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by scythe 4y ago
>Correlation does not imply causation Correlation does not guarantee causation. But the stronger the correlation, the more you suspect that two phenomena are causally linked somehow. In this case, three pounds over half a year is a surpr
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by scythe 4y ago
I can add to that doom and gloom: >The company-wide layoffs and elimination of the news operation come just months after BuzzFeed had laid off 12 percent of its staff in a cost-cutting measure. That penny-pinching move, which Peretti sai
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by scythe 4y ago
I'm no rocket expert, but the Wikipedia article you linked seems to have an idea about that: >Adverse characteristics of the large cluster of thirty engines and its complex fuel and oxidizer feeder systems were not revealed earlier
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by scythe 4y ago
>So to have any chance of success each failure point needs to be engineered below, by way of example, a 0.0001% chance of failure. That costs lots of money. But say one decides to accept more risk for less cost. Ok. So you switch from 0.
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by scythe 4y ago
>if the city is over 75k people My moral hazard alarm is ringing.
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by scythe 4y ago
Chile hasn't done half bad either. It's perhaps worth noting that Pinochet — neoliberal reputation notwithstanding — didn't undo Allende's nationalization of the country's copper mining industry: https://
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by scythe 4y ago
Being exposed to adversity at 1 PM in the classroom is fundamentally different from being exposed to adversity at 11:30 PM laying in bed. One of those is much closer to the ancestral environment the human mind is naturally equipped to deal
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by scythe 4y ago
To borrow a quote from one of your other posts: > climate change (in the popular conception) feels fundamentally unresolvable. For context, I have a graduate degree in physics. I am 31 and I have spent my entire adult life studying clima
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by scythe 4y ago
In fairness, the odds ratio for "smoking causes lung cancer" is about sixteen.
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by scythe 4y ago
>low-field MRI is a research area. Not just a research area! Recently on the DXMP mailing list someone was asking about QA procedures for their 0.064 tesla scanner. You can buy permanent magnets that strong without much trouble. I was ve
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by scythe 4y ago
A key problem with high-res MRI in a living organism is the scan time. Even fast acquisition techniques like EPI require around 50 milliseconds per slice. But if you want good resolution and contrast you're doing a spin echo which take
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by scythe 4y ago
If you had nanoparticle contrast (ferumoxytol) it very well could have stuck around for weeks. Gadolinium chelate contrast is supposed to wash out in a few days, though.
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by scythe 4y ago
>They believe that applying Marxist economic theory to cultural issues This is literally gibberish. It's like saying you're going to apply quantum mechanics to modeling bird populations in the Galapagos. >Robin DiAngelo Nobo
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by scythe 4y ago
>They are both offshoots of Marxism. As long as YouTube is making our arguments, here's Žižek trolling Peterson about this canard: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wsz6ijXWS3A
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by scythe 4y ago
Organized crime, e.g. the Sinaloa Cartel.
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by scythe 4y ago
What you wrote about the Wikipedia page is not consistent with what I read on the Wikipedia page: >While working as a marketing director in the early 1960s, Engelmann became interested with how children learn. >[...] >In 1964, he
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by scythe 4y ago
You don't have to support the leaker to oppose expanded social media monitoring back-channels for the intelligence services.
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by scythe 4y ago
The story I've heard is that he leaked the documents to win an argument. He doesn't even appear to have seriously considered that they would travel far beyond his little Discord friend group. Of course, I could have misheard.
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by scythe 4y ago
A list of sanctions is available: https://eu-solidarity-ukraine.ec.europa.eu/eu-sanctions-agai... Russian oil and coal are heavily sanctioned, but not gas. This may have caused the confusion. Bans on any fuels from Russia l
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by scythe 4y ago
>With a bulb made of alumina I didn't mention this in my other comment because I thought the use of alumina could be avoided, but I suggest you look up the price of some optical sapphire (ie transparent alumina) before you get excit
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by scythe 4y ago
The key innovation here is the IR-selective-reflection bulb coating. As such: >Fabrication of the VTIRF window >The quartz substrate with a size of 25 mm by 50 mm is cleaned by bath ultrasonication using acetone, ethanol, and deionizi
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by scythe 4y ago
There is a formal definition of "skyscraper", which comprises a steel frame supporting curtain walls. Buildings below 100 feet never qualify in practice. Since half of San Francisco has zoning heights below 50 feet and even more o
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by scythe 4y ago
Perhaps the most challenging problem with the plate definition is that it would place northern Honshu and all of Hokkaido in North America. Treating the Caribbean, India and Arabia as continents is basically consistent with how we talk abou
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by scythe 4y ago
I make my coffee at home because the shops are too expensive
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by scythe 4y ago
Considering the infrastructure deficiencies, I think a canning facility would have been better.
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by scythe 4y ago
Springfield, MA is quite a bit bigger, though. In fact, Springfield, MO is also larger (at least comparing metropolitan areas) than the capital of Illinois. This situation happens again between Augusta, GA (where the PGA Masters are held)
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by scythe 4y ago
>so that the poor who can't afford panels aren't subsidizing the rich who get inflated rates for their generation. Perhaps we should quantify this subsidy, before we get up in arms about it. California gets around 14% of its el
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by scythe 4y ago
The article says 1-in-1000-year rainfall in South Florida. Flooding of similar magnitude is more common due to storm surge (wind blowing the ocean ashore). The title should be corrected to reflect the difference. More than a foot of rai
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by scythe 4y ago
It probably helps that the founder is from Kazakhstan.
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by scythe 4y ago
A fair complaint, but I didn't put the comparison; the poster I responded to did.

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