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   by 1attice 2y ago

   Buddhism is an organized faith that's older than Christianity, so I'd balk at calling it 'mysticism', let alone sin. This comment feels parochial. It also has an uncomfortable track record at getting to psychological fac
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   by 1attice 2y ago

   An interesting historical piece with contemporary resonance. What comes after Kulturkampf, or 'culture war'.
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   by 1attice 2y ago

   No this all tracks. Matches my own experience.
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   by 1attice 2y ago

   This seems willfully naive. As with any market, there will be a price that the market cannot bear; and if your 'floor', your minimum policy price offering, is too high for your market, then insurance (as an asset class) no longer
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   by 1attice 2y ago

   _Madhouse at the End of the Earth_ by Julian Sancton went hard. It documents the tragic expedition of Adrian de Gerlache to the south pole in the late 19th century. Due to hubris, they wound up locked in the ice overwinter, and came within
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   by 1attice 2y ago

   I take it, sotto voce, that this is about the New Jersey drone sightings?
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   by 1attice 2y ago

   I confess I was worried, until I read the name explanation, that it was named after Lululemon's marketing term for its preferred elastane/cotton blend
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   by 1attice 2y ago

   And, back in the day, Natalie Portman references
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   by 1attice 2y ago

   Regular cooking oil would probably be insufficiently viscous to seal the potatoes. Again, there's only one way to find out.
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    by 1attice 2y ago

    > The point is, the rosin isn't doing anything special you can't already easily do. There's no special flavor here. Pure armchair-ism. There's only one way to find out.
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    by 1attice 2y ago

    Yes. This comments section is peak HN. A lot of speculation by people with absolutely zero experience or data. The article is admittedly tare on the _differences in outcome_, over and against more conventional methods, which I think drives
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    by 1attice 2y ago

    Oddly, back in my prehistory (2005 to be precise,) I did a PhD-level internship at a hospital preparing for a possible H5N1 outbreak. This was based on the then-recent experience of what is now known as SARS-CoV-1. The information we had at
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    by 1attice 2y ago

    I thought of this too! But I thought the Vasa was sunk by leaving the gunports open?
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    by 1attice 2y ago

    Assuming, of course: - You know which 20K lines need changing - You have perfect QA - Nothing ever goes wrong in deployment. I think there's a tendency in our industry to only take the hypotenuse of curves at the steepest point
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    by 1attice 2y ago

    Theory: Apple uses small design regressions like this as sonar pings, or maybe like tapping the side of a melon to see if it's ripe. If network effects are "taut" there should not be noticeable consequences to their brand to
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    by 1attice 2y ago

    I misread this headline as 'Cheap, Light, Transformed Civilization'
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    by 1attice 2y ago

    I have recurrent severe depression and I credit serotonin-modulating antidepressants with saving my life several times. I generally found withdrawal from high dose SSRIs to be painful without tapering, but tapering made the withdrawal sympt
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    by 1attice 2y ago

    s/e.g./EG/
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    by 1attice 2y ago

    The obvious thing to do, if gen AI proves bust, is to funnel funding and other resources into miltech. This will further alter the personality, intent, and product of Silicon Valley; refuseniks will be winnowed, and many people may find the
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    by 1attice 2y ago

    Trying to figure out why this has 38 points on HN
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    by 1attice 2y ago

    There's no substitute for hand shaping the charge. You can't just expect CAD to
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    by 1attice 2y ago

    Its these bloated architectures that waste tonnage. The new generation of bomb designers, etc
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    by 1attice 2y ago

    "WHTSAM"?
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    by 1attice 2y ago

    "640 kilotons ought to be enough for anyone"
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    by 1attice 2y ago

    Huh? No. Not since 2022. Catch up.
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    by 1attice 2y ago

    I wish we had p(doom) conversations that included factors other than AI. We've been living in a paperclip-maximization-ocracy for at least half a century (probably longer.) Accounts of the exact nature of this system and who is to blam
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    by 1attice 2y ago

    that took a moment, thank you
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    by 1attice 2y ago

    I came here to say this -- OP seems to be reacting not to the work itself, but to the framing. It reminds me of how my friends used to jump down my throat when I said 'AI' instead of 'Machine Learning' -- they had a poin
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    by 1attice 2y ago

    Thanks Breck; I watched the video and it's appealing; I assume the downvote (now cancelled by my upvote) was the HN aversion to self-promotion, but as the OP I hereby declare this comment relevant and useful.
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    by 1attice 2y ago

    A little digging also yielded this, https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/plot-vega-lite But again it's not Vega vs Plot, it's Vega Lite vs Plot.