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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Vitrification has been around for decades.[1] And the fact that they seem to be taking complete credit for cleaning up Fukishima (as if it were completely cleaned up) is ridiculous. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Anyone have a link to the full text that's outside of paywall?
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
p-value is almost irrelevant if you don't know how many overall statistical tests were performed. Finding a p<0.001 "significant" result after testing 1,000 different variables is far less meaningful than finding one after
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Correlation. Causation. You know what I'm saying.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Good point
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
A good note of caution for any study.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
But what about the CJD controls that didn't receive transplants derived from cadaver tissue? Those didn't show the same rate of Alzheimers-like plaques, if I understood the report correctly.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Just thinking out loud here, but... suppose that many/most nodes on the WWW implement Webmention and publish their knowledge of who links to them. In other words, the link graph can be navigated in both directions. Does that not simpli
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Any idea how they mitigate it?
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
I could definitely believe that. Something along the lines of "using chapstick makes your lips produce less moisture, thus making the chapstick seem more necessary". Our bodies like their equilibria and will adjust to preserve the
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Exactly what I was wondering. These sorts of studies usually make assumptions about the rate of mutation across time in order to estimate the date of various divergences or of the ur-form, but these rates are difficult to calibrate. For a c
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
The Soviet Union forced farmers into collectives, and it was a disaster and was ultimately abandoned. Oppression of rural populations by urban centers can be extremely costly. Not saying urbans can't impose their will on the countrysid
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
I'm inclined to blame the author's negativity on his obvious conflict of interest. At least, my understanding is that he recently began working for a group that competes with Bitcoin in trying to connect traditional banks and (non
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
It is for me on Mac. Browse -> Genres & Moods -> Word Awesome stuff. Looking forward to exploring it.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
I saw the linguistics connection as being that distinguishing one genus/species from another is a very similar problem to distinguishing one language/dialect from another. In both cases the population of organisms or of language u
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
"conformant" seems like the strongest analogy.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
I thought they were emphasizing the fact that, under the previous scheme, authors had to do something to renew copyright, which meant that unexploited works automatically lapsed into the public domain. Under the current law, even works whos
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
In theory this is possible now, right? Why don't employers compete in this way? Is there some insurance/tax/other reason that employers so strongly prefer full-time employees?
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Wasn't gobby (the software project) originally named as a play on another collaborative editor named Lobby? That's what my memory is telling me.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
I began the taper on my own and only discussed it with my doctor when it came time to drop from a 100mg to 50mg prescription. He wanted me to meet with him monthly to report my status but I thought that was ridiculous. I just meet with him
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
What sort of time period did you do the taper over? I've been working on this taper for over two years, I think.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Interesting possibility. Is there a technical term for this effect so I can find further documentation?
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Many people who believe they are just being struck randomly by depression are simply not aware of the reasons they are feeling depressed. That doesn't mean there aren't emotional/psychological reasons for what they're ex
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
"Subresource integrity allows developers to make their sites more secure" Cryptographic verification of scripts and other linked resources is very cool. Not an official standard, but I'm glad to see this.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
I went through this, too---I felt there were good reasons to get off my antidepressants, so I began tapering off of them at what I thought was a reasonable rate, something like 10% of the original dose per month (I was at 250mg so that was
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
One possible approach to link rot: each web page embeds within it (or in associated resources) a copy of every page linked to. Then when a link is clicked on it's always possible to show the page as intended. The biggest issue with thi
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
This is quasi-ad hominem, and yet there's a kernel of truth to it, i.e. being a software engineer doesn't necessarily make you a critical thinker.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Zoning changes all the time in my city, even on a per-lot basis.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Maybe it's an expression of a statism-vs-civil-liberties conflict on the left?
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
"and particle physicists will have six times more stuff to study than they had before." Can anyone out there explain this statement for us non-physicists?

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