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by timr 1y ago
It's "completely incorrect" only if you're being pedantic. It's "partially correct" if you're talking casually to a group of regular people. It's "good enough" if you're talking to
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Your link literally says pressure differential is the reason, and that curvature matters: > “What actually causes lift is introducing a shape into the airflow, which curves the streamlines and introduces pressure changes – lower pressu
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> Alot of smaller M&A in tech space was bad, it just was not Figma buying Adobe bad. Yeah, you're gonna have to defend that assertion. > I think startups exiting via M&A is part of the problem. It creates perverse incent
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> Scrutiny scaled with the size of the buyer. Maybe, but it doesn't take a lot of scrutiny to scare the crap out of you if you're a major player in some niche industry with a few hundred million in ARR. Which is most public com
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> Problem is, by the time she got into power, everyone had consolidated so icing the transaction market was pretty much only outcome. That's the talking point, but it doesn't survive even 30 seconds of thought. Yes, the biggest
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I disagree. A lot of smaller acquisitions went away during the Khan reign, and from what I was hearing it wasn’t coincidental. Basically the random and aggressive nature of it was having a chilling effect on all M&A. Why would you go th
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yep. So perhaps don’t block every potential transaction on flimsy pretense? Icing the transaction market seems like a great way to scare off potential competing acquirers in the name of social engineering. I don’t know. All I know is that L
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> We have a capitalist economy, not a capitalist society. Last time I checked, "society" is a concept defined entirely by the behaviors and preferences of the people within it. You may want society not to be capitalist, but t
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> I suspect most people who look at international media and think it's better are using rose-tinted glasses....They're differently biased, but you can't escape consuming media critically. I went out of my way to head off t
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> When you actually ask them, they often do support paying for these things. Great! It isn't a problem, then. Again, capitalism is funny that way.
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> Somewhat ironically a lot of the extreme cuts (this included) only serve to reinforce the status of major blue state metros as more desirable, since they have more resources available to fill the gaps left by federal austerity. If the
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I don't know about your suggested site, but I use foreign news for this. I have switched to "consuming news" [0] almost entirely from a variety of English-language foreign services. All national media services have their own
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It wasn't a "jab". There's no other way to say it -- technophiles fall into this trap constantly.
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I don't mean it as an attack on GP, but no, I don't agree that this is pedantic. This happens constantly when science is popularized -- people read one article and leap to the conclusion that a problem has been revolutionized&#x2F
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On the contrary, this is such a common misunderstanding that it practically defines the meme of pop science. Proposal of a hypothesis is not answering. Even if, decades from now and after many additional studies, scientific consensus settle
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> So the ancient mystery of why we need sleep might have just been answered. No, science doesn't work that way. The ancient mystery of why we need sleep has a new theory [1]. [1] I am assuming it is new. It might actually be old.
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No worries -- the way they present it is confusing, particularly if you're watching the NHK World stream, which layers poorly translated English versions on top of the Japanese.
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No. That's the predictions. Biggest wave so far has been 60cm (EDIT: as of 6am UTC it's 1m30cm, but that's still relatively small. It came up almost exactly to the top of the pier in Kuji.)
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That makes sense, though. To do otherwise would be pretty dumb for a tsunami situation. But yeah, the handheld telephoto zoom from a safe location is definitely on the Japanese Disaster TV bingo card. That said, I appreciate that they just
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My favorite is the NHK reporters standing in the middle of absolutely nowhere with their NHK helmets. No matter what the event, there is a reporter wearing a helmet.
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For perspective, the tsunami that topped the seawall at Fukushima Dai-ichi had a peak height of ~14m. The seawall was 5.7m.
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> Many of the rules are similar, because they are generally commonsense rules. Australia has a few extra ones....You have to get the pool fence reinspected and recertified every 3 years (this may differ state to state). Yeah, this kind o
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Statins often have the side effect of raising blood sugar. So there’s a non-trivial tradeoff for a population that is usually on the edge of metabolic disease.
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Those laws sound similarly onerous -- though not identical -- to what we have in many US states. A depth of 300mm is...well, let's just say that's aggressive (11")...but we also have strict rules about the fencing that goes w
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No, there are scaffoldings everywhere in NYC because of a law that was passed in response to a single [1] death from a falling brick. [1] there might have been two, but they were separated by years, if not decades. It wasn't a common o
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> The rule should be any standing water feature below 3' (1m) above grade should be enclosed by a fence to a height of 4' (1.3m) above grade if kids are anticipated to occupy the space. Children drowning is tragic, but this is
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Before tackling that, a non-profit should fund well-designed randomized controlled trials in areas where none exist. Which is most of them. Commit to funding and publishing the trial, regardless of outcome, once a cross-disciplinary panel
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> It's not a bad paper, but it's also turning into a fantastic illustration of how much thirst there is out there for anything that shows that AI productivity doesn't work. Maybe. I think it's a fantastic illustration
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> aerobic sport forums are replete with examples of people who were considered extremely fit, right up until the moment they were in an ambulance due to an undetected issue that could have been anticipated with a scan. The primary lesson
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Yeah, I get it. I read the book. I think his argument is wrong. The point I am making is that for the “worried well” (aka “longevity enthusiasts”) you aren’t going to do anything differently based on the result. It's largely a waste of

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