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by shusaku 5y ago
My reading of the article is that scientists are puzzled by the the evidence for large amounts of liquid water, not just life. If you look back in the past and see ice, but also life, geothermal is relevant. But they see rivers and oceans,
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by shusaku 5y ago
You might enjoy this: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04160-4
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Cosmic Coincidences of Primordial-Black-Hole Dark Matter(journals.aps.org)
2 points by shusaku 5y ago|0 comments
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by shusaku 5y ago
So? That seems like exactly the population you’d want to study if your worry is that calorie counting will induce eating disorders.
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by shusaku 5y ago
> Emerging research has shown that informing patients about nocebo responses19,20 and providing a positive framing of potential AEs21-24 may be associated with reduced AE-related anxiety and nocebo responses. It’s an interesting discussi
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Tsunami Warning for Amami, Tokara(www3.nhk.or.jp)
2 points by shusaku 5y ago|0 comments
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by shusaku 5y ago
From the article > In their work, Fraternali and his colleagues tested a leading contender among dark matter alternatives, called MOND, for Modified Newtonian Dynamics, which involves tweaking Isaac Newton’s law of gravity. First propose
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by shusaku 5y ago
Isaac Arthur did a video speculating about Dark Matter Technologies: https://youtu.be/GHXG3xrIDLY . Perhaps you will enjoy it!
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by shusaku 5y ago
I don’t think the author is alone in keeping an older thinkpad running by upgrading its components, that’s part of why they’re such popular machines with tech people. I have to say though, his complaints about the newer machines doesn’t res
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by shusaku 5y ago
The paper seems to have found that this was manifest only in male surgeons operating on women. This it probably can’t be explained by women surgeons being more skilled, otherwise men treating men would also have worse results.
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Author admitted plagiarism. Supervisor asked for retraction. Publisher: “nah”(retractionwatch.com)
26 points by shusaku 5y ago|2 comments
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by shusaku 5y ago
It’s definitely worth remembering that just as polls can be misleading about sentiment, so can the voting of comments.
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Medieval Theories of Obligationes(plato.stanford.edu)
1 points by shusaku 5y ago|0 comments
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No, System of a Down Did Not Make a Zelda Song. But This Guy Did. (2012)(kotaku.com)
2 points by shusaku 5y ago|0 comments
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by shusaku 5y ago
Here in Japan, people I’ve talked to will say that decades ago around New Years, everything was closed for days. No super markets. No restaurants. Not even ATMs. The downside is it requires a lot of prep work pre-holiday (i.e. packing sandw
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by shusaku 5y ago
> This kind of strategy ignores second order effects. I think half the examples listed are used to teach people about second order effects. Yet the writer of the article seems to have taken them at face value…
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by shusaku 5y ago
> It is a period, from 400-800BC, when, for reasons not entirely clear, radiocarbon dating breaks down. That’s rather unsatisfying. Does anyone know some articles that summarize the current theories? Edit: https://en.m.wikipe
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by shusaku 5y ago
> Despite the high speeds, the Interstate Highway System is more than twice as safe per mile as almost any other type of road. I wonder how that compares to be speeding ticket issued per hour of driving. I always think of the classic pul
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by shusaku 5y ago
Sabine Hossenfelder explains: https://youtu.be/GatiekRziok
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by shusaku 5y ago
> This doesn’t have the same faux objectivity as This is the crux of the issue I suppose. If you don’t maintain this plausible deniability, you get accused of being biased when you report the actual truth.
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by shusaku 5y ago
The west wants to sell military equipment to Ukraine. It’s the same reason Taiwan being in danger is front page news. The cash cow of Afghanistan is gone.
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Smoothed U.S. Recession Probabilities (1 month later)
7 points by shusaku 5y ago|0 comments
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by shusaku 5y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29445715
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by shusaku 5y ago
Reuters is just reporting an event. Nobody goes to the front page of Reuters to see what stories are important. It’s aggregators like… hacker news… that are fanning the flames.
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by shusaku 5y ago
I swear I’ve read a hundred articles saying “here’s what we should’ve done to prevent this pandemic”. Let’s see if any lessons have been really learned; a new variant is practice for the next virus that comes on the scene. With the testing
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by shusaku 5y ago
Does anyone know an article which lists the actual mutations of this one? The Wikipedia variant article still doesn’t seem to have that info
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Buried in Volcanic Ash, Scenes from the Canary Islands(theatlantic.com)
5 points by shusaku 5y ago|0 comments
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by shusaku 5y ago
Thanks for answering for me, that’s spot on!
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by shusaku 5y ago
> Or perhaps there’s enough evidence, but it takes a long time to process it? But then how come the prediction markets are already 90% sure what decision they’ll make? Is this kind of a Grossman-Stiglitz Paradox? I guess the FDA should j
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by shusaku 5y ago
> Tumbling mobile-phone fees, driven by a government campaign against carriers, are pulling down the consumer-price index as a whole. I can confirm this, I switched to a low cost carrier last year and it’s saving me a boat load. I think

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