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by eadmund 2y ago
Donated by the human whose cells those were, by someone else? That Nature article seems to discuss both approaches, using both induced pluripotent stem cells and embryonic stem cells — which of course are not donated by the human being whic
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by eadmund 2y ago
I know that you put ‘benefit’ in quotes to indicate sarcasm. My earnest point is that you shouldn’t be sarcastic: not dying or being a pain is a real and genuine benefit. You should seriously be thankful for that benefit! > Are we pr
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by eadmund 2y ago
> I support price regulation when called for. When is price regulation ever called for? The only times I can think of are when there is a monopoly, oligopoly, monopsony, oligopsony or significant externalities. > Laws to crack down o
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by eadmund 2y ago
> Somehow, weirdly, we use the term 'benefit', without with I may more easily and quickly die or languish in pain. Some benefit ;) Not dying or languishing in pain sounds like a pretty awesome benefit. And indeed, that’s the p
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by eadmund 2y ago
> The language being integrated into Emacs makes writing Elisp programs a very fluid and intuitive experience: things like the fact that the documentation and the place where a function was defined is available at any time makes /un
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by eadmund 2y ago
I think the word you’re looking for is ‘disdain.’
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by eadmund 2y ago
> You don't program your computer with LISP or Smalltalk. Your computer runs a separate LISP or Smalltalk computer that you can then program on its own terms and in its own world. That’s not really true of all Lisps! Common Lisp ma
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The 5-star Open Data plan(5stardata.info)
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by eadmund 2y ago
Embedding data as JSON as program text inside a <script> tag inside a tagged data format just seems like such a terrible hack. Among other things, it stutters: it repeats information already in the document. The microdata approach s
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by eadmund 2y ago
> Nix is the right tool for this Or Guix, which has the advantage of a more pleasant language.
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by eadmund 2y ago
Those multiple users could be used to implement sandboxing. And of course if one has a family then one might want accounts for Mom, Dad, Alice and Bob.
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by eadmund 2y ago
> If Google wanted to actually improve their phones … … they would enable swapping button order. … they would remove gestures. … they would improve OS stability. … they would add a hardware do not disturb switch. … they would add hardwar
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by eadmund 2y ago
‘Loophole’ is another way of saying, ‘the law as written.’ The job of judges is to apply the law as written, not the law as they wish it would be. I think that in general the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decisions have been misinterpreted i
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by eadmund 2y ago
> I don't see how you can be forced to resolve all disputes via arbitration. Ostensibly, the claimant wasn’t forced but contracted to do so. The problem, of course, is that an EULA for TV streaming shouldn’t extend to every int
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by eadmund 2y ago
This is interesting, from the PSC, as a whole: ‘Resisting soft conduct moderation when people point out problematic statements in what has been said. When someone tells you something said earlier was problematic, listen. That is not an oppo
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by eadmund 2y ago
Gregory P. Smith writes: “If a conduct-related enforcement action happens and that ‘ruins their career,’ the responsibility for that lies entirely on them. It was their behavior that got them there in the first place.” That puts far too
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by eadmund 2y ago
> We say that open source is "coding in public", but we often omit that it's also being a professional in public. I completely agree! > it doesn't sound like Tim's actions were too professional. I disagree her
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by eadmund 2y ago
> > On servers with 100+ cores I have seen scheduling time take over 10% of the program runtime. > On Linux, go uses sched_getaffinity … Since cgroups are a Linux-only feature, OP must be running Linux. I wonder if his experience
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by eadmund 2y ago
I was initially confused when I read it, but I think that ‘trader’ here must be the politically-correct word for ‘tradesman’ (someone engaged in a trade) rather than someone who trades (like a stockbroker).
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by eadmund 2y ago
> OOP will let you express this kind of problem from a data modeling perspective (List<T> on each type), but from a serialization and dependency perspective you have to pick a "winner". In banking, it is unclear which typ
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by eadmund 2y ago
Sadly, USB-HID does not define a hyper key, so no USB keyboard has a true hyper key. What one can do is configure the keyboard to emit a different, little-used key, and then configure X to recognize that key as hyper. I think what I do
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by eadmund 2y ago
Yes. ‘Safe withdrawal rate’ is the annual fraction of an investment which one can sell while maintaining the principal’s value, adjusted for inflation. That might sound very complex, so here’s an attempt to explain it simply. If one has $
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by eadmund 2y ago
To be fair, Asimov’s Foundation and Apple’s Foundation are almost completely unrelated.
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by eadmund 2y ago
> Housing is more expensive than ever. Education is more expensive than ever. Healthcare is more expensive than ever. Housing, education and healthcare are to a very great extent to amenable to globalisation, since houses have to be buil
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by eadmund 2y ago
I’m a happy user of Jellyfin, and I’d like to amplify what others have said about $24,000 or 40 months’ expenses being not nearly enough. At a conservative safe withdrawal rate, $24,000 of capital is only $60/month — in other words, a
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by eadmund 2y ago
> We wanted ever-increasing returns for shareholders And ever-decreasing prices for consumers. Don’t forget that! Free trade results in more goods for everyone, by enabling different places to focus on what they do best. > while doin
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by eadmund 2y ago
Now if only there were a way to prevent iPhone users from sending reactions to my SMS messages!
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by eadmund 2y ago
Company IT exists to serve the company. It should not cost more than it benefits. There’s a balancing act. On the one hand, you don’t want a one-week turnaround to open a port; on the other you don’t want people running webservers on thei
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by eadmund 2y ago
> I'm not a fan of C for writing any kind of program C is okay — not fan-worthy, but okay — for one specific kind of program: a mostly-portable implementation of a real language in which to write every other kind of program. that
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by eadmund 2y ago
I wonder how good the resolution is on this. Can our neighbours use it to watch my family in our home? Can a Faraday cage be tuned to certain wavelengths, e.g. to allow AM/FM/cell service but block WiFi?

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