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by alejohausner 13d ago
In a related research paper, scientists proved that water is wet.
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by alejohausner 15d ago
I really don't understand why Israel has such animus against Iran. Didn't Cyrus the Great, the Iranian emperor, free the Israelites from bondage in Babylon, and to boot, rebuilt the temple in Jerusalem? Don't the Israelites
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LRO images of lunar crater formed by Falcon 9 impact(lroc.im-ldi.com)
3 points by alejohausner 29d ago|0 comments
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by alejohausner 29d ago
No. There are lots of colors that our eyes can see, but which no 3-color device can produce. They're usually highly saturated, and many of the deep greens can't be produced by 3-color devices. What's going on here is differen
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by alejohausner 29d ago
That's because you probably are using gmail, and Google is reading your emails and harvesting your shopping history. That's why Amazon is being secretive: to deny Google that information.
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by alejohausner 1mo ago
I see quite the opposite. On the left side of the plot, for countries with the lowest cvd rates, there is a whole range of dosages for statins. In other words, countries with low and high statin usage have low death rates from cardiovascu
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by alejohausner 2mo ago
My favorite is "Brother Francis Gerard of Utah might never have discovered the blessed documents, had it not been for the pilgrim with girded loins who appeared during that young novice's Lenten fast in the desert." Walter Mi
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by alejohausner 2mo ago
Tom Murphy a "recovering astrophysicist" from UCSD, would beg to differ. His basic thesis is that, in order to build human settlements in other worlds, we would have to construct, from scratch, a large part of the ecosystem on wh
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Ask HN: Has AI impacted entry-level programming skills?
2 points by alejohausner 5mo ago|0 comments
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by alejohausner 6mo ago
I'm glad it's a push-button phone, and not a rotary phone. There's a hilarious YouTube of today's teenagers tasked with making a phone call on a rotary phone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OADXNGn
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by alejohausner 7mo ago
From what I’ve heard on “the history of English podcast”, after the Norman and invasion written English disappears completely for about a century. This is because the clergy and lawyers were the only literate people at the time, and they we
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by alejohausner 7mo ago
This is a tax on wealth. Since many wealthy people don’t want to share their money, maybe it’s reasonable for some of it to be taken away from them and redistributed. That’s the real issue. As Pikkety pointed out, vast fortunes distort th
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by alejohausner 7mo ago
I bought some amber glasses from blublocker.com[1], because they link to a research paper that actually measured how much of each wavelength their filters allow (as well as other brands). They're pretty dark, so you have to crank up t
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by alejohausner 7mo ago
Rumble is indeed a free for all, with lots of angry kooks. But it’s also a place where reasonable dissenting voices have found a way to get their ideas heard. It’s a mixed bag.
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by alejohausner 7mo ago
He criticizes the military-industrial complex. Don’t you think that’s an institution worth dismantling?
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by alejohausner 7mo ago
I don’t see where you’re coming from. Greenwald is constantly pointing out abuses of power and hypocrisy in government. Have you actually read what he writes? He is in no way a fan of totalitarian strongmen.
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by alejohausner 7mo ago
The backlash against the use of Ring cameras began with their tone-deaf superbowl ad. Amazon assumed that customers would buy their surveillance technology. The whole thing reminds me that we have returned to the Gilded Age, when the rich
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by alejohausner 7mo ago
Glenn Greenwald is back on substack. Yay! For the past few years, he’s mostly done videos on rumble, and he’s fun to watch, but personally I prefer his writing. In case you’ve been under a rock for 10 years, Greenwald was the guy who pub
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by alejohausner 7mo ago
Air is mostly nitrogen. Nitrogen gas is blue. There.
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by alejohausner 9mo ago
As the poet Quevedo wrote, Nace en las Indias honrado, // donde el mundo le acompaña; // viene a morir en España // y es en Génova enterrado. (Mr. Money) is born in the Indies an honest man, with the world on h
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by alejohausner 11mo ago
Ulichney (who wrote the book on halftoning) came up with ordered dithering matrices that give much nicer results than Bayer's, as good error as diffusion, and parallelizable. Look up "void and cluster".
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by alejohausner 1y ago
Why is there no mention of Don Quixote (1605) the first modern novel? It was divide into chapters, long before the Victorian era, which the author claims is when chapters in novels became accepted?
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by alejohausner 1y ago
That’s kind of scary in itself. I’ll make a note to avoid drinking coffee from paper cups in the future! PFAs are everywhere in food packaging too. It’s disturbing.
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by alejohausner 1y ago
I’ve heard RFK say that it’s hard to ban TV ads for drugs. They are “speech” according to the 1st amendment, or something like that. Too bad. News broadcasts are full of those ads, and hence TV journalists are loath to investigate the peo
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by alejohausner 1y ago
Yes, the measles vaccine is effective. It reduces cases of measles. But the paper in question says that deaths were reduced to almost zero before the vaccine was introduced. The graph that you linked to shows the same thing. For me the
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by alejohausner 1y ago
I know I'm coming to the discussion late, but actually there is good evidence that improvements in nutrition, working conditions, and sanitation are a big factor in improving resistance to infectious diseases. Look at "The Questio
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by alejohausner 1y ago
In the animations, New Zealand stood out: the high and low tide chase each other counterclockwise around the islands!
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Sub-millimeter waveguide shrinks augmented-reality glasses(phys.org)
14 points by alejohausner 1y ago|0 comments
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by alejohausner 1y ago
On the other hand, since cell cameras don't filter out infrared, you can use them to detect spy cameras in your airbnb, which are using IR to illuminate the room.
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by alejohausner 1y ago
You're right. Coming up with a proof is a creative process. Each major proof in mathematics is so unique, that it usually gets named after its inventor. So we have Euclid's proof that there are infinitely many primes, Euler&#x2

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