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by scythe 3y ago
MRI will get much cheaper, but you still need a good upper critical field and a proper access control (Zone 2/3/4) protocol. So probably not in very small buildings.
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by scythe 3y ago
OS X at least has the excuse of having come out during the time when Generation X were the young adult audience sought after by marketers. In contrast, today we have Gen X executives who are seemingly trying to recapture the glory days of t
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by scythe 3y ago
It's legally hairy in the United States for the government to moderate Internet platforms. As I recall, some public officials were taken to court over blocking people on the site formerly known as Twitter. There's a court case pen
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by scythe 3y ago
If you save enough on energy, you can switch your system to save on capital. RO has a fancy nanostructured membrane but electrodialysis or MSF might be easier to build at the cost of 20-50% worse efficiency.
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by scythe 3y ago
Desalination seems to be well-positioned to take advantage of variable energy prices, particularly in dry-summer climates where demand for water increases at the same time as solar energy availability. If you run the desalination system whe
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by scythe 3y ago
The Prius has also been a PHEV for years now. I doubt it would require a huge change in manufacturing processes to make a pure EV version. But it's manufacturing the actual battery modules that has been the hard problem for Tesla compe
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by scythe 3y ago
Tax havens are generally pass-through entities of a sort, they're not spending billions of dollars on cocktails in the Caymans. The passage through is just disguised well enough to avoid being taxed.
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by scythe 3y ago
I mean, that would be possible, if our shoulder muscles were about ten times as strong as they are, and we built strong enough wings (about ten meters long!). But what's the analogous component for the shoulder muscles in operating a b
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by scythe 3y ago
Mentioned in the article.
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by scythe 3y ago
>Berlin remains the biggest financial contributor to the EU This is unsurprising for the EU's largest population, though. >I knew that even before finding https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/gdp because it’
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by scythe 3y ago
>Most journalists in the USA receive basically zero scientific education. First, you need a way to communicate to the reader that the journalist writing the article is a qualified science journalist. Then, to satisfy that, you need an ap
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by scythe 3y ago
Bringing up unrelated highly controversial topics is not good. It tends to derail threads and accumulate emotionally charged, poorly informed comments. But anyway, leaks of radioactive materials are inherently much easier to detect than oth
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by scythe 3y ago
There is a grade of olive oil — "extra light" — which is very good for deep frying. The darker stuff popular on salads won't work so well.
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by scythe 3y ago
With the exception of arsenic, most of these metals can be effectively immobilized as the sulfides. That's how they naturally occur, and the sulfides are so inert that early life never encountered the metal ions or adapted to them — wh
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by scythe 3y ago
Due to some recent mishaps in the UK's foreign policy, it probably isn't a great index comparison for economic growth in the 2010s. However, prior to 2016, it was a high performer among European nations. >If you look at the emp
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by scythe 3y ago
This blog post treats a tired subject. At least a dozen front-page HN pieces have lamented cuts to algebra. But what makes it worthwhile is Noah's coverage of the Dallas experiment. That is a much less-told story. If you came directly
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by scythe 3y ago
>The thing that really hurt the Eurozone was the 2011 - 2013 recession that the US did not experience. This is true, but understated in a crucial manner. By global standards, the greatest enduring strength of the US economy has been its
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by scythe 3y ago
Obesity has also increased in the EU.
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by scythe 3y ago
>It doesn’t know how much money you have, it doesn’t measure the purchasing power of individuals. No per-capita metric does this. You have to use things like the median wage to capture the purchasing power of individuals. For example,
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by scythe 3y ago
As a somewhat reluctant user of Python for scientific computing, the main thing that keeps me from trying Julia is that it seems to have a severe case of featuritis. I never wanted or needed my convenience language to try to be a C++ replac
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by scythe 3y ago
Last year I did this with an elderflower cordial, but I followed a recipe for lemon curd (substituting Belvoir Farms) rather than using 350 mL (!!) of the pH 3 liquid in a pastry cream. I ended up adding a little powdered sugar while beatin
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by scythe 3y ago
https://archive.ph/0SV1V
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The success of education reforms in England(economist.com)
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by scythe 3y ago
Geometric intuition is going to be difficult, but I bet there's a relatively elegant algebraic argument that uses some index-twiddling symmetries. There's a one-page inductive proof (with four pages of introduction) on arXiv: htt
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by scythe 3y ago
Insect foods were infamously featured on NPR several times before the same outlet ran a story insisting that nobody was pushing insect foods. But insofar as we are discussing insect products , silk, shellac and resilin continue to be excel
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by scythe 3y ago
Some of Kahneman and Tversky's work was thrown out, but the majority of it replicates: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0886-x
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by scythe 3y ago
>There is an overarching philosophy within the school system that integration is better than separation. I don't think it's fair to Black or female students to equate their integration with the "integration" of studen
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by scythe 3y ago
>the wake of the whole Titan submersible thing. The Titan submersible didn't violate "regulations", though, it violated industry standards. Standards that are updated more often than regulations. In so doing, it it was den
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by scythe 3y ago
You do realize the irony in that statement, correct?
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Pizza is cooked on one side; it is cooked after adding toppings; it is cooked rapidly in an oven. Most flatbreads are flipped; some are cooked with open heat.

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