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by topynate 4y ago
Paramotoring. Bear in mind that elite-level competition is considerably more dangerous than paramotoring as a leisure activity.
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by topynate 4y ago
Maybe you could outrun a fully-grown T. rex. But what about a juvenile? This is a great zoom talk by Dr. Thomas Holtz about the role played by sub-adult tyrannosaurids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwxaEsLcU_w Holtz look
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by topynate 4y ago
I read the piece. Leaving aside the weighty issue of whether Milo Yiannopoulos' presence can violently shorten people's telomeres or methylate their CpG sites, there's the question of whether broadening a definition licenses
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by topynate 4y ago
I used https://genvue.geneticgenie.org/ – it's free and I've found it to be the best starting point for further investigation. I also have access to Nebula Genomics' tools as part of the package I paid for. Y
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by topynate 4y ago
I bought the Nebula 30x product and got my results quite quickly, in under three months. It's hard to tell if my experience is better than average or not, given that people tend not to speak up about services when they're delivere
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by topynate 4y ago
This is a little cynical, but it's not something they'd want to have known. Suppose the worst case is true and the Webb has a useful lifetime of three or four years. What were they going to do if they'd learned that in 2015?
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by topynate 4y ago
Saves weight, makes it easier to unfold, fewer potential sources of stray light.
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by topynate 4y ago
The commissioning report, excerpted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32136991 , says there were six micrometeoroid impacts during commissioning, and that this was a rate consistent with modelling. The outlier is certa
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by topynate 4y ago
You have a point. Even if the manufacturers needed to reduce power consumption by a half, it shouldn't have led to a 36dB loss. More like 3dB. So why did they make it so much quieter? This has me thinking that regulation of noise pollu
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by topynate 4y ago
You are referring to Schelling's model, and the threshold he found for segregation wasn't 1/3 but 2/3 'wrong', i.e. that everyone prefer not to be in a minority of less than 1/3. This was just was striking
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by topynate 4y ago
It literally cannot be answered with certainty, barring some passing ancient aliens giving us the DNA sequences they took last time they were in the neighbourhood. But as a matter of speculation, dinosaurs seem like they were pretty adaptab
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by topynate 4y ago
The first quarter hour of this lecture has some good stuff on Permian sharks (technically almost-sharks). Some of them look very shark-like indeed. Others are like eels! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfPLv4oc7PM
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by topynate 4y ago
That's true. I bought some body fat calipers recently for just that reason. They cost about $10.
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by topynate 4y ago
Double or triple atmospheric pressure would have lowered evaporation to such an extent that it would have had many other geological and botanical effects that are not seen. Rather surprisingly, I just found that different oxygen fractions d
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by topynate 4y ago
Cretaceous oxygen levels were at times comparable to those today, and possibly lower. In any case dinosaurs probably had very efficient lungs, as birds do. Unfortunately there's no way to get DNA that old.
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by topynate 4y ago
A video taken down, then found on review – twice – to have been taken down in error, then on the third review to have been taken down correctly, where the video in question is definitely not violating the policy it's under review for.
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by topynate 4y ago
Not for Curiosity and Perseverance, which use RTGs. NASA like RTGs for their big, power-hungry vehicles, and use solar panels on the smaller ones. I guess that one problem is that any brush or compressed air mechanism would have to be parti
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by topynate 4y ago
Yarvin was talking about Google Search in 2010 as a mutated but recognizable version of PageRank. That's correct, I think, but it was already heading in a different direction. By the end of the year the NYT was reporting on malicious m
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by topynate 4y ago
Moving goalposts is fine, and I speak as the opposite of an AI skeptic, thinking as I do that it's 70% likely general AI is invented in the next 15 years. You move the goalposts when you discover that the goal you set didn't match
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by topynate 4y ago
That must be it. Thank you for finding the link. Shame that the author couldn't be bothered to leave one…
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by topynate 4y ago
"Curtis Yarvin, who hypothesized a neo-feudal search engine, which he cutely named Feudl, as early as 2010" Did he? It's absolutely nowhere on google or DDG except in Morozov's article. Yarvin's blog archives are al
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by topynate 4y ago
I remember when Twitter worked like this as well. It doesn't any more. When I see a tweet with a dozen replies and only one is visible, even in a private tab, it's very unlikely that eleven out of twelve are from locked accounts.
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by topynate 5y ago
It's a skewer – the White Queen on a8, the Black King on f3 and the Black Queen on h1 all lie on the long diagonal. The King has to move and it can't protect the Queen on h1.
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by topynate 5y ago
That is an inherently subjective question, possibly with different answers for people in different circumstances and with different risk appetites.
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by topynate 5y ago
Same as usual – someone dobbed him in.
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by topynate 5y ago
Won't matter for highly polygenic traits. For monogenetic disorders like Tay-Sachs, it will provide another line of defence along with conventional pre-implantation screening and pre-natal screening.
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by topynate 5y ago
It looks like the author was mining a particular sort of cryptocurrency which needs a lot of drive space. I guess he was trying to squeeze as much performance out of his SSDs as possible. For most applications I can't see why you'
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by topynate 5y ago
Does anyone know of a wordle that's in sync with the NYT's list of answers but uses the original dictionary? The NYT site doesn't work for me with uBO turned on (actually it barely works with it turned off). (Edit: I think I
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by topynate 5y ago
Yegg followed up with an argument about relevancy of results: "Search engines by definition try to put more relevant content higher and less relevant content lower -- that's not censorship, it's search ranking relevancy.&quot
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by topynate 5y ago
So does overpressure.

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