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by cameldrv 3y ago
I don't know if enforcement has all that much to do with it. I think it's just the iron law of capitalism + addictive substances. More powerful, more addictive, cheaper products win in the market. Everything is like this. Pack
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Lots of people will do a covid test, or more than one, if they know they spent significant time close to someone with covid. If positive, they can then take measures to keep their family and others from getting sick.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
No this is normal. When you introduce a new diagnostic test, part of the approval process is that you have to run an aging study on the reagents/test cartridge. The normal procedure is to set some of the tests aside when they first co
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by cameldrv 3y ago
The antigen tests definitely seem to be much less effective than they used to be. There are so many false negatives, it's not clear that the test has any value. Many people have covid symptoms, test negative, and then figure they&#x2
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Not exactly. The SR-71 system had an expected position of the star, and then it would mechanically scan the telescope in a rectangular spiral scan pattern with a single pixel photodetector until it found a star with the expected brightness
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by cameldrv 3y ago
If the U.S. Navy had been tied up in the Pacific, I think it’s tough to say what would have happened on the eastern front. The Soviets were pretty dependent on U.S. aid for food, trucks, planes, etc etc. If the naval balance were shifted
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Compared to the rest of the engineering, I don’t think the computation is all that hard. It doesn’t need to be that fast since you only need to do a correction maybe every 10-20 minutes or so. The math was innovative in that they invented
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Similar story, I used to know an artist who knew her casually. He said that she was intensely aware of the commercial aspect of her work and is basically the art equivalent of a shock jock. She gets a lot of attention and makes a lot of m
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by cameldrv 3y ago
A big part of the problem is that the Apache foundation has become sort of a dumping ground for OSS projects where the corporate sponsor doesn’t want to be responsible anymore. They pull the full time developers and donate the project. In
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I've seen people who had never built a factory try to build one, and it did not go well.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
And this is why this sort of thing will always keep happening, especially in new fields. It's like an anthropic principle of competition. If you're willing to cut corners in a way that could blow up the whole company, you can ge
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Total water usage in the U.S.: 117,530 Billion Gallons Per Year. Total bottled water usage in the U.S. 15 Billion Gallons Per Year.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Companies don't choose to be common carriers if they can still be a monopoly/oligopoly without it. The reason common carrier regulations were adopted was because companies that had monopolies (some natural, some not), would use t
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Yes but I'm pushing the problem to a level where there is competition. There are many advertisers. If even a large group of advertisers doesn't want to advertise on Russell Brand's videos, fine. Probably he would get signi
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Telcos and ISPs carry packets from place to place. YouTube carries videos from place to place. That's a fairly fine distinction. The ISPs computers are being "commandeered" in exactly the same way.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Telephone services and internet services in some states are considered common carriers (net neutrality). In the case of an oligopoly like the streaming video market, it makes sense to force large players to make their platforms available o
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by cameldrv 3y ago
They can already "unpair" the phone by removing it from iCloud, as you say. The phone could simply check whether the serial number on a part is already associated with an iCloud registered device and if not, allow it to pair. Fa
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by cameldrv 3y ago
There is tons of precedent for something like this. It's called Common Carrier law. This applies to phone networks, railroads, airlines, pipelines, electric, water, sewer, and trash utilities, internet service providers, etc. The bas
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Of course the issue is that Google is not just a “private party” like you or I. It is a 190,000 person organization worth almost 2 trillion dollars. They have a huge market share for monetized video hosting. If there were 100 nearly equal
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by cameldrv 3y ago
> The up/down cycle, over the last 800K years has been somewhere in the range of 50K up and 100K down for a 100ppm change. Why did it go up when humanity wasn't even around (or was a rounding error)? My point is that for hundre
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Have you looked at the MiG-23 that crashed last month in Michigan?
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Your graph shows a fluctuation between about 180 and 280 for the last 800,000 years. It’s currently at 421 and it’s going up 2 points a year. The change of 140 since 1950 is more than all of the variation over the prior 800,000 years. As
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by cameldrv 3y ago
> The first thing to understand is that zero CO2 emissions is impossible. At a minimum, every person on this planet emits somewhere around 1 kg of CO2 per day. Yet, that's not the limiting factor. A massive amount of CO2, way beyond
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by cameldrv 3y ago
This is a good point. If you have someone who retires at 65 and gets dementia at 80, the most recent secrets they know are already 15 years old. Generally speaking older information causes less harm if it’s disclosed.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
40mph straight down is a pretty fast rate of descent. That said there’s nothing inherently unsafe about it. If you’re losing cabin pressure, you really want to be at a breathable altitude ASAP.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Best advice I have is just to talk to lots of people. Reconnect with old friends, college classmates, old coworkers. Go out to lunch with them, invite them to an activity, whatever. At some point, mention what you're doing and the k
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Meth is really bad. Having to ask the pharmacist for Sudafed is not that big of a deal. The prior situation where the cold medicine that's out in the middle of the store is ineffective was worse IMO because people reasonably assume th
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by cameldrv 3y ago
The point is, the people in charge know what happened. They just have to decide what they can do about it. You're seeing it.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
They bet on AI, but it's more than that. What I'd say they seem to be good at is noticing what weirdos are doing and fairly quickly allocating resources to it. 1. CUDA. They noticed that people were using graphics shaders to do
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by cameldrv 3y ago
They have tried something similar (getting to the bat cave in Yunnan), but the Chinese put literal roadblocks in their way (parking a truck in the middle of the road to stop them from getting to the cave) https://www.businessinsi

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