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by delichon 11mo ago
I read all of her tweets but I don't know of any anti-trans statements by Rowling. I'd appreciate it if you could point one out. I haven't heard her say that there's anything wrong with being trans, that it's an ill
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by delichon 11mo ago
Its behavior is becoming more human? No wonder investors are nervous.
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by delichon 11mo ago
"She has been subjected to an onslaught of abuse that highlights an insidious authoritarian and misogynistic trend." -- Tom Stoppard on J.K. Rowling
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Proximity to coworkers increases long-run development, lowers short-term output (2023)(pallais.scholars.harvard.edu)
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by delichon 11mo ago
Here's how to cure yourself of that. Buy a used one. Use it to commute down a very curvy mountain road every weekday. Start feeling like a real fast driver. One day while really stretching the envelope and sliding around corners, get p
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by delichon 11mo ago
For radiative cooling using aluminum, per 1000 watts at 300 kelvin: ~2.4m^2 area, ~4.8 liters volume, ~13kg weight. So a Starship (150k kg, re-usable) could carry about a megawatt of radiators per launch to LEO. And aluminum is abundant in
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by delichon 11mo ago
> Infrastructure owners with access to the cheapest energy will be the long run winners in AI. For a sufficiently low cost to orbit that may well be found in space, giving Musk a rather large lead. By his posts he's currently obsess
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by delichon 11mo ago
Good idea, but this bot is very limited.
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by delichon 11mo ago
Adding fun to an information stream degrades the signal for non-fun payloads. As a rule I prefer maximum signal to noise in reference materials.
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by delichon 11mo ago
I would think that they are too recognizable for that. It would be better to subtly change one insignificant squiggle into another.
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by delichon 11mo ago
Not none, just very little, like the obscure code corner case. If you are thinking about building something nearby, or specifically looking for interesting terrain to visit, you may be misled. The pig shaped cow spot, on the other hand, add
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by delichon 11mo ago
I agree for the decal, but the map steganography is at the expense of accuracy. It's less than professional, like adding a small bug to a corner case of your code for a joke.
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by delichon 11mo ago
The suppression of dissent breeds Guy Fawkeses.
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by delichon 11mo ago
Unless the monsters win, then it's the start of the time of monsters.
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by delichon 11mo ago
Counter speech is an often weak and ineffective response. It's principle advantage is in being less bad than every other option.
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by delichon 11mo ago
And any day now people will wise up and the industrial revolution bubble will burst and we'll all go back to pastoralism. Unfortunately I'm not finding an ETF for pastoralism.
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by delichon 11mo ago
William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!” Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?” William Roper: “Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do
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by delichon 11mo ago
That might matter if 23andMe still had deep pockets, rather than being a bankrupt shell.
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by delichon 11mo ago
I'd rather not do business there.
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by delichon 11mo ago
See also Heinlein's Waldo (1942) where the hero invents a receiver for an inexhaustible ambient energy source. I wonder if Rand read Astounding. To me, a good hard scifi story is allowed up to one impossibility anyway, as long as taken
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by delichon 11mo ago
The central mythical figure in the novel is John Galt, a great inventor. What more critical piece of machinery could Rand have him contribute than an engine, the driver of the industrial revolution? It doesn't work to simply remove it
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by delichon 11mo ago
I wish it were dubious. I recently worked with 11th grade Algebra 2 students in New Mexico and found exactly that, and worse. Most couldn't begin to do algebra because they couldn't do simple addition and subtraction. Out of a cla
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by delichon 11mo ago
The price of copper is not extraordinarily high. https://www.gurufocus.com/economic_indicators/4553/inflation...
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by delichon 11mo ago
It's a bit encouraging to read about Edison's flops too. All my failures have just been preparation! One was a kind of 1890 Optimus, dolls he called "little monsters" with a built in miniature phonograph. https:/&#
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by delichon 11mo ago
I want minions.
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by delichon 11mo ago
> less work means less worth s/worth/meaning
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by delichon 11mo ago
I hope you lose a lot of money on at least one of those positions. I want to be in a timeline where quantum and AI computing grow up together.
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by delichon 11mo ago
Why don't we do it in the road? Why don't we do it in the road? No one will be watching us. Why don't we do it in the road?
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by delichon 11mo ago
You mean like free speech for concepts and ideas? It's OK to think them but not to tell other people about them? LLMs are another media of thought exchange, in some ways worse and others better. Of course it's out of bounds from t
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by delichon 11mo ago
I hired a company called OpenAI to do it for me. They're done, and brand new comments are also in its search, at least within a few minutes, try it. Is now good? These modern brain prosthetics are darn good.

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