icegreentea2

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by icegreentea2 12d ago
It's not just a question of belief, it's also a question of their information environment. The polarization in the electorate isn't just a question of what people believe, but what information their fed. Unfortunately, inform
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by icegreentea2 18d ago
There's some discussion about a similar launch ~10 years ago (in that case going to L1) https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/2vb5kv/1second_laun...
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by icegreentea2 26d ago
The blog link describes the cleanup process. They take two pictures, each taking up half the total observation period. If you subtract the two images, the deltas should be the cosmic ray flashes. You can then subtract those out. They use tw
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by icegreentea2 2mo ago
The study and the summary do not "assume" that the cause was inbreeding. They both assert that inbreeding could be a cause. The article says "The team suspects these deformities and tumors indicate a lengthy history of inbree
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by icegreentea2 2mo ago
Yes-ish. There's a lot of different and overlapping programs in play here. I do not believe that autonomous F-16s are intended to be operational assets. That said... VENOM - program that shows you can bolt on autonomous flight control
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by icegreentea2 2mo ago
Well, for caffeine you might... at least in the short term. But to be more specific: * Protein supplements make it easier for your body to get the protein required for whatever demand you're putting on it. You need higher protein intak
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by icegreentea2 2mo ago
Uh, dunno if I'd say that BW is dominated by "the young". Top 4 at the latest ASL are all born before 1995 - they're all millennials. None of them are from the first generation of BW pros, but they've been in the ga
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by icegreentea2 2mo ago
I don't think Bret (the author of ACOUP) omits drought - he leads his section on plausible theories with "period of drying and consistent crop failures". While Bret dismisses the out to in migration/invasion theory, he d
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by icegreentea2 2mo ago
Unclear how China will react to orbital/near-orbital launches that track near/over China in a hot war situation. If I were China, I'd probably be backdoor signalling that they would consider these launches to be potential nuc
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by icegreentea2 2mo ago
The paper is an analysis performed on a larger dataset. No one created or ran a 15 year study on egg consumption. Someone ran a 15 year study that included dietary survey questions that happened to include eggs, and then someone other group
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by icegreentea2 2mo ago
This map which combines population density and time zones makes some of the decisions more clear I think - https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/7vvlgz/contiguous_... The reality is that a lot of cou
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by icegreentea2 2mo ago
I think it's very fair to say that the mechanics of science is about creating and selecting ever more predictive models that explain observations. So that's the how and what. But what about the why? Why do we seek ever more predic
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by icegreentea2 2mo ago
JWST has 4 different instruments on it. While they all share the same focusing mirrors, but otherwise are 4 different measurement devices. For the red dot observations, I believe this things have been measured by at least 3 of the 4 devices
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by icegreentea2 3mo ago
From a rational standpoint, I don't understand how investors could feel betrayed by a pivot that involves creating two ovens to eventually allow the founder to capture 10% of the market. Functionally, I can't imagine a single inve
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by icegreentea2 3mo ago
I like this part: The founder gets angry. He promised the VCs 10% of Spain’s oven market. The entire market. “We can’t sacrifice any of them.” It’s not just greed. The 5 million was raised with the entire market on the slide. The founder is
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by icegreentea2 3mo ago
OP is talking about Canada's supply management system in place in some areas (including eggs). Supply management is a government system that basically puts all large scale production of these items under both a quota system (farmers ne
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by icegreentea2 3mo ago
Didn't find the full study, but what I'm pretty sure is a preprint is here: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.05.25326994v... One thing to note and I guess might be a bit of the puzzle is t
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by icegreentea2 4mo ago
That's not what the article, or the paper backing it claims. The paper ( https://circulareconomyjournal.org/ojs/JoCE/article/view/250 ) is about quantifying the environmental impact of material losses
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by icegreentea2 4mo ago
In case you missed it, that was a joke. There is infact an Army Corps of Engineers that is responsible for exactly what the comment suggested (amongst a lot of other things). The Army Corps of Engineers has its prominent civil engineering r
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by icegreentea2 4mo ago
Can you clarify? Do you mean that superconducting qubits are unable to perform the "real applications" theoretically, or that superconducting qubits at the scale this foundry could produce will be unable, or that superconducting
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by icegreentea2 4mo ago
Some other interviews/blurbs from the authors (from their Universities): https://politicalscience.ku.dk/about/news/2026/banal-but-bru... https://www.hertie-school.org/en/news/de
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by icegreentea2 4mo ago
A libertarian society doesn't coddle you, but it still accepts that the state has monopoly of force, and it accepts that the state needs to be fair and predictable. I think the author's fear would be that we currently live in an i
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by icegreentea2 5mo ago
From https://web.mit.edu/16.unified/www/FALL/thermodynamics/notes... All other things equal, range varies proportionately with efficiency. Ie, if you have 500km range at 50% overall efficiency, then at 6
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by icegreentea2 5mo ago
This might be interesting: https://www.nationalacademies.org/read/23490/chapter/6 Thermodynamic efficiency (which is what turbine blades enable) has increased from ~30 to 55% over the last 50-60 years. The bo
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by icegreentea2 5mo ago
This is a phys.org "article". They're usually just rehashed press releases, and this one is particularly bad - it's literally just the NASA press release with the last 2 paragraphs chopped off. https://www.nas
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by icegreentea2 5mo ago
Uhhh... editor/author/LLM was asleep here. There are 4 sentinel-1 sats in orbit, but one of them has been decommissioned because of system failure... as the article itself states.
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by icegreentea2 5mo ago
There is a generalized military response in place (CTF-151 via UN). The insurance based scheme tends to work because it's basically dealing with "leakers". UNCLOS permits any country to intervene in case of piracy. Because pi
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by icegreentea2 5mo ago
As other people have noted, Somali piracy is not "new". It's been happening since the 90s (Somali Civil war and failed international interventions). There were, and still are multinational (basically chartered by the UN) nava
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by icegreentea2 5mo ago
There are two broad reasons why the US has troops in Germany (and in Europe overall). 1. Because the Europeans wanted them there. NATO was a big security blanket, and certainly since the end of the cold war, up to say... 2014, America -want
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by icegreentea2 5mo ago
The articles mention withdrawing a BCT (which is ~4000 people) form Germany. The US currently has 2 BCTs "fully" in Germany. The 2nd Cav Regiment (a Stryker unit.. so infantry mounted on 8x8 APCs) and an Armoured BCT on 9 month ro

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