LargeWu

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by LargeWu 1y ago
There used to be real craft, based on the physical world, in creating that movie magic. It took a lot of knowledge about different stuff - materials, photography - to create this.
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by LargeWu 1y ago
I guess my point of view is, truly game-changing pharmaceuticals should be shared with the world. And there's precedent for that. Jonas Salk did not patent the polio vaccine he discovered, and the world is a better place for it. Boner
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by LargeWu 1y ago
I think there's a case to be made for incentive programs for development of key drugs, akin to the way Operation Warp Speed operated for the COVID vaccines. Provide up-front cash for initial research and large guaranteed returns if a d
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by LargeWu 1y ago
Forget the economic aspect of it, what about the emotional and mental cost something like Downs Syndrome imparts, for both parents? I can't imagine any parent hoping they will have a child that will be utterly dependent on them for the
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by LargeWu 1y ago
A complicating factor when talking about rationality and propensity towards either left- or right-wing authoritarian impulses is brain structure, according to a recently publish study. "Young adults who scored higher on right-wing auth
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by LargeWu 1y ago
Is making ~8 products a year for 5 years perceived as a viable way to be successful?
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by LargeWu 1y ago
On my consumer grade Dewalt, the blade guard, riving knife, and kickback guard are all separate components, so I guess I was considering them separately. I still don't trust the kickback guard fully either, so attempt to stand off to t
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by LargeWu 1y ago
The author's assertion was that LVT disincentivizes one from using the land productively, and used oil specifically as an example. This example is basically completely divorced from the realities of oil extraction. Nevermind that nobod
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by LargeWu 1y ago
That's assuming you actually own the mineral rights, which are not necessarily the same as the land ownership itself. These are quite often separated and held by different entities. In practice, the extraction of oil under a parcel of
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by LargeWu 1y ago
This is basically Mastodon, but I think the mass appeal of that is limited given its distributed nature.
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by LargeWu 1y ago
Yeah, the price is certainly a deterrent. My kids are tweens/early teens, almost aging out, and while they still like making things with cardboard, not sure I can justify that kind of investment for what is really a relatively simple t
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by LargeWu 1y ago
The guard on my table saw mostly serves as a reminder to keep my fingers away from it. I don't expect it would actually prevent any sort of injury.
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by LargeWu 1y ago
Typically because there are entrenched financial interests incentivized not to change.
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by LargeWu 1y ago
The country with the highest adoption of EV's in the world is Norway. If they can deal with the cold, so can the US. I have an EV in Minnesota and it's great. Battery life does take a pretty big hit in winter but that's fine
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by LargeWu 1y ago
I believe they believe that, on its face. I also believe that idealistic people will go to great lengths to convince themselves that their desired outcome is, in fact, the moral one. It starts by saying things like, "Well, what is harm
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by LargeWu 1y ago
It's also not a very big leap from "My purpose is to do whatever is the greatest good" to "It doesn't matter if I hurt people as long as the overall net result is good (by some arbitrary standard)"
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by LargeWu 1y ago
In the same breath, those photographers will complain about all the "amateurs" devaluing their services.
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by LargeWu 1y ago
Because we're rapidly descending into a fascist oligarchy, and this is a prime example of how that happens. Rapacious billionaires getting their hooks into the armed forces under the watch of a transactional wanna-be dictator, what cou
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by LargeWu 1y ago
It might not be stolen valor, but you just KNOW these guys are going to play up their veteran status, the Honor and Sacrifice of these Great Men, (the article is already an example of this) when really this is just a trojan horse to enrich
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by LargeWu 1y ago
This is it. Maybe a few years ago at <$megacorp> where I work, Oracle requires, as part of their licensing, the ability to scan every machine owned by the company to make sure there is no unlicensed use of any of their software. If a
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by LargeWu 1y ago
Just jumping right in as a Lt Col? Is there a lot of precedent for that? I know that the armed forces have worked with a lot of scientists before, like in the Manhattan Project, but my understanding is that most of them remained civilians.
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by LargeWu 1y ago
Not sure if this is true any more, but they used to make a majority of their revenue by suing their own customers.
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by LargeWu 1y ago
Around here, having a lock doesn't guarantee anything. Bike thieves think nothing of cutting the lock with a cordless angle grinder in broad daylight. Or they'll super glue the locks and come back at night. Nice bike, junk bike, i
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by LargeWu 1y ago
My biggest reservation about e-bikes is that if you ride it regularly for your transportation, it WILL get stolen, it's only a matter of time. I have a hard time putting thousands of dollars into a bike knowing I'm likely to lose
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by LargeWu 1y ago
> there's just not enough people around to form groups of people that are different. That's certainly part of it, although I think the bigger factor is that people who are different just leave. Small towns are conformist becaus
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by LargeWu 1y ago
Have you ever seen teenage boys? A lot of them are basically quasi-feral owing to the newly elevated levels of testosterone unleashed on their brains which are still a long way from being fully baked. I don't know that "girls&quo
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by LargeWu 1y ago
Feels the the homogenization of culture driven by social media and online communities. Somebody makes a chicken, and it gets a good reaction, so everybody starts making chickens. At first it's organic but it turns into clout chasing. P
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They're also the kids that are least likely to improve despite any number of things that might happen in the school, including basically unlimited educational funding. The solution to improving the outcomes for these kids doesn't
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by LargeWu 1y ago
And attacking Harvard, specifically, because they won't bend the knee. There's not really anything more to it than that. Trump is a petty, small man who cares only about enriching himself and punishing his perceived enemies.
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by LargeWu 1y ago
Incredibly brave of you to post something like this here. How are you monitoring and managing cost/token usage?

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