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by ckemere 1y ago
Weren’t there Federal subsidies for wind? There certainly were/are philanthropic support (customers paying extra for “wind energy”). Unclear what role ERCOT played in these two factors. (Though in the current climate they might have t
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by ckemere 1y ago
If there’s a specific researcher you want to fund, you can absolutely call them up. There will be paperwork around IP, independence, etc. If you want them to do a specific experiment you’ll likely first need to convince them that it’s a goo
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by ckemere 1y ago
My point was that AFAIK, Palestinians would include Jews in the potential citizens of a Palestine. So that the conflict is not between two ethnonationalist groups. There certainly is rhetoric around the ethnic origin of some Israeli citizen
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by ckemere 1y ago
Many Palestinians identify as Orthodox Christian, including former PLO leaders. This is not solely a Muslim v Jew conflict AFAIK. (Would love education to the contrary!!!)
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by ckemere 1y ago
This is somewhat confusing. If there were no religious component, why not declare all Palestinians “Jewish” and resolve the issues immediately? My understanding is that ethnically Jewish individuals (ie who can trace their matrilineal genea
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by ckemere 1y ago
It is unclear to me that Palestinians represent an “ethnonationalist” block. My understanding is that the definition of “Jewish” for the purposes of immigration to Israel is a somewhat precise combination of genealogical or religious criter
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Switching from Manager to IC(molochinations.substack.com)
3 points by ckemere 1y ago|0 comments
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by ckemere 1y ago
I upvoted this article because it reminds me that there are Israelis who are opposed to what is going on. And newspapers that take risk to report on it. And maybe even military investigators trying to stop it. It’s no different with the Ame
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by ckemere 1y ago
I think the point about India/ Pakistan is a great counter. At what point would a nuclear Ukraine launch?
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by ckemere 1y ago
During the period when Israel was rapidly achieving air superiority I was reflecting on the hypothetical- “What if Iran already had a small number - 1 or 2 - poorly tested weapons. When would they decide to use them? Would the Ayatollah ord
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by ckemere 1y ago
Explosives have to be manufactured, and most require precursors that are hard to come by. More broadly, perhaps the historic argument that we should care about, eg Somalia, because failed states can enable chaos that crosses borders becomes
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by ckemere 1y ago
I guess my point is that maybe there is a conflation here of breadth of vocabulary and comprehension. Does my inability to understand a Drake dis track mean that I’m illiterate?
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by ckemere 1y ago
I can’t read Les Miserable in its original French (despite 5 years of high school French class), but I love it in translation. Does that make me functionally illiterate?
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by ckemere 1y ago
I think in context “legacy” refers to the affirmative action boost given to children of (donating) alumni over better qualified unconnected peers.
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by ckemere 1y ago
This is an explanation from my department chair which I've expanded. In the context of a university, there are four main power groups - the alumni, the faculty, the students, and the board of trustees. (Within each group of course are
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by ckemere 1y ago
The Met is a serious place. Apparently they developed a laser-based accelerated aging system so that they could measure (and subsequently monitor) how the finishes on these guitars change due to exposure. Also crazy environmental control in
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by ckemere 1y ago
I love(d) the Arcteryx Captive Polo shirt. Arcteryx manufactured them until 2022, producing two new colors each year in addition to a standard black. Despite the $80 price tag, I bought them steadily over the course of the 2000/2010&#x
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by ckemere 1y ago
Musing - Universities historically were easy to create in rural/underdeveloped areas with cheap land. (Particularly the ag/tech variant funded by the federal government.) A very small number aggregated enough people to generate su
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by ckemere 1y ago
The work outlined in the actual paper is quite remarkable. Within this 6 month period they generated transgenic mice with the precise mutations (paternal and maternal) this baby had in order to test treatment for functionality and toxicity
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by ckemere 1y ago
(No access so haven't read yet.) I think that the current systems being tested by Neuralink are (1) a connection to motor cortex allowing quadriplegic/locked-in to type/control a mouse; (2) a connection to visual cortex to pr
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by ckemere 1y ago
Given that no one has yet traveled to Mars, “faced a far more dangerous journey” seems a ridiculously hyperbolic statement. (Thinking even about the lost colony at Roanoke.)
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by ckemere 1y ago
Why offer a solution then? Seems fairly easy for google to avoid giving the final number?
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by ckemere 1y ago
Of course! I was originally imagining google would give me a website with an embedded calculator. I was most surprised by how everything was beautifully accurate up until the end when the number felt suspicious. (Much less suspicious than t
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Has anyone else found Google's AI overview to be oddly error prone?
43 points by ckemere 1y ago|39 comments
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by ckemere 1y ago
Hi Dang! Thanks for the note. I definitely understand your reasoning. I will say that to me (a) finding out that NSF has blocked funding is a new and different point than that DOE has blocked overhead (or that NIH review panels were on hold
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by ckemere 1y ago
While they claim to be seeking “efficiency” the truth becomes clear if you read carefully. They have restricted the class of grants to which this rule applies to “institutes of higher education”. Why not apply it to for profit companies als
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Dept of Energy cuts indirect rates to universities(energy.gov)
3 points by ckemere 1y ago|2 comments
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by ckemere 2y ago
OR use borrowing (e.g. current account deficit). If government spending drives productivity growth then it’s a net positive? OR tax wealth. If most return on international capital investment is being stored in the US, taxing this effectivel
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by ckemere 2y ago
I read this and I was quite disappointed that he didn’t talk about labor costs and other comparative advantages for labor-heavy manufacturing to be in a different situation trade market-wise than it was in the 1930s.
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by ckemere 2y ago
I’ve reflected that resource extraction jobs often end up in the high wage / low educational investment category, and I’ve wondered if that motivates the whole “annex Greenland” bit as much as “securing critical resources” does…

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