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Portable MRIs of various types have existed for a while. They even make 1.5T units on trucks. This one is itself preceded by the Hyperfine Swoop: https://hyperfine.io/ And yes a CT is preferable for stroke but you can'
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You can't reduce philosophy to the people involved. After all, the foundations of neoconservatism drew heavily on ideas introduced by Trotskyists [1]. That's about as dramatic of a political about-face as it gets. 1: https:/
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Context: https://newrepublic.com/article/150687/professor-parody
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They're not the only ones on that track: https://tsubame-bhb.co.jp/en/ But I do think the name NitroVolt is a little unfortunate because there is also a much more speculative (TRL 3) methodology in development whi
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>Geothermal has similar economics. Doesn't the ground itself act as an energy reservoir for geothermal? I haven't looked this one up, but it definitely seems like geothermal should be very dispatchable.
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The tax I described is not a step function. It is a ramp function. By your definition, the progressive income tax would also be "means testing".
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I thought of a slightly milder version of the tax, which I call a land wealth tax. Fix a certain maximum value of land owned by a single person which would not be taxed. In theory this might be some quantile, like the 80th percentile of lan
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>Titanium ore has supposedly been discovered in [...] Titanium is very common (ninth most common crustal element IIRC). Generally there are always deposits. It's more important to have the infrastructure already in place because it&
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I believe it's a "translation" in the sense of Wittgenstein's goal of philosophy: >My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.
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They are not cooperative hunters, unlike wolves, but they do display some social traits. See chapter 4: https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/78460899/Complete-libr...
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I've worked in quantum computing (many years ago...) and that statement surprises me as well. Not because it's a caveat, but because, last I checked, there isn't really any such thing as "nonuniversal" quantum compu
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The subheading is "and women overestimate men's preference for femininity". And furthermore, the study focuses specifically on facial appearance . Splitting these up like this and burying the context reminds me of the story
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Tourism is by definition a small fraction of overall global economic activity. Basically the only places which can really run on tourism have major geographical (Barbados, Andorra) or extraordinary historical (Venice, Kyoto) advantages, or
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>The durable solution is to increase housing starts by deregulation and financial incentives or public housing. I think that there is a negligence of the economic conditions that face the construction industry in this and most similar ar
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The article is dated today, it may not yet be affecting prices.
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This is a social norm sometimes, but it is very much not sufficient for authorship according to the stated criteria at most journals and ethical standards boards. Usually "authorship" is supposed to mean something like "a sub
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>1. UHC’s rep said the issue was non urgent and asked for a call back “when convenient to you”. This differs from the social media post claiming that UHC called and demanded she “scrub out of surgery” and “call right now”. Based on my ex
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From page 12: https://www.judicialhellholes.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01... >This soy-based insulated wiring was touted as being more "environmentally friendly" due to, inter alia , the biodeg
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>My visits there were between Christmas 2014-15 and the end of summer in 2018, Whole Foods wasn't that good even on the first trip. Shows something about my perception of time. I have some fond memories of the first time I went to W
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I had the pleasure of entertaining a colleague from China who was visiting Portland while we worked at a conference some years back. She had offered many similar complaints about American food as you did. But the places I took her to (which
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Generally we are more concerned when people die at 40 than at 80. The latter is considered "normal". There are a few ways that the epidemiologists try to quantify this notion — DALYs or QALYs. Fentanyl takes people young. And it&#
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There is also the secular trend. Detroit's dominance in the auto industry wasn't an accident. Iron was mined in the Iron Range in Minnesota and shipped across the Great Lakes to Detroit. It was natural for manufacturing to occur t
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When I was a kid we would go skiing in Colorado and there were big signs near most of the major lifts describing the Colorado Ski Safety Act: https://donaldsonlaw.com/recreational-accident-attorney-denv... The signs at Brec
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Microsoft had an underlying operating system that they wanted to rewrite substantially in C# on the .NET VM. They had a decent motivation for not having a core piece of Windows dependent on a product from another vendor that was competing i
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That's not even close to what I intended.
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I don't see the problem? I was just saying that "not noticeable" is a really high bar to set for a supersonic flight.
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Noticeable is certainly a way of putting it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom_tests >However, in the first 14 weeks, 147 windows in the city's two tallest buildings, the First National Ban
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>Naively, traveling twice the speed requires 8x the power, so going over 4x the usual 550mph should mean over 64x more fuel burn You've forgotten to cancel the denominator. If you use the drag relation of speed to power, you're
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>It's probably time we start looking a bit harder for "natural" or alternate treatments. Some in medical journals, are under scrutiny, but inconclusive. We are looking, quite hard, in fact. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is
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I am a medical physicist. The Therac-25 disaster is retold and explained to every student of medical physics, of course. So I'm happy to inform you that it is not physically possible for the kind of error that occurred with the Therac-

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