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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
I honestly don’t understand the EU’s position. There really are strong “have their cake and eat it too” vibes. It feels like they are effectively saying that targeted ads should be illegal, but without the forthrightness to say that explici
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
That being said, I’m looking forward to reading more thorough analysis, as I lack the expertise to evaluate how significant this is, given that it’s a press release.
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
This is very cool. Being able to produce commercial solid state batteries of any macroscopic size at commercial scale gives me hope that this tech will not remain vaporware. Even just increasing size a few percent per year would be transfor
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
Of course, the fact that this housing will be filled up immediately, will have almost no effect on anyone’s opinion in the local governing world
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
Welcome to our incredible future where massive AI models will require us to choose between our lying eyes/ears and indecipherable collection of tensors. Nothing will be provable or protectable.
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
I still have a hard time believing this. That is not to say that the science is wrong. It’s just that it is very unintuitive to me.
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
A direct connection between the application drop and the turmoil is tenuous.
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
Our current levels lead to accumulation. So if we release identical amounts every year from here on out, we will continue increasing amount of co2 in atmosphere.
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by chrisbrandow 2y ago
This would be clearer if the title said something like, “provided 1st definitive evidence of…“, in order to distinguish it from earlier attempts to propose or prove global warming effects of CO2. Otherwise very cool link.
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by chrisbrandow 3y ago
costs of solar panels of all sorts have dropped 100 fold in that time. I'm not sure I'd call that stagnation.
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by chrisbrandow 3y ago
if the substrate really can remain even a little bit flexible however, this opens up entirely new deployment opportunities.
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by chrisbrandow 3y ago
a shockingly difficult problem, having lived through this with my dad. he had early cognitive stuff going on that we had no way of realizing until he started making bizarrely bad choices.
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by chrisbrandow 3y ago
This is gross.
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by chrisbrandow 3y ago
Thank you for such a vulnerable description of your terrible journey right now.
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by chrisbrandow 3y ago
Going through similar stage with my dad. Biggest surprise for me was that the best aspect of the healthcare system has been Medicare. Consistently helpful and all the communications were clearly designed with seniors in mind. Very other asp
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by chrisbrandow 3y ago
I think that the reasoning is that no cells will have even partial resistance to mechanical action, therefore "fitness" wouldn't develop in surviving cells. i.e. there's no fitness function with improve upon. Perhaps the
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by chrisbrandow 3y ago
I did not know the post-MIYS part of his life. Fascinating!
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by chrisbrandow 3y ago
Of course compared to 70 years ago the average city dweller probably has more than 2x access to fresh fruit and veggies, so the trace mineral intake is probably higher for at least some folk.
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by chrisbrandow 3y ago
Their messaging service.
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by chrisbrandow 3y ago
Incredible essay. Really captures the notion that I’ve been thinking about lately, that when you’re young, the existing political, national structures seem so permanent and effectively eternal, yet they are just a snapshot of a constantly e
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by chrisbrandow 3y ago
Despite being a chemist, I don’t fully follow this, though it seems legitimate. But if there’s that much latent energy, I really have to think that there could be some kind of atmospheric, “local ecological” side effect on microorganisms or
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by chrisbrandow 3y ago
he updated with insanely-fast
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by chrisbrandow 3y ago
I mean, what did they really expect when accessing a private messaging service without permission? Maybe it shouldn't be private or whatever, but it still seemed weird to me that they thought this would "just work".
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by chrisbrandow 3y ago
Brutal.
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by chrisbrandow 3y ago
Why? Would we prefer forcing every publication to use and advertiser-only supported model to fund their work?
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by chrisbrandow 3y ago
Nifty! Of course, if one is interested in really understanding the nitty gritty implementation of a lot of Objective-C (and UIKit classes), then there is probably no better place to poke around than Mike Ash's blog. He now works for Ap
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by chrisbrandow 3y ago
As a chemist, I would guess that the guy tapping of the plastic on his teeth was a real assessment of the plastic. There are so many physical properties that are hard to describe, but still recognizable, and I do stuff like that all the tim
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by chrisbrandow 3y ago
Baumol’s cost disease comes to mind here as well
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by chrisbrandow 3y ago
Multi-ethnic democracy is a harder mode than mono-ethnic democracy, which is why most comparisons of the US failures at various social policies to Scandinavian countries have always bugged me. People don’t naturally feel as much allegiance
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by chrisbrandow 3y ago
It feels like there's a "Congratulations, you just re-invented the inheritance tax!" joke in here. But all snark aside, I think this is part in parcel with the general observation that money as a stored good has mostly negati

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