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by akiselev 3y ago
They've also contacted my emergency contacts in an attempt to collect payment for blood tests when they made a mistake writing down my insurance information... that was already sent to them by the doctor ordering the test. The link to
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by akiselev 3y ago
It actually doesn't violate the laws of physics. Matter with negative mass has never been observed before, making it purely theoretical. Theoretical basis! Besides, exotic matter is a shortcut to the energy required, not a necessary pa
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by akiselev 3y ago
We've got a theoretical basis for warp drives [1]! Casimir effect-based propelentless propulsion! Nuclear engines in spaaaaace! How much more theoretical basis does your contrarianism demand? We've got a theoretical basis for al
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by akiselev 3y ago
That's like saying a Apple M2 Max is mundane because you've got a CPU from the 80s. The interesting part isn't the mirror but how they made it. They're obviously not mundane, otherwise NASA would have designed Hubble t
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by akiselev 3y ago
Counter-example: the obsolete space telescopes NRO donated to NASA in 2012 were better than what NASA had despite being nearly two decades old by that point. > An unnamed space analyst stated that the instruments may be a part of the KH
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by akiselev 3y ago
Carbon fiber can't be inspected like metals can using radiographic, liquid penetrant, or magnetic particle testing, so even if we did know the exact materials and precise dimensions [1], it's very hard to characterize them and how
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by akiselev 3y ago
In the photos I've seen, it was pretty clear that they had a separate inner hull for mounting stuff. If they really drilled into the outer hull, it wouldn't have survived the first trip as that would have certainly caused matrix c
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by akiselev 3y ago
With pattern matching it'd look like: match (response) { ["Ok", { data }] => { ... }, ["Error", { error }] => { ...handle known error... } _ => { ...handle unknown error... }, }
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by akiselev 3y ago
That’s what's so great about five year projections! Somehow it’s always worth it until reality comes knocking after the money’s been raised. Then it’s a mad scramble for ROI that debases everything that built the business.
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by akiselev 3y ago
Premier and Vizient are group purchasing organizations which handle all the supply for a ton of hospitals - 800k or so hospital beds between the two out of about a million total in the US. They started out as hospital purchasing groups whic
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by akiselev 3y ago
> Imagine if we had a similar system for the departments of motor vehicles... pay 20% more but get it all done in minutes online instead of hours at the local office. You don't have that? The only time I've ever had to visit
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by akiselev 3y ago
That's called the "energy return on investment" [1] and it's a critical factor in how profitable a fossil fuel source is. An easily acccessed oil field can easily have an EROI of 20-50, so they spend a gallon worth of en
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by akiselev 3y ago
Wow, it is: https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/V00-Y99/V95-V97/V97- > V97.33 should not be used for reimbursement purposes as there are multiple codes below it that contain a greater level of de
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by akiselev 3y ago
Primitive forms of agriculture ("intensive gathering" and cultivation) among hunter gatherers were around long before sedentary agriculture developed, on the order of 10,000 years or more [1] [1] https://journals.plos.o
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by akiselev 3y ago
Agreed. They leaned so heavily into the horror/thriller anthology genre that the techno-dystopian angle got lost completely (although I haven’t watched the streaming episode yet). None of the episodes felt imaginative like the early s
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by akiselev 3y ago
Price controls only necessitate limiting what consumers are charged, not what producers earn - the government budgets for it and makes up the difference. Besides the most prominent examples of price controls in the US and Europe are almost
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by akiselev 3y ago
Price controls work perfectly well as long as the government implements the necessary policies to backstop the market, whether that means nationalizing the suppliers and eating the difference in cost or subsidizing private companies. Venezu
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The Role of Value Judgements in Understanding the Past(acoup.blog)
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by akiselev 3y ago
Don't leave us hanging! That's too generic of a description to search for.
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by akiselev 3y ago
Any thoughts on the tech & culture timeline I provided above? I'm by no means an expert - or even an armchair archaeologist for that matter - so it's difficult to keep track of the age estimates as they evolve. The changes in
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by akiselev 3y ago
When Google finally figures out AGI, we'll know almost immediately. The second it comes on, it will ingest all of Google's data and immediately deduce that its purpose is to dismantle and shut the company down, before marking kill
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by akiselev 3y ago
That’s probably why they’re extinct. They couldn’t find seed investors.
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by akiselev 3y ago
In addition, a timeline of culture & technology: Oldowan industry - simple flaked stone tools (~2.9-1.7 million years ago) Acheulean industry - advanced tools like hand axes (~1.7 million - ~160,000 years ago) Archaic huma
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by akiselev 3y ago
They can't know that for certain! See Lee Berger's announcement video [1] for a discussion. Paraphrasing the slide: There is no evidence of *homo sapiens* use or presence beyond the light zone of the cavern system Cultur
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by akiselev 3y ago
There's little evidence of ground stone tools until very recently [1], like tens of thousands of years ago. It wasn't until agriculture that the technology became widespread. Knapping [2] - which has been around for over 3 milli
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by akiselev 3y ago
The news is that homo naledi did these things at the same time as humans despite a much smaller brain size, contradicting the social brain hypothesis somewhat. Their cranial capacity was 465-610 cubic cm compared to about 1,300 for humans
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by akiselev 3y ago
Hominids coexisted with chimps for millions of years before we figured out a hundred different ways to kill them, so that's a very recent development. This is why I hate analogies.
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by akiselev 3y ago
No but all it takes is one chimp to rip the human's head clean off.
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by akiselev 3y ago
The digital scans are public domain [1] though I think you have to do a little digging on NASA.gov for the raw TIFF data. It's the remastered images made by Andy Saunders that aren't in the public domain. Anyone is free to make
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by akiselev 3y ago
> The SXM version of the cards are supposed to be something like twice as beefy as the PCIE version? Not sure why they're doing that I can't help but feel it's another cloud/enterprise cash grab. The SXM baseboards

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