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by scythe 11mo ago
In the first case the carbon dioxide is already concentrated, and in the second it has to be extracted by processing (at least) 2500 tons of air for each ton of carbon dioxide obtained. There are easier cases for carbon capture, when CO2 ca
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by scythe 11mo ago
George Soros is 95. Whatever direct influence he ever had as an individual is gone. The OSF marches on but there's just no way he has more than perfunctory control over it.
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I think some definitively good things came out of "me too". Some people got caught for repeated cases of serious abuse. There were also cases where someone faced very public "accusations" that didn't amount to a hil
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by scythe 11mo ago
>I've heard it said in jest, but the most stable API in Linux is Win32. Sometimes the API stability front causes people to wonder if things would be better if FreeBSD had won the first free OS war in the 90s. But I think there'
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by scythe 11mo ago
A lot of the people who admire the caricatured midcentury economy are probably actually just nostalgic for the '90s. Case-Shiller was much lower, gas was cheap, college was still relatively affordable. The biggest economic complaints o
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by scythe 11mo ago
Aiming and beam restriction is not enough and cannot ever be enough to prevent bright headlights from blinding people. It only works when the road is flat. You introduce a hill or even a speed bump and suddenly the headlight angle is zero.
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by scythe 11mo ago
I found a recent study that claimed to offer experimental confirmation of a mechanism for cloud seeding to work: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1716995115 > Despite numerous experiments spannin
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by scythe 11mo ago
You can compare diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) from different years for the same exam; these correspond to the 75th percentile patient dose for a particular imaging study. It can be a little annoying to find older DRLs (I just tried). N
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by scythe 11mo ago
Polyethylene terephthalate is a little unique. Part of its popularity comes from recycling, because it is "easy" to break down. For other polymers like polystyrene or PVC it's not so easy. But any plastic is going to be harde
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by scythe 11mo ago
>I worry it's more than a medical photograph as it's continuous high sample rate video, but I'm not an expert. Would be curious to know. Typical fluoro skin entrance exposure rate to go through someone's hand is on th
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by scythe 11mo ago
>there’s not too much growing tissue there! On the contrary, I was told stories in school that old IR doctors used to lose the hair on their hands after using the fluoro for years. The fingernails are also radiosensitive. The main reason
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by scythe 11mo ago
We used to play Wordle in high school. Except it was called "the five-letter word game", and it was a competitive enterprise, in which several people would take turns guessing and the winner chose the next word.
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by scythe 1y ago
The other complication is the surprising contributions of various African countries. Ethiopia had supported the RSF until 2024, and Kenya hosted an RSF conference in Feb 2025. Haftar in Libya supported RSF before the war, but may have chang
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by scythe 1y ago
>The purpose of the model is to show that we can reproduce the survival rates we see in reality, even if there are no effective treatments. That's a great argument in the abstract, but it ignores the fact that there are effective
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The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs against information asymmetry(economist.com)
254 points by scythe 1y ago|193 comments
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Furries are more than 20 years old and Pastafarianism was invented in 2005.
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by scythe 1y ago
Part of the issue with vitamin supplements is that the bioavailability can be unpredictable. The actual amount absorbed can vary between 10% and 100% depending on the time of day, supplement formulation, what foods if any are taken together
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Review of "Stop the machines: The rise of anti-technology extremism"(jacobin.com)
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by scythe 1y ago
I submitted with the subheading instead of the title because I was concerned the title was too emotionally charged.
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Well, there are manganese-based contrast agents under development. Maybe we should give those a little more funding. Like Gd, Mn is toxic, but unlike Gd, Mn is naturally present in the body (and also in pineapples) which means that long-ter
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by scythe 1y ago
Pragmatism would be not worrying about solar rooftops and small-scale solar as an outcome at all. It's cheaper to build solar at large scale, for basically the same reasons associated with scaling up anything else. The primary reason t
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by scythe 1y ago
The definition is holistic: >As shown in Figure S1, we began with a list of 588 public Montessori schools in the United States supplied by the National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector >[procedural stuff, possibly introducin
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by scythe 1y ago
These are all neuroimaging studies. It's generally much less provocative to argue that a behavioral phenomenon has a physical substrate in the brain -- in fact, simple mind-body physicalism requires it -- what is an audacious and les
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by scythe 1y ago
>If it’s not ideology, a better explanation has not presented itself. It can’t be that he just doesn’t understand cross-sectional studies. He can’t be that naive. There were just as many cross-sectional studies that disagreed with his th
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by scythe 1y ago
>long battery warranties. My 2009 Prius is still running at 231k, for reference.
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by scythe 1y ago
> Alternative for Microsoft Office: LibreOffice, This would seem to require a little elaboration. LibreOffice Calc is supposed to be decent, but I practically never hear about it being used in the professional contexts where Excel typica
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I think this accidentally raises an interesting side-point. It's not very easy to define art. It's much easier to define free software. But I am not much closer to understanding how to solve the question "who is writing free
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A somewhat unfair characterization of the historical norm. Before the Italian Renaissance, history was marked by periods of growth interleaved with periods of decline, in many cases because a societal crisis caused a destructive regime to t
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by scythe 1y ago
I think if there's a major constitutional right to be invoked here, it's the Eighth Amendment "excessive bail shall not be required". Two million dollars?! For a 61-year-old posting on Facebook? What kind of risk does he
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Palantir's UK boss rules out contract bids for digital ID – "undemocratic"(thenational.scot)
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