logfromblammo

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by logfromblammo 7y ago
Ambiguity is less tolerable in journalism than it may be in other media. A good sentence can be a bad headline. It's the same principle as Murphy's Law in engineering. If it can be interpreted in a different way, you don't p
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
For the initial investigation, it suffices to find any difference at all between reiki hands and non-reiki hands. If we use every measurement device humanity has at its disposal, and find no difference, it is safe to conclude that the visib
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
Meaning the of conveyed sentences is order words of also by the the.
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
That's a bad headline. It implies that nothing else influences gene expression, when the article says that physical stretching of force-sensitive histones can influence gene expression, without the assistance of any other factors. To
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
That last claim is patently ridiculous. Cats don't have owners; they have servants.
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
Place a log-periodic tooth antenna on the patient. Hook it up to a wide-band signal analyzer. Perform reiki. If no signal is read, electromagnetic energy in the frequency range of the antenna is likely ruled out. Repeat the measurement
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
I'd think that in this particular case, black-hat hacking would also be in play--to include those untrustworthy black-box voting machines. To that trope of "four boxes" (soap box, ballot box, jury box, ammunition box) we migh
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
Telephone numbers are a synchronous interactive channel. If someone calls you to have a chat, they pay for your attention with their own. They can say something to you, and you can in turn say something back to them. Robocalls shove someo
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
If you want to serve two totally different pages, you use two totally different URLs, and don't try to second-guess what the user asked for.
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
There are plenty of viruses that still do something , but we don't know what it is, because the something is not immediately threatening to public health. For instance, there is a chicken virus (SMAM-1) that unconditionally increase
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
Unless the counter-fire has longer range, because it's a missile, rather than an artillery round. Or the counter-fire is protected by a C-RAM system like Phalanx, Iron Dome, MANTIS, or Porcupine/DRACO. Every counter has a counter.
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
While playing through the Deponia series, I noticed that all the fiddly little puzzles, like the rail-car switching puzzle, had a "skip this puzzle" button. Yay for learning that some people don't want to go insane on brute-
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
Tungsten, mainly. Anti-counterfeit testing now includes ringing the purportedly gold coin like a bell, if it passes the density test. A clad-tungsten counterfeit will have a duller, less sonorous sound. This is where all those hours of li
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
Gold is valued because it doesn't tarnish. Bismuth, on the other hand, becomes beautiful only with a patina of oxide.
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
Freedom of the press prevents punishment for open publication of facts, but it does nothing to protect the sources for those journalists. For all the lip service given to whistle-blower protections, the whistle-blowers get punished anyway.
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
Given the properties of the virus--droplet aerosol borne, long incubation period, asymptomatic contagion, high infection rate, many asymptomatic carriers--I don't think there is any reasonable (or unreasonable) government policy that w
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
This is essentially an advertisement. There's no need to read, unless you are looking to buy a $400 convenience replacement for a $1 pad of paper plus a scanner.
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
There are several options. I think you'd line up all the buy orders by descending price, and line up all the sell orders by ascending price. Then there are three possibilities: the buy orders are exhausted, the sell orders are exhaust
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
I haven't tasted coffee in a decade, and I'm doing just finezzzzzzzz....~ Restricting routine trips to just home-to-work, work-to-home, and large-scale resupply missions is still acceptable at the moment. Make use of your local g
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
Containment has already failed. That's why COVID-19 was declared pandemic. Governments, and their public health employees in particular, should be switching to management, mitigation, triage, and treatment now. The assumption is that
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
Leveraged financial instruments can create a negative bottom. Don't assume anything magical about zero.
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
30% returns on chump change is still chump change, but if you already have a yacht, 30% returns will allow you to gold-plate it. It's far more likely that those financial geniuses are just not worried about retirement or college tuitio
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
The market call still go down after you call a bottom. The market can still go up after you call a peak. The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. I don't think it's wise to judge based on the peaks an
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
If the virus has spread to 0.01% of the population (33k cases), a stadium with 6932 people in it has a 50% chance of having at least one infected person in it (assuming uniform distribution). If the virus has spread to 0.1% of the populatio
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
Determining the exact number seems like interesting math. I imagine a function using things like transmission vector diffusion rate, windspeed, incubation period, critical care percentage, number of ICU beds, and such as parameters, and out
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
My point is that there is no supply-scarcity limit on university teaching positions. But you are correct that each university has a monopoly on their own brand, so they can restrict supply and raise prices up to the monopolistic competitio
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
Given the usual university budget and the going rate for overqualified, part-time, and temporary adjuncts, the staff is less limited than one might think. Remote students and remote adjuncts--what do you need administrators for? Ah, yes, t
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
I would choose Venus. The depth of the gravity well is less important when the colonists are being lowered into it from above rather than thrown out from the bottom. If you need something in orbit, you don't drop it down to the plane
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
Or evolve a branch of humanity that uses non-biological, radiation-hardened, easily-maintained, low-mass machines, instead of meat that doesn't grow correctly in low acceleration, uses chemical energy storage with no power generation c
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by logfromblammo 7y ago
There is a fuzzy line there, between defining what the job is and how it should be done. If you say "sand the floor", a contractor that shows up with a power sander and sands the floor is still a contractor. When Mr. Miyagi kicks

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