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by Balgair 2y ago
> I am not religious so church doesn't really feel like an option but I am starting to consider it. Try UU out then: https://www.uua.org/find You can read more about UU here: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by Balgair 2y ago
I was talking about how physicists will understate how difficult things can be. 'Feels tractable' is physics-speak for: a possibility exists to get there though it may require more teachers than there exist on the earth and more c
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by Balgair 2y ago
>> feels tractable I mean, the guy isn't saying that it's going to 100% happen. He's saying that the problem feels like it might be doable at all. As Andrej has a background in physics, the phrase of 'feels tract
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by Balgair 2y ago
> Outbound links with a bit more info in the reply! Hey, I don't have a twitter account (long story). Can anyone post those links here?
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by Balgair 2y ago
> ... except they're History graduates who went to Eton For the non-British readers here, Eton is a boarding school [0] west of London. It's where nearly all the elite members of British politics and society attend from ages 13
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by Balgair 2y ago
Yeah, for real! I'd say the exact opposite. Most artists have day jobs.
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by Balgair 2y ago
I have family that are lawyers, some that are 'high up' in their respective areas. The answer is 'networking'. Very well paid lawyers are very good at being lawyers. Meaning that yes, they placed well in their law school
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by Balgair 2y ago
"I man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way" -Mark Twain
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by Balgair 2y ago
In a few states you are allowed to pay people with 'severe' disabilities under minimum wage. The idea is to incentivize companies to hire these people for otherwise unprofitable work and mostly to get the disabled out of the house
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by Balgair 2y ago
There's already been a big issue with 'regulatory capture' and lobbying in government. Congress is only going to delegate when some other entity, likely a business, isn't already writing the law/regulation. A concre
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by Balgair 2y ago
Actual data is here (PDF), starts on pg 16: file:///Users/Sunnydale/Downloads/FINAL_DBIP+Year+One+Quantitative+Research+Report.pdf The thing to look for are the charts that have the yellow star on them (statist
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by Balgair 2y ago
Just an amazing player, literally one of the best. I think it will be very interesting here in the next few years as MLB adds more of the Negro Leagues' data to the official stats. Willie's official stats have already been increas
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by Balgair 2y ago
Denver School(s) of Science and Technology (DSST) have been mobile free for a long time. The kids, I am told, love it. These are public schools. Confiscated phones are required to be picked up in person by the guardian. Something that can b
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by Balgair 2y ago
Get good at people skills and management as you age. A good manager is worth a lot to a company. It's a subtle art, and one that doesn't really scale all that well. But it's a very valuable one. General people skills and emot
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by Balgair 2y ago
> Something else is making them 'dumb as fuck'... Covid. Covid and sitting at home for ~2 years doing 'nothing'.
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by Balgair 2y ago
Hmmm, that's, well, not that bad of thing to offload, right?
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by Balgair 2y ago
I'm struck by how the description of the more ideal case is just, well, mostly montessori style education. But a bit cheaper. One wonders by how much we'd have to increase the budgets of the various school systems to have mostly m
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by Balgair 2y ago
I mean, Gemini is just wrong here. Yeah, sure cell densities vary (fat vs muscle) but pretty much any cell sample you're going to gather is going to be near the same density as the surrounding water environment. Again, there is a lot o
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by Balgair 2y ago
Thanks! I did a career change from particle physics to bioengineering and neuroscience ( and now AI/ML for EE applications with bioreactors, but that's another story). There's not a lot of recent texts really. US based academ
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by Balgair 2y ago
I mean, how is the intracellular space denser than the extracellular? That means they wouldn't float. The stochastic nature of the cell, as far as I know, exists pretty much the same in and out. With more transport mechanims occurring
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by Balgair 2y ago
Yeah, so the plot would have to be less murder-mystery, and more action-adventure/rom-com then. The sleekness and opulence being contrasted with a grisly murder works with Orient Express. So to get a contrast with the rugged and dirty
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by Balgair 2y ago
I never did like the Dark Forest Theory. Like, resources and energy are fairly abundant in the universe. There's really nothing of material value that we have here in Sol that other species wouldn't be able to get closer to their
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by Balgair 2y ago
Oh yes, many studies on unused targets/receptors are out there. It's a very common thing in the cell. Sure, yes, there are a lot of transport mechanisms to get the higher Dalton things about. But, again, it's all kinda random
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by Balgair 2y ago
I think you're asking: how does some random bit of protein/ion/drug find it's way to a receptor for it? Is that correct? Stochasticly. It's all random, as far as we can tell. The things that make it all work, though
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by Balgair 2y ago
Ah, a kinematics issue. Yes, ions and charges will flow in Bio too, but that flow is generally restricted and used somehow. Nature is always finding a way to take a toll. Cells will also set up a voltage difference to accomplish things too,
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by Balgair 2y ago
Hey, not OP, but maybe I can help a bit. Per what Claude is say, yes, generally true-ish. Honestly, if you want to dive in more, you'll need to read https://www.amazon.co.uk/Principles-Development-Lewis-Wolper... . Tex
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by Balgair 2y ago
Great idea! Thank you! However, I don't think I'll ever use it. My turntable doesn't have an adjustment for speed outside of 45s. So, if I find out that my table is too fast or slow, that's just going to bug me forever.
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by Balgair 2y ago
Could use something like the Lists page here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/lists Especially the Active, and Best Comments pages. Also, would love biological fields in there. We bio/med people really don't ha
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by Balgair 2y ago
Oh man, it returns a 404 for me. Somehow that's even more depressing. Like, my obit could be online for the world to see, but subject to linkrot like everything else. The link that works for me is: https://obits.theadvocate.
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by Balgair 2y ago
> You also run the risk of triggering an exodus of talent, since engineers will recognize this as the part where the bozos come in, and now the workplace isn't run by smart people who they can learn from. The phenomenon is known as

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