monkburger

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by monkburger 3y ago
In such a limited RCT, yeah. It does.
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by monkburger 3y ago
I'll chime in: (β = −0.482; 95% CI, −0.813, −0.141; p = 0.014): The "β" represents the change in the factor score due to the prebiotic. A negative number here (-0.482) likely means that the prebiotic reduced some kind of nega
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by monkburger 3y ago
Are you talking about the local NWS offices in the PNW? I always tell tech savvy people to look at the forecast discussion and not the infographics. For example, look at Spokane: https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat
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by monkburger 3y ago
Barry Myers / Accuweather would love nothing more than to privatize all weather forecasting services, which means I, and my colleagues at SPC, would be out of a job
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IBM Asks for Layoff Volunteers(theregister.com)
5 points by monkburger 3y ago|1 comments
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by monkburger 3y ago
At IBM, a call was made with flair, "For layoffs, who'd volunteer, who'd dare?" But the staff found it funny, "No thanks, we need our money!" So the volunteers were as rare as a bear in midair.
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by monkburger 3y ago
Big Pharma's profits are a result of taxpayer funded research via the NIH and others for drug discovery. https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/us-tax-dolla... Big Pharma has a very powerful lobbying
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Residents warned burglars could be using 'WiFi jammers'(kare11.com)
2 points by monkburger 3y ago|0 comments
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by monkburger 3y ago
Ah! I should have read a little further. I apologize!
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LG washing machine sending 3.7GB of data a day(tomshardware.com)
345 points by monkburger 3y ago|250 comments
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by monkburger 3y ago
Environmental half lives are a different animal. I vaguely recall some obs studies that estimate a half life of PFOA to be 90 (water), 114 days for PFOS, their half-life in water is greater than 90 years for PFOA and greater than 41 years f
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Creator of JSON Unveils New Programming Language 'Misty'(crockford.com)
4 points by monkburger 3y ago|6 comments
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by monkburger 3y ago
They do go away, but it depends on numerous factors. In humans, if you have polymorphisms in various genes relating to GSH detoxification, the half life could increase. (in theory) half-lives of long-chain PFAS were longer than those of sho
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by monkburger 3y ago
This is what happens when the EPA's rules state chemical companies, can more or less, police themselves. We've detected PFOAs in rainwater/clouds, in the artic, etc (See https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021&#
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by monkburger 3y ago
Google's Motto was "Don't be evil" Now it's "Do the right thing" The irony.
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by monkburger 3y ago
SPC uses radar measurements (velocity) to detect rotation at different radar tilts. When you see 2 velocity points very close together, that usually raises the criteria to a warning. Sometimes, at the lowest tilt, we can detect debris on th
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by monkburger 3y ago
Well, a tornado warning could be either radar indicated or ground obs (big difference).
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Aurga dongle can remote control any device, even a headless PC with no OS(aurga.com)
23 points by monkburger 3y ago|15 comments
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by monkburger 3y ago
Thank you for the links. I will read over them.
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Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) Internet Service: RFC 9330(datatracker.ietf.org)
371 points by monkburger 3y ago|86 comments
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Unpopular Opinion?
4 points by monkburger 3y ago|3 comments