frgewut

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by frgewut 8y ago
I thought testing against placebo was a standard procedure in medicine and without such testing treatments wouldn't even be approved.
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by frgewut 8y ago
> I don’t think it is an accident that the world’s top female boxer is Norwegian rather than say Italian. You mean the Colombia born Cecilia Brækhus? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Br%C3%A6khus
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Black Sea ship: 'World's oldest intact wreck' found(bbc.com)
2 points by frgewut 8y ago|0 comments
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by frgewut 8y ago
Atmospheric reentry is more than 1g https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-acceleration-of-the-space-...
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by frgewut 8y ago
I would interpret it as "fallen horizontally" with a lot of braking happening lately in the atmosphere.
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by frgewut 8y ago
Slightly offtopic, but most easiest way for detecting tampering with hardware is weighing stuff.
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by frgewut 8y ago
Couldn't you measure star motion over longer periods of time, then even minuscule amounts of motion could be detected.
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by frgewut 8y ago
I have started to view "baseload" generation more in a negative sense (as in "can't be easily turned on/off"). Also the daytime/nighttime power consumption differs almost twice, so almost any solar added o
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by frgewut 8y ago
Mosquito net is the first thing that comes to mind. Then EM pulse weapons, lasers etc.
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by frgewut 8y ago
How much energy is actually transferred from car to cyclist? Records with too strong assisting wind often are not recognized. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_assistance
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by frgewut 8y ago
I suspect publicity created by this will easy recoup all expenses.
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by frgewut 8y ago
There are also "partly electrified" possibility e.g. only 10% of track electrified (stations for example). Trains can recharge batteries or supercapacitators there from wire. There already are such existing light rail lines. [1]
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by frgewut 8y ago
But the Statue of Liberty in Las Vegas apparently is a creative replica. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/arts/statue-of-liberty-st...
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by frgewut 8y ago
It's actually a real problem. Most browser games are still Flash - meaning I can't play most of them.
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by frgewut 8y ago
But then your birthday date would fluctuate.
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by frgewut 8y ago
Bugs can happen. One of the first scenarios that comes to mind - some implementation queries API for every key press. Suddenly you are sending your password out. I guess time will tell, but human-generated passwords have proven their ineffe
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by frgewut 8y ago
Of course satellite manufacturing is only a small part of the satellite industry. I updated comment to reflect that.
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by frgewut 8y ago
Actually launch industry is minuscule compared to satellites ($5.5B for launch industry vs $13B only for satellite manufacturing) Edit: and then of course there is the satellites services which the report estimates in hundreds of billions
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by frgewut 8y ago
On the other hand YT is full of various Peppa Pig videos (inverted colors, mirror images and all kinds of other weird transformations). YouTube's algorithm apparently can't detect such copyright violations. And the really annoying
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by frgewut 8y ago
According to Waymo most of the miles driven are simulated ( 2.7 billion miles in 2017). That's an order of magnitude more than actual miles (25K per day)[1]. And even the actual miles mostly don't have any user input. Because of t
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by frgewut 8y ago
> Bike lanes (IMHO) have made traffic significantly worse because they're thoroughly underutilized and basically kill a lane of traffic (on the avenues at least). Underutilized bike lanes is mostly an illusion. If a bicycle lane wou
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by frgewut 8y ago
Actually WPA with pre-shared key doesn't provide any security if key is publicly known (as someone can setup mitm device). For wifi without password you should look at WPS.
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by frgewut 8y ago
They say that cars will be delivered in 2 to 4 months. Also ordering costs $2500. I thought it is common to pay full amount upfront upon ordering cars, then wait a month or two for actual delivery.
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by frgewut 8y ago
The only thing I don't understand is the renting - these things are meant for owning them. You can store scooter under desk in office or under bed in condo.
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by frgewut 8y ago
Reading from clipboard without explicit permissions would be a severe security issue.
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by frgewut 10y ago
I would say it does. According to [1] 5% of electricity is generated from oil. Also I would guess that this capacity is mostly located in places where other generation types are not available (islands, remote locations etc) and will be over
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Ride-hailing firm Lyft predicts driverless cabs in 5 years(bbc.com)
1 points by frgewut 10y ago|0 comments
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by frgewut 10y ago
Floating point rounding errors are deterministic.
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by frgewut 10y ago
Does anyone know how does the efficiency of an entire tree compare (i.e a single leaf reflects some light, which then is absorbed by another leaf)? I would guess that number should be higher than simple "photosynthesis efficiency"
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by frgewut 10y ago
Prussia was also the last paganic part of Europe.

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