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Trumpet6

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    Comment #9465962

    Radio interference from man made sources is the biggest issue for radio telescopes in the traditional radio band. So it's not really the weather that decides, but the crappy radio …

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    Comment #9410055

    Indeed, its an "Artist concept of Ganymede and Jupiter"[1], which only further highlights the pointlessness of having an collection of space images without any metadata. [1]: http:…

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    Comment #9385021

    Most of the examples of the brevity of the old style seem to be quite unconcerned with actual formatting. Honestly I just do simple print "Hello: " + a when I'm not too picky, and …

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    Comment #9319434

    Well no, the biggest risk is falls according to a CERN safety presentation from this year: https://indico.cern.ch/event/383674/contribution/6/material/... (page 42) (Handling is pr…

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    Comment #9293676

    Early on the author states "the Fed is keeping them low. That’s true only in a very narrow sense." He then proceeds to stay in this narrow sense, while explaining the theoretical f…

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    Comment #9279256

    The shield is completely OP, camp that and you'll win every match.

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    Comment #9276991

    Piketty's big contribution is the creation of time series of top wealth distribution going back to the ~1850. In the linked paper, all the time series start at 1960 at the earliest…

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    Comment #9231536

    With a discussion centered on ability, but no attempt to define this nebulous concept, it seems impossible for this argument to be "true" in any strong sense. To begin with, this d…

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    Comment #9231244

    A survey (published in Science[1]) of ~1800 academics across 30 disciplines in the US saw a non-significant positive correlation between estimates of how selective a department is …