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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/Cecilia_Br%C3%A6khus

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 almost any solar added only smoothens out the difference.

Also the new offshore wind turbines (>10MW) offer some extraordinary capacity factors (~60%). Makes me wonder what these capacity factors could be if we could get to 20MW turbines.

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 already are such existing light rail lines.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_electric_multiple_unit

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 tell, but human-generated passwords have proven their ineffectiveness anyway.

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 services which the report estimates in hundreds of billions $.

[1] https://www.sia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/SIA-SSIR-2017...

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 such copyright violations. And the really annoying part is that these videos often rank higher than the original ones.

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 miles mostly don't have any user input.

Because of this I'm leaning towards thinking waymo isn't trying to mimic actual human input.

[1] https://waymo.com/

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 bike lanes is mostly an illusion. If a bicycle lane would be 100% utilized that would mean tens of thousands of people traveling each day. Probably equal to capacity of multiple car lanes.

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.

They say that cars will be delivered in 2 to 4 months. Also ordering costs $2500.

I thought it is common to pay full amount upfront upon ordering cars, then wait a month or two for actual delivery.

The only thing I don't understand is the renting - these things are meant for owning them. You can store scooter under desk in office or under bed in condo.

Reading from clipboard without explicit permissions would be a severe security issue.

I would say it does. According to [1] 5% of electricity is generated from oil. Also I would guess that this capacity is mostly located in places where other generation types are not available (islands, remote locations etc) and will be overtaken by solar before coal.

Then also there is EV+solar combo (solar owners are more inclined to get ev and vice versa).

[1] http://www.tsp-data-portal.org/Breakdown-of-Electricity-Gene...

Floating point rounding errors are deterministic.

Does anyone know how does the efficiency of an entire tree compare (i.e a single leaf reflects some light, which then is absorbed by another leaf)?

I would guess that number should be higher than simple "photosynthesis efficiency".

Prussia was also the last paganic part of Europe.

If someone could eliminate their $50-$100 internet access bill it could be a huge motivator.

In Eastern Europe you often would get an entree (soup or salad), main dish and dessert.