AlanSE

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by AlanSE 6y ago
Because the parks have people in them not wearing masks?
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by AlanSE 6y ago
Let me start with that first link, because it's a doozy. You said "mental illness have increased over time", but the paper said that _certain_ mental illnesses increased in _young_ Americans. Off that bat, that representation
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by AlanSE 6y ago
Dry cask storage will not be without issues on the 100 year time frame. However, I am relatively well convinced that this will be a problem in the billions in cost. That is a lot, but not $10s of billions or $100s of billions. A single nati
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by AlanSE 6y ago
I was really excited when Google Play came out with audiobooks on their platform. I realize that Google's success may still result in an oligopoly situation. That would still be better. I'm a prolific Audiobook listener, but activ
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by AlanSE 6y ago
Does anyone have an idea of what the canonical tools for drawing are, which he mentions in the link?
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by AlanSE 6y ago
Good point, but not for laptops and devices though.
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by AlanSE 6y ago
The loop variable can be specified, and if anyone is writing a playbook for other people to read / use, then they should absolutely do this. It is a problem that writing things in the most clear and reusable way isn't the most obv
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by AlanSE 6y ago
The valuation basically assumes that the Corolla of Tesla will come around sometime in the next 10 years, otherwise volume won't be enough. But not before they run out of all the most profitable markets. Thus the consumer-level truck.
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by AlanSE 6y ago
So what you're saying is that two-way communication right up until the final strike is kind of a recent thing? I wouldn't argue with the value of that, but most people don't really have the proper context to evaluate.
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by AlanSE 6y ago
The word "loitering" distinguishes it pretty far from that. It's also important that, unlike ICBMs, this is positioned to be something which would be used in more than theory.
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by AlanSE 6y ago
Enough energy for every human individual is already a solved problem, although not necessarily sustainably. It's not even economically prohibitive to switch to sustainable options, there's just insufficient incentives at this time
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by AlanSE 6y ago
Your ideas for the Earth would play out in a catastrophic manner in practice. Every bit of it requires violation of a basic economic principle - we build out based on the lowest marginal cost. Before we go to the Rockies, we will saturate m
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by AlanSE 6y ago
Low probability compared to what though? This makes less sense to me on closer inspection. I agree that there may be some meaningful observation in there, but it's hard to even figure out what the paradox or observation is. An individu
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by AlanSE 6y ago
Comparing it to the alternative of health professionals doing contact tracing, in addition to the fact that it's vastly better at its job, it would also be a privacy-protecting system. Say that I have close contact with a co-worker nam
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by AlanSE 6y ago
That sound really speculative. What exact wording did you see that makes you think this?
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by AlanSE 6y ago
> On a population scale, an asymptomatic superspreader is likely far more expensive than somebody not going to work for a few days until they got tested so it could/should be addressed by policy makers. If your politicians can'
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by AlanSE 6y ago
I've done plenty of layman reading into QFT, and I'm truly good with this. All particles are really waves. There are no particles. There's self-interaction, and all other kinds of weird stuff. (it's important to qualify
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by AlanSE 6y ago
What exactly do you mean by journal summaries? For something between 2 and 4, the best I can come up with would be textbooks or seminars, both being extremely spotty in terms of quality and understandability. In any case, a big problem you
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by AlanSE 6y ago
Which goes back to the buyer problem, that they don't consider other channels. Then you get hostile co-development of browser extensions for cross-channel price comparison, and life in the jungle continues on as such...
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by AlanSE 6y ago
We need some awareness of categories here. You are in a particular category where that feeling is an option. I am in the category where my spouse and I retained our jobs, but lost childcare. These weeks are a nightmare, but I am fortunate.
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by AlanSE 6y ago
How have you seen dangling reference OOM situations in the real world? Speaking for a python / Django stack, there's a very concrete reason that these are rarely seen in my experience. Code never lives long enough for it to matter
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by AlanSE 7y ago
Remote vs. in-office does benefit certain personality types over others. I believe versions of this parable you have happen a lot (in both versions), but the ultimate consequences are not exactly obvious. If you play it out the remote scena
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by AlanSE 7y ago
...which fits into a size of less than 700Mb compressed. Some of the most exciting stories I've read recently for machine learning are cases where learning is re-used between different problems. Strip off a few layers, do minimal re-tr
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by AlanSE 7y ago
Don't know where you're going with this, but my brain assumes that it is a new patent for a method of managing shell companies to enforce patents.
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by AlanSE 7y ago
Even beyond that, it has lots of omega-6s. This is supposed to be competitive in cell chemistry with omega-3s, and the ratio is massively tilted in the omega-6 direction today. And there's always the anti-fat faction. It's also a
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by AlanSE 7y ago
Flour is like the granddaddy of all processed foods. Yes, it is processed. Modern nutrition studies tend to suck, because they are laughably narrow. Flour is probably the biggest thing we have been capable of studying on a population scale.
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by AlanSE 7y ago
What do you mean by "will not work"? Will it not compile? And how do we write that with add1 taking ownership vs. not?
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by AlanSE 7y ago
The public float sounds legit. I wouldn't argue with that, in fact, it's probably the technically accurate metric. Where I was coming from was... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average &gt
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by AlanSE 7y ago
I've asked this question before and consistently failed to get a clear answer - why is there any deviation between index fund weighting and market cap? To some extent, I'm sure the definition of a "public" company comes
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by AlanSE 7y ago
> the accepted answer means that the solution proposed worked for the asker That's a fundamental tension in the purpose of the site. If the particular problem of the asker is the end goal, then duplicates would not be closed. All ot

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