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by avidiax 2y ago
I am wondering if continuous blood pressure monitoring would have some knock-on effects as a measurable, correlatable negative health effect of stress. It would mean that you can literally show that working conditions are shortening your li
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by avidiax 2y ago
> Maybe for pickups above some weight drivers should have to have a commercial driver's license, the one you need to drive a real truck. I would love that. At the very least, anyone with an at-fault accident should be barred from dr
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by avidiax 2y ago
I think the author means "vaccinated". They mean that they've been made resistant to buyer's remorse.
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by avidiax 2y ago
Not clear the relevance to the article, but I suppose people using GenAI for contracts need to be cautious, since they will be bound by whatever the AI comes up with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlill_v_Carbolic_Smo
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by avidiax 2y ago
I imagine lawmakers would be amenable to rules that you can't use GenAI to make legal filings, or that forced arbitration can now use AI to "screen" claims. The courts are not for the little guy with little claims, nor are th
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by avidiax 2y ago
So if Macy's parking lots have 11% more cars than the same time last year, is that a buy or a sell? Are people actually buying more, or are they more cash strapped and spending more time looking for value?
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by avidiax 2y ago
My mostly uninformed hunch is that much of the fancy "public information" analysis that hedge funds claim to do to have their edge is actually parallel construction for insider tips. I've heard it claimed that some funds have
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by avidiax 2y ago
How about 20ft of kevlar string or tape, with a retroreflective tip?
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by avidiax 2y ago
I agree that implementing 10 ideas that tackle 5% of the problem is valuable. Maybe 100 ideas that tackle 0.5% of the problem each. But ideas that tackle 0.00001% of the problem are more useful as a counterexample of what doesn't work.
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by avidiax 2y ago
Oil formed over millions of years at a rate of about 80,000 barrels / year. We consume 36.4 billion barrels of oil per year. That means we consume oil about 455,000 times faster than it was originally produced. And this is just oil; I&
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by avidiax 2y ago
Giving these people in isolation $1,000/month, probably no. Giving everyone $1,000/mo, you could expect that money to be captured as economic rents, if not literal rents. If you currently spend $2,000/mo on your apartment, wh
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by avidiax 2y ago
What types of titles can ACR match to? Can it do foreign titles? Adult titles? Can it OCR onscreen text, e.g. a computer desktop? Can it identify video conferences? Why do advertisers care what I watch? If I watch PBS mystery theater do I g
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by avidiax 2y ago
People still work in literal coal mines, and their pay is still < $31/hour. This discussion is about an effect at the margins. The marginal nurse that decides to quit, the low-seniority teacher that is paid less than their peers for
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by avidiax 2y ago
> Here’s my one simple rule for debugging: > Reproduce the issue. > . . . > I’m not sure that I’ve ever worked on a hard problem . . . I agree, the author has probably not worked on hard problems. There are many situations where
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by avidiax 2y ago
Convenience stores are almost always ground floor. I can only think of times where there is a mezzanine or similar that they might be on an upper floor. They are always placed to have high foot or vehicle traffic.
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by avidiax 2y ago
Looking at a photo of the screen[1], it is a simple LCD dot matrix. I also read elsewhere that the problem is that the backlight tends to fade. So it seems like you have many options: * Find an equivalent LCD matrix. This is probably not th
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by avidiax 2y ago
This is perhaps a bit meta, but I wonder if LLMs as a legal analysis accelerator will be eventually compensated by LLMs to allow vastly more law and policy to be produced. For example, every neighborhood could have a customized body of law
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by avidiax 2y ago
Yeah, a system with implied equity from renting (something like 2-3% per year) would go a long way. Switzerland also has an interesting system that seems designed to somewhat equalize renting vs. owning.
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by avidiax 2y ago
> given enough time (in theory) parallel construction is eventually exposed. Parallel construction has existed for decades. It's even in "The Wire". It has never been tested in court, probably because it is nearly impossib
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by avidiax 2y ago
These pretexts for "discovering" are a "bedrock principle" in law enforcement called parallel construction. The NSA sharing data with the DEA becomes a "routine traffic stop" that finds the drugs. The court wou
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by avidiax 2y ago
> I can't fathom why there's so little interest at any level of government to tackle this problem. Since lawmakers live in places where they have their own police officer at the entrance to the street and can afford triple pane
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by avidiax 2y ago
I want them to go after muffler shops for noise pollution. Most states have laws that you can't modify an exhaust to be louder than the stock exhaust. Yet in every urban area you can hear some percentage of drivers that modify their ca
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by avidiax 2y ago
My understanding of US law is that if the police kill your SWATting victim, they will charge you with murder. It doesn't matter that you tricked someone else into pulling the trigger. Same thing can happen if your partner in crime dies
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by avidiax 2y ago
There's a near-zero possibility that the next potato chip in the bag has been laced with cyanide. But if you never eat any potato chips, there's a definite 0% chance that you'll die of cyanide-laced potato chips. This kind of
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by avidiax 2y ago
SIGSTOP and SIGCONT are very useful as well. SIGSTOP is the equivalent of Ctrl-Z in a shell, but you can address it to any process. If you have a server being bogged down, you can stop the offending process temporarily. SIGCONT undoes SIGST
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by avidiax 2y ago
There's also a commercial version: https://www.coelux.com/
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by avidiax 2y ago
> if you target inflammatory biology, you can alter the evolution and the consequences of multiple diseases… you might be able to alter the outcome for a whole set of diseases of ageing we’d all like to avoid. They stop being weight-loss
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by avidiax 2y ago
I would like to try solving the nutshell studies, but they don't seem to have been digitized. It might make a nice temporary online community to digitize and reveal one nutshell per month. I suppose it might undermine their use in educ
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by avidiax 2y ago
Reminds me of the article from Lensrentals about how much front element scratches affect photo quality. Apparently not very much. Wait, did they say scratches? They meant a completely cracked front element. https://www.lensrental
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by avidiax 2y ago
> Companies would be happy to sell compact pickup trucks that got 30mpg but they aren't allowed. It seems quite possible to take a sedan and replace the back seat and trunk with a bed and still meet requirements. I'm sure that

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