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by ralfd 3y ago
2 hours? I hate to say that, but: Too long; didn't watch summary?
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by ralfd 3y ago
> For now, the US has just two small wind farms off the coasts of Rhode Island and Virginia. That is astonishingly disappointing. Why is that? China and Europe have both more than 25 GW offshore windpower installed.
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by ralfd 3y ago
That batch seems to be a dud: https://twitter.com/andrewmccalip/status/1687425301184393216 "Reaction looks like garbage. Very incomplete"
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by ralfd 3y ago
Philips has this press release about researching high temperature MRI from 2022: https://www.usa.philips.com/a-w/about/news/archive/standard/... I guess the need is somewhat alleviated by using MRI
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by ralfd 3y ago
Why can’t liquid nitrogen SC used for creating MRI?
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by ralfd 3y ago
Very informal "leaked" confirmations, but that is the current state: https://twitter.com/elsa17z/status/1686763798294593536?s=20
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by ralfd 3y ago
Also in ethnically homogenous countries?
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by ralfd 3y ago
Even then Borghans concedes that "Grades, scores on achievement tests, and IQ are strongly positively correlated", just not perfectly so. But also compare the meta study of Strenze (2007): http://web.archive.org/we
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by ralfd 3y ago
Rationalwiki is trash.
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by ralfd 3y ago
Prism also involved an NSA program that was done without the knowledge of the tech companies. They inserted a splitter on the fiber lines leaving data centers to copy all the traffic.
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by ralfd 3y ago
Apple and Tesla don’t have a monopoly. But the eye of Sauron gazes on Apple too (eg they are forced to end their Lightning connector). As is Google: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en&#x2
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by ralfd 3y ago
> This is the last question in the test. I did not even try it. Enjoy Maybe 2? I can only guess what the answer is. I don't the rule of sequence here?
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by ralfd 3y ago
> It is still somewhat unclear what benefit we get from spending massive (but relatively much smaller) sums on manned space travel (and to be clear, I wholeheartedly support it regardless) The two sides of this question were already perf
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by ralfd 3y ago
These comments from 2018 say FDA approval was to complicated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17095954 > The product was being developed by Oragenics, but was shelved in 2014, citing regulatory concerns and patent i
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by ralfd 3y ago
> The Xerox 914 was produced between 1960 and 1977.[4] It was introduced to the public on September 16, 1959, in a demonstration at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel in New York, shown on live television.[1] One of the two copiers that were pr
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by ralfd 3y ago
Regarding your link from 2015 this was about red meat, not all animal products, and further had to be rolled back in recent years: 2019: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/sep/30/research-red-me...
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by ralfd 3y ago
My M1 Mac is the best laptop I ever owned. But it is also a big step up, I expect my machine to stay viable quite some time and recommend my noob friends to buy used M1/M2 Macbooks (if available).
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by ralfd 3y ago
> illegal option -- r Doesnt work for me?
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by ralfd 3y ago
And did I understand it right, that the first “witness” who “lightly live tweeted” didn’t even work there?
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by ralfd 3y ago
Autobahn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rzGb26wBoA
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by ralfd 3y ago
10000 character longform tweets are now possible and 2 hour long videos.
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by ralfd 3y ago
Sure, but I dislike backseat/sideseat watchers. For example I would be to self-consious to watch Game of Thrones / House of the Dragon on the plane, because of sudden nudity or bloody violence.
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by ralfd 3y ago
For that we invented house shoes: http://foottalk.blogspot.com/2017/12/a-very-short-history-of...
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by ralfd 3y ago
Currently they are acting in maximizing alienation of their users and maximizing the chance a viable competitor platform emerges.
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by ralfd 3y ago
Morality is not a luxury, morality is the bedrock of society. And the hacker group is (probably) from Romania, which, while not a super rich country, is a EU member state and “economic growth has been one of the highest in the EU since 2010
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by ralfd 3y ago
My go to example to explain the One True Mac Way of Window management is the “The many windows of John Siracusa” podcast from ATP a few years ago. The relevant discussion starts at 1:33:00 https://atp.fm/episodes/96 Si
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by ralfd 3y ago
Oh? But is this a good metric for the algorithm? I just noticed I very seldom upvote topics, but writing a comment is correlated with reading comments which is correlated with finding the topic interesting.
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by ralfd 3y ago
I didn't know Tilt Brush was from Google. From 2016 and It certainly feels like the older more whimsical Google.
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by ralfd 3y ago
Related: Can Greek understand ancient Greek?
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by ralfd 3y ago
We are only in the sense "not competing" in that the rivalry is totally lopsided though. All four supspecies are now endangered: https://www.treehugger.com/chimpanzees-endangered-5220730 Their population is only a

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