rbmktechik

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by rbmktechik 7y ago
How dare you take away my right to be outraged at tech giants....
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by rbmktechik 7y ago
Parents algorithm always works, the one described has a massive failure mode - people slowly learn that they are likely to say 7 and self-censor by picking another number. Or maybe in a different culture the distribution changes (say China
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by rbmktechik 7y ago
They explicitly state that they don't really know how it affects proteins, only that they are changed in "complex" ways. Here is one example of a protein change which is deadly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by rbmktechik 7y ago
Except this presentation explicitly states that they don't really know what it does to proteins, only that the changes are "complex". And you can turn your argument around. Why everytime "science" is involved, the i
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by rbmktechik 7y ago
We've been eating heat cooked food for millennia. We know it's more or less safe, and we have evolved suitable enzymes. We've never eaten stuff which went through such a high pressure process. This is not your average pressur
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by rbmktechik 7y ago
You know the old saying: I would never fly in a plane designed with software using floating point. I think it needs an updating: I would never fly in a plane with software written by $9/hour coders.
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by rbmktechik 7y ago
This airport legendarily had all the lights on at night despite nobody being there for months because they couldn't figure out how to turn them off. https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/berlin-airport-
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by rbmktechik 7y ago
I was shocked when I recently learned that the vast majority of Europe is at a higher latitude than New York. The way maps are usually shown makes you think New York is up there with Sweden.
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by rbmktechik 7y ago
That water emits 3.6 Roentgen