BobaFloutist

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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
What box do you put librelec on?
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
I really feel like the first step here should be to make deanonymization illegal. Obviously it wouldn't fix everything, but there's a bit of an implicit breach of contract if people are promised their data is anonymous, but then i
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
I think the other issue is that generics have such bad margins that it's hard to convince anyone to manufacturer them in the best of cases, so if anything happens to make a generic too hard to sell they'll just give up. Combining
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
Maybe a football game? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Basel_hooligan_incident
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
I disagree, but I would also have a similar reaction if it turned out that toilet-paper supply chain issues left over from the pandemic were going to affect our ability to manage screwworms, and that particular overreaction was non-partisan
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
Both! I think it would be unfortunate if a valuable deworming drug was difficult to access in an acute worm crisis because it had became unexpectedly politically salient from an crisis that did not involve worms.
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
You know what, I will accept that there's some decent arguments for why hunters would want access to ARs. Do you think it makes sense that people that don't hunt would prefer for widely, easily accessible weapons to be largely les
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
How many deer are you trying to kill in one go??
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
I don't understand, why have some of the newcomers become builders and doctors?
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
>We have had our access to medications for livestock severely curtailed over recent years. Oh no, tell me it's not ivermectin...
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
The wheel was independently invented in the Americas, it just seems to have been used exclusively for toys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel#/media/File:Remojadas_Wh...
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
Do you think the selection of what body cam footage cops make available is without bias?
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
If the FPR is very low, the FNR rate doesn't really matter if you get a positive result (unless the pre-test probability is very low, which is not the case here)
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
I'm sure it wouldn't be worth it, because otherwise people would be doing it, it just seemed like a cool way to supplement solar or even to allow for indefinite underwater drones. Like, imagine a deep-sea research drone that could
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
This is silly, but I've also wondered if you could make a boat that can anchor and recharge batteries from ambient current, sort of like stationary regenerative braking. I'm sure it would take way too long to be worth it, but it w
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
I think a broad, contrarian dismissal of a broad, contrarian dismissal of a metric is, while unhelpful, not inappropriate.
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
I don't know the details of the economics, but Costa Rica seems to be doing quite well with ecotourism, no?
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
Is it cliquishness, or is it genuine joy at an unexpected connection?
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
Same issue as rural doctors, to be honest. It's hard to pay an American with a medical degree enough to live and work in that environment, so if we want to keep rural hospitals (and independent practices) staffed, we need to allow immi
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
> Unrestricted immigration destroys democratic high trust societies. In the United States it's pretty clearly the nativists destroying the society, the immigrants are largely baffled about what the hell we're doing to ourselves
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
> The question was do you believe that without ethnic Japanese people you can call it Japan? Yes, of course, ethnicity is a collection of observed physical traits. What makes Japan Japan is the way people behave , not the way they look
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
Insects I'll consider fair enough, but fish? Are you leaning on "fish isn't meat"? Otherwise, this isn't a colloquial use I'm familiar with.
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
Mathematical proofs don't really apply to anything outside of math, since they require a certainty in your assumptions that's not replicable in the real world. At the end of the day, all a mathematical proof can tell you is "
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
What overpopulation?
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
I don't know where you got that idea, but we're not even the most populous species of vertebrates on the planet (that might be chickens). If you include arthropods, ants make it not even remotely close.
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
Ok but many hedge funds and VCs have institutional investors. How does it look if you allocate pension funds to their ultimate beneficiaries?
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
> How do you explain the fact that the average residential electricity price is higher in Australia than in most of the US? Transmission costs.
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
>To make electric energy I would have to make a small steam plant to run a turbine. Or a hydrogen fuel cell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell The round-trip efficiency is of course abysmal compared to batteri
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
Do you think we could convince hypothetical AGIs to buy NFTs? Since they're not embodied (or at least not limited to one body), it might be the only way they could really properly indulge in fine art speculation. "An AI can't
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
People are going to give you all sorts of answers that are based on strategy or negotiation or interests, but I think it basically all boils down to "to own the libs." We have to remember that before this all started, he was regis

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