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Because it comes in at a different frequency versus when it goes out. Light, including UV and visible light, hits the ground, then the ground gets warm and radiates in the IR, whic…

They may be referring to the meningitis vaccine: https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj.o997

Perovskites break down when exposed to moisture, so while I do think you could DIY a solar cell pretty easily, it wouldn't last long. There are ways around the moisture problem, bu…

Sorry for the paywall, but I was reminded of this article in the Economist about the popularity of the Toyota Prius in Mongolia. One reason is low prices, but another is that they …

"By working with the police department in Chandler, AZ, for example, Waymo has been able to train its cars to yield, pull over, or stop when it hears or sees sirens." [1] [1] https…

They will pull over.

I think you make a good point, but there's a big difference between the amount of waste produced and the amount of waste that makes it into the natural environment, as opposed to a…

If your flight time is half, you can run twice as many flights per day with the same plane, which halves your amortized capital cost per flight. That doesn't get you all the way th…

Actually, we have some very advanced materials which I know from personal experience can hold concentrated sulphuric acid for years! Here is an example of a container made from thi…

Do we know yet if CloudFlare has similar rate limits?

SendGrid has a newsletter/marketing product called "Marketing Campaigns" that's worth a look, it satisfies those three requirements.

I'm talking about the raw reads, which is important if you want to try a different alignment or base-calling method. You can debate how important it is to be able to do that, but I…

It's not generally a significant effect, unsubscribe rates tend to be well under 1%. Most people just ignore emails they don't want.

An RNA sequencing run generates on the order of 10GB of data, a typical study requires many runs (treatments, controls, replication of results, etc), and posting the raw data is re…

The author is making a distinction between whether Uber was legally at fault (as stated in the article, likely not) versus whether the accident was avoidable. I agree with the auth…

Not arguing that you shouldn't pay close attention to safety considerations, but many of those optimizations are necessary for Tesla because they have constraints that would be eas…

The woman cannot go from being "not in path" to "in path" instantaneously unless you believe in teleportation. Supposing the woman got about 1 foot into the path of the car before …

I wonder if it's because Uber algorithms are trained using Uber driver data (taxi drivers tend to be very aggressive drivers).

Lots of comments pointing out how obvious it is that the paper was not typeset with real LaTeX, but I think that's a little beside the point. Scott isn't arguing that it looks 100%…

You’re setting up a bit of a false dichotomy, in my opinion. Treating something like a black box doesn’t mean you have to “throw up our hands and claim to know nothing whatsoever.”…

Anecdotally, I've found the opposite. People who are smart tend to be good at lots of things.

I'll propose a theory: very loud, low frequency sounds actually create small vibrations in your eyes, and most brains have learned to pipe this sensory input to the auditory cortex…

I know you're already getting a torrent of anecdotes right now, but I really think it's important not to sweep this under the rug. I have a co-worker who lives in a nice suburban n…

I had a slightly different issue (non-traditional major for the field I was trying to get into), but I found that it significantly improved my response rates to put my education se…