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Transmission losses are a concern, but this is fairly irrelevant to the OP's original idea: that of producing carbon fuels in the desert and then transporting them. Most populated places in the US are pretty far from Erath, Louisiana o
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Prove, no - but the best argument for a "God" is the simulation argument. Space and time is quantized at the planck scale, which strongly suggests that our known universe is a simulation. Simulation implies a simulator, which woul
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> it's pretty insane that the USA lets companies hide who owns/controls them 1. Anonymous LLCs and Trusts are how many people protect their privacy. Not just Disney, but regular people. The only things "insane" here
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This is terrible. No Italian people, either. Moreover, it's important to note that five of them are East Asian. That's a population over-representation of eight times . This is a completely unacceptable display of Asian Supremacy
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> His companies have all been stupidly and impulsively managed This is generally a true statement, and all of your criticism of his companies is accurate. But what I find hilarious is that HN nearly universally carried his water until T
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The OpenAI API is slightly less constrained than the ChatGPT interface, but it still has plenty of guardrails, regardless of what you put in the system prompt.
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These metrics are based on traffic to chat.openai.com. Speaking for myself, I used to use the crappy chat interface but I now exclusively use tooling I've built up around their API. So, n=1, I'm using OpenAI much more, despite usi
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Got it, thanks. But that's really odd because most mobile MVPs are either just PWAs or some React Native shit compiled to binaries. Why the hell wouldn't they just release it on the web?
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Aside: I see a ton of hype about threads.net all over HN and elsewhere, but it's still useless thus far. It loads a javascript-driven animation of what appears to be a galaxy, any not much else. There is a QR Code at the bottom right c
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FTA: > One major American study suggested that up to a quarter of young alcoholics have a social anxiety disorder Ok, and . . . . ? I met my wife and successfully courted her because of alcohol. There is a precisely zero percent chance t
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> thrown it out due to lack of standing IANAL, but my understanding is that courts will make rulings without standing all the time . Most commonly in cases where constitutionality of a new law or statute is raised, without the law havin
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> For the alcoholic Well, no. Alcoholism can start regardless of the reason you start drinking. There are plenty of "social lubricant" drinkers who became alcoholics because of the pernicious GABA regulation cycle. You might st
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> how good the M1 MacBook is The primary deficiency of the macbook, and about 95% of all modern laptops, is the keyboard. Primarily the height reduction of the up/down arrows in the arrow key cluster. Nothing is more maddening for c
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How are the children and grandchildren of Japanese-Americans living through the 1940s doing socioeconomically? Arguably, they were subject to worse racism, harassment, and violence than African-Americans for about two full decades, and we
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Hate to be the raving "seed oils are going to kill you" guy, but Acrylamide can be greatly reduced by swapping your vegetable-based cooking oil with something like tallow, lard, or coconut oil: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm
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> AMD might be facing a tough battle The Ryzen 7940HS, which is a pretty good value, is on TSMC 4nm, rumored to already cost close to $20k/wafer. Even if they double the transistor count, a single SKU should theoretically be chea
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This is by institutional change, not fundamental balance sheet change. In 2023, if Bank A comes to the Fed/FDIC/SEC/Treasury/Congress in the middle of night after a huge margin call, our institutions now have the process
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> emphasize readability This is a claim that has never, ever been true. Nothing is less readable than defining scope with whitespace. Nothing. One really has to boggle at the notion that there are people who consider Python (or YAML for
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> You are not holding up a gas station for sugar money Yeah, but you're holding up literally everyone in your society. When you get cancer from an unfortunate cosmic ray strike on the wrong strand of dna, but the Oncology department
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> my kids (4, 6) have unlimited access to screens and they’d much rather play Lego or go in the pool. Nothing is better than these "my kids are superior to yours" style posts, disguised as parenting advice. While we're giv
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> Humans need real human connection Right. Ask any pickup artist, or any Aspie who has learned how to mask, how "real" or "deep" human connections are. Hint: they aren't. The ridiculous concept of "connectio
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by caeril 3y ago
It still does, but it's indirect and not as visible. 1. Social Security and Medicare benefits are being paid for by currently working (read: younger) people. 2. Retirement funds invested in equities and bonds require continued produc
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There is a standard of evidence above guesswork and below controlled trials, that is still useful: you accumulate enough survival rate data of whatever specific terminal condition you're hoping to treat, and compare it to the baseline
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There's a bit more nuance to this than "minorities suck at their jobs". Let's say I have two candidates, one is asian and the other is black, and on paper they both look great. They both attended Harvard, and they both i
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> what Carmack's wife and kids think FWIW, they divorced a couple years ago.
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I've had the opposite experience. Not just google, but StackOverflow. Did these tools make me more "productive" in the immediate sense of closing feature request tickets? Sure, absolutely. But these are all crutches for the m
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NYC has the unique distinction among Democrat-run large cities of having a well-funded and well-staffed police authority that is not (yet) hamstrung by political interference. The NYPD is actually feared and respected by would-be criminals,
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Still not clear how one is supposed to wire this to the servlet container. You instantiate a RestApi object and then . . . . magic?
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> these kind of interventions on large scale social media networks are positive in my mind. I have an earnest and legitimate question for you and everyone else of this mindset: Do you believe that these social networks, the media, and th
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The canonical example is January 6th, in which a bunch of unarmed QAnon conspiracy theorists, along with embedded agent provocateurs from the FBI, committed the following atrocities: 1. Larped as a Viking 2. Stole a podium 3. Placed feet on

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