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by Retric 7mo ago
> Maybe it won't be in the near future, or even in our lifetime, but there is no way the human race does not turn to nuclear eventually. We already use nuclear, if you mean fission as a primary energy source… Batteries don’t consum
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by Retric 7mo ago
The economics only changed recently and infrastructure lasts a long time. It’s the same reason EV’s make up a far larger share of new car sales than a percentage of overall cars, EV’s sucked 20+ years ago yet there are a lot of 20+ year ol
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by Retric 7mo ago
We already have an electric grid we don’t need to build a new one from scratch just replace infrastructure that gets to old and add more for whatever extra demand shows up. Obviously other energy sources are going to exist and non solar pow
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by Retric 7mo ago
1545 is well after European contact and close enough that it seems unlikely to be a coincidence. 1519–1521: Hernán Cortés conquers the Aztec Empire. 1532–1533: Francisco Pizarro conquers the Inca Empire. Further low 10’s of millions of deat
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by Retric 7mo ago
In this case it’s strictly less efficient. You can only correct for missing entries by doing the same work you’d need to start from scratch. But after that you now have a second list to consider.
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by Retric 7mo ago
Missing entries don’t get corrected by looking at the LLM output. That only helps when the LLM makes something up from thin air or mangles the output. Of course it’s not the kind of question you can get an objectively correct answer for, b
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by Retric 7mo ago
What’s the point of getting the wrong answer quickly? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587662
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by Retric 7mo ago
Only in theory is it so easy to separate clerical errors from other issues. So in practice clerical errors cause all kinds of long term havoc. Once declared dead it can be a monstrous effort to prove to various systems you are in fact alive
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by Retric 7mo ago
Not just that, start talking hundreds of millions of births and you get clerical error. Which could then become rather complicated if there are laws saying the sex assigned at birth has significant lifelong legal consequences.
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by Retric 7mo ago
I think you fundamentally fail to understand what I just said. Proper unbiased random sampling allows you to create sub populations that tend to reflect the characteristics of a larger group, biased populations don’t share that relations
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by Retric 7mo ago
> Evidence that someone at some point made an effort to put poison into the apple supply does not directly support that claim. However if credible it is certainly cause to entertain the possibility. Go from the other direction suppose yo
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by Retric 7mo ago
There is a logical flaw in suggesting that something that occurs with a small percentage of a population such as “detransitioning” implies anything about every member of a population. Child abuse exists, but doesn’t imply anything about ev
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by Retric 7mo ago
That subtilely implies it’s a decision to view oneself as a different gender from what was assigned at birth, but it’s not entirely clear it’s a choice in every case. Edge cases in biology get wild and sex assigned at birth can be a near a
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by Retric 7mo ago
> Wouldn’t a DC refrigerator with equivalent insulation and interior volume have nearly identical exterior dimensions as an AC refrigerator? Sure, but it’s important to separate what could be built from what is being built based on consu
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by Retric 7mo ago
Of grid homes are vastly more concerned with the energy efficiency of their appliances and thus DC refrigerators generally have more insulation. Most AC customers prefer more internal volume for food over slightly increased efficiency. AC
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by Retric 7mo ago
Perhaps, but you can do a lot to a car while it remains street legal.
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by Retric 7mo ago
Not tightly coupled in obvious ways, but as I understand it they aren’t putting it on pickup trucks, convertibles, or anything toeing a boat etc. Their vehicles don’t have aftermarket suspension systems dramatically changing handling chara
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by Retric 7mo ago
Waymo as a system has crossed the threshold where I trust them more than average driver, but all this hardware is relatively new, well maintained, and their software is closely tied to it. I’m way less confident of self driving in the hands
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by Retric 7mo ago
I rarely hear Republicans actually call themselves fiscally conservative. It seems more like an abandoned stance than a lie at this point.
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by Retric 7mo ago
> of a statistical nature. (True) … should be expected to match. (False) If a group is more likely to be X than the average population then being a member of that group is statistical evidence you are X. Really when referring to statisti
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by Retric 7mo ago
> statistical defensibility Requesting an arbitrarily high standard doesn’t create any obligation. Evidence of a high standard does.
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by Retric 7mo ago
Court cases look at things like when someone arrives in a city as evidence, that alone doesn’t make someone more likely to have done whatever than a million other people, but it’s still evidence. So you dismissed it, but it is in fact evide
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by Retric 7mo ago
No, you ignored evidence presented while failing to provide any of your own. Evidence has no minimum standard in debate, you can only provide more compelling evidence to the contrary.
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by Retric 7mo ago
Which isn’t quite accurate as for example people prefer to move out of their parent’s homes while young adults but aren’t necessarily homeless if they don’t. Basic housing is a necessity, but people also huge homes and 2nd homes etc. So ho
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by Retric 7mo ago
A 10% or 20% cap is only relevant if the company is hitting the cap. Operating a subdivision with a lower profit margin is a different matter, that’s no longer an insurance company hell they could be selling porn and it would be equally irr
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by Retric 7mo ago
> It invalidates attempts to claim the seller is able unilaterally act in their interests without the customer having recourse. By that logic the cap’s on annual profits by insurance companies suggest significant pricing power by insurer
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by Retric 7mo ago
“A Starlink satellite has a lifespan of approximately five years” https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellites.html A 5 years useful lifespan sets the replacement rate and thus the average number burning up each year.
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by Retric 7mo ago
They are 0.8 ton each and last ~5 years. 10,000 / 5 * 0.8 = 1,600 tons per year at 10k satellites, and their goal of 40k satellites would put it well above the amount of asteroid debris impacting each year. Further asteroids contain v
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by Retric 7mo ago
Profit margins are difficult to compare across industries, game developers on average have great profit margins in part because all the studios that fail quickly stop counting. Grocery stores on the other hand are a known as a low margin bu
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by Retric 7mo ago
How you use worse implies a wider judgment than how someone behaves on a single issue. Real people are more complicated than Disney characters.

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