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by aeternum 2y ago
The problem is the university never considers the other side. What is the cost of banning unsupervised swimming? Has Phelps really never swam/trained unsupervised? The issue is the visibility is very one-sided. Everyone reads about
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by aeternum 2y ago
Gold and money does not make people rich. Companies like SpaceX that bring new technology to humanity do. Somehow Europe lost sight of that and the US seems to be on the same path.
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by aeternum 2y ago
Of course, there are still non-banned activities but it's not only swimming. Cheerleading, football, skateboarding, even lifting are risky activities and do have some chance of injury. It's easy to cite the injury stats for these
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by aeternum 2y ago
Seems like it's the old I can encode all of wikipedia into a single word as long as you have all of wikipedia stored in your decoder.
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by aeternum 2y ago
What's interesting is that we may be causing much more loss of life with these bans than we are saving. We ban or severely restrict many physical activities then we wonder why childhood obesity is so high and why so many kids have meta
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by aeternum 2y ago
It's just too easy, all we had to say is that housing developers are evil capitalists and all the plebs bought it hook line and sinker. Want to build housing? Good luck with the five environmental reviews you need to submit before bre
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by aeternum 2y ago
Remember that neural networks were invented in 1943 and were not productized until much later. Often it takes time for the engineering to catch up to the theory.
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by aeternum 2y ago
Unnecessary requirement, the store in your building might not be relevant to you but chances are another nearby will be. In order to make this work you really need to reduce the restrictions.
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by aeternum 2y ago
Better the Chinese actually use the tech than it sets in regulatory deadlock in the US. Sad to see the US lose freedoms just as rapidly as a Chinese citizens. One one case, onerous regulation and on the other a decrease of personal freedom
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by aeternum 2y ago
I think warning labels should come with a warning: Relying on warning labels to determine your actions can be hazardous to your health.
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by aeternum 2y ago
It's ridiculous that congress gets to wait 45 days but normal citizens get only 10 days. It's bad enough that they can insider trade, even worse that they wait longer than regular citizens when it comes to disclosure like this. I
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by aeternum 2y ago
Agreed, but IMO the greater threat is smartphone apps. There are all kinds of AI photo and video manipulation apps and they have multiple ways to get precise location via gps, wifi, and photo metadata with the added advantage that many pho
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by aeternum 2y ago
Unconvincing tbh. Research papers have shown that heartrate can be tracked from cameras with well under 4k resolution. Doing it with DJI's excellent camera tech should be quite easy. As far as US infrastructure, google street view an
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by aeternum 2y ago
Getting sick can accelerate other underlying health issues, news at 11.
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by aeternum 2y ago
>When land value increases it is not because of anything the landowner did, but because of what society did. The gains should go to society. Nicely landscaping your home can increase the surrounding home values, especially when other nei
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by aeternum 2y ago
Is there some rationale for setting the LVT rate so that the land is worthless? That seems unnecessary and counter-productive. If I were designing the system, I would want both the government and the landowner to share in the appreciation
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by aeternum 2y ago
Unearned rents is questionable. People have always understood the value of land and have worked hard to be able to purchase it and vote + participate in local government to help protect the value of that land. Especially in the US, that m
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by aeternum 2y ago
How about: AI will become everyone's co-pilot Now we don't need to write hundreds of additional articles.
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by aeternum 2y ago
Are we all just ignoring that plants pull CO2 out of the air and produce usable energy in the process? So clearly it is possible to do more efficiently.
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by aeternum 2y ago
Like everything in life, moderation seems to be the key. Especially with alcohol it can be difficult to moderate due to social pressure and such. Many friends seems to acknowledge that light drinking isn't harmful, but given they don&
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by aeternum 2y ago
Right but the SR-71 had a pretty significant fuselage cross-section that is basically pure drag. If going for max efficiency, the entire nosecone of the rocket should probably be the air intake. Basically take one of the SR-71's engi
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by aeternum 2y ago
The vast majority of the weight however is oxidizer which you could theoretically eliminate since the rocket is surrounded with various amounts of oxygen depending on launch trajectory. A scramjet power first stage for example could overcom
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by aeternum 2y ago
A KSP with more realistic physics would just be amazing. Unfortunately from the KSP2 vids it looks like they instead doubled-down on wobblyness.
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by aeternum 2y ago
Feynman came up with a potential test by tracking the things he could and couldn't do while counting seconds (via internal monologue). He found he generally count not talk while counting. He then had others try and found that one of h
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by aeternum 2y ago
It's also possible to do mentally by visualizing it rather than internal monologue. You can imagine the 1 on the left arcing over to the right, cancelling the 22 to 21, then the 3 moving under the 21 and the 21 descending through the
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by aeternum 2y ago
Sperm whales can produce sounds of 230 decibels so humans aren't the only noise polluters of the ocean. In fact we almost hunted sperm whales to extinction so on net the oceans are probably much quieter than they were.
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by aeternum 2y ago
Historically the much bigger risk is new technology ending up fully controlled by a single country. Much of the history of the world's revolutions can be chalked up to that. Bronze weapons, horsemanship, chariots, gunpowder, ship-build
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by aeternum 2y ago
Earth CO2 concentrations during the Triassic were 6000ppm.
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by aeternum 2y ago
Nah all these safety guys developed a messiah complex and are likely no longer capable of doing useful work. Try using Anthropic's GoldenGate bridge model. They effectively lobotomized the model. What course of action would you take
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by aeternum 2y ago
ChatGPT and Claude can write better legislation than this.

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