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by marvin 6y ago
Descriptions of being restored from a backup are also ambiguous. Don't remember the exact phrasing, but a character in imminent fear of death in one of the books thinks to themselves along the lines of "I am backed up and will be
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by marvin 6y ago
My favorites are Matter and Surface Detail, in that order. Surface Detail is probably an easier starting point, but any of the non-canonical reading order suggestions will have you confused for a while, due to the simplified descriptions of
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With the Culture series, Banks has made a very decent attempt at answering the question "if you could do absolutely anything that's physically possible, what would you do?" It is a deeply philosophical work that has the poten
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This sounds like a pretty plausible motive and source of the Gates conspiracy theories. Some loud and aggressive minority strongly disagrees with their objective, but figures that saying «contraception is bad» or «helping poor people in Afr
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In Scandinavia, contracting agencies are king. We've brewed up many local varieties of these, that are much smaller, probably a bit more skilled and generally don't deliberately take money from customers that clearly don't
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by marvin 6y ago
The physics is pretty simple: At 100% conversion rate, 1 joule is one newton of force pulling one meter, and 1 watt is 1 joule per second. So 1 kilowatt-hour is 3.6 million joules. One liter (kilogram) of water weighs approximately 10 newto
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by marvin 6y ago
Not enough energy. Hydropower reservoirs are typically many square kilometers of water surface, depth > 10 meters on average and a height differential on the order of 100 meters or more. Vary parameters according to geography, but it&#x2
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I don't think Musk will give unsolicited help to anyone ever again, after the spectacular form of gratitude the underwater capsule was received with.
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I love following quickly-developing stories like this, where the best knowledge available develops day by day. You can be dead certain that a lot of the people who read the news at an early point in time, will go to their deaths believing t
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by marvin 6y ago
Not in the published, peer reviewed sense. But the group of doctors at Rikshospitalet, that treated some of these patients, is confident that the vaccine is the only plausible explanation. https://www.vg.no/nyheter/inne
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by marvin 6y ago
Like me, GP might be confused, as two deaths from blood clots among five hospitalized for it were reported last week. Then yesterday, as mentioned in sibling's link, two more deaths were reported (as having happened on March 21). This
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I figured you put more weight on «Norway and Europe are different populations and have different probabilities for this reaction» rather than the specific numbers from Norway. I wasn’t implying that you are irrational or stupid.
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This probably doesn't convince you, but as additional data, Norwegian authorities have now confirmed five hospitalizations due to this presumed side effect, two of which resulted in death. https://www.vg.no/nyheter&#x2F
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J&J uses a different adenovirus than AZ (and human rather than chimpanzee). Of course, this is now demonstrated as a potential side effect to be on the lookout for.
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The US will have >600 million doses from Moderna and Pfizer delivered by July, and currently even has 30 (soon 60) million AZ doses in storage that won't get approval before these 600 million other doses are delivered. There's
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It's one death, not three, but I share the conclusion with the data that's currently available.
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It's 1 in 43.000 (Norway) versus 1 in 2.3 million (AZ numbers). That's a two orders of magnitude difference. While I can amend my statement to agree it's not certain that local factors and randomness haven't affected t
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by marvin 6y ago
If the risk turns out to be 1 in 50.000, which would be on the conservative side if the observations from Norway are correct, it's not a clear-cut question in a country with low incidence of Covid. Especially if other vaccines are avai
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Time will tell, but I'd put my money on a lot of undiscovered cases in Europe and the UK. Vaccinations have mostly been in elderly people who are at high risk of health complications anyway, it's only recently that younger populat
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It's recognized by investors who try to make an honest assessment in order to make good investment decisions. Thankfully, this is not a popularity contest. By any reasonable non-pedantic measure, Tesla has actually been quite profitabl
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Increasing the endowment is fine. That’s a recurring source of income that gives them complete independence for the future.
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There's plenty of null hypothesis societies to compare with. You'll find a very clear correlation between the outcomes in similar societies that used differing degrees of preventive measures. It's hard to find a society that
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This is not a very helpful, friendly or gracious response. In fact, this whole comment tree should be removed, as it mostly consists of people yelling at each other in high-IQ ways.
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Your reasoning does not make sense at all. I hope you're just missing GP's point. Maintaining a 1 meter distance has been shown to reduce the likelihood of contagion by 80%. Using a face mask has been shown to reduce the likeliho
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by marvin 6y ago
Interesting thoughts. I think you're onto something. Going off on a tangent: I personally won't leave for California/SF since I have family here and won't put the obviously massive financial advantage ahead of that. But
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The "able to pay" part will resolve itself if you manage to start a sufficiently successful startup. Eventually through high enough profits, since the startups that turn into global leaders in their field are more profitable per e
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You’re framing it the right way, and this is what we should work towards. But man, I long for the day when what you’re describing here is realistic. In Norway, country of «holy crap, I’m an employer lobbyist and our salaries are so high we
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That is approximately right. Total death toll from Covid is 640 from a population of 5.3 million.
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It's not obvious that Tesla's FSD program will fail. If it succeeds, the investment will have done exactly what you describe - advancing the advantage Tesla already has.
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Recommend the book Narconomics for an in-depth look at the «free-market» ideas that drug organizations use in South America. Gang tattoos to limit the mobility of their labor, duopolies to minimize conflict but maintain most of the benefits

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