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by tamcap 8mo ago
This clarification is missing from many others sources (such as the AP one I saw from a local news source): https://www.wral.com/news/ap/9b8df-us-drops-the-number-of-va... . What you are describing is a somewhat r
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by tamcap 8mo ago
The thesis was known from the very beginning. The rest is just window dressing to justify the outcome. I still scratch my head about some no-brainer vaccines such as HPV. All upsides, prevents the literal cancer. No downsides.
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by tamcap 11mo ago
> It has a cruise speed of about 200 km/h ($124$ mph), a payload of $350$ kg ($770$ lbs), and a range of approximately 300 km ($186$ miles) While it’s a real plane, I think we can both agree this is more of a prototype than
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by tamcap 11mo ago
You can use a turbine to generate electricity, so yes, you are converting potential energy into electrical potential. However, no real mass produced passenger plane today can use that electricity for flight (thrust). RAT is only used when s
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by tamcap 11mo ago
Not really. While you have a large potential energy buildup at a higher altitude, you cannot "bank it" / "save it" on descent. There is no way to store it in batteries or convert it back into fuel. One of the challe
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by tamcap 2y ago
Many airports (in the US, at least) make much more money from parking fees than everything else. On top of that, at least some operate their retail in a royalties model too (ie 20% of all sales goes to the airport, before any costs). Thus,
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by tamcap 2y ago
> Reviewers can be professors, PhD students, etc. and are paid by the journal for their time. Most journals do not pay for reviewers time. There are some experiments that allow for this, but I would say 99% of the reviews out there are d
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by tamcap 3y ago
It's possible they checked before (and the article suggests they had an inclination where the gene should be) but the resultant backcrosses involved a spontaneous recombination of the relevant fragment. It's possible someone check
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by tamcap 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr . He was a fascinating man, relatively non-famous. Probably singlehandedly contributed to more environmental damage than you can imagine. Died in a strange way too.
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by tamcap 3y ago
* overhead - people cost a lot of money: this includes ongoing maintenance of the tech stack, including rewrites of obsolete parts, but also ops cost - preprinting can include more than one human touchpoint * converting PDFs to HTML is an a
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by tamcap 4y ago
Magically using billions of federal money to hold assets to maturity is a bailout. If hypothetical JPMorgan is willing to pay for the (ie) bonds $20B, but they "support" $25B of deposits... that $5B is a bailout. Even if in 10 yea
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by tamcap 4y ago
Happy to report that it actually has happened in the end.
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by tamcap 4y ago
In their defense, if the backup requires accessing archive tape drive records, long processing queues in non-scalable systems, etc - this could easily take 24 "physical" hours of things getting lined up correctly. It's one th
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by tamcap 4y ago
I've been waiting for an archive of my data for 3 days now. And my activity on Twitter is probably bottom 25%.
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by tamcap 4y ago
I think the US needs an honest assessment about the cost of such high degree of car centricity. There are layers of laws and regulations establishing car as a dominant method of transport, and actively discriminating against everything else
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by tamcap 4y ago
Then you end up with a problem of clear cutting "useless woods" in order to install solar panels. While I don't think the French solution is flawless, it introduces an interesting dynamic. Generally, I am against large surfac
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by tamcap 4y ago
Did he? > I paid off all my debts, bills and rent, and the cold realization hit me: I had nothing left over to show for it.
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by tamcap 4y ago
That's SBAS/WAAS! another cool thing This is trying to measure ionosphere disturbances which affect signal propagation rates via ground reference stations. The real-time model is then calculated and distributed using ground statio
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by tamcap 4y ago
> how do you measure your own gps “accuracy”? Because GPS is way cool. First, there is the official site: https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/performance/accuracy/ I am far from being an expert, but being
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by tamcap 4y ago
quoting: "A few examples of protected concerted activities are: Two or more employees addressing their employer about improving their pay. Two or more employees discussing work-related issues beyond pay, such as safety concerns, with e
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by tamcap 4y ago
It's easy to agree that number of papers published is a poor indicator of "quality" or "quantity" of raw science generated... but we hardly have anything better. Publication record is the currency at the moment. And
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by tamcap 5y ago
"another major beneficiary would be the environment, specifically when operating in urban centers" But you see, they don't care. If there is no incentive for them to do it, why would they? Good neighborhood-will will pay for
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by tamcap 5y ago
This is a valid point, but I think ignores amount of public health resources "spent" on trying to address vaccine hesitancy and healthcare resources addressing "unnecessary" hospitalization and complications. Now imagine
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by tamcap 5y ago
I think you just answered your own question ;-) .
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by tamcap 5y ago
RE: your last sentence. High dose supplementation of vitamin D should be done after consulting with your doctor (like you did). As a fat soluble vitamin, our bodies sometimes struggle to dispose of the excess. Therefore a person with "
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by tamcap 5y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/avis#Old_French Wiktionary says it comes from Latin. In English "advise", alas, not used in the common language in regards to mail, like it is used in Polish (and Czech?).
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by tamcap 5y ago
As an immigrant in the US from Central Europe, I am blown away by how much time American children spend on extracurriculars vs academics (at least based on what I see around me). My extracurriculars in high school were maaaybe 5 hours a wee
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by tamcap 5y ago
Said it is the company policy to not use certain competitor's products, and it was neither time not place to drill down further. How it's enforced, I have no idea.
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by tamcap 5y ago
From an outsider's perspective: AWS has a strong anti-google-tools policy. I appreciate Chrome is listed at all ;-) One time I tried to have a video call with someone higher up in AWS, and they were unable to join a Google Meet call we
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by tamcap 5y ago
He got a "at least 2 years" ban, to be exact. The 2 years is the punishment for the post. Then, at the end of those 2 years, fb will evaluate the restrictions you quoted, and re-assess if further ban is necessary.

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