Balgair

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by Balgair 2y ago
I'll echo this and have done something of this path. It's a very similar field surprisingly. Quite rewarding too. The timelines for products are also about the same (years-decade). The one tip is to not bother applying to Medtroni
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by Balgair 2y ago
I know this is a bit of a throwaway comment, but I'd never thought of diamonds for eyeglasses. And, honestly, that would be really really cool. Yeah, there are other materials with better refractive indices and that are tougher and che
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by Balgair 2y ago
So, UC Santa Cruz has gone be through an evolution on this. They used to be good little hippies and had no grades whatsoever. Then students got angry that grad schools and law schools wouldn't accept them because they didn't want
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by Balgair 2y ago
> Humans are evolutionarily evolved to listen to babies. It makes even quiet noises annoying. It's funny, once you have kiddos, you learn to be able to tell the type of crying they are doing. Some cries are really for attention that
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by Balgair 2y ago
Aside: Hey Cliff, love your work and efforts, glad to hear you're retiring too. Yeah, we had another issue with Chase like yours and the article's. Finally got around to letting Chase know that a family member had died, took a lit
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by Balgair 2y ago
I mean, there's is a pretty big difference between being born with dark skin and then having your body try to develop it. The difference is skin cancer. Also, black people get sunburns too, just not nearly as fast.
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by Balgair 2y ago
> Aren't humans also prone to this? Actually, no. We can do 'real' reasoning and come up with novel conclusions. In fact, we have such an example going all the way back to Plato in Meno , about 2300 years ago. It's t
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by Balgair 2y ago
Yeah, I entirely agree that it's a system set up for the benefit of the rich. Historically speaking, that's pretty much all we have ever had. I do want to echo the difference though. In the 'old system' of hoarding drago
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by Balgair 2y ago
The way I have heard it explained is that a general low level inflation is more aimed at the rich than the poor. In that, if you look at the total money supply, most of it is in the hands of the rich, almost by definition. So, if you have n
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by Balgair 2y ago
Yeah, it is overlooked because the real answers are 'hidden' behind a lot of graduate level math. And most people don't really want to learn a bookcase worth of math first to talk about it, but they talk all the same. Like,
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by Balgair 2y ago
Not that I have seen. The US's BLS data is quite comprehensive. You can drill down to individual zip codes, neighborhoods, etc, some of which have very low population densities and generally low populations. I know that the French also
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by Balgair 2y ago
So, I work with a lot of population data for worldbuilding/stats/curiosity [0]. The number one thing when modeling really anything interesting about a setting or story is (drum roll): Population Pretty much everything is keyed to
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by Balgair 2y ago
She was someone who left a huge mark on my life. Though not in the forefront, but in the backend, so to speak. Fuck cancer.
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by Balgair 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future This article is one of my favorites on Wikipedia. The last bits are maybe the best for this question. Somewhere in the very far future, time will lose all meanin
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by Balgair 2y ago
I was going to say that the math was off by 2, but nope, you're right. Fertility rate is based on each woman, not on a couple. Even if they kept the 0.81 rate that they are on, then you'd get: Gen1: 100 people: 50 men + 50 women;
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by Balgair 2y ago
> I'd hope that going back to being the Arsenal of Democracy for Ukraine (and maybe Taiwan or South Korea if things go bad) would've tied the US together, but man I was wrong there. I mean, it's not like we need to be roll
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by Balgair 2y ago
https://www.rch.org.au/rchcpg/hospital_clinical_guideline_in... Sucrose is considered a mild analgesic for infants under 18 months More broadly: The human nervous system undergoes a lot of changes during maturation. As
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by Balgair 2y ago
Wow, I need to update my priors here. I thought that 'AI girlfriend' was a thing that my grandkids might have to deal with. Not a 'now' thing.
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by Balgair 2y ago
Two other aphorisms come to my mind: - Persuasion is pegged to a person. In that, it's not that the person hasn't heard the arguments before, it's that they haven't met the right person to say it to them. Often, that per
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by Balgair 2y ago
The Death of Stalin also handled the accent issues well. The actors used a lot of English accents to help represent the many accents that Russian also has.
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by Balgair 2y ago
"All problems are people problems" -Gerald Wineberg
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by Balgair 2y ago
Hey, I gotta ask a few questions here, given this oportunity: How many people actually 'worked' there? Like, really did something all day? What was the pay like? What were the internal politics like? Any good stories?
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by Balgair 2y ago
Yeah, look at all the Russian figure skaters. Nearly all of their medalists are using canes by 30 just to get around.
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by Balgair 2y ago
I think the economic principle of 'revealed preferences' shows up here. If co-location of daycare and work was something that people valued highly, then you'd see it happening already. The daycare nightmare has been going on
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by Balgair 2y ago
I agree with the math, but the reality on the ground is much more complex. Sure, a waitlist of a few months is fine here. But waitlists of > 1 year are the norm (at least for all the parents I've talked with). I can't see how a
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by Balgair 2y ago
I mean, daycare is really local. Some have huge subsidies, some are run by a church, some are very small. It's quite variable. Generally though, if you lose your job, you can go get another job and still stay at the same daycare. I thi
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by Balgair 2y ago
B/B- There are issues, like all places, but it works for us.
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by Balgair 2y ago
> we need in-office nurseries/light-weight daycares Absolutely no. If your job lays you off or you get fired, then you just lost your childcare and all that community for your kid. I don't see a lot of parents taking that huge
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by Balgair 2y ago
Daycare is ~$500/week per kid for us. $26,000 per year per kid . Rates vary wildly across the country. I have friends in the Bay that are paying about the same as us. I have friends in Oregon that are at ~$300/wk. I have frie
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by Balgair 2y ago
Holy crap! Someone else knows about memristors! Oh man, coming neuroscience I had no idea why these weren't being more researched. Thanks for the info there. Just as an FYI to y'all, a memristor is essentially how a synapse works.

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