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Lab leak theory, once 'political dynamite,' gains credibility in new study(news.yahoo.com)
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by nosianu 5y ago
My suspicion is that this might end up like more/wider streets and highways: You built it => it will be filled to capacity asap and there is no difference in the end, only more of the same (literally). Of course, this won't hap
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by nosianu 5y ago
Originally Coursera only wanted money for the - for the vast majority of people useless - verified completion certificate. You had access to all course content including all the tests and could access course content long after the course
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by nosianu 5y ago
Why would you add an additional risk if you can just avoid it to begin with? I think pointing to "we don't know" as if it's equal to "it does not matter" is not good policy. A better one is "better safe th
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by nosianu 5y ago
Also has the advantage that you don't get any nano particles from whatever fancy coating was applied. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27931180/ https://therationalkitchen.com/is-nonstick-cookware-s
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by nosianu 5y ago
> They certainly don't come into my garden to do their business. It's only a small fraction of dog owners but in my city - and a lot more after COVID isolation which seems to have increased pet dog population noticeably aroun
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by nosianu 5y ago
If you had read the article you would have been informed that this publication is one in a long line of similar ones going back as far as 1920 who all came to similar numbers. You are right, if there was only this one paper it would be enti
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by nosianu 5y ago
As others have said, pinch to zoom works now. Although that only helps to zoom in to one spot, if I were to try using that to read a page where the font is too small, having to shift the page left and right while zoomed, it would be a night
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by nosianu 5y ago
Not sure why teh parent post got downvoted - we have plenty of examples right here in the various sub threads of people telling us exactly that. Almost none of all those who wrote a comment with their own anecdote seem to have reported it,
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by nosianu 5y ago
If you shift the coordinate system to within the virtual system nothing is fake any more. I left the context that I used for the words "virtual" and "fake" outside and with their actual real life at the center. My reddit
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by nosianu 5y ago
Well, you make it a game - people start playing. The disadvantage of gamification. I'm not sure that people giving good answers and help are well matched by a system designed for people who like "leveling up". I think that sy
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by nosianu 5y ago
Quite timely that we have a Wikipedia article on the HN homepage right now. Because I find that that site often helps with such questions, so I find them quite a valuable resource. They have a list for just this question: https:/&#x2F
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by nosianu 5y ago
I studied it under the name of "Informatik" (Germany), which seems to be the most commonly used word in Europe. The Wikipedia article for "Computer Science" has relevant information, quote (some line breaks added): I
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by nosianu 5y ago
As a private pilot: The same. I always took extra care to cut back on the engine after takeoff, crossing the homes near the airport more slowly and without ascending much. And I avoided pristine landscapes or at least also slowed down a lot
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by nosianu 5y ago
As a former East German, 90% of that "defeat" was done by the USSR (and the Eastern Bloc) itself, not the USA. Credit where it is due, since you insist.
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by nosianu 5y ago
> we can know that Mona Lisa is illegally transferred to the corrupted official, and know who that is. You mean if the thieves are kind enough to record the "transaction"? Nice. I can imagine several replies trying to rationa
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by nosianu 5y ago
When you mention thresholds you also have to say that they are not medical but administrative. For many substances medical, desirable, values are zero. For example, lead: "There is no safe threshold for lead exposure" https:&#x2F
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by nosianu 5y ago
> I (and many astrophysicists) do not see that as a problem or evidence that dark matter needs to be abandoned As I read it, and I think it was pretty straightforward, neither does she? She wants to keep it where it seems to be an appr
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by nosianu 5y ago
I grew up in East Germany. I was part of the mass events leading to the wall coming down, so you can tell what side I'm on. Still, I hate it with a passion that anytime someone dares to mention some good points of what happened in the
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by nosianu 5y ago
When sound cards were still a thing even in mid-level PCs I once tried to call Dell for a driver issue related to the sound card that the high-end PC had come equipped with. I got zero help with the software issue, but they sent me a new ca
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by nosianu 5y ago
Worse, even if you agree, missing payments without noticing it is easy. You might get your life saver disabled even though you have plenty of money and are willing to pay and think you set everything up. For example, it works for a while, t
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by nosianu 5y ago
I watch both too and I disagree. After a while I have to stop watching SC1 games, I can continue watching SC2 for much much longer. SC1 just gets way too boring. It really is like watching chess, slow and methodical (assuming the perfect co
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by nosianu 5y ago
It would be far more efficient (since additional energy is used for all the actions around it all) to not bring up carbon from below ground in the first place. As long as Norway brings up new oil those actions are just marketing. See the ar
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by nosianu 6y ago
Multicellular organisms are highly parallel, trillions of cells in a human. Even inside a eukaryotic cell (gigantic compared to far smaller bacteria) there is a huge amount of parallelism and non-linearity like in some assembly line. The di
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by nosianu 6y ago
To complete the TL;DR: Further down for "dust" and not just meteorites: > between 4,000 and 6,700 metric tons of space dust falls to Earth each year > The total dust mass input before atmospheric entry is estimated at 15,
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by nosianu 6y ago
> Money is an abstraction of value Which is greatly overvalued because it gives you the illusion and convenience to use numbers. Which "frees" you from actually thinking about the problem. Everything is a finance problem (a
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by nosianu 6y ago
We do exchange value. Real value. I would not read webpages if I did not get value. Webpages would not be offered if those making them did not get value. Even when there was no commercialism on the Internet at all. Or why people do a lot
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by nosianu 6y ago
There are quite a few responses, but I still want to point out a main difference more clearly: There are natural-intelligence (human) agents translating the diagram to "code" (bricks). There is a lot of problem fixing going on d
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by nosianu 6y ago
> Numbers are 64bit floats only - no integers, no big numbers. That is not true. BigInt has been available for a bit already. MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... Ava
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by nosianu 6y ago
That does not make sense to me, since computers "native" numbers are not binary and the layer on top would not care one bit if it converts the binary representation to whatever base. Not to mention that the wide-spread use of the

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