OkayPhysicist

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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
The fundamental problem with non-profit executive pay is that they earn their keep. Even more directly than CEOs in a for-profit space. The CEO of a non-profit has approximately one job: convince rich people to give the non-profit large amo
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
I wish there was any way to know when language was developed in (proto?) humans. Our complex grammar is pretty unique in the animal kingdom, and it's clearly linked to our cognition. You can get pretty far with mere vocabulary (just l
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
It's not the entire purpose of the loyalty program. The other reason (possibly the bigger reason) is simple price discrimination. McDonald's found that there are two distinct groups of customers: habitual fast food eaters, who g
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
The really cool thing about local politicians is that unlike higher levels of government, they tend to actually live locally. Means you can pretty easily coordinate things like pleasant sit-down conversations, or shouting obscenities at the
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
Malort improves a lot with a little airing out. Straight out of the bottle and into a shot glass tastes like poison, but if you leave it in a glass, maybe giving it a few swirls for a bit while doing something else (like trying to convinc
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
They're copying a policy MIT has had for decades. Last I checked, MIT is still in the running for the best regarded university in the world .
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
> giving you time to adjust to factors like increased workloads and variations in academic preparation and teaching methods. > curb a mental health crisis In this context, both have the exact same meaning, of "stop freshmen who
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
I got a couple of these as a kid, handed down from my parents. Quite a bit of fun to play around with. I do remember getting a snap-together circuit which was new, but it just didn't have all the cool bits and the fun little springs o
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
A core point of the article is that the vast majority of the world is filled with incompetent people who lack basic truth-finding skills, but that you shouldn't inform your opinion of your own correctness based on that fact. Maybe, bei
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
Even better than rolling is a suit fold. I inherited one, and only got around to using it years later when I needed to fly in to a buddy's wedding with a suit. Ever since, it's my go-to piece of luggage. It's small enough to
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
The US industry players are unconcerned. Mistral wouldn't be stupid enough to use this patent against them, because they know damn well they'd lose, and then have their patent invalidated. No, more likely Mistral is planning on us
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
In the US, the patent office almost always grants patents as long as the correct process is followed. They don't really concern themselves with whether a patent could be successfully challenged, they just care about whether the the app
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
A healthy social life consists of having people at various degrees of familiarity, who can move up and down closeness spectrum. You start with setting specific relationships. Your gym buddies, your work buddies, that guy who's always a
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
Why is this so, so common? They're subdomains. They're free. It's not hitting anybody's budget to publish a new DNS entry. If someone has permission to publish anything in your name, they probably should be able to go ma
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
None of this required Javascript. At all. The same potential attack could have been done with good ol' forms. Sure, you think you're signing into "BigBensSuperStore.com", but you're actually handing your credentials
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
Whenever the "tens of millions killed by communism" number gets trotted out, it's invariably considering everybody who died due to lack of assigned resources under communism. Which is fine, but it means you need to go over to
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
A nuclear armed Iran would be fantastic for global stability. Right now, the only nuclear power in the Middle East is Israel, and they act like it, doing their warmongering and genocidal tendencies and all that. A nuclear Iran and nuclear I
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
You can do CRISPR in your kitchen. It's been possible practically as long as CRISPR has been a thing. It's not particularly difficult, to the point that my biggest counterpoint to the whole AI doomerism argument on the subject is
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
Users are habituated to clicking links (mostly from their email) as verification, too. QR codes get a weird amount of hate for something that basically amounts to a hyperlink you can transmit through meatspace.
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
Terseness is a significant advantage in pattern recognition. If you write a long, detailed breakdown of every step, not only are you spending a bunch of time writing, you're also obscuring the natural symmetries of the statement. It&#x
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
50% is a bit much. People do expect their hardware to just work. That means installing drivers and the like. And the act here is so egregious that I can't imagine being an LG engineer and living with the shame of being so incredibly de
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
And they suck. Everyone who's ever worn one knows they suck. If they're too big they completely kill all sensation, if they're too small they cut off circulation, leading to, you guessed it, total loss of sensation. Topped of
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
Most STDs we don't have vaccines for, and the ones that have survived to the modern day are the ones that can be good at hiding. Syphilis, for example, has the nasty habit of seemingly going away by itself, only to pop up again years l
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
And the solution already exists, one that doesn't empower the government to do some truly heinous shit. Every power you grant the government is another knife they'll eventually stab you in the back with. Maybe you like your curren
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
There are also fascists screaming at the government to do other wildly illegal stuff. The lousy parents begging the government to "tread on me" would get wildly better results by spending less time trying to create an authoritar
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by OkayPhysicist 2mo ago
The same thing you'd do with a doctor with a penchant for harming their patients. Strip their license.
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Couldn't any exploit possible via that pathway also be executed based on a link? I don't see how a QR code makes the situation any worse.
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There isn't really a direct point of comparison in the US, because by and large the US is much more loosely attached to the concept of having a specific "Our culture" that others are expected to assimilate to. Rather, US cult
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Post-crypto, the GPU manufacturers took the proactive move to use VRAM to segment the market for the purpose of price discrimination. Sure, data centers will pay vastly more for GPUs, but Nvidia knows that the PC market is steady and reliab
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
They basically are. Waymo's basically spreading as fast as they can 1) verify they can drive safely in the local conditions (SF has fog, but no snow or ice), 2) work with local governments to set up a "what happens when a cop pull

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