Gatsky

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by Gatsky 7y ago
Yes, I’m sure they have their reasons and their own priorities and constraints. Just like the doctors who decline to use basic authentication. See my point? Hospitals are notorious for passing the buck around. As it happens there is a singl
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by Gatsky 7y ago
No, this is not the case. Anyway, it would be good just to have the option to not use SMS, they don’t need to migrate everyone off SMS at once.
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by Gatsky 7y ago
You realise what you just did there right, without a hint of irony?
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by Gatsky 7y ago
I’m comparing Iran to other countries that can safely organise a funeral and don’t shoot down planes because they are ‘nervous’. Yes Trump’s actions are deplorable, I agree.
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by Gatsky 7y ago
It goes both ways. I keep telling the IT people at my hospital to stop using SMS 2-factor and they blow me off and treat me like an idiot. Anyway, ‘Doctors’ are a pretty diverse bunch, and most of them aren’t arrogant porn-fiends.
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by Gatsky 7y ago
I’m no fan of what Trump did. But after a lot of sabre rattling and threats against the US, Iran holds a state funeral where innocent Iranians get crushed to death, launches a token missile strike, then incinerates a bunch of innocent Irani
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by Gatsky 7y ago
I have found all articles like this written by senior established scientists can be summarised as “Looks like things aren’t as good as they used to be. Anecdote about old scientists 1, 2, 3. Science is important. The end.” They never say an
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by Gatsky 7y ago
'The PhD Octopus' is incredible. Can't believe the PhD was already a bankrupt concept in 1903. https://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/octopus.html
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Thank you.
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Interesting. Does anyone know how the pressure measurement works?
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by Gatsky 7y ago
One of the big problems with disrupting journal publishing has been that there is no way to get access to the massive archive of papers that have already been published. Sci-Hub took care of that before the publishers even really understood
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by Gatsky 7y ago
I'm not trying to defend it. Chemical restraint is terrible, as is the lack of viable alternatives. The worst that can happen isn't death, you can fall off the fence and break 6 vertebrae and spend the next 3 months screaming in p
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by Gatsky 7y ago
There is that, but I still think even in a system where everyone acts in good faith, it is by no means trivial to implement euthanasia for 'diminished states of existence'.
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Well living is the default, so the burden of proof lies with changing that state. Alternatively you could argue that they still get out of bed and eat and engage, and perhaps these are signs enough of some desire to live. Anyway, I think th
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by Gatsky 7y ago
I have to say it is unlikely there will be sanctioned euthanasia for age related decline or dementia. The practicalities of implementing such a system are probably prohibitive, the primary problem being ending the life of someone without th
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by Gatsky 7y ago
It is a matter of resources. Young children or adults with severe behavioural problems are managed without antipsychotics and sedatives, but it takes a dedicated and skilled care team and a highly functional family. Even then, the drugs sti
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Something I haven't seen mentioned much is the recent progress in single atom catalysts[1], which is a really cool idea. These seem able to convert CO2 to CO in high yield. This could be one way to start pulling a lot of CO2 out of the
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Even with some more efficient scheme the problem is scalability. Deploying enough of this altered plant mass to meaningfully reduce CO2 is a real challenge. There is also likely to be huge opposition to injecting GMO plants into the biosphe
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by Gatsky 7y ago
This is just a heartbreaking, needless destruction of human life. Measles can be eradicated, there is no animal reservoir. Eradication of disease is an incredible gift to the future of humanity, and only gets harder with more population. Th
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Weird this is here... this is a well known result, such studies have been coming out for at least 5 years. The value proposition for whole exomes is diminishing as sequencing itself gets cheaper ie might as well do a whole genome. Exomes ar
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by Gatsky 7y ago
The original comment was arguing that modern fruit is not 'natural' due to farming practices. My argument is that this isn't the example to choose, because of all things, fruit is among the best things to eat. There is plenty
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by Gatsky 7y ago
I think he is just being brusque to make the point. If he had written "you have to like constructing fantastic worlds and intriguing characters" it would obscure the message. I mean, it seems unlikely PG hates literature.
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Yes, this is the thing... it is highly processed. It is a similar situation to nut milks and soy milk, which tend to be either highly processed, lacking real nutritional value, or both. The other problem I think is that over time these meat
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by Gatsky 7y ago
This is a bad example, because ignoring what we have been 'designed' to eat, fruit is certainly designed to be eaten, which is even better. Just think about it: you can pick it, and leave it lying around for weeks and it is still
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Ask HN: Do you test your cognition?
5 points by Gatsky 7y ago|4 comments
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Right, another online group of people conducting orchestrated campaigns of harassment. They seem to come together with highly tenuous pretexts (eg some random radio show that isn't even on the air any more) yet the members are highly m
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by Gatsky 7y ago
From people that have used both extensively (which does not include you or me, it would seem), I always hear that ggplot2 is unsurpassed. Admittedly, that isn't a satisfactory answer to your question.
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by Gatsky 7y ago
There was a profile in Forbes on Khosla or something like that, and one of his employees said something along the lines of 'Khosla is pursuing this beach matter so that anyone that deals with him knows how tough and tenacious he is.&#x
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by Gatsky 7y ago
R is interesting in that it has one library which has zero real competitors to the point where it becomes a justification for using the entire language: ggplot2. It's almost like ggplot2 crosses over from a package to an application, a
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Yes, it isn't great... many top 'reviews' appear to be a platform for social justice posturing or indulgent navel gazing by the reviewer. Rather than you know, saying anything useful about the book.

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