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by htag 2y ago
It's liquid helium, which I imagine just evaporates into the air.
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by htag 2y ago
I can't believe no one has mentioned the FDA toxicology lab near the town [0]. There is good reason they put the lab in the middle of impoverished no where. There has been issues with the lab in the past, including missing primates la
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by htag 2y ago
Those technologies were brand new at the time, the discussions about the problem started in 2013. The company (I had zero input) choose a more established vendor with an older product. Given the time and institutional customers that were
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by htag 2y ago
I learned SQL before I learned set theory. While learning set theory I remember thinking "oh this notation is just SQL backwards." Afterwards I began to find SQL much harder because I realized there are so many ways to mathematic
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by htag 3y ago
Maybe this is the hack for managing city growth
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by htag 3y ago
You either have an airgap or you don't.
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by htag 3y ago
The biggest problem I see is that learning usually requires effort/work and AI requires students to do less effort/work to achieve the same output. So the worry is that the quality of education received will decrease. Example: no
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by htag 3y ago
That's a valid way of testing a student's knowledge. I do think that tests somewhat different skills and knowledge than the 20+ hours I would spend on large undergraduate essays. Most critically, the longer format probably is be
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by htag 3y ago
It's absolutely inhumane to expose pregnant women to chemicals unless you are highly certain that they are safe. Clearly it would be better if we tested aspartame exposure on a smaller population and detected this effect. I'm say
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by htag 3y ago
I'm not capable of doing a full analysis on this question. I don't mean to say that this ban isn't worth doing, I meant to acknowledge that this has a downside. Let me throw out a few bullet points of those downsides of red
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by htag 3y ago
> We really need to change the regulations around the introduction of new chemical compounds to our environment on a mass scale. What specific studies should we have done to notice this association? What specific safety studies need to
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by htag 3y ago
I usually take a laissez-faire attitude towards vice, but I am strongly against sports betting because of it's inevitable impact on sport. I love the idea of the extreme meritocracy of sports and view this as threat to it's integ
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by htag 3y ago
Here is this new thing, and here is how it is different than anything else.
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by htag 3y ago
If your goal is to avoid becoming an expert in elisp then it's certainly possible while using Doom Emacs, but you're not getting the full experience.
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by htag 3y ago
Grunya Sukhareva was studying (and published about, including in English) what we would now consider Autism in the 1920s. Perhaps it is because she was a woman, or because she was a Soviet, but histories often gives this credit to Leo Kann
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by htag 3y ago
Society takes the child-incidents more seriously because of how much more vulnerable children are to predators and how much trauma a predator can inflict. We take a snip it in the bud approach with anyone involved in these crimes. I agree
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by htag 3y ago
Being able to find answers to commonly asked questions instead of making demands on people's time by asking is a huge part of maturity. It's very common for Discord servers to have a self-serve faq/resources channel. It&#x2
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by htag 3y ago
There are probably a half dozen platforms that we could declare 'good enough' and stop all major R&D in. Maybe some changes to the interior/self driving systems as those are being researched for EVs anyway. Maybe some mi
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by htag 3y ago
New construction homes are almost universally Value of Land + Cost to build structure + ~10%. The supply/demand aspect of new construction cost only factor into the value of the land, and how increased demand can cause increased labor&
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by htag 3y ago
I ride motorcycles, bicycles, and more recently e-bikes. The statistics for injury/fatality are worse than cars. However there's a few things you can do to significantly decrease risk of injury and the severity of the injury. T
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by htag 3y ago
Hate implies resistance, while acceptance has no resistance. It's this resistance that manifests itself in how they treat men in general.
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by htag 3y ago
That person has very strong emotions about gender.
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by htag 3y ago
Yours is my favorite comment, and this type of thinking is why I bother to raise this question from time to time. I don't think this invalidates the entire line of research, but I do think it's less than fully transparent to pres
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by htag 3y ago
> Following a double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group design, we demonstrated that psilocybin (0.17 mg/kg) induced a time- and construct-related differentiation of effects on creative thinking. Can we please stop pretendin
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by htag 3y ago
There's a huge amount of status put into your house too, even though there is effectively zero marketing done in the housing market. Cars are used to communicate status because: * They are expensive. For most Americans a car is in the
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by htag 3y ago
Electrification happened ~100 years ago. In 100 years it seems likely a combination of photovoltaic and storage will have rendered the grid largely moot. The electric utilities might be a natural monopoly today, but moving to nationalize i
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by htag 3y ago
> It seems that tracking the genetic mutations would provide an approximation of the computing complexity needed. How are those two even approximately related? 1. If you want to know about the amount of information inside of our genome t
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by htag 3y ago
I thought it was going to be a climate/emissions based argument. Instead it was about how disappointing being a tourist is.
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by htag 3y ago
Labour: Having people climb around roofs is dangerous, and people with dangerous work expect higher compensation. Inverter: Cost of materials, assembly, and QA. You want good stuff for the amount of current passing through. Cabling: Cablin
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by htag 3y ago
Methanol specifically is produced during the distillation process. The methanol vapors and ethanol vapors reside next to each other in the distillation column, making it a common impurity that is brought over in the distillation process.

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