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by rapjr9 5y ago
I spent many years solving difficult code problems as part of a research group. One of my standard techniques for solving the toughest problems was to gather as many facts as I could and then sleep on it. I'd find myself not reviewin
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by rapjr9 5y ago
Here's an existing source of analysis of the quality of a lot of mostly very cheap products, some of which proved to be actually dangerous: https://www.youtube.com/user/bigclivedotcom/videos Watch enough of t
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by rapjr9 5y ago
I don't understand the mechanics of this protest. One big tow truck could move all the trucks out of the way, disabled brakes and flat tires or not, in a few hours and clear the roads. The city/government can't find a few t
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by rapjr9 5y ago
Make your living space an obstacle course, put things in your common paths that you have to stretch to get over, or walk sideways to get around (but be mindful you can get out fast in an emergency). Instead of scheduling exercise, schedule
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by rapjr9 5y ago
Mail your luggage via UPS or FedEx ahead of time. If you have to pay for it anyway might as well get the cheapest price and the most convenience.
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by rapjr9 5y ago
He's saying conditions now are not the same as in 70's. The causes of inflation are different, and they are not likely to go into a spiral. Some obvious facts are that raising interest rates is not going to magically produce mo
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by rapjr9 5y ago
There are a lot of bare-looking men's rear ends and large sticks in the cards and almost no women (and those that appear are unflattering depictions). Seems like the deck may have been early gay porn. Just saying.
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by rapjr9 5y ago
Cyberattacks are different then sending a warship or dropping a bomb though. They are harder to attribute and anyone knowledgeable and willing to the spend the time can carry them out. There have long been cyberattacks by criminals on com
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by rapjr9 5y ago
So does this mean that deflation is on the horizon? Consumer spending is what makes up most of all economies. People may have been panic spending due to the pandemic. If they think it is over or that they are now stocked up, they may ret
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by rapjr9 5y ago
Wouldn't this hammer the generators with brief load changes? I guess generators are already hammered by sudden load changes all the time and capacitor banks smooth that out somewhat. And in the best case this could spread load more e
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by rapjr9 5y ago
So all our identity will be in one pot. A big juicy fat target, run for profit, so security will be underfunded. State actors will attack it with advanced persistent threat methods. Law enforcement can demand/buy the data. Merge th
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by rapjr9 5y ago
Not sure about the NATO request, but the West had a prime opportunity to make a new friend after the breakup of the Soviet Union and completely blew it. Russia was suffering, I remember seeing a flood of used Russian kids toys for sale on
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by rapjr9 5y ago
This. Here's a dashboard with an estimate of the number of people with long covid in the USA: https://pascdashboard.aapmr.org/ Those people will not be answering your survey, and they may never rejoin the workforce.
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by rapjr9 5y ago
I've had two positions where most of my work was doing nothing but working in other teams. In one I was part of a computer simulation group where other teams in the company would come to us with simulation problems and one of us would
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by rapjr9 5y ago
I see some potential flaws in this study: They are using a piezo disk to launch the particles into the air, might that alone kill or weaken the virus? They are putting an electric charge on the particles, could that kill or weaken the vir
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by rapjr9 5y ago
True, but probably not something your doctor would tell you to do, and those tests don't even begin to address all the environmental factors that could be tested for that could affect health. One thought I've had is that everywhe
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by rapjr9 5y ago
The absolute number is probably closer to 5%, so yes there is an effect and it increases harm some. As you say I wanted to see them also mention the context in terms of how that harm stacks up against all the other causes of cancer and why
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by rapjr9 5y ago
The article says nothing about how much harm would be reduced, it just states a vague 50% increase in cancer risk without stating what the baseline is and what that risk means in relation to all the other cancer risks. And there has appare
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by rapjr9 5y ago
I think this is exactly the problem with the medical research community, they study what they choose to study, not what is important to study. This is a well known problem with research in general, researchers choose the easy problems and
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by rapjr9 5y ago
Not the OP but the shadow effect is that the light can only kill viruses if it reaches them directly. So if the virus is on your skin under your clothes or in your nose or behind a sofa, the light can't reach it. If the virus is embe
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by rapjr9 5y ago
It does sound as they say "promising" but when do they do the big, decades long double blind, randomized, controlled study of long term effects? What if you have a wound in your skin, does it become cancerous because the live cel
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by rapjr9 5y ago
If the medical community wants to gain my trust in their cancer judgements they can start by analyzing the cancer risks of the tens of thousands of chemicals that are used every day in our lives and to which we are exposed. PFAS, PFOS, ins
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by rapjr9 5y ago
This seems like a good idea. There are not enough EV's on the road yet to justify the cost of such a charging truck, so perhaps it needs to be subsidized by the government, similar to chargers, in order to be able to deal with powerle
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by rapjr9 5y ago
If you actually read that article it says surface transmission is a _minor_ risk and is possible. It's not zero risk. It's also difficult to prove it is or is not happening. Omicron is thought to replicate faster, so a smaller
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by rapjr9 5y ago
Smart contracts for Ethereum seem to be addressing something like this. In order to have a smart contract based on some external condition you need a reliable way to learn about that external condition. This is not trivial, especially sin
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by rapjr9 5y ago
If the thesis is correct then this could be a way to find out if other viruses are jumping between humans and mice. Eventually we might be able to build a map of all host-to-host jumps and get a true picture of where disease resides in the
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by rapjr9 5y ago
I think the recent success in turning comics into movies has had a negative effect on comics. Many recent comics have become attempts to try to cash in on comics current popularity. Comics used to have 40 pages of actual comic; now they h
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by rapjr9 5y ago
Infrastructure, government, banking, industry, and markets become unreliable due to ransomware. I'm not seeing any real solutions yet.
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by rapjr9 5y ago
Another thing we don't seem to know is if infection from fomites with Omicron is more likely than it was for previous variants. Particularly in a cold climate it seems possible someone touched something and got Omicron from that. The
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by rapjr9 5y ago
Most of the power in Vermont is hydro from Canada, nuclear from New Hampshire, local hydro or solar and wind, with some diesel peaking generators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Vermont#Supply A lot of people

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