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by swores 3y ago
> This finding keeps coming up in social science research: being connected to people seems to increase longevity. Has a causal relationship in that direction actually been shown in research, or just correlation? Because it seems very l
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by swores 3y ago
I was asking a question on a subject that seems interesting in response to you seeming to think neurons were relevant to the topic of fungi not having consciousness, you're the only one being argumentative. I wasn't calling you an
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by swores 3y ago
I think that's their point, that if the jobs being taken by Brits are ones without anyone in the US able/willing to fill the position then the headline of "stealing jobs" is a bad one.
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by swores 3y ago
Guess that depends on your location - in the 3 European countries I've lived in, Deliveroo and Uber drivers/riders almost universally had insulated cuboid bags (usually with one of the companies' branding on) in their car or
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by swores 3y ago
You're talking about how to value the boat owner making an insurance claim (if their policy does indeed match your assumption), whereas I was talking about (and the court filing is about) a different equation which calculates what the
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by swores 3y ago
Other than hearing and dismissing a few people online suggesting this incident was an act of terrorism, I hadn't really thought further about it until your comment which made me go "oh... yeah, that does sound like it might be ext
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by swores 3y ago
To be clear, I fully believe the official statements that this crash was accidental - putting that up front to avoid seeming like I believe any of the nonsense conspiracy theories that came out about the accident. But if you were someone l
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by swores 3y ago
TLDR of the logic behind that sum for anyone else who wondered like I did: They claim the ship's value before the crash as $90M, and that estimated costs for salvage and repairs to the ship are $19.5M and $28M respectively, leaving the
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by swores 3y ago
At least in the UK this is the default behaviour from Deliveroo, standard delivery does cost money but might get your driver/biker go to multiple other houses on their way to you, or pay extra to get it direct. It made me stop using th
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by swores 3y ago
Thanks again :)
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by swores 3y ago
Any idea to what extent the problems can or can't be solved by money vs. a limit on maximum quality of radar before needing to break the laws of physics to improve further? E.g. are the US military saying "yep those are the issues
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by swores 3y ago
Thanks! I wouldn't have guessed the sizes were so large for radar, and just assumed that in current era radar would have progressed to the point of even being able to not send pings at the rotating blades in sync with their rotations (
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by swores 3y ago
Any chance you can explain to this idiot (me) the flaw in my thinking? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903084
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by swores 3y ago
My (probably ignorant) thinking was that if there weren't propellers, just stalks, they could be arranged in a pattern that radar setups at multiple locations could see through gaps and between them have no dark spaces caused by the to
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by swores 3y ago
I'm not at all knowledgable about this, but: is it feasible (and if so, hard?) or impossible to have some sort of live reporting from the turbines about the speed/position of their blades that connects to the radar system allowing
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by swores 3y ago
I'm no expert on weaponry but isn't there a long history of countries inventing weapons that other countries assumed weren't possible until they saw their use?
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by swores 3y ago
Hard to guess if that means the reporting is based on propaganda to make Russia look bad vs. US agencies not wanting to admit to the world that Russia has a weapon they can't yet protect against. Both seem equally plausible to me.
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by swores 3y ago
Fungi communicate using chemical and/or bioelectric signals underground, seemingly sometimes even understanding what nutritions non-fungus plants need and supplying them with those. How do you know that's so different to our neuro
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by swores 3y ago
Not sure that's helpful advice... as looking back confirms that previous inventors a) didn't have access to today's tech and b) did use the most modern tech of their era, so that's a point on each side of the argument. W
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by swores 3y ago
> That's probably assault if doesn't have a profit angle. I'm pretty sure my offering to pay them any time they do it could make it profitable but not change the legality...
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by swores 3y ago
What about for remembering lost loved ones? There are dead people I would love to hear talk again, even if I know it's not their personality talking just their voice (and who knows, maybe with LLM training on a single person it could e
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by swores 3y ago
I'm not convinced you're correct in your belief that most people are like you in this respect. But I don't have evidence to disprove you either.
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by swores 3y ago
My money is them being 99% scammers who don't have whatever they claim to sell and are just looking for idiots to send some money - and as with intentionally using spelling mistakes in scam mass-sent emails are intentionally used to he
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by swores 3y ago
> I have three clocks within view right now as I type this, one on an answer 'phone, and they are all digital readouts. None of them has an analogue option. It is at least simple to have an analogue clock face on iPhones, albeit w
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by swores 3y ago
I can't find free access to the full paper, but here's the abstract (afraid I'm not knowledgeable enough to add to or explain any of it): " The accumulation of metabolic waste is a leading cause of numerous neurological
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by swores 3y ago
Apple settling for a significant amount of money on the question of whether CEO Tim Cook mislead investors about upcoming expectations for iPhone sales only feels dull from a tech point of view, but HN is a site for anything people find int
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by swores 3y ago
No they clearly wouldn't be right. Even if we accept as fact the idea that both those things have had negative effects on society and on us, quite clearly huge numbers of people DO want TVs and smartphones, even if those things aren&#x
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by swores 3y ago
Assuming you aren't recommending always pushing to the red line before shifting up a gear, what makes you so confident that my car must have a higher ideal shift point than ~2000rpm, is there some rule of physics that prevents engines
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by swores 3y ago
> " Upshifting at 2k RPM while accelerating is a fast way towards destroying the engine " My professional driving instructor a few years ago, my car's manual and dashboard recommendations, and my two friends who work in (U
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by swores 3y ago
In all 4 manual cars I've driven (all sold in UK, so maybe different to rest of Europe?) they show an arrow and the number of the gear you should change to. Nothing on the dashboard about current gear (except in the automatic I've

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