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by NavinF 2y ago
Just estimate the probability of payout. Yes you can do this for non-repeating, hard-to-model events: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-continued-defense-of-non... I do it all the time without making actuarial tables
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Does data show Boeing is unsafe?(weekly.visualapproach.io)
2 points by NavinF 2y ago|0 comments
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by NavinF 2y ago
No, I had quite the pleasant mood when I wrote that. If these 22 authors bothered to polish their turd, I would have wasted a lot of time reading it
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by NavinF 2y ago
> Natural products and traditional medicines are of substantial importance. Modern medicine may not be the sole antidote for the ailments prevailing today. Therefore, people positively perceive ‘back to nature’ approaches like phytothera
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by NavinF 2y ago
>$2.7 billion. Such a cost is nearly twice the funding it took to build the largest structure in the world, the Burj Khalifa, which is seven times taller. > NASA officials informed us they do not intend to request a fixed-price propos
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NASA's problems with launch tower for SLS are getting worse(arstechnica.com)
45 points by NavinF 2y ago|30 comments
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by NavinF 2y ago
Postpaid seems to be down everywhere, but prepaid still works. https://downdetector.com/status/att/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ATT/comments/1f2s8l5/att_wireless_d...
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AT&T customers report wireless service has been down for hours(theverge.com)
6 points by NavinF 2y ago|1 comments
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by NavinF 2y ago
Why? You can tap +>"share location" on iOS to send coordinates in chat. It works when texting 911 too
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by NavinF 2y ago
>couldn’t they set up a purpose-built server for that? Yes, but the bots have to play on the official servers to get random drops of collectible hats. These items can be sold for a lot of money
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by NavinF 2y ago
Was this written by chatgpt? It's all pretty obvious stuff. And for an article about costs why are there no $ numbers on the page?
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The Blue Zone Distraction(cremieux.xyz)
4 points by NavinF 2y ago|1 comments
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by NavinF 2y ago
I'm sure the astronauts would much prefer to have a Dragon available, but I don't think NASA's "cleared for human flight" means much. After all, 4% (14/355) of all the astronauts that flew on the space shuttle
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by NavinF 2y ago
>A City on Mars That book is full of bad science. Some of the silly claims are addressed here: https://planetocracy.org/p/review-of-a-city-on-mars-part-ii
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by NavinF 2y ago
> Tesla was actively cut out of Biden administration EV programs and awards Incidentally this was the inception of the Tech Right. Before that, Elon exclusively voted for Democrats. I didn't realize the impact back then: https:&#x2
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How San Francisco's bureaucracy is condemning its night markets to mediocre food(sfchronicle.com)
1 points by NavinF 2y ago|0 comments
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by NavinF 2y ago
No, that NASA article is mostly fluff. The original link to the ongoing press conference and Eric Berger's summary of it ( https://x.com/SciGuySpace ) are better.
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by NavinF 2y ago
Yeah but he said "cheap enough" and I agree. If the owner didn't bother to mark it as lost in the Find My app, there's nothing you or Apple can do about it.
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Yes, we have noticed the skulls(slatestarcodex.com)
15 points by NavinF 2y ago|2 comments
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by NavinF 2y ago
UHMW = ultra high molecular weight. Each molecule is literally heavy because they have a lot of atoms. PE = polyethylene. The most popular plastic on this planet. HDPE = high-density polyethylene. One of the most common plastics. Milk jugs,
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by NavinF 2y ago
mirror: https://archive.ph/pOIA2
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Japan's Bigmotor scandal is a tale of misguided regulation (2023)(asia.nikkei.com)
3 points by NavinF 2y ago|1 comments
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The Mouse Forced Swim Test(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2 points by NavinF 2y ago|0 comments
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by NavinF 2y ago
> other than "fork it" No. Just fork it. This usually comes up when nobody in the "huge volume of people wanting it keep it alive" wants to become a maintainer. There's no solution to that.
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by NavinF 2y ago
>Both Snap and Meta objected and pointed out that the SCA prohibited them from disclosing the content of the victim’s communications to the defendant unless one of the statutory exceptions applied. None did. They also indicated that the
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by NavinF 2y ago
> I open another account using the same LLC This is where you fucked up. Should have just used another payment provider while you argue with Stripe about the 60-90 day hold. Lots of businesses accept multiple payment methods to avoid dis
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by NavinF 2y ago
"It's not an easy business, really, when you couple that to the negative press the computer industry is getting" "1.6 percent of the freshmen who entered college last fall wanted to major in computer science. That compar
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Students Flee Field as Computer 'Fad' Fades (1987)(newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org)
5 points by NavinF 2y ago|1 comments
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China Makes $31B Nuclear Push with Record Approvals(bloomberg.com)
4 points by NavinF 2y ago|1 comments
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by NavinF 2y ago
OpenAI docs say they also improve latency with caching: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41302358

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