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Study Conclusion: Mouse brains track eye direction during REM sleep.
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> Who cares if a social media site is offline for a day? Society will be fine. Users will be fine. Not just fine... better off.
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> You can control the side effects you may get from a medication you take? You can eliminate unneeded medication to eliminate side effects. You can reduce or change your needed medication to control side effects. You can change your life
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I agree that the father appears lucky to have avoided issues such as debilitating disease due to random genetic mutation. Even the father acknowledges that "lots of good luck" was involved. The article does not appear to oversta
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If you want to reason about the real world, then a top-left origin will typically be better as it aligns with a right-handed coordinate system of Forward-Right-Down; where the Forward dimension aligns with the range to an object in the scen
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> As the author mentions, the original moniker for Excel was VisiCalc VisiCalc wasn't actually a moniker for Excel. It was a predecessor. It was the first spreadsheet program, which was made by a different company, VisiCorp, and r
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Humans have an instinctive drive to optimize genetic survival. Without it, we would not exist. One of the control mechanisms for this is our instinct for reproduction. We constantly access future availability of resources, attractiveness
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Higher prices will result in increased production. We don't need to motivate producers beyond that. There's plenty of potential from non-Russian sources. It will take months though. I think the biggest motivational issue will b
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It makes you look like a genius rather than like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHFB40WOMOo
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Constricting the pupil can certainly reduce the effect of defects in the eye lens by reducing the amount of lens used; however, it won't work well in dim light. Alternative: Increase environmental lighting and use bright, high contra
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Previous related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27299363
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>...doesn’t have to be... That argues that there might be a first. To be clear, I’m not saying there isn’t a first. I’m just saying this particular argument doesn’t support the assertion.
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> In math there is the concept of having a first element... There is also the mathematical concept of not having a first element of a sequence, where each element has an infinite number of elements indexed before it. You seem to be arg
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Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28717961
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Similarly, periodical cicadas synchronously emerge in great numbers (more 370 per square meter) every 13th or 17th year.[1] This overwhelms predators and it's thought that the prime-numbered intervals prevent predators from synchroniz
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Some very young children just absolutely do not want to be messed with. Even brushing their hair with a soft brush can be a major struggle no matter how clever you might be at distracting, comforting, or convincing. If you have one of thes
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Yes, I also strongly advise not riding dirt bikes either. With that said, over countless hours of riding the ‘burbs, rural back roads, and trails; I never had what I considered a near-death experience on a dirt bike versus having at least t
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I grew up riding dirt bikes. Later moved on to street bikes. Wandered many miles of beautiful deserts, mountains, plains, and rainforests. Had truly awesome experiences. Also had a few truly perilous experiences where the difference bet
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No, there is no survivorship bias apparent here. The samples appear to be representative of the populations they were investigating. They were looking at the risk of infection. Dead people don’t get infected, so they were not part of the
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It is a positive feedback loop, not a negative feedback loop. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_feedback .
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The Project Zero stats imply three times the rate of detected zero-days versus last year. Apparently, this is largely due to the increasing output of private companies finding and selling exploits. Three of the four exploits discussed in
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> I think the underlying reason is when you have far more experience than your future boss they are intimidated by you. That is so true; however, they tend to be weak managers with delicate egos and poor vision. Count yourself lucky you
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_arbitrage
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Not just that, but also a guarantee of no compromising bugs in either the cryptographic API or the application code that calls it. Yes. If you want your data protected, it always matters where you store it.
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> This is extremely unlikely. AES-256 was broken in 2011.[1] While only four times faster than brute force and thus not a practical attack, it suggests that compromise is possible. The Snowden documents indicated that the NSA was worki
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Raising the possibility of political timing constitutes conspiracy theory nonsense? That seems extreme given the long history of state-sponsored attacks.
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> a couple blows with a hammer First, put it in a heavy-duty freezer ziplock bag and then place on concrete. This allows you to nicely pulverize the chips into many tiny pieces without making a mess. A hammer works well, but a few taps
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I agree with a number of your points: 1) Many people already live in high-CO2 indoor environments. Please see my earlier comment elsewhere in this thread where I relate how my own home quickly shoots up to over 1300 ppm if I turn off my ve
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Yes, it’s not valid to reject a null hypothesis involving multiple tests without using a multiple testing correction. The simplest conservative approach would be to use a Bonferroni correction and check whether any of the M tests has a p-v
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It’s too late to edit my previous comments, but I should mention that I actually agree with your statements about not being able to draw valid conclusions and that they should have used the same kind of chamber; however, I believe the metho

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