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by gns24 1y ago
Although it now seems as if that was massively inaccurate, things were very near to turning out completely differently in the first days of the war: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlttS0N7uVA
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by gns24 2y ago
"A study using a complex mathematical technique claiming to cleanly isolate the effect of X and Y. I can't really follow what it's doing..." This is a frustrating type of issue. Dismissing something with "I don&#x27
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by gns24 2y ago
Yeah, I'm always a bit suspicious of apparently effective dietary changes which result in a calorie reduction - often different people report completely different dietary changes helped them, but one thing they all have in common is be
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by gns24 2y ago
I don't see why that means there's anything off. Just because most of us can't produce enough energy per unit time to maintain this pace doesn't mean that it's not the most efficient pace per unit distance. Anecdota
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by gns24 3y ago
Contrary to what the article says about habitats, some crocodiles live in fresh water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater_crocodile
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by gns24 3y ago
Yeah, the potential loading is annoying. I remember wondering why predestrian/cycle bridges were always so annoyingly narrow despite having low loads. The issue is of course that they have to be strong enough to support being crammed w
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by gns24 4y ago
I can recommend this film from one of the last commercial sail ships rounding Cape Horn in 1928 during some big storms, narrated by an experienced captain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLzBDhilDL0
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by gns24 4y ago
That sounds massively expensive. Being very generous and assuming that the piston is the length of the hole and can rise out completely, then the energy storage is still only a few times that required to pump all the water out of the hole.
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by gns24 4y ago
It's surprising how well these ships sail; although square sails are often thought of as only being effective going down wind, they sail somewhat into the wind fine. And of course, you don't have to worry about a bad gybe removing
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by gns24 4y ago
The criteria by which they consider things endangered are here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_species_(IUCN_statu...
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by gns24 5y ago
I'm more of an in-office person. The office is definitely more distracting, and I used to like working late occasionally because I had some solid focus time, but to a degree that's still true: whilst other people are online there
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by gns24 5y ago
From the employee's point of view, yes. From the company's side, not really. Which may explain to some degree why workers are more likely to feel that they're more efficient working from home - they consider the commute part
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by gns24 5y ago
Tidal energy doesn't compete with wind, it competes with energy storage. Having virtually no wind production over the whole UK for a week happens regularly; in fact this last week is a good example - production has averaged well under
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by gns24 6y ago
My hair recently went significantly less white - a significant fraction of the hairs that I vainly plucked because they were white at the tips were dark at the roots. It correlated with a significant change in diet to eat more healthily, bu
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by gns24 6y ago
Do you have some data showing that the amount of carbon stored in Siberian forests has a more significant warming effect than the methane escaping from the warming ground?
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by gns24 6y ago
Marketing/propaganda is an important part of defence. Having to actually fight will have costs. The real goal is to convince the enemy that there's no point in fighting.
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by gns24 6y ago
I assume you are referring to the approval process. I've been thinking that too. I don't want to be that person who thinks a really complicated thing should be trivial, so: Can anyone suggest why it would take weeks to approve the
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by gns24 6y ago
The actual load on ISPs has changed very little due to home working. Compared to the evening Netflix peak, the daytime usage increase is pretty small.
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by gns24 6y ago
Founder effects don't explain why this new strain took over as the dominant strain in London. Even if we suppose the chance of it being as bad as suggested is only 50%, we should panic now, rather than waiting until we have solid proof
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by gns24 6y ago
1. No, I don't have any relevant qualifications. But it's not the epidemiologists who I think are underestimating the seriousness - what's surprising me is that everyone else is largely ignoring this. I think people think 70%
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by gns24 6y ago
I think most people seem to be underestimating just how bad this is. During the recent 4-week lockdown it was already clear that something odd was going on in Kent; whilst case counts were dropping in the rest of the country, they continued
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by gns24 6y ago
No. Imagine that your heat exchanger is simply two touching pipes running parallel to each other, with flows in opposite directions. Incoming air will gradually warm up as it comes inwards, eventually being warmed by the air which has just
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by gns24 6y ago
There are already plans for massive investment in a hydrogen production plant - though obviously there are still lots of issues to be solved with that energy pipeline. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201112-th
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by gns24 6y ago
No, the results are not valid, or at least not in a useful way. The group who have received the wrong dose isn't a random sample from the treatment group, so we don't know whether it's more effective or not. It could even be
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by gns24 6y ago
The article states that the sound from Krakatoa was well over the 194dB limit.
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by gns24 6y ago
Well with case counts in the US doubling roughly every two weeks, you would expect to see the number of cases among trial participants there doubling over that period.
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by gns24 6y ago
One of the problems with UBI is that a lot of people who need support can't live off what the average person needs to live off. People with disabilities etc. may well need more, so UBI doesn't replace as much as its proponents som
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by gns24 6y ago
Once you had a basic income like this it would have the nice effect of then being able to talk about (and implement) other policies in a revenue-neutral way. For example a government interested in reducing CO2 emissions could introduce a ta
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by gns24 6y ago
In the medium-term the most promising thing out there is better, faster, easier testing. There are a number of organisations developing saliva-based tests that can return results in around an hour for a few dollars a test. Being able to tes
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by gns24 6y ago
So you're basically saying black people should just accept racism is a thing and move on? If people can, good for them. If not, I don't feel in any position to tell people that obsessing over injustices that I'm not experienc

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