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by woeirua 6y ago
The video makes it pretty clear, magnetic field strength is directly related to the overall dimensions of the reactor. If you upgrade the magnets, then the physical dimensions would need to change as well, which at this point would be very
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by woeirua 6y ago
After watching the video posted in the top comment, I have to wonder why we would keep dumping money and time into ITER. I know, don't put all your eggs in one basket, but if the ITER design is so out-of-date, why wouldn't we just
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by woeirua 6y ago
That's a great talk, and really gives me a lot of hope for the SPARC concept that this article is about.
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by woeirua 6y ago
The lines between the online world and the "real" world are always blurry. You might not care on HN, but you probably will care when you're trying to meet someone on a dating website and waste a bunch of time chatting with s
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by woeirua 6y ago
I don't know if the news is really the best example of this today. Clearly there will always be a subjective bias in reporting the news, but as deep fakes become more prevalent it will become increasingly important to know that the or
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by woeirua 6y ago
You'd have to do in-person validation.
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by woeirua 6y ago
I agree that the system is already being heavily influenced by bots. I think that the public's perception of just by how much though does not match reality. As time goes on though, the lay public will come to the same realization that
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by woeirua 6y ago
If there's anything that gives me hope that we can avoid a dystopian future driven by social media, it's that Deep-learning / AI is being used to cheaply create realistic forgeries of just about everything: profile pictures,
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by woeirua 6y ago
The relationship between Covid-19 and other seasonal coronaviruses is unclear at best. In particular, this study is contradicted by evidence of long-lasting immunity for SARS-Cov-1 survivors. So far, evidence of reinfection with Covid-19
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by woeirua 6y ago
I understand that these are not equivalent violations. That said it's not dumb to say that the SEC sure seems to be very selective in which laws they actually enforce with teeth versus which ones they seem to just let slide. If any oth
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by woeirua 6y ago
This family will likely be ruined by these charges. Even if they successfully defend against these charges, the lawyer fees will wreck them financially. Meanwhile, Mr. Musk has literally gotten a slap on the wrist for multiple flagrant viol
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by woeirua 6y ago
It really depends on what ET life looks like. If it shares a common set of DNA for example then it would be much more likely that it could be dangerous. But if it’s not even Carbon based then it could be totally inert to us and vice versa.
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by woeirua 6y ago
Frankly we won’t know until we find ET life. If we’re talking about something that is relatively similar to a Terran bacteria then perhaps it could interact with our cells. Alternatively, it is probably far more likely that life from Earth
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by woeirua 6y ago
But you have to recognize that this system is very atypical outside of FAANGs. Most large companies have very modest stock incentive programs.
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by woeirua 6y ago
I don't know... Glassdoor's system seems to work pretty well for collecting this kind of data. Sure the number of reported salaries is maybe too small to say anything specific about individual companies, but in aggregate places l
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by woeirua 6y ago
IMO, I don't think it should be a surprise that we will eventually find signs of extraterrestial (but not necessarily intelligent) life in our solar system. The real question is: does it share any common building blocks with life on Ea
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by woeirua 6y ago
I really wish that sites like these would branch out to more employers beyond just the FAANGs because the number of jobs in AI/ML at these employers is just a small fraction of what we see in the larger industry. You can prove that to
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by woeirua 6y ago
Yeah, I'm struggling to see the connection here... All social media was absolutely inundated at those same times with those same events. Twitter was the worst by far. I had to uninstall the app after a while because it was just so f
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by woeirua 6y ago
That's not accurate at all. Allowing the price to float freely would help with short term supply and demand issues, but it would not fundamentally solve the long term uncertainty for suppliers about whether or not a large quantity of m
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by woeirua 6y ago
This is hopelessly idealistic. It might make sense for some particular general purpose applications, e.g. Office -> LibreOffice, but at the college level there are simply not suitable free alternatives for many proprietary software packa
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by woeirua 6y ago
Tesla looks like a pretty obvious bubble, but what do I know?
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by woeirua 6y ago
That actually reinforces my point. For bubbles to occur, the delta between the price and the “rational” price must not be random. In bubbles prices exhibit strong temporal autocorrelation.
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by woeirua 6y ago
The efficient market hypothesis is the biggest lie in modern history. Bubbles don't happen in efficient markets.
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by woeirua 6y ago
I’m not saying it’s a placebo effect. Instead there could be unknown interactions between Vitamin D and HCQ/Az that could be the causal effect.
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by woeirua 6y ago
Looks promising, but I would want to see a true double blinded RCT on a few thousand people before we say that Vitamin D is an effective treatment. Also, there's going to be a confounding question based on this study: is it just Vitami
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by woeirua 6y ago
My apologies. I missed it earlier. Here is another article that looks to be in good standing that comes to similar conclusions about ACE-I vs ARBs [2]. [2] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2008975
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by woeirua 6y ago
The problem is that the relationship between hypertension, antihypertensives, and Covid is going to be very nuanced and difficult to ascertain without large patient populations to study. One of the very unique aspects of the Covid pandemic
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by woeirua 6y ago
The answer to treated vs untreated hypertension right now is that we simply do not know. What we do know is that treated hypertensive patients don't appear to have significantly worse outcomes. This article does a great job outlining
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by woeirua 6y ago
Seems like it should be really straightforward to determine if this hypothesis is right by measuring bradykinin levels in Covid patients versus non-Covid patients. One thing that I think strongly suggests that this hypothesis is wrong is th
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by woeirua 6y ago
Not really. The big question mark in my mind is how important the surrounding biochemistry really is to the brain's function. We already know from the study of mental illnesses that altering the biochemistry can significantly affect a

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