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by avalys 1y ago
How much do you think the board gets paid?
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by avalys 1y ago
There’s no “might” here, in a device advertised as “92% accuracy”. This device _will_ give false results, almost certainly an overwhelmingly number of false results relative to the actual heart attacks it detects. And those false results ha
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by avalys 1y ago
I (an American from suburban Connecticut) was recently in London for an event and someone misheard me. Another Londoner said “It’s because of your accent!”, which of course was nonsense to me. What accent? I’d be really interested to play w
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by avalys 1y ago
These have felt fake to me since college, so, for 20 years or so? They’re so far from the environment where I’m most productive and creative that I’ve always considered them to be performative nonsense at best.
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by avalys 1y ago
Nope, not at all! That is a roughly correct number for the area of solar panels required to equal a 1 GW baseload power plant.
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by avalys 1y ago
Minuscule sounds like a good lower bound to me! What’s the problem then?
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by avalys 1y ago
That statement doesn't really make any sense. The expense of producing "fuel" for fusion is much lower than fission, and the improved safety profile means the actual realized engineering costs will also be lower. Yes, in theo
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by avalys 1y ago
What do you think is less disruptive for the environment, a 1 GW fusion machine the size of a medium-sized warehouse, or 100 square kilometers of solar panels plus a battery installation? Renewables are cheap at the margins, but they'r
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by avalys 1y ago
The discourse around this thing is hilarious. For years people have been saying “I just want a small, simple truck with no frills and a reasonable price.” Now, one is finally available, and all the commentary is “Oh, I’m in the target marke
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by avalys 1y ago
If I am thinking about how to express a complex idea in writing or speech, I’ll certainly have an “internal monologue.” But if I’m just thinking about something myself, my thoughts just exist as abstract thoughts that aren’t tied to languag
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by avalys 1y ago
What scenario do you imagine where you're in a disaster zone in a foreign country with a different native language, with no access to network or power, and that country is somehow providing you translated emergency weather announcement
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by avalys 1y ago
What do you think the regulatory standard should be set to? It is currently set to 10 ppb (parts per billion). Do you think it should be 0? 0.0000 ppb? No detectable lead whatsoever? What do you do if detection technology improves and the m
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by avalys 1y ago
If you can afford to travel to the US, you can afford a cell phone with access to the huge variety of free and accurate translation apps.
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by avalys 1y ago
All I see in this story are a bunch of things that were under discussion at some point, but never happened. But then, “Meta considered doing business in China, evaluated and negotiated with the Chinese government what would be required to d
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by avalys 2y ago
I see all these articles about Canadian and European hate for the US, and anti-US sentiment in general. They all sadden me. The US is made up of 350 million people. Only one of them is Donald Trump. Most of the country didn’t vote for him.
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by avalys 2y ago
The article says the popup which caused this issue was used to display survey instructions, not ads.
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by avalys 2y ago
I look forward to the inevitable upgraded version, “git whom”.
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by avalys 2y ago
The interior of the Model S was, and remains, appallingly cheap. It felt like a 1990s Chrysler minivan with all the buttons removed.
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by avalys 2y ago
Anecdotally related, but, during Covid and remote work I went to an optometrist around age 35 after I noticed my distance vision was blurry, especially at night after working inside all day. They told me "you have 20/20 vision, yo
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by avalys 2y ago
What is this supposed to be? It's a link to a bunch of posts on some kind of social media platform that all say "uspol science funding". Am I missing something?
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by avalys 2y ago
If the bed requires going through some kind of production endpoint interaction in order to set up the remote connection (as is most likely the case), then his claim that any engineer can connect to any bed is simply false, and this is no mo
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by avalys 2y ago
"I downloaded the firmware and I found an SSH key and a configuration file that mentions an SSH endpoint; therefore, I know that all of Eight Sleep’s engineers are allowed to remotely SSH into every customer’s bed and run arbitrary cod
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by avalys 2y ago
Please see my reply to another person in this same thread. He didn't even verify that the bed is running an SSH server in the first place!
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by avalys 2y ago
This is a Linux image that is, somehow, remotely flashed onto the bed. He found the SSH key on the filesystem. 1. He didn't even bother to check and see if the bed is running an SSH server - ten seconds with nmap could have told him th
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by avalys 2y ago
This is a bunch of nonsense, assumption and leaping to conclusions without evidence. "In the second screenshot, we have the public key that’s authorized to access the device. The email address attached to the public key, eng@eightsleep
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by avalys 2y ago
It might well be the case that, today, the executive branch (which includes essentially the entirety of what most people consider “the federal government”) is largely staffed by those who want to paralyze it. You can certainly say that thes
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by avalys 2y ago
What branch of government do these independent agencies exist in, and where is that defined in the Constitution?
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by avalys 2y ago
What’s the solution you have in mind? Anyone in the Executive branch can interpret the law for themselves and disobey an order if they believe they have a legal basis to do so? That would be completely paralyzing.
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by avalys 2y ago
This EO says nothing about the Judicial branch and presents a perfectly reasonable policy statement about how legal decisions and interpretation should be made within the executive branch. What specific language in this EO do you have a pro
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by avalys 2y ago
Yes, it absolutely is how all startups work.

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