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I thought testing against placebo was a standard procedure in medicine and without such testing treatments wouldn't even be approved.

> I don’t think it is an accident that the world’s top female boxer is Norwegian rather than say Italian. You mean the Colombia born Cecilia Brækhus? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

Atmospheric reentry is more than 1g https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-acceleration-of-the-space-...

I would interpret it as "fallen horizontally" with a lot of braking happening lately in the atmosphere.

Slightly offtopic, but most easiest way for detecting tampering with hardware is weighing stuff.

Couldn't you measure star motion over longer periods of time, then even minuscule amounts of motion could be detected.

I have started to view "baseload" generation more in a negative sense (as in "can't be easily turned on/off"). Also the daytime/nighttime power consumption differs almost twice, so…

Mosquito net is the first thing that comes to mind. Then EM pulse weapons, lasers etc.

How much energy is actually transferred from car to cyclist? Records with too strong assisting wind often are not recognized. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_assistance

I suspect publicity created by this will easy recoup all expenses.

There are also "partly electrified" possibility e.g. only 10% of track electrified (stations for example). Trains can recharge batteries or supercapacitators there from wire. There…

But the Statue of Liberty in Las Vegas apparently is a creative replica. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/arts/statue-of-liberty-st...

It's actually a real problem. Most browser games are still Flash - meaning I can't play most of them.

But then your birthday date would fluctuate.

Bugs can happen. One of the first scenarios that comes to mind - some implementation queries API for every key press. Suddenly you are sending your password out. I guess time will …

Of course satellite manufacturing is only a small part of the satellite industry. I updated comment to reflect that.

Actually launch industry is minuscule compared to satellites ($5.5B for launch industry vs $13B only for satellite manufacturing) Edit: and then of course there is the satellites s…

On the other hand YT is full of various Peppa Pig videos (inverted colors, mirror images and all kinds of other weird transformations). YouTube's algorithm apparently can't detect …

According to Waymo most of the miles driven are simulated ( 2.7 billion miles in 2017). That's an order of magnitude more than actual miles (25K per day)[1]. And even the actual mi…

> Bike lanes (IMHO) have made traffic significantly worse because they're thoroughly underutilized and basically kill a lane of traffic (on the avenues at least). Underutilized bik…

Actually WPA with pre-shared key doesn't provide any security if key is publicly known (as someone can setup mitm device). For wifi without password you should look at WPS.