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by themgt 5y ago
This seems to explain the technique they're using to study this: Ancestral recombination graph (ARG) inference (2) is a powerful starting point for such an analysis. An ARG can be conceptualized as a series of trees, mapped to individ
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by themgt 5y ago
If Starship works, it's going to be almost a state-change moment in the space industry. They aren't just building a single test vehicle for a demo mission, they're building factories churning out engines, rockets, GSE, buildi
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by themgt 5y ago
I've quoted it before but I will again just because I hate superdeterminism so much: First, the logical flow: Bell’s theorem proves that no local, realistic theory can reproduce the predictions of quantum mechanics. It does so by cons
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by themgt 5y ago
Falcon 1 put a payload into orbit though, so it's really not the same. Falcon 9's first flight was less than 2 years after Falcon 1 made it to orbit. For myriad reasons Blue can't just "scale up quickly" in any mean
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by themgt 5y ago
It's not even just that it's cheaper to launch, but the full reusability and planned ability to refuel in orbit really make it a game-changer. A fully fueled Starship in LEO can take a huge payload to the Moon, Mars, etc and ideal
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by themgt 5y ago
This only holds true if you are ok with areas with high birth rates and low consumption remaining poor and refusing to let them migrate to the rest of the world, which seems a hugely unlikely scenario in practice. It seems most likely that
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Increasingly, the ULA-Blue Origin marriage is an unhappy one(arstechnica.com)
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FIRE: 13 Important points in the campus and K-12 ‘critical race theory’ debate(thefire.org)
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by themgt 5y ago
I don't own a gun nor consider myself much of a "2A advocate", but I do think the complexity of the problem is under-appreciated. First off, we had decades of declining gun violence while total guns in circulation were dramat
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by themgt 5y ago
There's an ongoing and growing debate regarding the ethics of uterus transplantation ("UTx") and specifically male UTx, and it's hard not to read this study in that light - that the eventual goal of this research is its
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Here Be Humans(razib.substack.com)
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by themgt 5y ago
The level of denial by many here of China's accomplishments here is just laughable. They're only the second country to ever land a working rover on Mars. They've right now got astronauts on their brand new space station whi
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by themgt 5y ago
There's a pretty good response to this study here: https://deniseminger.com/2010/09/08/brand-spankin-new-study-... In short, based on questionable dataset, "low carb" wasn't really low car
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by themgt 5y ago
Yeah I see threads of this sort of argument coming from many different angles. I just ran across this paper[1] via a youtube review[2] which was mainly focused on diet/nutrition and metabolism, but again is looking at mitochondria and
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by themgt 5y ago
You'd have to be an absolute git to give your software project a funny/offensive name like that!
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by themgt 5y ago
From a quick skim it looks like the key is base64 encoded into the URL in terminal_id param, so presumably you just share the URL and the collaborator stays on the URL with the key? If the key is ephemeral/regenerated for each session
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by themgt 5y ago
Seems heavily over-hyped. Video I found was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kUI4YtG0xY Which links back to: https://www.sstl.co.uk/what-we-do/lunar-mission-services Looks like this is a better articl
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by themgt 5y ago
This case has been so poorly reported by the mainstream media. Just going to quote a couple other sources about the case and Ledell Lee. AK Supreme Court[1]: At approximately 10:50 a.m. on the morning of the murder, Katherine Williams, the
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory(donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com)
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by themgt 5y ago
They should name this proposal "quantum sneakernet". It's pretty weird to imagine aliens light years away could have a constellation of quantum networked telescopes and be taking Google Maps-resolution photos of Earth.
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Nicholas Wade: Origin of Covid – Following the Clues(nicholaswade.medium.com)
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Why politically guided science is bad(noahpinion.substack.com)
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by themgt 6y ago
"Placed on the internet" is imprecise but my interpretation would be "posted in public on the internet/web". If Snapchat is equivalent to "placed on the internet" presumably so would be simply saying somet
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by themgt 6y ago
You posted the link to USA Today which cites and links multiple times to the exact same FBI Uniform Crime Reporting statistics, which are the USA's canonical summary of national crime data. I am flagging this because you're a
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by themgt 6y ago
These chimeras pave the way for more accurate models of human biology and disease The goal, the team says, is to make better models for studying biological development, evolution, disease progression and treatments. "As we are unabl
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by themgt 6y ago
Worth noting orbital refueling may not actually be that difficult, it was strongly rumored that Senate Launch System backers put the kibosh on refueling because it would jeopardize the SLS jobs program if it worked: "We had released
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by themgt 6y ago
In my opinion the way to think about SuperHeavy+Starship is a scaled up stainless steel Falcon 9. Currently Falcon 9's first stage booster (usually) lands and is quickly/cheaply refurbished/reused, while the second stage is c
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by themgt 6y ago
This is really huge news. Starship has in about 18 months gone from a Elon standing next to a steel grain silo duct-taped into the shape of a rocket, to all the eggs in NASA's moon basket. The thing I kept thinking - and I have to beli
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by themgt 6y ago
Google intentionally crippling their own free, market-dominant browser in a way that just-so-happens to make ad-blocking difficult honestly reminds me of the Microsoft anti-trust case back in the late 90s. Google is an ad company doing embr
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by themgt 6y ago
If you were a devout Muslim baker and a Christian came in and ordered a hand-crafted cake with the message "Jesus is Lord and the one true king", you think you would be legally compelled to create it for them?

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