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by simulate 8y ago
Thanks for these graphs! Your Voyager 1 graph [footnote 0, in the parent comment] shows two periods of particles-per-second drops to around 10 particles per second followed by a rebound and then a dramatic drop to 2 to 3 particles per secon
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by simulate 8y ago
A competitor of this business is compare.com: https://www.compare.com/ compare and cover seem similar. Both are short, common names that begins with a 'c'
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Inside the Twisted and Abusive Culture of Yasha Haddaji's Nintendo Russia(nintendolife.com)
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by simulate 8y ago
This reminds me of an 1999 article in the New Yorker by Tim Ferris called "How to Predict Anything" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/07/12/how-to-predict... > Princeton physicist J. R
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by simulate 8y ago
The Air Quality Index / Cigarette equivalence is based on the increased number of deaths from each. One cigarette is equivalent to an air pollution of 22 μg/m3 for one day. Thus, an AQI of Particles (PM2.5) of 160 (today in San Fr
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Air Pollution and Cigarette Equivalence(berkeleyearth.org)
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by simulate 8y ago
Since the parent article is about forced sterilization in Canada, here's the relevant Wikipedia article about the history of Canadian eugenics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization_in_Ca...
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How to drive a robot on Mars(phys.org)
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by simulate 8y ago
Scott Alexander wrote a short-story sequel to GATTACA on his blog SlateStarCodex this past summer that dealt with epigenetics and education that he called the GATTACA trilogy: http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/06/19&#
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by simulate 8y ago
Thanks for describing this. I wanted to see this debate myself. For others who might want to watch it, it's available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yC_dfbxQqRI
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by simulate 8y ago
Slate columnist Sara Dickerman wrote a critique of pepper as a table spice a few years ago, while acknowledging its historical medicinal qualities, as the OP does: > Why should this brawny spice be kept on the countertop at all? Why not
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Nutrition research scandal sees 6 more retractions, purging popular diet tips(arstechnica.com)
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by simulate 8y ago
Not sure what your issue with "hard to analyze" is. When compared to linear systems, nonlinear dynamical systems are hard to analyze. > Nonlinear dynamical systems, describing changes in variables over time, may appear chaoti
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by simulate 8y ago
Related discussion on HN yesterday about Mill Valley banning 5G: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17956130
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The Concorde: a supersonic airplane too advanced to survive(theatlantic.com)
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Project Cybersyn: Chile's attempt to manage its economy with cybernetics in 1973(99percentinvisible.org)
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by simulate 8y ago
This is generous of Kapwing. It's worth noting that, outside the United States and a very small number of other countries, parental leave is usually publicly funded through taxes and administered through social security. Companies can
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Map of subjective human feelings(emotion.utu.fi)
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What lives inside fog water droplets(atlasobscura.com)
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by simulate 8y ago
Both the Slatestarcodex article and the links you provided in your comment use deaths per 100,000. In fact, your article reaches a similar conclusion to Scott Alexander, that mortality is declining mainly because of smoking declining.
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by simulate 8y ago
Scott Alexander (Slatestarcodex) had a post about this earlier this month: http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/08/01/cancer-progress-much-mo... The gist of the post was that cancer rates since 1990 have gone down
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NASA's terrifying visualization of atmospheric aerosols(engadget.com)
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by simulate 8y ago
The New Yorker had a good piece about people who attend the annual flat earth convention: https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/looking-for-life-... >> He described the modern flat-Earth community as a
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The Build Out Line in US Youth Soccer: An Idea Full of Unintended Consequences(models.street-artists.org)
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New CRISPR technique lets researchers repair genetic mutation in viable embryos(futurism.com)
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by simulate 8y ago
It's very difficult to change tipping expectations. Uber unsuccessfully tried to maintain no tipping through its app. After driver complaints[1] and pressure from NYC[2] and others, Uber added tipping. [1] https://www.wired.
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by simulate 8y ago
The NIH numbers quoted above didn't use costs over the past 80 years. They instead estimated current costs based on current demographics. >> To estimate lifetime health care costs, we employ a method based on a current life table
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by simulate 8y ago
The NIH estimates that the average person uses $316k ($419k in 2018 dollars) in health care spending over an 80 year life.[1][2]. That puts the value of health insurance at $5,237 per person per year. The average health insurance deductible
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by simulate 8y ago
Radio Shack's TRS-80 had a voice synthesis box available for $399 way back in 1979: http://www.trs-80.org/trs-80-voice-synthesizer/ Here's a YouTube demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeIJx
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Earth’s Undetected ‘Mini-Moons’ Could Make for Exciting New Astronomy(gizmodo.com)
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