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by yk 6y ago
I'm actually rather impressed by the EU performance in this. The strategic idea of Brexit was, to leverage the better geostrategic position of Britain compared to Ireland to make bilateral trade deals. And frankly, four years ago I wou
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That the energy output of a flame is regulated by the oxygen flux. Phlogition theory suggests a phlogiston flux that is just the oxygen flux with a sign reversed and consequently when they measured the mass of the phlogiston, they got a neg
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by yk 7y ago
A revolver destroys the virus in-vivo. (At least vivo at the beginning of the study.)
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by yk 7y ago
If you look at the models, they have something like an order of magnitude uncertainty. And the reason for that is precisely what you are stating, they rely on future behavior, which we just don't know yet. However, the utility of the m
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by yk 7y ago
Modern SF near future sub-genres are almost always called x-punk. (for x in [Steam, Diesel, Atom, Solar] ). I suggest we should call the phenomena punk-gate. (Not to be confused with gate-punk, which is near future political thriller.)
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by yk 7y ago
Indeed, fixed.
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by yk 7y ago
While I am quite sympathetic to the argument, PragerU would need to disagree (if we assume they actually believe their videos are true). So they are American conservatives in the sense that they argue that free markets have the right outcom
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by yk 7y ago
> “The evidence is overwhelming and clear,” the expert [a medical expert accompanying the UN Special Rapporteur on torture Melzer during a visit to Assange] said. “Mr. Assange has been deliberately exposed, for a period of several years,
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by yk 7y ago
I guess because somewhat bad diseases make good news. When you discover a new disease, then the mortality will be quite high, because you only see the cases so bad that people went to specialized hospitals, while you don't know anythin
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End torture and medical neglect of Julian Assange(thelancet.com)
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by yk 7y ago
> Could we not reasonably launch a series of deflective plates or shields in the same plane through the "danger zones" encircling important satellites, or creating a safe zone for passage with shuttles? No, the problem is, whil
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by yk 7y ago
> Is that actually a problem? What kind of events could occur that would make it a problem? Leckage > Presumably this hypothetical hole in the ground would be in someplace like the US or Western Europe, under government control, and r
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by yk 7y ago
The problem with drilling is, you have a bore hole connecting your cavern to the surface. And the bad actor potentially does not care about being noticed.
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by yk 7y ago
That seems pretty straight forward to measure, you just take the temperature of people who exercise regularly (say three times a week) and compare that to people who work physically demanding jobs, and to people who work in office jobs, and
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by yk 7y ago
Yes, they try to imply that the 'Max problem' in the headline is the MCAS. We can conclude that with some certainty, because the headline is quite awkwardly written, to fit the quote in there. (However, it is of course entirely co
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Schools 'converting toilet blocks into isolation booths'(theguardian.com)
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by yk 7y ago
There are surprisingly few, and importantly you don't have to enable all the adtech networks that may or may not have a good security track record.
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by yk 7y ago
There is a standard cosmological model called LCDM model, Lambda Cold Dark Matter model, which is basically the minimal thing you can use to fit cosmological observations, it contains a cosmological constant and cold dark matter, that is da
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by yk 7y ago
Having him 23 h a day in solitary confinement and not allowing him to call his mom seems a bit harsh, if they are concerned that he's a flight risk.
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UN OHCHR statement https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...
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by yk 7y ago
> Yes. Why wouldn't it be sandboxed?! Famous last words.
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by yk 7y ago
> Electricity costs [for small modular reactors] would be 30% lower than for a large nuclear facility, matching wind power, with the modular approach allowing parts to be made on a factory production line. I wonder why they don't us
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by yk 7y ago
That is actually wrong. For a battle to occur, both sides need to agree to battle, except in rare circumstances. So, usually what happens is, that the general in a weaker position avoids the other guy, until he finds terrain suitable to his
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by yk 7y ago
The argument is, if our brains are just a curve fitting machine, then we can dial in the complexity of the computation. Start with a single layer parameter, then two parameter, and so on until we are at the complexity of the brain. By that
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by yk 7y ago
Yes, that is why I tried to contrast consciousness with computations.
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by yk 7y ago
Actually I like that solution, but try to show it to any degree of scientific standard. You need to have a good working definition of consciousness, then you need some experimental procedure, etc. etc.
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by yk 7y ago
That is basically what Chalmers argues in "Facing up the problem of consciousness." Basically, by the general approximation theorem, it is possible to find a neural network that acts externally precisely as you would, up to an arb
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by yk 7y ago
Well, something like 20% of the population are in the transport sector, and many of those probably listen to radio 8 h a day while driving.
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James Dean Reborn in CGI for Vietnam War Action-Drama(hollywoodreporter.com)
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Was just looking around for some corrobation, and it seems that project Veritas has found something for once. WaPo Opinion piece: (It estimates that this is on the same order of magnitude as the mishandling of the Weinstein scandal by NBC.)

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