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by scythe 6mo ago
The unknown subject is a valid construction in language. It is not necessary to be able to answer "who's they?". It is semantically equivalent to saying "I knew the rules would be changed." There are also perfectl
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by scythe 7mo ago
This also distorts the shoplifting statistics. If two stores have equal rates of shoplifting but one has boxes and the other doesn't, they are not at equal risk. The one with boxes is at more risk. Flat shoplifting rates while boxes pr
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by scythe 7mo ago
The website talks about making cement, but only describes making concrete. Making concrete involves mixing cement and fillers with water under controlled conditions. Making cement involves heating calcium carbonates and oxides with silicon
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by scythe 7mo ago
Certainly, building new housing works well at a policy level. But calling for new housing doesn't seem to work at a political level. We've been fighting this fight ever since the financial crisis and every election cycle brings us
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by scythe 7mo ago
Another big surprise is Mexico. It seems like every day there's another gory story about a bunch of people disappearing or getting shot in a gang war. But they're the second-highest ranked in North America at #12, behind only Cost
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by scythe 7mo ago
I associate it with cool summers which are rare in the US. The rain and dark won't be everyone's cup of tea, but other places with similarly cool summers either have very harsh winters or rhyme with "Nabisco".
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by scythe 7mo ago
I have been thinking that this is a reason why the megacities are winning. In the largest cities, a couple can cohabitate and both find jobs. In smaller cities, you have to get lucky, and if one partner's job falls through (which may b
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by scythe 7mo ago
Funny to read this as a consultant. My job is an hour away from my job.
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by scythe 7mo ago
Yeah, I never understood what Beyond's core innovation was. Impossible had that whole synthetic heme thing going on. Beyond seemed almost like opportunistic mimicry. But Impossible turned out to be pretty expensive IIRC.
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by scythe 7mo ago
The key difference between the old vegans and the new vegans is hiding in plain sight. It's the Internet. It used to be that vegans went to vegan restaurants and had their own particular tradition of vegan cookery. People didn't j
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by scythe 7mo ago
> We are going to do a terrible thing to you — we are going to deprive you of an enemy. – Georgi Arbatov, Soviet political scientist, 1988
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by scythe 7mo ago
I think the market is pretty good at situations like that.
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by scythe 7mo ago
For one thing, it's fairly uncommon for children to purchase operating systems. As long as there is one major operating system with age verification, parents (or teachers) who want software restrictions on their children can simply pro
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by scythe 7mo ago
https://archive.is/dA09D >The attacks, seen in videos circulating on social media and verified by The New York Times, appeared to be the first on Iran’s energy infrastructure since the United States and Israel launched s
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by scythe 7mo ago
Yes, the radiation dose under the conventional metric (energy divided by mass) is the same, but the effects on biological systems change. I included a little speculation on the chemistry in my response to a sibling comment.
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by scythe 7mo ago
Yeah that's the conventional dose rate effect, not the FLASH effect. The FLASH effect happens on timescales so short that ordinary considerations like the cell cycle or DNA repair mechanisms are inherently ruled out. Instead it might h
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by scythe 7mo ago
Hey, FLASH finally hit Hacker News! I remember my professors talking about this in graduate school. It's a fairly well-established effect: the tumor selectivity of radiation is much better at ultra-high dose rates. It is still unclear
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Trump says U.S. will cut all trade with Spain(detroitnews.com)
20 points by scythe 7mo ago|5 comments
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by scythe 8mo ago
Thankfully, this is a situation we don't need to speculate about without evidence. Spain is on de facto permanent DST, serving as a natural experiment. I bet the results support you.
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by scythe 8mo ago
Have to wonder if yogurt counts, since I've had that for breakfast many more times than just milk or a latte
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by scythe 8mo ago
It's crazy to me that we want to force age verification on every service across the Internet before we ban phones in school. I could understand being in favor of both, or neither, but implementing the policy that impacts everybody&#x27
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by scythe 8mo ago
The argument about luminance ranges is wrong. I measure the brightness of monitors regularly as part of my job, and typical maximum luminance values are in the range of 100-500 lux. That puts you right in the steep range of the visual respo
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by scythe 8mo ago
It's a propaganda maneuver. And it's obviously just as critical of China as it is of Europe. The State Department's public voices may be immersed in the culture war but there are probably a few cooler heads left who have lear
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by scythe 8mo ago
>Adding to this: Even back when I was in college (not that long ago) it became known that registering as having ADHD qualified you for extra time on exams. In sixth grade I was frustrated focusing on exams because I'm easily irritat
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Massive Precut Stone(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by scythe 8mo ago|0 comments
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by scythe 8mo ago
Possibly the solution would be to have some kind of soundproofing backing material on the converse side of the drywall panels. Including this could be required by regulation which would be easier to enforce than some kind of abstract acoust
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by scythe 8mo ago
The author is fairly clear about it to me: >One of the biggest mistakes I see artists make is painting things that don't resonate with people. Once you have an aesthetic that works, the market rewards you for exploring adjacent aest
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by scythe 8mo ago
There's a related idea in mathematics, the proof that the real numbers are a vector space over the rational numbers. If you scramble the basis vectors, you obtain an isomorphic vector space, but it is effectively a "permutation&qu
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by scythe 8mo ago
Tracking device might be the wrong thing to focus on. The US has other ways of messing with foreigners who depend on services provided by US companies, like suddenly cutting off those services in the case of ICC judges.
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Electric hydrofoils could remake urban transport(economist.com)
6 points by scythe 8mo ago|0 comments

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