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by why_at 2y ago
Maybe the author's friend is just way better than me at this, but I tried applying her advice to some of the other images and I don't feel like it would have helped me. Looking at the human impressionist painting "Entrance to
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by why_at 2y ago
I think a big part of the motivation to have many launches within hours is because in order for Starship to deliver anything beyond low earth orbit it will need refueling by many other Starships acting as tankers. This means that for one mi
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by why_at 2y ago
The ranking is still strange to me though. The model S is lower than the model Y even though it is smaller and faster, both of which should make it less safe, and the model 3 didn't even make the list.
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by why_at 2y ago
I don't have any special insider information, but from what I know about spaceflight I think we should be glad they used the Falcon Heavy instead of SLS. SLS has been consistently delayed pretty much every year since its conception, mo
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by why_at 2y ago
One thing I find interesting about playing video games in modern day is that with the proliferation of Wikis, there is assumed to be some kind of third party guide for every game. Especially in smaller/newer games it seems like develop
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by why_at 2y ago
I've always thought seaplanes were very cool, yet they've almost completely gone away from commercial air transportation. What's the reason for this? Are they just too hard to maintain because of salt water etc.?
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by why_at 2y ago
>This would simply create a digital divide further increasing inequality in rural areas. Not sure what you mean? The more remote you get the better your bandwidth gets because you are sharing it with fewer people. This is the opposite of
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by why_at 2y ago
There is a corporation registered under "Black Mesa Technologies" with the same executives btw https://corp.sec.state.ma.us/CorpWeb/CorpSearch/CorpSummary....
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by why_at 2y ago
It's not clear to me if this is a joke/game/whatever or a real company founded by people who are really big fans of half life as they claim. You can search for corporations in massachusetts where they claim they are located.[
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by why_at 2y ago
I agree it seems pretty unfocused. To be fair I read it quickly so I might be missing something, but I'm struggling to pull a thesis out of this piece. At the beginning it seems like it's trying to make a point about society becom
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by why_at 2y ago
For those who are worried about radiation from X-rays I always recommend: https://xkcd.com/radiation/
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by why_at 2y ago
Haha yeah I was thinking about that. Either way my decision will work as evidence for itself. Either I stop believing in the backfire effect due to the new evidence, or I ignore the new evidence and keep believing in the backfire effect :)
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by why_at 2y ago
This led me down a bit of a rabbit hole. Related to this is what is sometimes known as the "Backfire Effect" which is the idea that a person's belief in something untrue will only be strengthened when presented with evidence
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by why_at 2y ago
Curious if anyone knows of any more recent descriptions about what life is like in North Korea, like in the last 5-10 years. Most things I've read including this article are decades old. How much have things changed there in terms of t
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by why_at 2y ago
>Say I am choosing between two types of ham. I'm having trouble imagining a situation where this would help you with ham though. Probably either all ham counts as ultra processed, or none of it does. (My money is on the former) If i
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by why_at 2y ago
I agree that this proposed regulation seems like it probably won't help. Defining what counts as an ultra-processed food is challenging, and the actual causal link to health outcomes is far from clear. This article from Science-Based M
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by why_at 2y ago
They've been pretty reliable and cost effective for delivering people/cargo to the ISS so far. Even without Starship they can probably pull this mission off. FWIW that image also shows Artemis III launching early 2025, but NASA ha
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by why_at 2y ago
I think a big part of it is that we have so many more cattle than the earth could naturally support, and the number is only increasing as the world gets more developed. As it stands, even without any other sources of carbon emissions cattle
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by why_at 2y ago
I always thought Bouba/Kiki would make cool "matching" tattoos. Strangely, everyone I've asked says they would want to be Bouba. No one wants to be Kiki.
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by why_at 2y ago
Maybe my previous comment wasn't clear enough, since I agree with you. I think both versions make sense in their own context: In the short story she sees all of her life "simultaneously" but it all still works with our typica
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by why_at 2y ago
Yeah I agree. I read the short story after having seen the movie and I thought the language/time stuff was clearly different. That's also why they changed the cause of the daughter's death from a climbing accident to an illne
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by why_at 2y ago
Unrelated, but what's the best way to read a thread when somebody posts a twitter link like this? I've never really used Twitter but it seems like there's no way to tell if there are any relevant replies or anything more than
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by why_at 2y ago
FYI I have owned a model 3 for about a year now and I have always been able to manually set the speed by pushing the button and then using the horizontal part of the scroll wheel to cycle through the settings.
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by why_at 2y ago
Favorite piece of Riven trivia: If you've played the game you might remember the one spot where there's a giant sword sticking out of the ground. Since this place also appears in one of the game's FMV cutscenes they had to us
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by why_at 2y ago
Given the number of times I've been kicked in the face by another person's fins while scuba diving, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near someone using one of these.
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by why_at 2y ago
While this is definitely a possible explanation, I would hesitate to jump to any particular conclusions until further research is done on specific risk factors. The article also mentions air pollution as a possible cause: >For example, a
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by why_at 3y ago
To add to this, I solved the first puzzle but I'm not getting the right sha256sum for the answer. It's unclear to me which part of the deciphered text I should be doing the checksum on. The text says: "here are the checksums
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by why_at 3y ago
Thanks for this. This is something that always bugged me when I see explanations of the three-body problem. They'll say something like "changing the initial conditions just a tiny bit can dramatically change the outcome!" as
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by why_at 3y ago
I've always wondered if we could potentially use genetic engineering to open up new possibilities for food. Would it be possible to make some inedible foods edible this way? For instance, what if you could make non-poisonous death cap
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by why_at 3y ago
I'm not a doctor or anything so I could be mistaken, but my understanding was that activated charcoal is helpful for treating poisons/toxins, not pathogens like you might find in bad seafood. Unless there was a poisonous mushroom

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