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by aeternum 4y ago
This cites no data or studies. Companies that created a coffee break during the industrial revolution did see significant productivity and quality improvements. It's quite possible that caffeine blocks adenosine and then your body meta
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by aeternum 4y ago
This is often achieve by simply derating the engine. You redefine redline to be 75% of what the engine was designed to produce. Then your takeoff becomes 75% power and cruise is more like 56%.
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by aeternum 4y ago
The problem is that regulations are often a knee-jerk reaction without consideration to the second order effects. When a crash happens, add a rule to prevent it from happening again. Eventually however you have so many onerous rules that it
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by aeternum 4y ago
It was definitely a thing, much harder to get insurance to pay for it for guys. Maybe it changed in the US, but it looks like Canada for example still discriminates based on gender: https://immunizebc.ca/hpv In the US, yea
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by aeternum 4y ago
Those inefficient people can still be profitable when interest rates are near zero. It's also not the people, more often than not it is the product they are working on. Some products can only exist when interest rates are low and mon
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by aeternum 4y ago
No one knows the right number of people to have at a given company and much of it has to do with cost of capital. In 2020 capital was extremely cheap, so cheap that you could hire very inefficient employees and still have upside. No one p
907.
by aeternum 4y ago
Employees, especially tech employees that can work at Meta definitely have options. They can vote with their feet and go to a different company.
908.
by aeternum 4y ago
Some ICs/devs make 1 mil a year
909.
by aeternum 4y ago
A form of this that leverages the social graph would be great. Reddit is a little too democratic, any bot can vote. I'd like a system where the comments are weighted such that I'm more likely to see comments from users I upvote&#
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by aeternum 4y ago
In what world does purchasing a group insurance policy produce a technology moat?
911.
by aeternum 4y ago
So they reduce the heat by triggering manufacturing delays and creating artificial shortages that generate national news? One would think there's a better strategy.
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by aeternum 4y ago
Legalese came to be because lawyers were paid by the word. They're now paid for their time, but I would not discount the continued strength of this incentive. Longer contracts and complex legalese still correlates with more billable h
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by aeternum 4y ago
The overabundance of neutrons cause the beryllium to become radioactive waste, thus eliminating a supposed major benefit of fusion.
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by aeternum 4y ago
Imagine how terrible it would be to be on a team with subpar engineers with some kind of tenure / union protection so they cannot be fired. I think this is a big reason tech workers are opposed to the idea.
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by aeternum 4y ago
Like most modern legislation, the warn act is way too long and thus filled with loopholes. Lawyers have already come up with many ways to avoid it and companies are putting them to good use.
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by aeternum 4y ago
This is such a strange take. If there were some disease that started killing people quickly when they reach 35, we would consider it such a tragedy. Yet we have this disease, it's called aging, and it just takes awhile to kill people.
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by aeternum 4y ago
If the accessibility team failed at making the app accessible, firing them might actually improve things.
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by aeternum 4y ago
But they lost it all by betting on Rivian https://twitter.com/EconomyApp/status/1578475690772508672/ph...
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by aeternum 4y ago
The problem with arguing/advocating on behalf of others is that you can arrive at a state that no one actually wants. IE a group of friends wants to go to dinner, one suggests tacos even though they dislike tacos because they think tha
920.
by aeternum 4y ago
Yamanaka factors seem to be a reinit mechanism, however that's not enough. Cell differentiation seems to be similar to Conway's Game of Life where cells differentiate based on neighboring cells. Significant ordered complexity can
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by aeternum 4y ago
If you have a skin cell that incorrectly differentiated into a mole, how do you reverse it? You can't just fix the DNA, it must also figure out whether it should become a hair follicle or one of the many subtypes of cells that make up
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by aeternum 4y ago
It often requires extra overhead to work with someone in Bangladesh. Tax implications, legal complexities, potential communication & timezone challenges. Also companies often can't tell how much profit they will make and can almos
923.
by aeternum 4y ago
The earth is doomed, it's up to humans to get them off this rock that will eventually burn up in one way or another.
924.
by aeternum 4y ago
Even if an asteroid does not destroy the earth, the sun ultimately will
925.
by aeternum 4y ago
The US absolutely had a hand in this and not just NATO expansion. We interfered with Ukraine elections: https://www.cato.org/commentary/americas-ukraine-hypocrisy Dan Carlin has a great 'Poking the Bear' epis
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by aeternum 4y ago
Not necessarily. We know for example that Twitter was a key source of training data for GPT and there is also clear evidence that tweets were heavily curated by a team that was pretty significantly left of center.
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by aeternum 4y ago
Sure, Putin is not a good leader for Russia, he's power-hungry and does not seem to have the best interests of the Russian people in mind. However by those same metrics you should consider US leadership as also being a weak evildoer.
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by aeternum 4y ago
Yes, people don't realize how expensive transatlantic travel was even as recently as the steam age (1850). A steerage (lowest class ticket) was £3.50 while avg. annual wages were something like £17. It's crazy to think that going
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by aeternum 4y ago
Humans would clearly bring other life with them to Mars just as we have to almost every part of the earth. In contrast to this worldview that humans are the agents of mass-extinction, it's much more likely that humans are the only tick
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by aeternum 4y ago
It's not just humanity, it is all of life. It is possible that complex multicellular life does not exist anywhere else in the universe. Almost everyone agrees that life, not just human life is important and meaningful. Another way to

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