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by wnkrshm 6y ago
I feel that one problem is that transparency and independent oversight is not wanted by government or by businesses. A public requirement for more transparent business practices may result from populations wanting to fight climate change. I
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by wnkrshm 6y ago
How was the training data acquired though?
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
I think visualizing the odds with playing Russian roulette drives the odds home: 1 in 30 means randomly picking one revolver from five, of which one has a single bullet chambered, putting it to your head and pulling the trigger. 1 in 10, yo
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
You can still be contagious for a while after being free of symptoms - how long to isolate after that is still difficult to gauge. The NHS suggests 14 days after being free of symptoms. But when is that? That dry cough can last for quite a
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
Forever War had an interesting time lapse of changing humanity, due to the main characters traveling close to the speed of light on their tours of duty. Stanislav Lem's Return from the Stars comes to mind, though the pacifist society i
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
Exactly. I don't see how trying to limit testing to people who had contact with known cases or traveled to at risk countries (as practiced in Germany) can be successful.
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
What do you think of the practice of only testing people who need hospital-level care and people who had contact with confirmed covid-19 patients (and people who traveled to at risk regions)? I would think that this can only give you the in
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
Triage, i.e. if you show up and have any condition that reduces your chances of survival you are not treated at all. Palliative care only.
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
What makes covid 19 suddenly interesting or different in terms of tools required than any other virus? The best answer you can probably get by researching which research institutes usually deal with developing methods for diagnosis, select
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
College kids should very well be allowed to offer a lower price for a service that someone else does at a higher price point - the problem is a multi-billion-USD-valued company trying to weasel around laws to profit off of both of them.
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
It's not only about opportunity for gig economy workers, it's about us all paying the price of gig economy business operations. Uber's business model can be extended to virtually any job, if we lower the barrier to entry just
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
EDGF encrypted with HGJI is now the same as ABCD encrypted with DEFG. In this example, that means the distance between characters of the encrypted messages is the same as the distance between the original messages. From my limited knowledge
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
That is why I hope that experiments such as the one that the artists in the article do aren't successful and their copyright does not hold up in court. If it did, an actor with more resources could feasibly blanket own any cultural goo
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
Is there a procedure for when your face itches? Use your arm? Part of a shirt?
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
I think intransparent processes/businesses are to blame for a lot of reasonable doubt concerning all kinds of things, which is then used by actors with an agenda to influence what people can read from the noise. I think the way to neut
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
Getting a mesh flattening algorithm to work for real-world triangulations of optical surfaces, based on curvature flow.
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
That's a pretty alarming finding to be honest. It's not just hair graying, it's also all kinds of other tissue damage that can occur, as the last few paragraphs hint at. Stress may just kill us more directly than we've s
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
Thank you for clearing that up then. For the record, I do feel bad.
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
> A 50×50 km square would be 2500 km². We're talking about 52 km², which is a 7.2 km × 7.2 km square. Shitty dimensional analysis strikes again! According to the parent poster, those 52 km² are needed for 1GW. France needs around 50
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
Many are only looking at solar panels in term of greenhouse gas emission in the production chain, while any kind of semiconductor processing will have a lot of chemical waste occuring. Edit: Also, recycling solar panels isn't sraightfo
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
If you draw a 50x50km square on a map of France, you'll quickly realize that's an area the size of Luxembourg - not exactly negligible.
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
[0] is exclusively concerned with the balance of nuclear deterrence - it's the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists after all. What they mean with missile defense is defense against strategic nuclear weapons.
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
The manufacturing work where you have to use humans is usually not as devoid of mental work as may think - things change all the time in your environment, you have to identify different kinds of things to be aware about. If you're part
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
There is an interesting discussion about the effects of hypersonic nuclear capable missiles and glide vehicles here [0]. In summary, this doesn't change much. But what the larger players are afraid of is proliferation of hypersonic mis
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
Also, asteroid detection may be hampered - there is still a significant contribution of 'amateur' observations to detecting them.
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
So the Butlerian Jihad [0] for the 2040s? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(franchise)#The_Butlerian...
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
Get diagnosed for adult ADHD.
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
Yeah, like people with high functioning autism spectrum disorder who need to mask themselves. Or people with anxiety disorders who may just freak out internally about looking nervous. Lots of examples.
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
I'm glad that I don't have to work with the stuff after reading up on emergency medical procedures. I once found a very long list of what to do by an expert MD and it's really not pretty. I'm not an expert in either chem
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by wnkrshm 7y ago
With quartz glass, it's going to be hydrofluoric acid and I invite you to read up about its toxicity and lethality (user stories like: splashed a few ml on a leg, did all the emergency procedures exactly right, got quick emergency care

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