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by topaz0 5y ago
Markus Deserno is a fantastic scientist in my field, and always gives the best talk at the conference.
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by topaz0 5y ago
Sure. But the comment you responded to was about the observational study that the author did, not about the research. The question is about what portion of the observed emissions come from cooking per se, as opposed to the gas that is used
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by topaz0 5y ago
You might want to take a minute to read the article itself. The author measures NO2 levels in their house with the equipment (stove, furnace, etc) that they have and the meals that they cook (or don't, e.g. when getting takeout). They
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by topaz0 5y ago
The incentives of capitalism lead to this, even if Adam Smith didn't discuss it.
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by topaz0 5y ago
It's meaningless if nothing is better about how you're doing it. Presumably in this case the thing they wanted to improve was the amount of sample you need to use, not the false positive/negative rates.
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by topaz0 5y ago
I'm all for being cynical about the devotion of employers to their employees, but I think it's reasonable to expect a good chunk of their savings on health care costs will be shifted to other kinds of compensation. Of course, the
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by topaz0 5y ago
I remember that languagelog post. Some great critique in there.
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by topaz0 5y ago
I think "reverse engineering" in the gp was just an ill-considered choice of word. What they are describing doesn't really have anything to do with reverse engineering -- it's just using the devices in a way that will no
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by topaz0 5y ago
The plot you share is exactly the context I am asking for. It looks like "mostly recovered back to the trendline" is technically true, but it's still measurably below that trendline. And my point is that, even if it was fully
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by topaz0 5y ago
One pet peeve of mine in all of this inflation talk is that all of the comparisons are to a year ago, i.e. to a very unusual year. I'd much rather see the annualized increases from two years ago. Better yet, show both numbers so we can
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by topaz0 5y ago
In my scheme that move is just two key combos away, which seems fine to me, especially since it is rarely what I want. You could make it one key combo if you want, too, in a script if not in a single line.
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by topaz0 5y ago
You can absolutely do this in i3 or sway. There aren't default keybindings for doing it, but it is easy to set up your own. I set $mod+equals to 'move workspace to output up' in i3 (or something like that -- I'm not on t
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by topaz0 5y ago
You are mistaken. It considers that in the part about "how many times the software would need to run to break even".
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by topaz0 5y ago
I think the complaints here have to do with poor management of channels, not their existence per se. In the discord I have with some friends (~60 members, with about 20 making 90% of posts), a lot of the channels arose because a handful of
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by topaz0 5y ago
This may be true in some places, but my undergraduate physics education spent a lot of time on standard Gibbs-style vector calculus. Taylor Classical Mechanics and Griffiths Electrodynamics especially depend on them. Maybe there is a case t
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by topaz0 5y ago
I guess it should be Alphabet in there instead of google, so it's like AMANAM
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by topaz0 5y ago
Will we start talking about MAANG now?
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by topaz0 5y ago
Seconding this. The idea that rich people have a target (after-tax) income and will charge whatever it takes to hit that income is absurd. The target is infinite, and they are already doing everything in their power to make their income as
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by topaz0 5y ago
As pointed out elsewhere, this is not what the article is about. It's about preserving local knowledge of sea-ice hunting, partly by preserving the language used by sea-ice hunters.
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by topaz0 5y ago
Agreed. The Pullum article is one of my favorites.
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by topaz0 5y ago
Most of the comments here are making perfectly valid points about the whizz-bang "fact" from the title of the post. Note, however, that the actual topic of the article is very different: it's about an effort that was made to
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by topaz0 5y ago
If you read the article, you'll notice that this fact is acknowledged there. The issue is that energy in and energy out are not so simple as the Nutrition Facts make them seem. For example, different amounts of energy are consumed in t
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by topaz0 5y ago
*median. It is commonplace for more or less than 50% to fall below the mean.
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by topaz0 5y ago
Worth noting that this electron cycle is important if you want to have a magnetic field.
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by topaz0 5y ago
Sewn bindings will lie flat if the book is thin enough, like 100 pages.
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by topaz0 5y ago
Which, by the way, is pretty strong evidence that you will be the product (even if it weren't for the talk of "weaving in with your life" or whatever).
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by topaz0 5y ago
Apparently this will be a free and in-place update from win10, so maybe that is compatible with what they meant by "just updates", even if it is a redesign.
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by topaz0 5y ago
There's a lot of good stuff in Marx, whatever people say (and downvote). Whether or not you agree with the solutions he proposes.
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by topaz0 5y ago
Note that the main insight of this blog post, that recessions are caused by a society-wide preference for hoarding money rather than goods, is an insight that dates back to Karl Marx in the early 19th c. Earlier economic theorists had thoug
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by topaz0 5y ago
You can draw that line around economics if you want, but I'm ultimately more interested in the consequences of economics for human purposes. That necessarily involves considering market value and human values as separate kinds of thing

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