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by Jedd 2y ago
> I am in particular very skeptical of anything that cannot be piloted or otherwise effectively tested on a smaller scale. In turn, I'm sceptical of people who say we can't entertain any non-trivial, non-cautionary, non-evoluti
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by Jedd 2y ago
Technically it was never an acronym - rather an initialism or abbreviation.
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by Jedd 2y ago
Sure, the problem of having a sample set of precisely 1 makes it dangerous to extrapolate too wildly ... but similarly, the absence of any other type of life on this planet, and our understanding of - and ability to postulate on - other bui
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by Jedd 2y ago
Well if RNA was a (necessary) precursor to DNA, some experiments that attempt to replicate aspects of a deep alkaline thermal vent have already been conducted - you can get, albeit very short, strings. But the obvious problem is in trying t
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by Jedd 2y ago
Oh, okay, so that's what you meant. There's no reason to think other solar systems wouldn't have water, in that case, as there's little that's unique about our garden - or, from a slightly different angle, we should
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by Jedd 2y ago
This sounds a bit defeatist, and seems to ignore a large swathe of work that has happened since 1952 (the Miller-Urey experiment). For example - this experiment was conducted a year before the structure of DNA was discovered / publis
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by Jedd 2y ago
Not terribly informed about the pressing process, but as I understand it, it is (or was) effectively a player-process in reverse. A needle creates the groove(s), replete with bumps for sound, in a not-quite-set (slightly soft) master disc -
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by Jedd 2y ago
This specification anomaly sounds like the polycarbonate equivalent of vinyl's multiple-groove capability. [0] I'd first heard of this for a Monty Python record (wikipedia notes this is in fact the most famous use case) but checke
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by Jedd 2y ago
Is that 10.1% effectively agreeing with TFA that ~90% of electricity consumed in Portugal was sourced from renewables?
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by Jedd 2y ago
Yup, though for a cheaper option you can just buy it online (iherb stocks 3mg and 10mg tablets, f.e.). I have the 'Natrol' brand. The liquid form sounds like an interesting option. I haven't experimented much with timing -
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by Jedd 2y ago
I assume it's national not state based policy - I asked my pharmacist (in NSW) about this a few months back, evidently it's available to people over the age of 55 only.
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by Jedd 2y ago
Ooh, Neko was 1989 - I'm not sure when I first saw the Lunar-Lander game on the Amiga that had a similar mechanism, but it would have been around then. Gravity vs thrust, with left + right controls, the idea was to carefully land o
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by Jedd 2y ago
> To be fair to Microsoft, all the big tech companies want you to sign in with an account before you can use all the features of the software ... That's just saying 'others are also doing awful things' which is no excuse a
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by Jedd 2y ago
Yeah, but the same 'number of users' claim could be fired at tiktok, facebook, linkedin, instagram, myriad other similarly dubious endeavours. Active user count is not necessarily correlated to worthwhile consumption of resources.
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by Jedd 2y ago
Well, we've got some pretty good hypothesis about the mechanisms that spawn life, and we can extrapolate from there a little - though I do understand your point that we are burdened with an embarrassingly small sample size. For instanc
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by Jedd 2y ago
This is good - in that it aligns with my understanding (though my knowledge was not that detailed on timeline, context, and figures - thank you for those). I know living, brush, or ha-ha type fences would have been possible - but agree all
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by Jedd 2y ago
@helpfulContrib - I can't reply your message directly. I'm not trying to deny anything. I'm sure there were pockets of what we (modern) might recognise as agriculture, though not pastoralism (for obvious reasons). My question
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by Jedd 2y ago
The specific security problem was that their enterprise customers said no, and not in a 'no thanks' way, but a more vehement 'no fucking way', way. They could conceivably push to SOHO users, but a) there's no revenu
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by Jedd 2y ago
The previous story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38985152 ( 187 comments , 2024-01-13 )
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by Jedd 2y ago
> pastoralism and agriculture? Which landmass / culture / epoch are you trying to describe here?
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by Jedd 2y ago
I think the suggestion is that the flora ~80,000 ya did not need fire so much as it does today, and that the change in fire requirement was a result of broad-scale, regular, frequent, intentionally lit fires. Adaptation and species sele
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by Jedd 2y ago
I think you are arguing whether it's better (overall) rather than, as GP said, it's easier to get into.
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by Jedd 2y ago
The relatively exotic Cortex ARM, along with reliability, challenges with USB & microSD, and (at least here in AU) cost & availability challenges for the 'larger' boards, really put me off heading too eagerly down the Pi p
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by Jedd 2y ago
Forgive me, but it feels like a lot of contradictions, assumptions (not in evidence), and hand-waving with this and your other comments in this thread. You've said 'severe churn is 80-100% NRR' in one message, but in another
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by Jedd 2y ago
> Even with severe churn, VMWare would make around $12.8-13B. Down from the $13.4B -- that's not 'severe churn' you're describing there, it implies only a few percent drop in revenue. We've yet to see if that&#x2
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by Jedd 2y ago
The sets { USA } and ¬ { China } aren't equivalent, of course. I think the extra challenges 'in the west' (UK has a spectacularly famous on-going example, but Europe's experience is closer to the USA's than China&
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by Jedd 2y ago
I don't believe asserting two parallel and comparably false equivalences meaningfully progresses the discussion around this technology and risk. If this tech exceeds human capabilities to 'think' (plan, reason, manipulate, et
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by Jedd 2y ago
For flights it seems massive overkill. When I was doing a lot of flying some years back I took the Google Daydream product -- a minimalist device that you inserted your phone into, and then used a small wireless controller. Coupled with dec
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by Jedd 2y ago
> .. though I do wonder if the tests will be good enough .. Sure .. but .. a) knowing that cancer is there, but you may get hit by a bus before it kills you, can still inform some medical care decisions b) the 12 authors of that paper ha
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by Jedd 2y ago
About fifteen years ago Eben Moglen's keynotes included variations on the delightfully acerbic observation that the deal between Facebook etc and the user was: "I will give you free web-hosting and some PHP doodads and you get s

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