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by dwroberts 4mo ago
Seems obvious the parent comment was making a point about how much money it is and not just whether it feels nice to donate money. 400k can go a long way
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
If all the properties owned by career landlords were returned to be sold, the value (and price) of property would go down. This idea that ubiquitous rental (which is normally at obscene prices any way) makes cities more accessible to live i
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
> They end up having the opposite effect by making property owners less willing to rent out to anyone. Yes, good! Then they will sell their bloody housing stock and people can BUY them instead
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
Comments being used as measure of 'public sentiment' is one of the ways perception is being manipulated by big tech in the first place. In the archived version (linked elsewhere) there is a sea of negative comments within ~55 minu
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
I’m not referring to the parent comment: The post is not written by the author of the claimed breakthrough.
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
You know him socially but is there a reason you’re writing this rather than him? It looks like he has his own web presence. Cynical read would be you’re stealing his thunder a bit by prematurely announcing this before it’s fully confirmed
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
Focused ultrasound is already used as an actual surgery method and they have to carefully balance the parameters so it does not produce heating and damage [unrelated] tissue. Obviously a scanner would not aim for the same power/effect
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
> Jaywalking makes.. what harder? Crossing the road without a crossing or light or whatever explicitly telling you that you can do it. > In the UK, roundabouts are marked with areas for pedestrians to cross but they are not crossings?
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
What makes it particularly bad too, is it does a style of saying “The X was Y” for non-trivial concept X, without any previous attempt to introduce or explain what it is. It reads like it’s intentionally trying to bamboozle the reader
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
I guess jaywalking stuff makes this harder? Because in the UK for example, roundabouts will often be surrounded by marked areas for pedestrians to cross, but they are not proper crossings. You don't have to wait or expect traffic to st
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
It doesn’t matter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
This is just going to become another way to lock developers into UE. Then they will start charging for licenses, same as Unity did for its versioning feature. It might be open source but that doesn’t stop the commercial use of it being char
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
The US military budget is 900 billion dollars. The government can afford a few hundred million for some sensors, it should not need private sector patrons
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
> Don’t RMA it, and don’t solder it yourself. A local phone-repair chain with a microsolder tech can put a 3 mm SMD part back on a GPU PCB in twenty minutes for the price of dinner. The skill is in your city. You just have to look. The t
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
> However, having had much success with experimentation so far I decided to try something that would probably work: I copied the code from the magazine into Notepad and saved the file as .exe instead of .txt. Glad to hear I’m not alone i
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
Tried out doing this kind of stuff a while back to create a custom user space, and I found that suckless’ init, sinit, was quite educational for how to deal with init’s responsibilities in a super minimal way: https://core.suckle
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
Yeah well I was imagining how medical ethics work with respect to putting patients through unnecessary suffering. Temporarily restoring someone’s lucidity with the knowledge they will lose it again (having already suffered the progression
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
The problem with this study though is that it doesn’t really illuminate anything. Psychedelics restoring the default mode network in the brain is already somewhat understood (*that it happens, not the mechanism of how), so it’s not that str
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
Yeah this story was on HN before a few weeks ago and I raised similar - it’s nuts to give that to someone who probably doesn’t have the mental state to be able to comprehend what is going on. Don’t understand how it is possibly ethical to d
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
One advantage that does come to mind in light of the Iran war (and the loss of an AWS DC) is difficulty in attacking it, even when it’s directly above foreign territory. I wonder if one of the intended customers will be gov/military? C
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
> First of all, structs aren't used so you don't have to invent names for them (e.g. there is no IntVec) But since it’s storing a void pointer any way, they wouldn’t need separate names right? You could use one struct everywher
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
The balancing force to this though, is that cost of living outside of London is massively lower
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
> I think you meant mRNA gene therapy No, because framing the COVID vaccine as ‘gene therapy’ is pseudoscientific scare-tactic nonsense. I recommend reading the testimony from the American oncology society, as it explains how RNA works.
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
Requiring at least an iPhone 15 Pro also seems like a mistake, unless it’s for actual hardware reasons. The 15 is only 3 years old, this requirement cuts off a lot of potential users I think
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
The need to tap a bunch of discredited UK "scientists" to get the anti-mRNA perspective on the testimonies, should perhaps be an indicator that this viewpoint is not really credible (they couldn't find enough reputable doctor
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
> Really though, weren't you the one conflating mushroom dosages with those of pure psylocibin a moment ago? I think you’ve misunderstood. I was quoting the paper, which states 5 grams. 5 grams is a lot of mushrooms, especially for
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
I’m assuming you’ve never taken mushrooms before (on average there is probably ~10mg psilocybin per dried gram, so 5g is 50mg which is on the high end of dosing, definitely not ‘standard’)
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
Is this admission that google’s proprietary chips etc. are not cutting it? Why would you need a bunch of nvidia GPUs if you have your own silicon? (AFAIK they have their own for both inference and training do they not?)
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
The dose in the paper is 5 grams, not mg > Second, you think it’s more ethical to let a patient suffer? Are you against emergency surgeries where a patient is unconscious after a car accident? My concern is that this induces more sufferi
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by dwroberts 4mo ago
“Administer 5g psilocybin”. This experiment seems really awful to me. Don’t get me wrong, psychedelics can be great but the idea of giving them to someone with an already severely fractured mental state seems unethical, and the gains they t

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