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by scythe 8mo ago
Stylometry is okay if you're trying to deanonymize a large enough sample text. A reddit account would be doable. But individual 4chan posts? You barely have enough content within the text limit.
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For professional applications there are sulfur plasma lamps which have a continuous spectrum at high efficiency. Unfortunately they aren't economical below about 1000 watts which is impractical for many applications. The technology bas
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A more primitive spindle wheel was invented in the Warring States period in China: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/early-china/article/...
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I think he means that electric handheld lawn equipment should be much quieter than gas-fired lawn equipment which is an infamous nuisance
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Step one might be to stop calling it the loneliness epidemic. Loneliness is an emotion, isolation is a condition, and we might even expect that if people felt lonely more often they would try harder to be social and actually be less isola
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by scythe 9mo ago
If you're buying individual bottles, you're paying for the refrigerator. Otherwise you buy boxes and it's still very cheap. Spindrift is $6.49 for an eight-pack and LaCroix is cheaper. I haven't bought Coke in a long tim
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by scythe 9mo ago
Far UVC is carcinogenic when it reaches living tissue. However, it has a very short mean free path so it doesn't, generally, reach the growing layer of skin. It's less obvious whether exposed mucus membranes (lips, nose, tongue) o
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by scythe 9mo ago
I think this is a major unforced error by the USG, of course we have seen plenty of those of late. There may be Israeli, American or other intelligence agencies present. But history has shown that spies can't just foment a revolution o
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by scythe 9mo ago
Supersonic is more interesting over the Pacific than the Atlantic. An uncomfortable 7-hour flight becoming a less uncomfortable 4-hour flight isn't really news. A miserable 14-hour flight becoming a tolerable 8-hour flight is, both for
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by scythe 9mo ago
There's no mention of the underlying cell chemistry on the landing page or under the "battery" tab, and only three people listed under the "About Us" of which the only one who sounds remotely technical is Ville Piip
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by scythe 9mo ago
I think that "good jobs" is a red herring for manufacturing jobs. The important question is whether they have positive externalities. According to one argument (which I'm reconstructing), working one manufacturing job improve
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NY Fed cash transfers to banks increase dramatically in Q4 2025(dcreport.org)
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Benzene is far more degradable than DDT. In fact the primary reason benzene causes cancer is because the human liver can metabolize it, producing the reactive carcinogen oxepin. It doesn't always degrade fast enough to prevent toxici
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by scythe 10mo ago
The main issue with the euro has been the stinginess of the ECB. The Fed always makes plenty of dollars available but during the Great Recession this was not the case in Europe. This is a problem for euro-denominated debt. (It is also a pro
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by scythe 10mo ago
The British pound was displaced by the US dollar. Currently, the US dollar just doesn't have a proper rival. The euro, yuan and rupee are considered politically suspect (each for its own unique reasons); the pound and yen have too smal
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by scythe 10mo ago
Gold's resistance to oxidation is pretty unique and valuable. Every metal with similar properties is also expensive — palladium is the most common and its price hovers around several hundred dollars per ounce despite being much less po
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by scythe 10mo ago
An advantage of seximal is that it takes a lot less time to memorize the times table: there are only ten "nontrivial" entries, whereas in base ten you have 36.
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by scythe 10mo ago
>An average level of 30.7 ng/mL generally means those people must have consumed marijuana at some time close to driving. Averages do not work that way! The average of 48, 48, 48, 3 and 3 is 30. The study findings remain interesting
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by scythe 10mo ago
I think there are basically two kinds of micromanagement that need to be distinguished. The first one is encouraging your child to do something which you think has direct benefits, like learning to swim, which is good exercise and prevent
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Sanctions, including an attempted blockade [1] of oil exports, imposed by the British Empire, still in existence at the time, in response to a dispute over the ownership of Iranian oil fields, which were a primary factor in the fall of Mo
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by scythe 10mo ago
>The deal with BMW was cancelled in June 2024 because of Northvolt not being able to deliver on time. [Wikipedia] Certainly this is some kind of failure. But this is Hacker News. Surely we can appreciate that you can't just blame th
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by scythe 10mo ago
>So you want to create a completely new industry. From the ground. With all existing experts having retired. Demanding high quality, no-fault tolerance production. Dependent on resources not found in Europe. You could say most of the sam
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Congestion leads to more use of the brakes, which can have nonlinear effects. Also, I thought tire particles tend to be larger.
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>a US-based Palestinian activist claimed [...] >Footage shared by Alkhatib on social media I think there's a reason we're not hearing about this from a more reputable news outlet.
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by scythe 10mo ago
>This seems to be trying to say that we can't make aluminum without copper, but that seems nonsensical. The far better argument is that, if it were simple to replace copper with aluminum, this would create a ceiling on the price of
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by scythe 10mo ago
Depends on the current fuel-to-payload ratio of the diesel ships. If it's 3% and batteries would push it to 10%, it's not a huge problem. But if it's 15% and batteries would push it to 50% you're losing a lot of capacity
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My last two televisions both came from the "Sceptre" line at Walmart which seemed to be the last holdout of non-smart TVs. I don't know if they're still holding the line; the model I checked just now says it has "V-
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Is this still accurate? Wikipedia says that Newsweek was acquired by IBT Media (a front for a religious movement) in 2013 but returned to independent ownership under Dev Pragad and Jonathan Davis in 2018 following a criminal investigation i
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by scythe 10mo ago
Peanut allergies might be caused by poor advice in some cases. There was a period where people believed that babies should be protected from any food allergens, in case they were allergic. Later research suggested that early exposure to all
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by scythe 10mo ago
The most easily identified "autism genes" (eg "fragile X") tend to lead to severe variants of the condition, which probably don't benefit anyone. We may eventually have a "Gattaca problem" but this isn&#x2

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