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It's not good. If it were good, it wouldn't juxtapose random uncited numbers together that don't compute: > Crop yields increase 3-5× > Farmers go from $600/acre to $14,000/acre re…

That is... not what your link says at all. Rather the opposite: > Fatal atherosclerotic events were more common in the control group (70 v. 48; p greater incidence of fatal carcino…

> >>"Apple silicon-based Mac" > What does "silicon-based" - mean? What other computer is not 'silicon-based'? Read as (Apple silicon)-based.

XOR is modular addition on single bits!

> How about... OP waits until there are actual results before posting? It seems to me there's value in posting the details before the results are in: - Helps prevent publication bi…

Many of the negative comments here seem to have missed something important: > Consider this a pre-registration. I intend to share my test results here. How about, instead of totall…

Are you claiming humans would fail an ABX test between a 60Hz and a 120Hz monitor? That sounds like a pretty extraordinary claim.

You are misunderstanding. The bloom filter is only a preliminary check; if it indicates a revoked certificate, you then verify that it's a true positive the traditional way.

OP called out "skyscrapers". What counts as the precise cutoff for "tall buildings" is always going to be a matter of opinion. But I live in Cambridge, MA and I can assure you Some…

LA has an order of magnitude more population than is required for functioning public transit. But you're right they don't have the density. The key is to realize the cars themselve…

(I live in Massachusetts) 1. The appeal of the city is drastically reduced by coronavirus + remote work 2. Boston cost-of-living is really expensive Put them together and moving to…

I still remember the day I found out the "98.6 degrees" human body temperature was just an oversignificant conversion from "about 37 C, or maybe lower."

See also: Privileging the hypothesis. If I'm searching for a murderer in a town of 1000, it takes about 10 independent bits of evidence to get the right one. And when I charge some…

> total 49 deaths (.01) If you're going to report other ratios as percentages, could you please be consistent? I initially erroneously read this as 0.01% deaths, which would be an …

This is an incredibly easy problem to solve, relative to the current crisis: it only requires the federal government allocate enough money. There is some price per mask at which th…

Serious question: If the FBI and DHS are seizing PPE, where is it going? Why can't this hospital be a beneficiary of seized PPE, rather than an (almost) victim?

> Why the hell would they do this? I held the same perspective until I worked for a manufacturing company. Many of that company's products, and indeed many products throughout the …

Higher education is merely one face of Cost Disease; we've seen similar trends in medical care, transportation (especially US subways), primary education... Slate Star Codex [1] ha…

Two ideas come to mind: - You can create public pre-signed URLs with an unlimited expiration date using SigV2. I doubt SigV2 will stop working anytime soon. - Or, if you want the l…

One way to accomplish this would be to nationalize companies instead of bailing them out, right? If the taxpaying public bears the risks of your business, why shouldn't it get to s…

OP is buying puts, not selling them.

> bikers definitely have the environmental upper hand. But they do it by engaging in activity that is borderline reckless given the reality of American roads. I find it difficult t…

jwz isn't a fan of this site. Last I checked, if the referer was news.ycombinator.com, it redirected to a testicle in an egg cup.

I wrote that it was `n-1` in my comment. Doesn't seem like much of a trick to me.

This doesn't sound much like a trick[0] question to me, it just takes working out a few examples by hand to guess that it's `n-1`, and the proof isn't hard either. And the result s…