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Comment · 9 months ago
Author is probably Australian, I would use the same words.

Just checked linkedIn, yep they are from NSW.

Comment · 9 months ago
How did you manage meaningful attitude control with only torque rods? They would need to big (read: heavy) to be useful — was this just stabilising in inertial frame or active pointing? Mag dipoles in chassis and components tend to lock tumbling satellites into the Earth’s magnetic field. Did you see this? Or did you see atmospheric drag dominate at this altitude?
Comment · 11 months ago
If you’ve read the book, they stressed many times that this was irrelevant to the model and also probably untrue
Comment · 11 months ago
Hmmm.

> the listening circuit must also be tuned to resonate at the expected frequency of proton precession, which will depend on Earth’s magnetic field at your location

> the frequency of these tones matches the magnetic field at my location to about 1 percent

I don’t doubt the physics, but I’m not sure about the experiment design. Being able to hear the correct frequency may just mean you’ve built an oscillator and tuned it.

Comment · 11 months ago
I think the URL is telling
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Sorry for snooping—if this is about Foxtel, they were also sold to a UK company this year right?

I guess you’d expect some staff turnover, but not mass layoffs.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Not really, this is still a point of debate among vegan communities. Many of us have no moral issue with food grown using animal-derived biotech, as this does not require animal agriculture at all
Comment · 1 year ago
1. Observations of genetic drift and biodiversity are consistent with our model of evolution at every scale. This model is the best fit to the data regardless of politics and media

2. Our ability to replicate something gives zero information on its origin. I’m not sure I understand the algorithm comment

3. Sure, GP simplified a bit too much there. Your comment is consistent with modern models of evolution. Each genome has a pool of random variations, which may or may not be expressed in an organism. Each organism is a test of those gene expressions. A genome changes over time when an organism passes this test (e.g. reproduces), increasing the expression of its genes across the population. This occurs in parallel for many possible variations.

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Ah, I should have read the rest of your comment first, but I’ll leave this here anyway. I don’t think your explanation is valid— we are biologically and socially primed for religious ideology, but its use as a world model is very limited. We will eventually find answers to these questions, as the ratchet of scientific progress clicks along. Religion has never been useful in the same way

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Comment · 2 years ago
(Non-consensual sacrifices)
Comment · 2 years ago
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Comment · 2 years ago
The article is proposing the latter. Low AVP could contribute to symptoms of ASD. If this is true, they expect a positive correlation between ASD and other better-known issues caused by low AVP.

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