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by scythe 4y ago
>Would you have felt comfortable articulating that opinion, two years ago? I posted rather often about how awful Twitter was long before there was a whiff of Musk buying it. (It's still awful.) I didn't really talk about "
902.
by scythe 4y ago
Practically no other event in human history comes close to the ecological and cultural destructive impact of the early colonial period in the Americas. But because of that, it should not be used as a yardstick for anything else. "It&#x
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by scythe 4y ago
>Reynolds, a British manufacturer known for its bicycle tubing, found that making a steel frame costs 17.5 kg CO2, while a titanium or stainless steel frame costs around 55 kg CO2 per frame – three times as much. For the uninitiated: tha
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by scythe 4y ago
I'd be surprised if the pinwheel tilings — which have tiles that take on an infinite number of relative angles — could be reproduced in this manner. It seems like projecting a periodic set in high dimensions should give at most a finit
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TreeSnap: Send tree photos to scientists to aid threatened species conservation(treesnap.org)
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906.
by scythe 4y ago
Developed by the University of Tennessee and the University of Kentucky in the United States. Primarily targets trees in North America threatened by invasive pests and pathogens.
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by scythe 4y ago
In this case, you could probably just impose a severance if an offer is terminated before X days (say 40) on the job without employee malfeasance; the problem with banning revoking offers is that the downside is very large. If companies had
908.
by scythe 4y ago
>I just don't think it's fair to go on a whole spiel about how a "dopamine system" doesn't even exist Because it does not exist. The correct term is not "dopaminergic system". There is no system associa
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by scythe 4y ago
>And a simple dopamine reuptake inhibitor fixed everything for me. >As someone with severe ADHD whose life was significantly impacted by a disordered dopaminergic system. The second sentence does not follow from the first. The fact
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by scythe 4y ago
>the dopamine system If I had a nickel for every time someone made a reference to neurotransmitters as an unscientific rhetorical bludgeon, I could probably buy a house in Stinson Beach. There is no "dopamine system", certainly
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by scythe 4y ago
The problem with this approach is that it is impossible. There is no "general chemical analyzer" that can consistently detect the quantity of a substance in any sample. You may as well suggest that a wizard uses his magic wand t
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by scythe 4y ago
Induction isn't so bad. I'm not sure how they're getting away with the Law of Sines, though. The usual proof of LoS that I know is dependent on the existence of the circumcircle. But I don't know how to prove the existen
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by scythe 4y ago
>A smart-but-disconnected TV can meet all of those functional requirements One of them will. This thread is full of conflicting anecdotes: one user's smart TV turns on quickly and works like a dumb TV when it's not connected
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by scythe 4y ago
It involves defining a set of operators — like functors in CS, operators take one function and return another — which obey a modified form of the product rule for derivatives D[f*g] = g*Df + f*Dg. These operators are used to make the analyt
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by scythe 4y ago
Depending on your definition of "mainland", you can get even more remote in southern Louisiana on the peninsula south of Fourleague Bay, southeast of the Atchafalaya Delta. Google Maps shows it as around 26 miles from any road. Bu
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by scythe 4y ago
>Glib answer A Freudian slip, methinks.
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by scythe 4y ago
The problem is that it's just too tempting to write something like my_function(my_var, 3.6, "bzarflo", my_other_var, false); The string handling functions are part of the story, but the null-terminated char * is prod
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by scythe 4y ago
For reference, here's how we used to do things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataloochee_(Great_Smoky_Mount... >In the 1920s, the increase in tourism and the destructive effects of logging gave rise to a movem
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by scythe 4y ago
In the interest of keeping the recent magnetic materials breakthroughs in one subthread, here's the paper I've been excited about for months: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/advs.202
920.
by scythe 4y ago
I was curious about this, but it looks like the links to crazybob.org now 404. It seems to me like the trick would be to find a way to generate, in order, the numbers you can't print, then you just print the gaps between them.
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by scythe 4y ago
To some degree. But addiction describes a range of behavioral symptoms with a variety of durations and dynamics. The expected return of designing platforms to entertain 17-year-olds will decrease a little, but the expected return of designi
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by scythe 4y ago
>China has been infamous for decades for not even having reliable currency data, what on earth makes us think they're even collecting (let alone honestly sharing) reliable data on CO2, let alone HFCs and CFCs, beyond willful naïvety
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by scythe 4y ago
When I worked for MDPI (please lower your pitchforks), we had a guideline, IIRC, that the reviewers of a paper were supposed to not be collaborators with each other, in addition to the usual requirement that they not be collaborators with t
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by scythe 4y ago
It should be very possible in a decade or so to extend charging capacity to the boondocks. Just look at where we were ten years ago, versus today. In the meantime, if you can install even a slow 220V/12A charger in your garage, a PHEV
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by scythe 4y ago
"Majority" is an exaggeration. Tesla battery replacements cost around $13-20k while the cars themselves go for well over double that. https://www.jdpower.com/cars/shopping-guides/how-often-do-te... The b
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by scythe 4y ago
China had a brief nearly capitalist period with the Song Dynasty, building on growth during the Tang Dynasty, but the Song royal line, an Achilles heel of any monarchic empire, started to break down in the early 13th century, which contribu
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by scythe 4y ago
>In conclusion, this paper aims to demonstrate the first principal calculations of coupling a thermochemical carbon dioxide splitting cycle with a steel production facility for cost-effective steel decarbonisation. It's an interes
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by scythe 4y ago
If you personally own a media company, you are by definition bourgeoisie. But see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_cooperative#List_of_medi...
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by scythe 4y ago
I have always slightly suspected that Singapore keeps its laws tighter than they would otherwise prefer specifically to prevent half of Asia from trying to move there.
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by scythe 4y ago
Particularly relevant for this particular battery, because the authors seem to think it's impressive that they had 80% capacity retention after 50 cycles. No, I didn't forget a zero. That's 50, not 500 or 5000. It may be an i

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