mr_overalls

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by mr_overalls 4mo ago
Sometimes the brain’s auditory cortex can 'misfire' and create sounds or voices that feel 100% real, even when there's no outside signal. It’s actually a documented medical phenomenon. Comparing this to Dachau suggests you’re
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by mr_overalls 10mo ago
If we're talking about objects in the asteroid belt, the internal consistency varies wildly. Most smaller objects are indeed rubble piles: boulders, pebbles, and sand-like grains, down to dust. As you'd expect, they're very w
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by mr_overalls 1y ago
It's just astounding to see a scientific superpower destroy itself intentionally.
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by mr_overalls 2y ago
Nah, the businessman was probably in a more urban area, and he likely came into contact with a person (or contaminated item) who had recently been in the extremely rural area of outbreak.
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by mr_overalls 4y ago
Aren't multi-stage rockets essentially "lifting fuel into orbit"?
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
Russia has has something 130,000 troops positioned just outside Ukraine's borders and in Belarus. They have tanks, missile systems, amphibious landing ships, medical units, established supply lines, etc. They actually invaded Ukraine i
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
This. I live in Madison, Wisconsin (aka, the "Berkeley of the Midwest") where tattoos and facial piercings are absolutely the norm - even my kids' daycare teachers openly sport them. When I return to my small Mississippi home
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
The United States is still the only country in the developed world without a system of universal healthcare. Breathlessly comparing the USSR's economic policies with the raising of taxes to cover such a fundamental service betrays a st
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
Also TMI (and let's be honest: mega-creepy) I can tell when women are menstruating with about 90%+ accuracy if we share small-ish indoor space for a few minutes. (As confirmed by female family members.) It's not so much an obvious
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
Required reading: "Stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans" by George Becker et al https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-642-4034...
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
Speaking of "the public" as a single entity is about as useful as approximating a curve with a straight line - i.e. unless it's the most trivial case, it's oversimplified to the point of being doomed to failure. The publ
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
> they are definitely black hats Both intelligence agencies and cyber-criminals can be considered threats, but they are quite different. Intel agencies would present a serious threat to confidentiality, but are very unlikely to threaten
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
I would not so quick to judge the circumstances surround their divorce. There are quite serious allegations of physical and financial abuse lasting for years. https://www.gofundme.com/f/helping-a-friend-in-hiding
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
Not saying you're wrong, but. . . who actually knows what actual top-grade INS is doing these days? Those kinds of capabilities would probably be Top Secret or SCI.
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
> the tribe that reacts to any criticism of public health experts with hostility and threats of violence. . . The thing with playing syntactic games like this is that your altered sentence. . . isn't actually true. The two sides in
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
7) A purely phenomenological viewpoint (such as the one held by some schools of Mahayana Buddhism) would claim that the only reality is one's own mind. The steel block along with all other aspects of perceived reality, are akin to a ma
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
> The last time the battlefield was insanely lethal people just dig trenches to even survive the day. Trench warfare proliferated when a revolution in firepower was unmatched by similar advances in mobility. Most likely, ongoing advances
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
Okay, I'll admit I had the same reflexive skepticism to your initial comment as the person you're replying to. . . and your very well-reasoned, detailed response is emblematic of the reasons I keep coming back to HN.
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
At some point when designing a data store, decisions must be made with regards to memory layouts, integrity, transaction guarantees, ease of replication, etc. These choices typically involve reliability vs performance tradeoffs for various
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
> radically different approaches Exactly. Relational databases are fantastic general tools, but various use cases can make more specialized data stores the best choice for a particular job. Document stores, key-value stores, column-orien
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
> Siphoning off potential and sabotaging developing countries through human resource poaching called "immigration" You think immigration should be illegal? > Government theft and fractional enslavement through taxation You r
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
I don't know if I would go that far. University education usually involves a ton of general-education classes for the first two years: English, science, history, math, basic science, etc. High school quality is quite uneven in the US,
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
Choosing to risk catching a disease with a 1-2% case fatality rate, while refusing an overwhelmingly safe and effective vaccine is the definition of idiocy.
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
I don't see where LeGuin's argument is anything like "we shouldn't grow past where we are now". She's arguing (rather imprecisely, since she's not an economist) against a narrow version of uncontrolled eco
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
> how does covid transmit It seems likely that they were drinking sewage-contaminated water. Ingestion of contaminated water is the source of a staggering variety of illnesses for both humans and animals. Souce: I work in environmental m
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
A high ceiling _does_ mean that a modern A/C system has a larger volume of air to cool. And when people renovate high-ceiling houses, installing a "drop ceiling" is very common. But when fans and cross-ventilation are the pri
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
The final comments on "AC architecture" are quite interesting. In my childhood home, the American South, pre-1950's housing is highly optimized for cooling. High ceilings, transoms, pier foundations, tin roofs, etc. When Hurr
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
> This new way of thinking — progressivism is probably the fairest term — is far less tolerant than liberalism. Indeed, in its hostility to freedom of speech, its Manichean worldview, its suspicion that its opponents are fascists, and th
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
Several university laboratories are still actively researching biochar and provide snapshots of the current thinking regarding its usefulness: https://whitmanlab.soils.wisc.edu/faqs/ http://www.css.cornell.e
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
Fluid mechanics is a standard course in many undergraduate engineering curriculum. A quick Google search reveals lots of open-source and downloadable pdfs of printed texts. https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks&#

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