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by consensus1 4mo ago
I am one of those engineers. And when the AI comes for my job I will just get another.
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by consensus1 4mo ago
You actually think universities have anything to do with how Europe was in the 11th century?
183.
by consensus1 4mo ago
It would actually be very easy. Just stop subsidizing them with student loans from the government.
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by consensus1 4mo ago
It's the opposite. Gatekeeping employment on that stupid credential is the best way to keep people in poverty.
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by consensus1 4mo ago
> In this study, researchers developed highly precise tissue-specific clocks, capable of predicting age within about one year of an individual's chronological age. So if all of this adversity related difference doesn't even thr
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by consensus1 4mo ago
Maybe colleges can just accept the best students and do their job of educating them instead of arrogantly appointing themselves as saviors and righters of all wrongs in the world.
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by consensus1 4mo ago
So this thing is just boiling off water from the mile deep water column, and nobody things "hey maybe we could add some more water"? How does a shaft "explode"? What is generating the explosive force?
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by consensus1 4mo ago
It boils off a 1 mile deep water column? And you don't need a core catcher when you are already 1 mile deep in bedrock. It just goes to the bottom of the hole.
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by consensus1 4mo ago
How does your reactor melt down if it is submerged in coolant?
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by consensus1 4mo ago
This, and all other grand historical narratives, are completely contrived to support whatever bone the author has to pick. X happened before Y != X caused Y.
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by consensus1 4mo ago
I would prefer to reduce emissions using technology that exists today, I know it works, and I have seen it operate at national grid scale, not speculative future tech.
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by consensus1 4mo ago
Spain has 3x the emissions intensity of France. The Nordics (some of them) have energy that is cheap and clean like France. That's because they have base load that doesn't emit CO2 like France.
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by consensus1 4mo ago
I have taken money out of Polymarket and it is quick and easy.
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by consensus1 4mo ago
I see that France has the most nuclear heavy grid and also some of the cheapest energy costs and lowest CO2 emission per unit energy in the world. When I see that matched by a solar / wind focused grid I will believe the cheap renewab
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by consensus1 4mo ago
And I guarantee you that claim is based on an intentionally flawed experiment where they take students who have never seen the test before vs after completing the program. The actual control should be against students who have taken a coup
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by consensus1 4mo ago
The signal being that the smart people will refuse to jump through this hoop in your inane process because they have a lot of other opportunities to choose from.
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by consensus1 4mo ago
It is correlated tightly with IQ, so yes it will likely be a strong predictive signal for passing a phone screen.
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by consensus1 4mo ago
It's the opposite of a contradiction. PG&E must have its pricing and capital expenditures approved by the government. It is a borderline government entity.
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by consensus1 4mo ago
This doesn't happen nearly as often as people think. I'm involved in multiple single digit million contracts with vendors, and not once has anyone at our company even met the vendor AMs in person. If I choose a vendor that is tw
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by consensus1 4mo ago
There are only a handful of companies in the world that AWS would be more expensive than having your own cloud. Just the baseline costs of having 24/7 availability requires minimum 5 full time engineers (3 shifts + cover for sick &#x2
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by consensus1 4mo ago
This is not that dissimilar to the US. The government either controls directly or is very heavily involved in all those things you listed in the top tier.
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by consensus1 4mo ago
> Prasad was also behind the rejection of a closely watched gene therapy for Huntington’s disease made by UniQure This guy is a disaster. But really it's not just him. It's the entire organizational structure that puts him, o
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by consensus1 4mo ago
And before the question of trade offs there is the question "does the Fish Protection Act actually protect fish at all?" In a very large number of cases it does not.
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by consensus1 4mo ago
What is the corruption you are alleging here? I live in Salt Lake City and I haven't heard any arguments against that data center that don't boil down to some kind of conspiracy theory or just a fundamental lack of understanding