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I'm confused. The title says this is about the pay gap among top CEOs. But all the charts in the presentation are about payment of board members EXCLUDING the CEO. Am I missing som…

But how would you convert from 23.976 to 24? Either you will have a repeated frame once every 1000 frames, or you would need to interpolate every single frame. Surely the first sol…

I did something similar as participant in this study: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.29.21265530v... The effects, with a 60000 lumen setup, were remarkable. Winter…

"Do not prevent spreading" suggests a kind of black-and-white perspective. This is not about fully preventing, it's about reducing the risk. Vaccines substantially reduce the risk …

The go-to book for this problem is "The Worry Cure" by Robert Leahy. The book starts out by explaining why many popular methods for fighting worry are actually ineffective or count…

I found this summary of Long Covid research quite intriguing and nuanced: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/long-covid-much-more-t...

Reaction time is something entirely different from being able to notice latency. Read the article, it's addressed there.

Small changes to personal consumption are not the best way to contribute to fighting climate change. A significantly more effective actionstep would be to donate a small portion of…

Small changes to personal consumption are not the best way to contribute to fighting climate change. A significantly more effective actionstep would be to donate a small portion of…

What do you mean? Why can't we receive signals from more than "100 hundred light year" away?

The question is not the distance travelled but how quickly you need to react. If you're gimballing a rocket engine, this is not going to be a device that can do much movement withi…

It is surprisingly difficult to make timekeeping unavailable. There are many methods, besides the official timer APIs, to get timing - as outlined in the paper "Fantastic Timers an…

It's the same thing with helicopters, they need more power to hover than to fly forwards. It's called translational lift. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translational_lift

Noise cancelling, in order to work really well, requires extremely fast processing and microphones that are directly on the ears. And then you need earphones with very well-defined…

Wait, you're not talking about the same thing as the comment you responded to. Parent comment was about managed Nextcloud hosting.

> It's actually suspected that the whole epidemic in Europe originated from the first confirmed infection in Germany. According to virologist Dr. Drosten, this idea has been mostly…

Perhaps it's a good idea to place copper tape on all door handles and other frequently touched objects. It's certainly very cheap to do so. Here's some discussion on that idea with…

> Given crabs in general have been around adapting for 145m years, I do not think the current levels will be detrimental. That argument often comes up when discussing wildlife impa…

> Why is VC funding so down the rank compared to self funding, friends and family, angels and even debt? This is not a representative sample of all SaaS businesses out there. It wa…

Then at the very least, you should be able to simulate a biological brain, neuron by neuron, and get an intelligent computer that way. If you agree that's possible, you also have t…

According to a two-year-old study, the opposite will happen and climate change will weaken wind energy. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/11/global-w...

There have been studies predicting the opposite. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/11/global-w...