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by dv_dt 5mo ago
It's really odd to me that having an advanced ceramics division at Toto is considered such and odd diversified activity, and on top of that making money from the expertise of that division. Deep knowledge of ceramics would seem to me,
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by dv_dt 5mo ago
The "too many security issues" meme feels like a form of product placement marketing. How many of the bugs found would have also been found if you said to a security team - ok you now have a project with independent time to go sp
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by dv_dt 5mo ago
Seems like just the thing for a careful public health study to figure out a scientifically backed policy. Pollution might be a singular driving factor, or significant combined factor driving allergies. The link from pollution to asthma an
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by dv_dt 5mo ago
IIRC there has been scientists looking at what substances and pathways the parasites, particularly the helminths family, might affect because the parasites have a evolutionary "motivation" to suppress immune responses, at least to
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by dv_dt 5mo ago
Hmm, I'm also wondering about studies about overly sanitized environments for children being correlated with higher allergy rates. I guess poking around for a good representative study, it's actually low diversity of microbial exp
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by dv_dt 5mo ago
I believe that most people naturally want to work, to contribute and build in groups. They want to do it and should expect to do it with reasonable boundaries and benefits for their labor. Silent quitting is a response to ever increasingly
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by dv_dt 5mo ago
I keep hoping some architect will take up an residential building design with solar panels to rethink with deeper integration than just a "material" swap out. On the roof, mounting panels inches over the roof, or even as the roof
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by dv_dt 5mo ago
CRDTs are technically interesting, but I don't know how they solve fundamental merge issues? If a line of text is updated on two independent paths - there is no automatically correct merge decision. Is it just that CRDTs provides syste
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by dv_dt 5mo ago
Similar patterns occurred with telecom corporations and communities that setup their own internet services. In some states the community ISP service model was either shut down, or restricted from expanding further due to lobbying from large
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by dv_dt 5mo ago
it would be pretty straightforward to match up panels from any source to controllers free m local national sources
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by dv_dt 5mo ago
Stopping new panels in some hypothetical scenario is very different than stopping fossil fuel delivery when ch can stop ongoing energy production - it not even in the same timescale of problem
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by dv_dt 5mo ago
To data center backup generators
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by dv_dt 5mo ago
Five years ago, skeptics were saying a few hours of grid on battery was "impossible" and coal would be displaced only by gas. Now we're talking days of grid supply from batteries even from non-grid optimal lithium tech. Batte
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by dv_dt 5mo ago
Several gulf state oil companies have declared force majeure on contracts they have to supply various customers due to the war. Good luck on getting diesel deliveries when things really hit the fan.
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by dv_dt 5mo ago
Renewable + battery is already the cheapest and fastest way to build new power in many domains + geographies, and the number of and range keeps expanding as the price keeps dropping. It's always a peculiar response that outright ignore
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by dv_dt 6mo ago
A requirement for base load is a fallacy promulgated by fossil fuel preservation lobbying
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by dv_dt 6mo ago
Exactly why does it keep happening, why is the default strategy find golden goose, kill goose, look for new geese
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by dv_dt 6mo ago
No, at the time I was growing up, the music industry was being blamed for corrupting the youth via explicit lyrics and music videos. And there was a whole big discussion around making movie ratings more and more detailed. It turned out tha
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by dv_dt 6mo ago
On the other hand I've worked in offices with nightmare scenarios where employees showed agitated and with firearms, or had people come looking for employees due to outside personal conflicts
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by dv_dt 6mo ago
I have no quibble with the objective facts, but we are talking about happiness, and answers are being returned about wealth, and the discussion was talking about how wealth does not equate to happiness in some measures - particularly in ter
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by dv_dt 6mo ago
While it's a key indicator, even PPP adjusted income metrics are insufficient to compare happiness. e.g even if PPP may adjust for some aspects of outsized US health care costs, the risk and unreliability of access and affordability of
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by dv_dt 6mo ago
See previous h/n discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854477 Probably staying for now
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by dv_dt 6mo ago
openai is too toxic for many
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by dv_dt 6mo ago
Some do, I know of kimi code https://www.kimi.com/code
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by dv_dt 6mo ago
I predict this may get reversed as it would be a huge opening for glm, kimi, and qwen offerings. I'd switch instead of upgrading to Max
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by dv_dt 6mo ago
For this kind of hobby device, I would love a different kind of approach that is more like an detachable independent tablet panel with a extended docking base both with CPUs - and hack on the smarts to make resources on the docking base sea
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by dv_dt 6mo ago
The news isn't necessarily of the effectiveness of the particular tech stack, but the integrity, or lack thereof of the manufacturer in reporting incidents. If that is in question, assessing the effectiveness of any of Tesla's tec
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by dv_dt 6mo ago
I presume that this paper assumes some form of stable costs for natural gas... what happens when that stability is soundly invalidated?
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by dv_dt 6mo ago
A substitution of coal for oil, or more likely natural gas, isn't that big a shift of emissions in the short run if it's a stopgap for massive solar and wind investments. Solar and wind install quick.
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by dv_dt 6mo ago
This is exactly how the opportunities were passed up. I am convinced its in no small part because of the unrealistic expectations of a very high success ratio with a small number of experiments. The US throws a lot of money at relatively fe

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