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by pge 3mo ago
With the caveat that it’s been almost 30 years since I worked on neutrino oscillation, and I was just a student at the time, the way to detect neutrino oscillation is to look at the ratio of different kinds of neutrinos. If those ratios are
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by pge 4mo ago
To what extent is the design a response to the constraints imposed by the electric drivetrain? The car is built around the engine. An EV has a large battery and small motor(s), while a gasoline sports car has a big engine in the front. I&#
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by pge 6mo ago
Not the OP but have a 20-year-old car. The relevant calculation is not cost of annual repair v value of car, but rather annual cost vs annual cost of a new car. Even if you amortize the upfront cost of a new car over 20 years, the increased
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by pge 8mo ago
I get that - the question is why CMS would have addresses for undocumented immigrants at all (assuming for the moment it is only undocumented that they are looking for). Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for Medicaid, so how and why
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by pge 8mo ago
What is not clear to me from the article is what data they are getting from CMS. The article references Medicaid data, but everyone that has access to Medicaid is legally present in the country. They have to be to qualify. Some possiblities
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by pge 9mo ago
The Enquirer also broke the John Edwards (vice-presidential candidate) affair story well before mainstream media picked it up. That doesn't make up for the reckless and sometimes completely nutso stories they print, but it is a reminde
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by pge 10mo ago
There’s a reason for this. Prices that force cashiers to make change force them to run the transaction through the cash register so it is recorded, and the amount in the register can be checked at the end of a day or shift to detect theft.
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by pge 1y ago
For navigation, having the poles at top and bottom is really the only way to do it. Lining up positions of constant noon sun angle along a horizontal line (i.e. latitude line) makes the paper map correspond nicely to the navigational inform
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by pge 1y ago
I would add to your list that MSFT also makes decent hardware now - surface laptops and xbox have both done well
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by pge 1y ago
I would add that (having simulated this problem in code myself), the reason you have bad outcomes is that you run out of candidates and take a bad one because you have no choice. In real life, at some point you would grab a decent candidate
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by pge 1y ago
We can agree to disagree. People said cycling would be clean after the '98 Festina affair because all eyes were on them. All that happened was that teams (that could afford it) switched from EPO to blood doping. The next Tour after eve
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by pge 1y ago
I would argue that history suggests this is likely. The dopers have substantially more financial resources than the testers. EPO is a great example. It was widely used in cycling for almost 10 years before tests were developed. It was pre
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by pge 1y ago
It's pretty impressive (and not always widely known) how much cold water impairs swimming ability. There are some good videos on this site - coldwatersafety.org - of Coast Guard volunteers trying to swim in 45deg water. They lose motor
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by pge 1y ago
The administration’s letter to Harvard (which they later claimed to have sent in error) made it clear that their intent is to root out what they perceive as liberal ideological bias at Harvard - nothing really to do with Israel, that was ju
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by pge 1y ago
The Norman invasion of England in 1066 led to extensive introduction of French vocabulary into English. That's a large part of the reason English has so many Latin cognates that you don't see in German (and German also has been pu
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by pge 1y ago
I feel like this is not talked about enough. SAFEs are not the trouble-free investment vehicle that many people seem to think they are.
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by pge 1y ago
The current administration has set targets for numbers of people deported(which ICE is currently behind on). That creates an incentive to skip due process in order to get more people deported more quickly (and the awareness that there will
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by pge 1y ago
That part of the Pacific is very sheltered by islands so it is often fairly calm. The First Nations people have hunted and traveled in canoes there for many generations (unlike the Inuit on the eastern arctic and in Greenland that used seal
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by pge 1y ago
If you watch the video at the end of the article, you may get a better sense of it
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by pge 2y ago
what about the Snapdragon? Microsoft is using in their ARM laptops
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by pge 2y ago
three selfish reasons everyone should be in favor of expanded medicaid (ie in favor of everyone having access to healthcare): * healthy people are able to work and pay taxes * when people don’t have access to regular care, they end up in th
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by pge 2y ago
There are still a lot of low-income patients that are not covered by medicaid
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by pge 2y ago
Three or four years ago, I would have agreed with your statement about ICE vehicles. Now I question it, at least for the US market. The initial wave of EVs that followed Tesla’s success has ebbed. American manufacturers are dropping, rather
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by pge 2y ago
In case anyone is interested, the full text of Paradise Lost with helpful annotations is available online at Dartmouth: https://milton.host.dartmouth.edu/reading_room/pl/intro/text...
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by pge 2y ago
I lived in an apartment in Frankfurt that still had this. The bathtub/shower was in the kitchen with just a curtain separating it (toilet with sink was in a separate room). With two roommates in the apartment, it made for some awkward
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by pge 2y ago
Your definition is much closer to Rawls’s vision of a just society and the “veil of ignorance.” While heavily influenced by Kant, Rawls comes much later. Kant’s Categorical Imperative was an attempt to define moral laws (without resorting t
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by pge 2y ago
yes, 30 seconds of math would have told me that, but I foolishly jumped in without doing that calculation…
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by pge 2y ago
This reminds of the time I decided to teach one of my kids about computer programming, and suggested we write a program to solve a rubik's cube as an example (rubik's cubes were popular at her school at the time). Only after we ha
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by pge 2y ago
As an American growing up in the late 70s/early 80s, we called all die-cast metal cars “matchbox cars,” even though many (all?) of them were Hot Wheels. I never knew there were two competing brands.
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by pge 2y ago
But they also all use it!

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