saalweachter

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by saalweachter 5mo ago
I mean, rocket guys have a long history of not minding advancing the agenda of a Nazi.
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by saalweachter 5mo ago
To some extent, volunteering for any sort of medical study is signing up to be tortured in the hopes that someone down the line might be saved by the research. Most cancer treatments, for instance, are objectively terrible to go through, a
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by saalweachter 5mo ago
Also, different species flower and release pollen at different times. A monoculture forest releases all its pollen at once, instead of a fraction of it always being in flower throughout spring/summer.
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by saalweachter 5mo ago
Musk only owns 42% of SpaceX; he only takes 42% of the loss as if he continued to own Twitter outright.
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by saalweachter 5mo ago
That was the study without a control; for the placebo controlled study, they don't give the numbers, just say "statistically significant improvements" on several metrics. (Without a control group, you have questions about how
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by saalweachter 5mo ago
I believe the best procedure is actually sticking it in your nose. (They run a tube through your nose, down your throat, through the stomach to the top of the intestines, and introduce the bacterial slurry there.)
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by saalweachter 5mo ago
It's frustrating to try to have a discussion when any source contrary to the desired position is met with "this person is underinformed"; it's why I don't really bother with any "provide me sources or I won&#x2
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by saalweachter 5mo ago
> Assuming you can point the orbiting panels at the sun and remain direct, you lose 80% of your power through the atmosphere (from angle and day/night). On the ground you lose 25% even if your panel is directly below the sun pointed
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by saalweachter 5mo ago
Accredited investors did mind for the longest time; dual class shares were banned outright for like 40 years by the NYSE (and they'd declined to list individual companies before that because of investor outcry). They only allowed them
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by saalweachter 5mo ago
Super voting shares were a mistake to allow in general.
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by saalweachter 5mo ago
I mean, if someone wants to pay you to do a lot of very interesting R&D that will never result in an alternative to ground-based datacenters, more power to you? It might even be useful in other circumstances. Better radiative cooling s
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by saalweachter 5mo ago
Isn't that how stores used to work, before store owners decided it'd be cheaper to just let shoppers bring up a basket of goods? You'd go up to the shopkeeper behind the counter with a list, they'd get it all for you?
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by saalweachter 5mo ago
No, I think they're charlatans.
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by saalweachter 5mo ago
Except you aren't leaving that heat in place. You're concentrating it into a very small area of compute. If you don't spread that heat back out, it's going to find a much higher thermal equilibrium than the solar panels
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by saalweachter 5mo ago
If you spot Datacenters In Space as making sense, why does SpaceX acquiring XAi make sense to do it? Why not have SpaceX build datacenter satellites and lease them to XAi et al, or XAi design and manufacture satellite datacenters and pay Sp
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by saalweachter 5mo ago
Aren't dusk-dawn orbits already the most crowded orbital space with the most orbital debris?
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by saalweachter 5mo ago
I would note the big difference in that trial is for summer vs snow, with all-season showing smaller degradation. So there's two things going on: first, snow tires are a softer rubber that functions better at lower temperatures. There
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by saalweachter 5mo ago
Now I just hear the Cinema Sins "ding!".
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by saalweachter 5mo ago
Snow tires can actually double your coefficient of friction on snowy pavement! The coefficient of friction drops fast on snowy ground, with all season dropping as low as 1/3-1/4 of their dry value. Of course, snow tires plus A
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by saalweachter 5mo ago
Snow tires, people! Snow tires! A FWD vehicle with snow tires is frequently better in the snow than an AWD without snow tires. Better control, better stopping, better uphill on snowy roads.
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by saalweachter 5mo ago
Pfft, there's no G train, it's just a psych experiment to see how long people will wait at a fake train station before giving up and seeking alternative transportation.
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by saalweachter 6mo ago
If Richard Nixon had used NordVPN, he'd still be President today.
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by saalweachter 6mo ago
Napaway briefly offered ticketed intercity service on busses with 18 sleeper pods, but has (temporarily) discontinued it in favor of focusing on charter service.
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by saalweachter 6mo ago
I think the fears about glyphosate resistance owes too much to antibiotic resistance, but I am not really sure it makes sense. I suppose there's some regimen where you carefully monitor every plant sprayed with a weedkiller is monitore
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by saalweachter 6mo ago
Your landlord has insurance on the property. You are paying for it with your rent, just like you're paying property taxes.
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by saalweachter 6mo ago
If you are housed, you are almost certainly paying for home insurance, even if you rent.
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by saalweachter 6mo ago
Oh hey, do you happen to know if there's any tool incompatibility in the modern electronics? The other thing about tractors is that the three point hitches, PTOs, etc etc, have been standardized forever, so there's very little loc
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by saalweachter 6mo ago
I mean, sure, right to repair and all that, but to be clear, unless you have like 50+ tractors to maintain, it's not going to make economic sense to have a full time employee to repair them. You still want to call out, you just want t
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by saalweachter 6mo ago
Incidentally, the 4020 is like the tractor to me. One of these days I'm going to buy one to restore, the way other men but the cars of their youth.
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by saalweachter 6mo ago
Keep in mind that tractors are also getting massive . The economics of row-crop agriculture is "you gotta farm more land". That means spending as much time in the field as you can with as big a machine as you can. So not only is

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