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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, thank you. I stopped reading when it started to talk about someone else 9 years later, I thought it would be some other controversy. I wish he crowdsourced the $150 though. I wonder how many citations it could have gotten...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

And how did it end? Was it published? Did they get off the fucking mailing list? Wikipedia doesn't say.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

I think pokemon used to be an oncosuppressor gene, but since its mutations caused cancer, Pokemon owners threatened (or mayvbe even sued), until the name was changed.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

The reason for the 50 years of oil, as I heard it explained, is that this is how far ahead the oil companies plan. They look for enough oil to cover the timeframe they plan for. When they have that covered, they don't look, until they need more. When they need more, they go and find it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use Pocketbook. It opens just about anything - epub, mobi, pdf, pdb, and many more formats. Just get a book anywhere and copy it via USB. Or send it as an email attachment to your special address and it will download automatically. You can even replace the reading app with another relatively easily, if you want.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Not everyone feels the need to read such articles. I'm glad for this summary. Provided it's true, but it's entirely believable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Frankly? Yes, a bit. I wouldn't have expected Tesla to make it that high and I would expect Google somewhere near the top. And I guess it focused only on american companies, or I would be much more surprised.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I didn't check the calculation, but I guess it assumes perfect conversion of motion to heat. But it's good to know that if you can get a perfectly static chicken, you can hypersonic-slap it cooked.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Yes. Behind the toilet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Do they actually work? I don't have actual experience, but I heard that they are only used by people who might benefit from them and thus the authors are automatically suspicious to the reviewer, plus you almost always cite your previous papers in a pretty obvious way, so it's hardly blind anyway.

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