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by Balgair 3y ago
Very short article, well worth the time. To note, the supposed builders of the structure also left behind other tools that the researchers identify, not just the two logs. All that evidence after nearly half a million years is a miracle of
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by Balgair 3y ago
I look at my kids and then I look at this kind of project and it's promise. If it works, if we can get fusion and it's promise, then my kids are going to live in a radically different world, and a much better one. Gone are man
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by Balgair 3y ago
That would be ~0.17 m3 of volume, ~ 6 ft3, or about a 45 gallon drum. A picture of such a drum: http://joslebel.com/en/catalog/plastic-drums/plastic-drums-t... That's ... actually a lot of silver.
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by Balgair 3y ago
oh, guess I shouldn't be sad then
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yeah, 5
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by Balgair 3y ago
In the US, roughly a million people died of covid during the pandemic. That's ~1 in 340 people, or roughly two Dunbar's numbers (150). Meaning that every 1 in 2 people was 'close' to someone that died of covid. That plus
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by Balgair 3y ago
> where bored rich folk could dedicate themselves to one upping each other in the discovery game their peers and recent predecessors had invented. There were certainly cheaters then, too, but the whole thing was very insular and the only
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by Balgair 3y ago
Fox Corp Class A is only ~$13.75B right now. So, actually possible.
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by Balgair 3y ago
X/twitter recently hired her son too. Seems like the whole family is out for the smash-n-grab. https://www.semafor.com/article/11/19/2023/twitter-bets-big-...
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> So… Twitter is shutting down? One can only hope!
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Neuroscientist here: 1. Grad school. I came in as a more tech/physics applicant and had to learn it all from a fire hose. The canonical book is Kandell: https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Neural-Science-Fifth-Kande... B
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by Balgair 3y ago
What can we do to help? (if anything)
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What's the old saying? You don't have to run faster than a bear, just faster than the person next to you.
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by Balgair 3y ago
It seems many commenters are stuck on the Israel-Hamas angle. The article itself is about more than just that conflict. I encourage others to read the full article (there are not many images of dead kids, for those fearing that this is a sl
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by Balgair 3y ago
At least in the US, the 'real' test for a truck is if you can fit a 4x8 piece of plywood in the back. Has anyone seen any pic/vids of this thing with a 4x8 plywood board in the back? (Yes, I know, many 'trucks' on t
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by Balgair 3y ago
Neuroscientist here: There is no such thing as a mind-body duality. Your body is your mind and your mind is your body. Full stop. We are still in the very infancy of the study of the mind body and brain. We're finally uncovering some o
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by Balgair 3y ago
I'll repost an older comment of mine here on the Humanities and their struggles: Eidolon is a now defunct online magazine specifically about the classics. The last thing they did was publish a 'fail' essay. In it the head edi
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by Balgair 3y ago
I can share one set that we have. Basically, we use AI to do a lot of formatting for our manuals. It's most useful with the backend XML markups, not WYSIWYG editors. So, we take the inputs from engineers and other stakeholders, essenti
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by Balgair 3y ago
Related: Until this occurs, bone marrow donation is still really really helpful. It's a lot more involved than blood donation, fyi. https://bethematch.org/ Please consider donation. You really can save a life! P.S.
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I've interfaced with a fair few MDs in the US behind the scenes, so to speak. The site nearly every MD in the US uses is called UpToDate: https://www.uptodate.com/login It's not really for laypeople, so you can&#x
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by Balgair 3y ago
Wow, this is directly going to affect my company in the near term. We had been trying to do it all internally but have found little success. Even at ~$3M it's going to be an attractive choice.
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For HNer's that would like to read the account by Plato, most of his discussion is in Critias , here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1571/1571-h/1571-h.htm It's one of the shortest dialogs and can
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by Balgair 3y ago
English is drifting as we speak, literally. Look at the shifts going on right now in the great lakes area. Lots of vowels are changing around. Charlie Berens is a comedian that focuses on great lakes and midwestern life. His accent, though
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by Balgair 3y ago
We're in a medium COL area and at ~$400/wk per kid. Our daycare accepts state subsidies and kids as young as 6 weeks. The wait list was ~15 months long. It's very much the cheapest in the area. Friends about an hour outside o
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> It is fucking awful out there. Maybe we should set up a support group. I've heard in the news that the UAW just got a great deal.
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The true test of free will is how long you spend on the site at all?
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Then that means we're looking at ~150,000 to 200,000 Israeli casualties. Roughly a fourth of all their trained personnel and a seventh of all the males available for conscription. Nearly all of Gaza is built up urban centers and Hamas
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by Balgair 3y ago
To add on to the Edit: You can get humans on Mars with a big effort. Fine. Now get them back off. Simple hand waving shows it's a really really hard thing to do. Let's assume current rocket science. You somehow have to get a fuele
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There are a few extensions for your browser that will hide blue checked people: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blue-check-hider/j... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox&#x
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The timing of this with the larger global conflicts that started in the period seem to me to be totally tied together. My impression is not that of an increase in democracy and anti-jacobianism, but one of increased militarism. I don't

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