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by Gatsky 4y ago
I find you need to concentrate with Torx screws to properly engage the bit and make sure the clutch on your drill is set right, otherwise yeah you can definitely strip them. But with Phillips especially and to a lesser extent Robertson they
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Small adjustment here... anemia is not a disease, it merely describes the state of having reduced hemoglobin concentration in the blood. It doesn't make sense to say things can 'look' like anemia. It has myriad causes. It is
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Well it's more that the aging demographics of current civillisation is unprecdented in human history... it's one of those 'experiments' we run on ourselves without much consent or thought. I like to use the example of th
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Yup this is what needs to be tested, in other words can cancers be detected early enough so that people are more likely to be cured with treatment. Secondary benefits of detecting early are needing less extensive surgery, less intensive che
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U.S. plans trial of early detection blood tests for multiple cancers(science.org)
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Note that a Corporation can do things without anyone who works there wanting to do those things. No employee of Union Carbide wanted to poision 2.5k people in Bhopal [1]. Yet it still happened, and there is no question about who caused th
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by Gatsky 4y ago
It’s because reducing your personal footprint feels good but doesn’t achieve much globally.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Related question: How is HN funded? I presume through YC.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Thanks for the pointer to Korngold's work, yes can certainly see the resemblance!
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I think it is the case that a particular art form can peak. Post-peak, there isn't much to do. A walk through the Louvre will show you that sculpture peaked some time ago for example. Pickled sharks and giant nipples aren't signs
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by Gatsky 4y ago
The original Star Wars soundtrack, although enjoyable, seems to borrow an embarrassing amount from Gustav Holst's The Planets. I suppose this is partly the problem current composers have - why would a modern Orchestra play something ak
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Anecdotally companies run by obvious assholes (eg Ellison and Oracle) or that engage in obviously bad behaviour (eg Big Tobacco) don’t have these problems. I guess their reputations filter out the type of employee who would do what was done
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Interesting choice of name, presumably they were familiar with how the Tower of Babel played out.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Is there actually an independently confirmed useful hypersonic weapon?
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Well no, I’m not wrong. That article you linked is a review of reviews comparing RCTs and observational studies for medical interventions, primarily surgical studies or pharmacological treatments with well characterised effects. Observation
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I guess it's ok to publish uninteresting and probably false things. This could be a fairly accurate description of biomedical science to be honest. It's annoying when it ends up on HN for example, or in the health section of a tab
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by Gatsky 4y ago
These results from observational studies almost never replicate in randomized studies. It's because people who decide to take glucosamine (or not) also do lots of other confounding things, like visit the doctor more, or have higher sal
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Just came to say I saw the same full moon of startling clarity in Christchurch.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Bitcoin is used by people - for example in countries with capital controls or hyperinflation. It is also legal tender in El Salvador. In any case your argument is a bit silly? There is an infamous Italian artist who sold tins of his own shi
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Some problems come to mind: - this is performing an irreversible procedure on a person without their consent. Justifiable for a disease but less so for vanity traits. - genes are pleiotropic and modifying multiple genes could have unexpecte
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Well your Mac is worth ‘something’ because of what people are willing to pay for it. It would be worthless to certain people, just as you find bitcoin worthless. What’s the difference?
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by Gatsky 4y ago
SawStop table saws effectively prevent complete amputations. You can still do much worse of course, like chewing off all your fingers in a jointer or embedding an angle grinder wheel in your face.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
One solution is to make Spain pay for the retrieval plus charge them an astronomical finders fee. Spain can then keep whatever is retrieved, including the colonial baggage.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Furthermore this is a significant ethical problem with testing and developing an AGI, especially an embodied one. That horrid montage of security footage in Ex Machina makes the point well.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Yeah this is the main reason, as anyone actually doing research knows. I don’t think civillians realise what an incredible amount of work it is to publish a paper.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I think one could make a provably water tight simulation. Of course an AGI would realise it could be in a simulation, just as we have.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Perhaps the right thing to do is place an AGI into a simulated world and observe its behaviour over (accelerated) eons, to understand its true nature. Perhaps that’s what our creator is doing to us.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
This ivermectin thing is the premier example of motivated reasoning and wishful thinking in the last few years, something which seems lost on the author.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Why think when you can just have paranoid fever dreams instead. > It's also not a paradox for why many lifetime smokers never get cancer while non-smokers are now more commonly the ones with lung cancer. This is simply wrong.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
The pay and autonomy will never improve, I can tell you that now. That’s the reality of the current system.

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