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by Balgair 1y ago
Hey, I know this a rando internet commenter here, but what do you think is the solution then? To me, adding more money and guns into this conflict sounds like a really bad idea. But I'm not there and I'm just a fool as a result. I
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by Balgair 1y ago
I guess I meant it as more of a longer term solution. In that, given a few years/decades of a two state solution, you'd have a partition occur, whether by force as was in India/Pakistan, or by more natural processes over time
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by Balgair 1y ago
I also think we passed the window for a two state solution. Having two ethno-nationalist states next to each other is bad. Giving them a very complicated border is worse. Having them hate each other with centuries of history and territory c
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by Balgair 1y ago
Thank you. Literally made me laugh out loud.
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by Balgair 1y ago
Amazing! The product recommendations at the end are gold too! A 'hacker' spirit there. In terms of signal length, can you store the images/data in a flock of birds too? I wonder what the RAID set-up of a flock of starlings is
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by Balgair 1y ago
Yes, but the administration doesn't know that.
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by Balgair 1y ago
Hot Take: Maybe this DOGE approach of sledgehammering the bureaucracies is all there is left to do? Look, I have family that works for the Feds. I have also collected money from federal programs. I know the pain that is coming and is here.
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by Balgair 1y ago
Yeah, just the stats got so bad in the less hard sciences that they released statcheck to help automatically combat it: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7540394/ Byand large, since bio people just do not l
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by Balgair 1y ago
I'll issue just one counterpoint to the comments here: Biology I'm not a CS person, but much more of a 'hacker' in the old MIT sense. I work for a biotech company and with a lot of bio people. I've taken big-boy CS
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by Balgair 1y ago
Aside: The internet is terrible for cocktail recipes. Discovery is terrible, recipes are badly listed most of the time, and the blogs don't curate well. Youtube is not that bad if you can find a good channel with someone that has actua
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by Balgair 1y ago
Jack Rose is one of my favorites! 99 Red Balloons is also a great one
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by Balgair 1y ago
Depends on where you're sitting I'd guess. San Francisco Bay area? Nope. South Sudan? Been Mad Max for a while, near as I can tell.
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by Balgair 1y ago
I'm curious for an economist's take here. It seems to me that the incentives are such that now you've just guaranteed that all PIs will now submit 6 applications every year. It may be less that what you originally were seei
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by Balgair 1y ago
I can't wait to see when the narcosubs are driven via long fiberoptic cables with an occasional surfacing for GPS lock. The sea floor between caches is just going to be littered.
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by Balgair 1y ago
In some of the pro-natal online discourse there is an idea to mortgage the future earnings of children against current childless people. I think I have that right but, honestly, it's a bit confusing of an idea to me. I think these peop
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by Balgair 1y ago
Lots of hot takes here in the comments. I think that reading the paper is more informative than just reading these comments (something I am often guilty of). My thoughts on the paper: These are economists, not demographers or social workers
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by Balgair 1y ago
ACX had a good roundup on the science of sperm count decline here: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/declining-sperm-count-much-... TLDR: It's complicated, but the science seems to be decidedly up in the air. We do
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by Balgair 1y ago
I mean, if anything this makes the point. Germany's fertility rate is 1.45 and the Netherlands' is 1.43. There is very little difference despite the change in education policy. So, extrapolating from this very little bit of data,
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by Balgair 1y ago
> At the basic level, even the idea of growing money to hedge for the deteriorating health at old age doesn't even make sense. In a aging population, the supply (young, working) and demand (old, requiring care) might be so flipped,
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A Bicycle for the Mind(jamesgurney.substack.com)
4 points by Balgair 1y ago|0 comments
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by Balgair 1y ago
Per what little I know of population studies, birthrate and fertility are the same. Fecundity is the potential to have offspring, but is an unmeasurable quantity.
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by Balgair 1y ago
A few comments here. I hang out in these pronatal communities, mostly on Twitter. It's a very interesting mix. There's far right wing Nazis and far left wing Communists, atheists and deeply conservative Christians and Muslims. All
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by Balgair 1y ago
Sounds like a lonely cockatoo that overly preens itself to the point that it pulls out it's feathers.
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Phenotypic heterogeneity in autism reveals underlying genetic programs(nature.com)
1 points by Balgair 1y ago|0 comments
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by Balgair 1y ago
Ah, so there is a line, and it's MechaHitler. https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/07/09/elon-musk...
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by Balgair 1y ago
-- A human brain is theoretically reproducible outside standard biological mechanisms, if you have a good enough nanolathe. Sort of. The main issue is the energy requirements. We could theoretically reproduce a human brain in SW today, it&#
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by Balgair 1y ago
Or scrunched up tin foil at ~$2 / 100 ft. Look, I love Destin, watch all his stuff recommend it all the time. But I'm never going to buy this product, it's just too expensive for what it does compared to the alternatives. And
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by Balgair 1y ago
The cheap version of learning is dead, and AI killed it. Not that we were learning all that much to begin with. I mean, walk into any sorority and ask to see the test bank. The students and Profs were phoning it in for a while, by and large
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by Balgair 1y ago
Yes, the larger the object you're using as a lens, the better the image. This is due to the 'Lens Makers' Equation'. Larger objects like Earth, Jupiter, or the Sun would make for larger radii and therefore better resolut
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by Balgair 1y ago
I don't know about that one. The people that it 'polls' aren't that representative, leading to heavy bias. Which is fine, you can correct for that. It's just that I don't know their biases!

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