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It's not just the cost of building. There's huge NIMBY opposition to the construction of transmission lines: https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-government-electricity-py... Of course, the same arguments kille
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Beat me to it. UK must construct additional pylons. Unfortunately this too is controversial: https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-government-electricity-py...
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The paper mentions that finasteride passes through the blood-brain barrier and affects the conversion of progesterone to allopregnanolone, where low levels of allopregnanolone are associated with depression. Together with the correlational
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CRP and its subtypes have been known since 1930 as markers of acute inflammation such as following disease or injury. The measurement of chronic systemic inflammation is more difficult, because it involves lower levels of the biomarkers. So
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This comment prompted me to go look at the various spreadsheet software available, since I was only familiar with the usual Excel / GS / Libre. There is also GNOME's Gnumeric, KDE's Calligra, Apple's Numbers, an onl
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> The ACC is now recommending that everyone measure inflammation (specifically, hs-CRP) Burying the lede a little, here. The ACC has decided on a standard way to measure inflammation, which decades ago was a centerpiece of some very wo
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It's just another case of this generally awful trend. Here's the thing about the boiling frog: it's not true. Slowly heating a frog will not make it die peacefully. It still reacts when the temperature gets too high. An awful
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There's more than one way to accomplish the goals of protectionists, and the different options are usually not created equal. Some economic policies have worse side effects than others to accomplish similar tasks. In this case, I think
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I'm moderately amused that as an interventional radiologist, you didn't bother to mention that IRs do actual procedures and don't just WFH. When I was doing my DxMP residency there was a joke among the radiology residents tha
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It seems possible that "dragon" might be a corruption of "daemon"? Under this assumption, it isn't too hard to figure that "pole" might actually mean "poll". Perhaps when the CS jargon was initia
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The sixteenth notes in "Crazy Train"[1] are nominally 552 per minute, or 9.2 Hz. Moving a knife at 10 Hz is probably very difficult. I would expect 2-3 Hz is a normal pace for a skilled knife user and 4-5 Hz is showing off. 1: ht
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Hydrogen production by electrolysis is relatively efficient, with 80% efficiency regularly achieved by modern electrolyzers. It's the reverse reaction that causes problems; 60% is very good for a fuel cell. So you can avoid the issue i
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For practical purposes, the problem with Wayland from the WM-dev's PoV is that you're either implementing a huge project or you're depending on wlroots, and wlroots still isn't where it would need to be for implementing
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The appropriate countermeasure is to allow upgrading land that is sufficiently near an urban area if it will be used to build above a certain density, e.g. 2000 homes per square kilometer. That's already denser than most urban areas in
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The "good" news is that they will only own the US operations, with the ROTW continuing to be operated by ByteDance. So if they diverge too far from the original product we can expect to see a discussion about life behind the Great
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>Politician can not face consequences when they discuss something illegal. Politicians can't face consequences from the legal system when they discuss something illegal. They can, and should, face consequences from the voters.
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>Did this giant dike work? Did the 143 miles of dikes work? Let’s see what Wikipedia says: >>The enlarged water control structures around Lake Okeechobee and in the Everglades did not prevent either frequent floods or dry spells in
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>I think the better solution would be a two-stage handle that initially sends an electrical signal and then engages the mechanical latch if you continue pulling. I'm pretty sure my 2009 Prius has this feature; it will unlock the doo
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Gabby Giffords's shooting was tragic. But thankfully it was an isolated incident. In the past year-or-so we have seen two assassination attempts on Donald Trump, the assassination of the CEO of an insurance company, the assassination o
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It's not that simple: https://archive.ph/wyFT0 >This year the federal government reimbursed most schools between 77 cents and $4.58 per lunch meal >[...] >“You’re wasting white milk and money,” wrote Ben, who
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>This is exactly what would have also happened if the water companies were not privatized The post office in the United States is not privatized and yet has been able to set prices in a way that sustains the business for centuries. You c
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I wonder if you can blame the climate and geography as some do in America. Bucharest is hot and sweaty in the summer (avg high 30 C, avg 68% rel H2O) and cold and snowy in the winter. The city lies on a flat plain, far from the mountains or
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>Transportation? California approved high-speed rail in 2008 to link LA and San Francisco for $33 billion. Costs ballooned; there’s still no service. The U.K. canceled HS2’s northern leg after years of overruns. Berlin’s new airport open
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Sorry, that comparison to heat pumps wasn't meant to imply that heat pumps would be used in this system. Rather, the focus was on the pipes that transfer heat from the system to the ground and back. That component remains basically the
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>the pump broke Saved you a click. Fort Garland sits just below Blanca Peak, the highest in the Sangre de Cristo, which receives a ton of precipitation. So what's the problem? The pump broke. There are water issues in the San Luis V
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There's not enough comparison with the conventional ground-source heat pump here. There's not enough modeling of the expected system dynamics. I don't have a physics argument against it (right now at least) but I think that t
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Let S = {S_i} be any set of cubes that covers a d-sphere. Choose a point in a cube and an integer i in [0, |S|). Now you have a random point in S. With a judicious choice of S you obtain a uniformly random point in the unit sphere with high
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>The same electrical potential may still be present in the clouds I wouldn't jump to this lemma so quickly. The paper mentions the density of aerosols. Sulfur oxides promote condensation by forming low-volatility compounds like H2SO
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That's not really the point. You can always think of another example. I was talking about the Online Safety Act.
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The goal of the policy is supported by the voters. The polls used to measure this are shifty at best about the implementation details. Who doesn't want to prevent kids from looking at pornography? But plenty of things are popular if yo

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