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by csours 3y ago
The problem is that the world does not owe you simple explanations.
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by csours 3y ago
> "The triune brain hypothesis doesn't seem "wrong", it just seems like a simple categorization that is useful to the layperson." Yes. Anything this simple will be wrong. Almost everything you learn in school bef
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by csours 3y ago
"I'm sorry you feel that way"
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by csours 3y ago
In the same spirit, metal roofs are really good, but they're really expensive. A great deal of the expense comes when you have to cut the roof panels to match the contours of the roof, or cut holes for vent pipes. A simple, single ridg
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by csours 3y ago
It seems like the neighborhood is the sweet spot for battery deployments - Easier to spread capital allocation, Lower stress on transmission lines. Are any organizations working on neighborhood storage in a big way?
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by csours 3y ago
At this level, yes. For the family sedan, ehhh.
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by csours 3y ago
> "To ensure strong traction right from the start, the AMZ team has developed a kind of vacuum cleaner that holds the vehicle down to the ground by suction." Traction is now the limiting factor, so better acceleration results w
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by csours 3y ago
You need a whole lot more history than you can gather from graphs to understand what is happening here.
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by csours 3y ago
I've noticed that most of the time, economists will only say the positive thing about the change they want to make. I really appreciate the lectures by Mark Blyth because he explicitly talks about tradeoffs. If you want to see somethin
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by csours 3y ago
Is there a way to get Awk to emit a non-terse version of the script passed in? ie awk '/test/' -> '{ if($0~/test/){print $0} }'
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by csours 3y ago
Ha. This one is a joke, but home scientists (or scientists at home) are doing some pretty amazing things on YouTube these days.
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by csours 3y ago
People don't like the answer "we don't know that", so they will ask experts until they get one who answers the question. People don't have time to understand the context of complicated subjects, so they ask experts
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by csours 3y ago
Not a desk idea, but... I've thought about getting a nice seat from a wrecked vehicle and mounting it on a rolling platform for a desk chair. The nicer ones are heated and ventilated
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by csours 3y ago
I don't know if you've heard of DIY Perks, but it sounds like you'd love their style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Perqf0dOGLk
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by csours 3y ago
Maybe you should check the actual endpoints for the trials you mention.
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by csours 3y ago
Any cool pictures to share?
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by csours 3y ago
A humble suggestion: Load up contradictory thoughts or points of view, and think about them as you walk. Here's a starter pack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2a-DsX9Ezg I don't want to tell you what you should
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by csours 3y ago
It's type 3 because there's also a requirement that there are NO unintended circumventions to security. That sounds like "hard to circumvent", but it's not the same.
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by csours 3y ago
Disclosure, I work for GM. Type 1: The tradeoffs are not in my favor. Type 2: You have not understood the tradeoffs. Type 3: No one can evaluate the proposal. > "When policy-makers ask for secure encryption with a back door, we do n
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by csours 3y ago
My opinion (feel free to have another one) is that it points to the need for training and more comfortable masks. The studies weren't WRONG per se, but they are very hard to interpret. My whacky opinion: human facing sciences (medicine
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by csours 3y ago
Is this satire? It seems like there's too much math in this to be satire.
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by csours 3y ago
> "If you require written records before you write about women in history, you'll find yourself writing about women in history far less often than they were involved in making it." I've started reading Benjamin Frankl
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by csours 3y ago
I've asked this question a number of times now: What is the unit of work for software development? If you work on a factory line, you can measure widgets per hour and quality. In construction, you can measure distance or area completed
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by csours 3y ago
> Running your own code on your own device is suspicious behavior you know! Loss of TAM by excluding rooted device: less than 1% Ratio of problems per rooted device vs problems per non-rooted device: More than 100% It's not YOUR fau
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by csours 3y ago
Does Calcium supplementation lead to higher levels of arterial plaque? I ask because I take a combined Magnesium/Calcium supplement.
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by csours 3y ago
Flat metal panels are subject to oil-canning, among other problems. Any distortion may cause ripples to show up. It can also cause a vibration due to airflow sometimes. Making the panels out of thicker metal help both of these problems, but
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by csours 3y ago
I took a start script from 90 seconds to 30 seconds yesterday, by finding a poorly named timeout value. Now I'm working on a graceful fallback from itimer to alarm instead of outdated c directives.
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by csours 3y ago
I think it is a tricky measurement problem for sure. In this case, it feels like there is an obvious measurement (individual outcomes) that you have to deliberately step around to see the better measurement. That deliberate decision to igno
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by csours 3y ago
> most medical interventions for cancer do not prolong life Specifically, medical interventions for cancer AS A RESULT of some types of screening do not prolong life. Medical interventions for symptomatic cancer, and some types of scre
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by csours 3y ago
Someone else linked to https://thennt.com/nnt/screening-mammography-for-reducing-de... Quote: > "Two recent data reviews deserve further mention. The United Kingdom commissioned an independent review after diss

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