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by _yb2s 2y ago
"Since the contextuality of communication is always in the foreground when I talk or write, you know that someone is confusing me with an authority when they talk about my `protocol' for something. Context is everything, and it’s
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by _yb2s 2y ago
> The best care is not necessarily the best bleeding-edge treatment It's mostly a conceptual thing for me. As a technical person with a hacker/nerd/scientist mindset, I will not be able to trust someone that blindly follow
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by _yb2s 2y ago
That does sound truly awful. I already hate the noise of internal combustion cars and am looking forward to cars getting quieter.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I would expect eVTOLs to be capable of greater redundancy than a helicopter or fixed wing aircraft - with no single point of failure that could make them drop from the sky. It would add little weight to have two or more independent electric
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Personally, if I were dying and someone kept saying fake nonsense like "you are getting the best care" I'd probably cut off contact with them, or at least wish they would stop. I'd know I'm getting mediocre care lik
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by _yb2s 2y ago
> Why not try a moonshot? It’s stupid not to. I'm a researcher in the biosciences, and know how unlikely it is that these one-off and in-vitro findings are likely to work but I would 100% scour the literature and try experimental tr
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I think the difference is that a helicopter is extremely technical to fly requiring complex and expensive training, and the eVTOL is supposed to be extremely simple to fly. Also the eVTOL in principle is really cheap to make if you just con
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by _yb2s 2y ago
It seems to me that the redefined flying cars for extremely wealthy people did happen? eVTOLs are being sold/delivered to the general public. Certainly still pretty rare, as I've never seen one in real life. I'd love to have
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by _yb2s 2y ago
As an update to my previous comment here is a detailed article I found on Brautigan's complex relationship with the more famous beat poets: https://www.beatdom.com/ginsberg-brautigan/ In short, he was there in SF
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by _yb2s 2y ago
> I somehow got it into my head that he was the last beatnik One thousand percent, his general attitude reminds me of Gary Snyder aka Japhy Ryder- of course also a famous beat poet. I think nowadays people don't even know what beat
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by _yb2s 2y ago
This is my personal interpretation- but I think that the modern reading you are implying was very much intended to be the context in which it was written. Brautigan's use of the tone of naive extreme optimism was intended to be ironic
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by _yb2s 2y ago
This poem is one of the few I've ever read that gives me physical chills. I've read it before of course, but not the rest of the work in the PDF- which was also excellent. Thanks for posting.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
This is horrifying, PDFs should not be able to execute code.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I’m an academic and my institution does all such things in house with a real engineering team in the IT department- as well as a UI and visual design team. PIs can also pay them to develop sites for their own labs, etc. This is pretty stand
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by _yb2s 2y ago
This does not add up- this is your last term but you’ve only been there a year and a half? The university, who presumably has a professional engineering team making these systems is trying to blackmail an undergrad to reproduce something fo
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by _yb2s 2y ago
The problem is that the world itself is just too complex that without nuance, you're not talking about anything meaningful- so what's the point? On HN this is particularly challenging because we get a mix of experts and non-expert
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I think about this a lot- many of the online spaces I used to enjoy have been completely overrun by people that are a particular combination of mean, ignorant, and 100% sure their opinions on everything are objectively correct and final. An
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Ultimately you'll still need to further process it into a set of physical step by step instructions for the instrument. I'd still rather have the slicer be separate software step so you can tweak the physical properties of the pro
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by _yb2s 2y ago
That seems like important context that should have been in the article given they are talking globally. I'm on the USA west coast, and we still have warehouse and outdoor raves here, and people wouldn't use the term rave to refer
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by _yb2s 2y ago
The author doesn't even seem to know what a rave is, most likely they aren't in decline at all. They're talking about formal, permanent dance clubs shutting down for economic reasons. Raves are mostly an underground - often i
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I was skeptical at first, but given that it’s such a well known energy company, I’m sure this will be a great product!
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I have a longtime dislike for Microsoft but google has become almost unusable recently with fake ai pages filling the results, and Bing seems to work better.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I loved that feature- I could take my shitty old laptop into a university computer lab and boot a powerful brand new mac with fast internet from my hard drive- and use all of my software as if it was my own computer.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I suspect your idea of “practical aspects of genetics” includes ideas about how people different from you shouldn’t be allowed reproduce, and very little about things like researching the function of a newly discovered microbial enzyme.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
It’s wasteful of other peoples time to show up to a meeting late, and wasteful of my own to be early. I’d like to be as precise as practical. Meetings filled with high paid experts are incredibly expensive- one should get every detail right
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by _yb2s 2y ago
The movie was based on the (indisputable?) fact that intelligence is heritable- but not Eugenics, which takes that a step further and advocates for people deciding which other people are inferior and superior and organizing society around t
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I am really annoyed that it is almost universal to show only minutes on clocks- when so much in my life at least depends on knowing time to the second. Even modern digital devices like an iPhone make it really hard to get a seconds readout,
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by _yb2s 2y ago
No, the power steering system on these is entirely hydraulic/mechanical. I’m surprised Mazda had such a feature so early.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I'm sure some of their later cars after the 2/7/9 series are quite good cars, but they just don't appeal to me.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
For the initial builder... overall long term cost is much higher.

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