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by adolph 2y ago
Another homebuilding revolution that didn't happen was Edison's concrete homes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38057265 https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/thomas-edisons-concrete-...
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by adolph 2y ago
> home prices also dont scale linearly across their subcomponents See also why small cars aren't proportionately less expensive.
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by adolph 2y ago
This news is baked in a whole lot of irony considering Tesla CEO Elon Musk has long been in favor of eliminating government subsidies that encourage the development of EVs. . . I’m missing the irony; perhaps it is participating in a progr
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by adolph 2y ago
Just get a venous catheter installed. No sense in all this pouring and crockery.
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by adolph 2y ago
Acquiring a long tail of well known faces performing known procedures might make for an interesting training corpus. The resulting weights could make 100's of videos every day and probably do better i18n to capture celebrity arbitrage
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by adolph 2y ago
I don’t Sony Electronics can blame the music side of the house for Memory Stick. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Stick
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by adolph 2y ago
It'll be interesting if Cloud vs Crowd emerges as a Mandela Effect. Other examples include memories of the respective title component of the Berenstain Bears children's books being spelled "Berenstein", the logo of clot
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by adolph 2y ago
I had to look up Ineos bc I’m only familiar with the Grenadier truck. Turns out to be a 20b English chem/energy chaebol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ineos
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by adolph 2y ago
> But at $145 (the equivalent of $12.78 in 1947) it’s more affordable than the LCW was when it was first manufactured and sold. The article isn’t explicitly dated (afaict). Using an inflation calculator leads me to believe it was written
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by adolph 2y ago
Oh, I forgot another aspect of FHIR, SMART on FHIR EHR integrations so the clinical research folks can optionally go straight in from the EHR. I can’t say I disagree with your assessment of REDCap’s base tech except that it works sufficient
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by adolph 2y ago
I’ve worked with organizations that employ people whose physical or mental condition makes it difficult to obtain/maintain a typical job. In all likelihood the type of work performed (stuffing event participant packets) was a net negat
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by adolph 2y ago
Conceptually the flaw is treating cash as a proxy for value. Consider the assertion “Cash is one important piece of the puzzle. The impact may be limited without other resources like health care and child care.” This is paradoxically spot-o
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by adolph 2y ago
Not utilizing FHIR b/c you think EHRs will (a) consume your proprietary reports, and (b) be a downstream data system seems a big footgun. Additionally, while FHIR isn’t quite right for many research use cases, there are ongoing efforts
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by adolph 2y ago
Sounds like they need a nice Hackintosh for that validated FDA regulation app-OS-HW combo.
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by adolph 2y ago
> Sometimes very bright people have trouble attracting an equivalent person. That does not sound very bright. Valuing equivalence over other attributes makes the math work against success.
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by adolph 2y ago
MTA knocked together a system that was comparatively half-baked. It is not wired into the mechanical signals, nor does it control the switches or link up to the PA. Instead, each train running on the lettered lines was equipped with a Blue
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by adolph 2y ago
By not stepping down as president, he is totally RBG-ing Harris. Maybe a resignation will be announced later for maximum impact and tie into some thing ready for Harris to announce presidentially, like some camp david peacing or another 3 s
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by adolph 2y ago
sed 's/ b/\u&/' || sed 's/ L/\L&/'
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by adolph 2y ago
> Being black or latino is a disqualifying trait for playing a Roman emperor in a movie Given a person playing a Roman Emperor is acting in a role not laboring as a ruler, consider that: The emperors Trajan, Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius
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by adolph 2y ago
"It became necessary to destroy [democracy] to save it." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_B%E1%BA%BFn_Tre
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by adolph 2y ago
> We already know consciousness can arise from neuronal activity. Do you think no other substrate could give rise to consciousness? Conjecture of another is reported by “Light Eaters” [0] which I’ve just started. Of course, materially su
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by adolph 2y ago
> Philosophical mumbo-jumbo. Would you expand on that? Having done a small amount of learning adjacent to this work, I’d like to find out more. I was introduced to Friston’s work through “The Hidden Spring” by Mark Solms [0]. It seems we
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by adolph 2y ago
>>Air conditioning does not dispose of CO2 in the air > Anything which circulates the air will remove [CO2] Circulation does not remove CO2, only displace it from one place to another. To remove it, you need a scrubber [0]. 0. htt
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by adolph 2y ago
It would be an interesting experiment to inject additional oxygen into school air supplies. On the other hand, following the principle of “train high, play low” it might be better to educate in lower oxygen and then add oxygen to workplaces
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by adolph 2y ago
Due to its low material and operating costs, it could turn out to be a clever alternative to expensive filter systems and ventilation by shortly wide opening the windows. This is a neat idea that seems penny smart and pound foolish. For o
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by adolph 2y ago
It’s almost like the classic balance of storage, network, processor has a fourth leg: information encumbrances, or data sovereignty of various sorts.
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by adolph 2y ago
> Those of us who sell work are also told not to be afraid to decline work that isn’t safe Truely an absent Andon cannot be pulled. Likewise the first safety is psychological safety. [0] 0. https://www.hbs.edu/faculty&#x2
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by adolph 2y ago
Change is the hardest part of changing US policy towards Cuba because the legal and regulatory elements are old and thus deeply baked in to ongoing operations. Potential alignment of Cuba for other adversaries isn’t a serious enough threat
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by adolph 2y ago
It is certainly a strong and recent example of how intent qualities are orthogonal to outcome qualities.
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by adolph 2y ago
Possible covers a broad range of effort levels and outcome risks. At a minimum a solution for controlled deorbit is required within 10 years or so. You'd think that something that could use the SCM [0] to catch it could also reboost it

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