rarefied_tomato

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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
Many wireless and ethernet connections could ultimately network with just a few Starlink user dishes in population centers. I think the base station could be located in neighboring countries. It might be plausible if you have a bunch of y
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
The benzene is the money-saving opportunity. Per GP it's added to avoid a costly drying process. The cost of removing the trace benzene would nullify those savings.
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What tunings did Bach use?(rolf-musicblog.net)
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
UBI is here (perhaps temporarily), and unevenly distributed in terms of fiscal and monetary allocation. AI is here, and in the hands of a few tax-evasive global corporations. So far AI has been good for: addictive attention farming, polari
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
This tickles me. If only my comment had been artful by design, and I could say I was in on the joke!
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Identifying the behavioral consequences of high stakes interpersonal deception [pdf](researchgate.net)
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
Related: Marsh's 1994 thesis that introduced zero trust: https://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/2010/1/Formalising%...
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
The field of virology doesn't draw a line in the sand excluding certain viruses with low transmission rates. Viruses that are more transmissible simply draw the attention of the field. Presumably, a scientific study of ideas would ob
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
Virality isn't a boolean property that's true for a distinct class of ideas, it's a probability of transmission. Not telling anyone your ideas is like a mountaintop hermit not spreading a new viral strain. Is your comment dif
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Money creation in the modern economy (2014) [pdf](bankofengland.co.uk)
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
It seems sufficient to acknowledge that virality is a property of ideas. We can then continue using a single term to reference the notion of an 'idea'.
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
For a deeper look, Trefethen's Numerical Linear Algebra starts with these ideas and applies them to matrix algorithms.
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
Maybe a cannula would be attached at a certain point? I think the real difficulty would be producing nutrients and mixing them into the blood. I am clearly a nonexpert. I brought this up thinking about the broader "chicken and egg&qu
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
To avoid reliance on a living output, perhaps synthetic red blood cells would be used in such a fluid. https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2020/...
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
Your description of dukkha reminds me of a concept in Stoicism. Early Stoics formalized "pneuma" as something of a "natural order" or "holy ghost". The teachings were that one could avoid self-destructive beh
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
This article discusses how transcendental meditation has induced nihilism and reality disconnect upon some of its vulnerable practitioners. In my ears, this lends cautionary support for Nietzsche's criticism of stoics and Buddhists. I
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
Given the terrible health consequences of deficiency, I think assuming racial difference in healthy vitamin D levels is a more dangerous claim that requires a burden of proof. Melanin absorbs the UV light our bodies use to produce vitamin D
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
After referencing that paper and a couple others, the new work says "... practically all the galactic rotation models so far are based on potential theory and the circular orbit concept in the Newtonian framework" "In the pr
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
That's fair. I mean that if this person's claims are truly dubious and they seem to be seeking the spotlight, then giving them the spotlight could exacerbate their derangement. That's useless for Okta, sad for this person, a
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
Not to mention the ethics of spreading the PII of someone who you suspect to be mentally ill (who claims to have hacked your company).
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
Was the building made from stacked shipping containers? Containers are such a budget-friendly and trendy structural building block these days. They even click with the software engineers - "Hey, it's like Docker". Container
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
The discussion of the fat percentage misses the relevant concern. Mineral oil, unlike vegetable or animal fat, is a petroleum product and carcinogen that bioaccumulates in body fat. The oekotest.de link also discusses methylcellulose as a
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
It sounds like you aren't familiar with ice driving. The worst pileup in Texas occurred on one side of an arched overpass. Drivers coming from one direction couldn't see the pileup forming at the bottom until they were already co
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
The half pixel offset is also a Gaussian convolution (the simplest) with filter [1/2, 1/2]. It's centered at the corners between pixels, so it's not obvious to describe it as such. You can calculate Gaussian filters by
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
Counterpoint: new large markets & high tech applications for helium will drive up the price. At this point consumers might scale back the balloons.
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
Your concerns sound more related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_brightener than chlorinated plastics.
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Water leaks indicate new damage at Fukushima nuclear plant(apnews.com)
1 points by rarefied_tomato 6y ago|0 comments
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
I don't think that statement is outlandish. Regular users might, say: - smoke alone instead of meeting up with friends - be less productive/successful - smoke as an aid for emotional pain
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
If my reading is correct, this is specifically supplementing with soy or whey. People interested in supplementing at this level should remind themselves that many other protein sources are less bioavailable, and have differing amino acid pr
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by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
Error correction is inherent in processing the QR code itself. That is, QR codes are generated with varying levels of redundancy, and any reader must be able to interpret the Reed-Solomon code.

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