People are losing their shit with no regard for how much shit they need to be keeping in reserve, in order to lose later.
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Physicists fumble together a dark matter model with the explicitly stated purpose of being able to claim it's detectable. Paper gets published, no one even questions the methodology.
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The PLA Hong Kong Garrison unintentionally promoting the BN(O) visa scheme
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A brigade of #PLA Hong Kong Garrison puts on a great show to greet the people across China a happy Lunar New Year! Wish everyone a new start in Year of the Rabbit!
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I'm also curious to know whether this Excel spreadsheet is still used for water balance operations, or if it's been superseded. Source: ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/
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The Cat and the Mice (Children's Print), unknown artist, 1800-1899. Woodcut. collectie.friesmuseum.nl/?diw-id=tresoa
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Here's the first installment of my case against landing human beings on Mars. You may think you disagree, but I'm going to talk you around.
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Alright, I'm going to take a year off the twitters and see what else I can do with the time. Follow for blog post notifications, blog.pinboard.in for actual Pinboard stuff. Great Slate 2022: under no circumstances give any politicians money. See you all in 2023!
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"It might seem hopeless, but it is only truly hopeless if we stop trying". A moving thread on the grief and resilience that is in Hong Kongers' hearts right now twitter.com/lokmantsui/sta
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A more accurate portrayal of the CDC in zombie movies
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Breaking: ongoing police raid on #HK ‘s respected and widely followed #Standnews Police have sealed off its 14/f bureau and searching the offices given an “ongoing operation”. This is another major blow to press freedom under the #NSL security crackdown just before year end
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Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego
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An interesting tidbit in NASA's "Strategic Campaign Operations Plan for Exploration" is that they're trying to sneak building a second ISS in lunar orbit under the Congressional radar. The Gateway made no sense on its own, but it is just the seed for another modular space station
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NEW: A stunning 27,774 newly reported cases in NYC today.
Despite record high testing, positivity rate continues to increase, now at 19.6%.
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Just in: Police are at home of Ronson Chan, head of and deputy editor of @StandNewsHK, with a court warrant for home search over the crime of “publishing seditious publications”. The live stream was too short to know more details, as police warned not to film.
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Maybe don't use three significant figures in the percentage estimate if the bounds of your "95% confidence interval" (for an exponential process!) are sixty points apart
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CDC's estimate for the prevalence of Omicron last week dropped significantly from 73.2% w/ a 95% prediction interval of 34-94.9% down to 22.5% w/ a 95% prediction interval of 15.4-31.5%.
12/25 estimate is 58.6% with a 95% prediction interval of 41.5-74%. twitter.com/ozair_naqvi/st…
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Quote tweeting is one of the worst design changes Twitter made I think. It's like we have "reply" and "pompous reply" as your options.
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Imagine if the NTSB routinely changed their findings about why a plane crashed for fear of what it might do to public confidence in air travel, or the economic impact it would have on airport Cinnabons. That's where the CDC is at, filling a leadership vacuum left by the President
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