a subsidy. It's not entirely unreasonable to be careful about allowing foreign governments to launch large rockets on domestic soil.
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by leot 8y ago
Certain treatments have outcomes with high variance even when practiced perfectly. Combined with no clear way to evaluate whether the treatment is being applied well, this makes it difficult for practitioners and patients to evaluate treatm
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by leot 8y ago
I would happily bet good money we will find strong evidence for life on Mars within 10 years of humans' landing (and staying) there.
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by leot 8y ago
No. Check this out: http://rangevoting.org/BayRegsFig.html
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by leot 8y ago
That sounds amazing.
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by leot 8y ago
Approval voting wasn't considered in that article.
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by leot 8y ago
Base enthusiasm matters a lot, since it drives turnout. And the only thing that matters in elections in the US is turnout and undecideds (of whom there are very few).
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by leot 8y ago
ICBMs?
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Space travel using constant acceleration(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by leot 8y ago|0 comments
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by leot 8y ago
Basically everything almost didn't happen.
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by leot 8y ago
This is similar to the pre-elightenment skepticism of alchemists. Soon after the printing press, scientific communication was invented as a way of addressing the trust issue. The internet might be forcing a similar shift. I wrote a bit more
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by leot 8y ago
Can anyone speak to whether PRNGs might be affected?
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The Turnaround [of 21.co](medium.com)
1 points by leot 8y ago|0 comments
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by leot 9y ago
It's a testament to the absurdity of the American political process that multiple committees have been formed to study the invented nonissue of the integrity of voters, but relatively few have been formed to study the legitimately seri
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by leot 9y ago
Huh? That wasn't my point. It should be blindingly obvious that silencers/suppressors have a use beyond "hearing safety". Namely, that they allow someone to shoot someone else without attracting as much attention. Are yo
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by leot 9y ago
Is this a general principle, or specific just to making it harder for people to find videos depicting how to make deadly weapons?
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by leot 9y ago
So you have an expectation that CatTube should host dog videos?
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by leot 9y ago
So to be clear, you're saying "yes YouTube should host porn".
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by leot 9y ago
Ok, maybe there are parts that are an overreach. Does that mean the whole thing is a bad idea?
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by leot 9y ago
Is my no-dogs-allowed CatTube unethical, then? Or do the ethics have to do with YouTube's utility like status? I personally am happy that YouTube can and does censor/ban porn, obscene videos, and videos depicting humans dying.
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by leot 9y ago
> "The change in loudness would have to be proven to make a difference first" What do you specifically mean by "proven to make a difference"? Suppressors are known for being used by intelligence services -- presumably
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by leot 9y ago
What do you suppose the impact of a suppressor would have been in Las Vegas last fall?
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by leot 9y ago
First, I think the entire "liberal" v. "conservative" distinction does far more harm than good to productive public conversation. It causes people to pay more attention to where ideas come from rather than to the ideas t
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by leot 9y ago
Yeah, I'm not a fan of religion actually being a protected group. It probably is there for historical reasons, when it was harder to "get out" of one's religion. Freedom of speech and political expression is very differe
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by leot 9y ago
I don't have data. It would likely take a while get the data from the "experiment" that showed that the availability of a suppressor increased the probability of a gun's being used in the commission of a crime. The point
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by leot 9y ago
Right. There will be a false positive rate, and there will be gray area cases, as there always is.
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by leot 9y ago
I'm not sure I see your point. You're saying that, because there is advocacy on behalf of changing company policies in a particular direction, for a legitimate reason, the companies should avoid changing their policies? Under what

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