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by bertil 3y ago
Everything has to be a test early on, but not every test has to rely on random-split-based statistical significance to make a decision. “Would you pay $20 for this?” is a classic way to judge whether your service has product-market fit, and
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by bertil 3y ago
That argument is missing that you are using past users’ behaviour as representative of future users’ preferences. You are not sampling marbles in a jar, but making a lot of assumptions, notably about continuity.
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by bertil 3y ago
I would definitely argue that clicking “I agree” at the bottom of a 15-page legalese document is a clear failure to understand.
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by bertil 3y ago
I would argue that if they think there’s no risk in sharing detailed personal information with authorities, they also need to understand. Privacy advocates are better at making that case, but it hasn’t always easy to hear.
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by bertil 3y ago
I get why you need legal arguments to prosecute organisations that abuse the system, but I’m worried that’s the wrong focus for now. Companies handling data will always have enough lobbyist to make their particular way of doing things techn
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by bertil 3y ago
One more argument to my theory that all SciFi is just Captain Cook's Voyages rehashed.
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by bertil 3y ago
> this has already happened is by far the worst possible response to a thread detailing an extinction event, with the closest equivalent being the mycologist self-immolation in _The Last Of Us_. But… thank you for the reference. I missed
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by bertil 3y ago
For many of them, absolutely. But we presumably have many of them spreading at the same time. If one of them has a very effective transmission mechanism (and isn’t violently deadly), it could contaminate most people (a little bit like what
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by bertil 3y ago
Most of the infections would not be, but having an unending stream of infections would allow for the deadliest to mutate with the most contagious. It doesn’t have to lead to an extinction-level threat, but we are putting an awful lot of d
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by bertil 3y ago
One issue with chimeras (the article doesn’t mention) is that they open the door to a new philosophical question about the zoonotic transmission risk. Human-animal barriers are hard to pass for infections (bacteria or virus) because there
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by bertil 3y ago
A clear reference to 'lapidārius/um', an explicit quality of speakers, and meaning literally that.
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by bertil 3y ago
I would love to do that offline too. Just suggest any cafe every two hours of walking, or a gas station every two hours of driving and I’ll stop there and nowhere else.
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by bertil 3y ago
Apple Maos was only relevant in the Bay Area when they launched. They had no meaningful details elsewhere; they didn’t have most street, told you the Louvre was open on Tuesdays and closed the weekend… “embarrassing” would not cover it. The
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by bertil 3y ago
The support got better: downloading is good. It should be usable now, but there are basic things that are not supported, like searching for something or finding a path. I typically don’t need to search: I know where for things are, but ther
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by bertil 3y ago
It’s pretty much right on the money actually… Our users in less digitally connected countries were insanely patient. The main problem was less the time than the cost , actually. The app required updates that were enormous. The cost to down
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by bertil 3y ago
I’ve had to deal with postcodes in too many countries (logistic company), and the UK system is by far the best: dense, standard, somewhat intuitive, code-correcting, specific enough (several dozen households) that if you have a delivery, th
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by bertil 3y ago
I genuinely want to know what lead Google to not support Maps offline properly. It’s truly staggering how, even when I do everything I can to say: save this journey, don’t delete the map around it, don’t delete the journey, just passively s
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by bertil 3y ago
I usually use them to drink, but yeah… So can forks, knives, and if you’ve seen Kateshi Kitano’s _Fireworks (1997) - Hana-bi_, chopsticks.
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by bertil 3y ago
Wax is great, but it isn’t as likely to stick to smooth surfaces for long periods, or if things get hot or abrasive. It’s good on cloth, covering a dish you put in the fridge — but not sure how it would work with burger wrappers or cups of
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by bertil 3y ago
Yeah, the focus on straws is strange to me as that’s only a tiny part of the problem: every fast food wrapper, burger box, “disposable” soda or coffee cup has PFAS—maybe not the plastic lids, but those are clearly not things you want to dis
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by bertil 3y ago
My understanding is that all the covers of fast food (fries holder, hamburger wrapper, inside of paper soda cup) are also covered in PFAS — so far disposable coffee cups. Anything “paper” that is in contact with food, really. Except for the
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by bertil 3y ago
I should probably watch the video, but does he mention anything about dioxin? This has been the main source of pain for my father and his colleagues building sea food farms.
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by bertil 3y ago
> Per calculations upthread, the energy cost of DAC isn't that huge All I’ve seen so far are speculations based on a small prototype in Iceland that is still very expensive and has access to free energy. I’ve had to add up the costs
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by bertil 3y ago
That process relies on DAC, plus electrolysing H2 and that conversion processes, which means the propane would have to be at the equivalent of 15-45$ per gallon. What is less affordable?
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by bertil 3y ago
Yeah, but that solution means your gallon of gas, or its propane equivalent, costs 45$.
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by bertil 3y ago
Not if it’s a lot more expensive.
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by bertil 3y ago
I’m not convinced that the overall cycle is sustainable: cement >> concentrated CO2 >> electrolysis >> propane >> burn into the atmosphere still leaves that 8% of CO2 in the air.
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by bertil 3y ago
You’d need a lot less power if you use infrared lights… Still: better grid connection or home batteries are much less complicated to install than a whole new CO2 conversion set-up, plus we are going to need those if people are going to driv
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by bertil 3y ago
There’s no clear indication whether that would require some CO2 or a concentrated atmosphere of CO2 without O2. Extracting CO2 from the atmosphere at 0.4% is expensive. If this is meant to use concentrated CO2 coming out from a furnace, wou
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by bertil 3y ago
So you would need to have two separate electrolyzing processes, one that isolates H2 and one that runs this operation? How much energy would have to go into the first one? I’m asking because a lot of the demand for hydrocarbon that I see me

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