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by elil17 3y ago
>It's been legal since the dawn of the USA to manufacture your own firearms. Glad to see the government is finally doing something to fix this.
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by elil17 3y ago
How is Cal Newport fascist? I have always known him as the "deep work"/how to focus guy.
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by elil17 3y ago
Idea: lossy text compression, where the LLM replaces unlikely words with likelier synonyms.
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by elil17 3y ago
If people are calling it a "cash grab," that means it's working in my opinion. Even a ticketing system contract was awarded in a corrupt manner (which is wrong of course - and the people involved in that should be prosecuted)
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by elil17 3y ago
The police already have access to a ton of cameras everywhere (which I do agree is bad)! The only thing changing here is that they are now using those cameras to stop maniacs on the road.
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by elil17 3y ago
The UK makes up less than 1% of the worlds population, so it does make sense that there are many more driving deaths globally than in the UK. I can agree that complete safety is not practical or desirable. But in our current society, simply
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by elil17 3y ago
Police are using a bunch of technologies irresponsibly. Why not advocate for better oversight of police overall instead of trying to block them from using specific technologies?
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by elil17 3y ago
I do understand the privacy arguments, but there are thousands of people are being killed by drivers every day (many of whom aren't even in cars, they're walking or biking). Enforcing traffic laws is one of the only tools for fixi
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by elil17 3y ago
I don't quite agree with this, and I don't think it's what the video is saying. There's never, ever, ever a reason to talk to the police without a lawyer . But, under the advice of counsel and as part of a well planned
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by elil17 3y ago
>my moral obligation to protecting my family supersedes any moral obligation I have to protecting strangers Surely it doesn’t supersede any obligation you have to protecting strangers. If you’d greatly increase the likelihood that you
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by elil17 3y ago
How would fusion increase our impact on the planet? Wouldn't it reduce our impact on the planet by decreasing the amount of carbon dioxide we release and eliminating oil extraction?
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by elil17 3y ago
So do you think it's the use of energy in and of itself that causes issues?
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by elil17 3y ago
You'd notice efficacy too if the effect size is very large.
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by elil17 3y ago
People might accept a reduced range. I have no use for a range over ~150 miles and I could easily make do with 50 if I had to, so I would gladly buy a car with a "trashed" battery.
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by elil17 3y ago
Yes, but it's currently in Phase I clinical trials which should be complete by March.
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by elil17 3y ago
My reading is that they believe it works across all solid malignant tumors because malignant tumors necessarily upregulate PCNA (since it's critical to cell division). I think they are also saying that it is agnostic to the particular
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by elil17 3y ago
Based on https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9215707/ and https://www.epa.gov/sdwa/and-polyfluoroalkyl-substances-pfas >Are these forever chemicals an actual big deal? Do we
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by elil17 3y ago
There are a lot of uses for PFAS, but banning flourosurfactants from consumer products should be a no-brainier. They aren't needed for safety reasons and they are obviously causing health problems.
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by elil17 3y ago
Long chain like PTFE is fine. The issue is short chain fluorosurfactants (think PFOA and GenX) which contaminate the environment around the factories that make PTFE, harm the workers in those factories, and probably end up in trace amounts
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by elil17 3y ago
This is simply not true. Numerous Michelin-starred restaurants offer relatively simple food. The most famous example is perhaps Liao Fan Hawker Chan, who serves mostly chicken and rice with soy sauce.
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by elil17 3y ago
>> To nobody’s surprise, MSG makes food taste better. Although replicable, this is wholly unimpressive. To earn your Michelin star, you’ll need to make your umami masterpiece with mushrooms and elk liver and sardine skins. I liked th
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by elil17 3y ago
Legacy doesn't just correlate with race - the fact that legacy admissions are so heavily skewed towards white people is because of past racial discrimination. It's a grandfather clause of sorts ( https://en.wikipedia.org
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by elil17 3y ago
But favoring legacy status in admissions is a form of racial discrimination because non-white people are much, much less likely to have legacy at elite institutions.
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by elil17 3y ago
I'm in my early twenties and I was diagnosed with sensory processing disorder as a child, but I don't have any accompanying issues (like autism or ADHD). First of all let me just emphasize the degree to which it gets better with t
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by elil17 3y ago
Perhaps you live in a warm climate? A heatpump (or heatpump + gas for a very cold climate) should cost always cost less than gas
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by elil17 3y ago
This is because HVAC companies wildly overcharge. It does not take $1,000 worth of labor to drain and refill refrigerant, but it does take a qualified technician, and there are not enough of those.
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by elil17 3y ago
Most hybrid water pump heaters do not fully use their heat pump by default - their should be an "Eco" or "heat pump only" setting somewhere on your device which will make it much more efficient.
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by elil17 3y ago
I think that would be an excellent regulatory solution. You should write to your representatives. Since heat pumps are getting a lot of regulatory attention, it might actually get considered.
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by elil17 3y ago
This sort of true? There are many hours per year in many climates where direct evaporative cooling alone could suffice to keep people comfortable. However, most climates also have a good number of hours where air conditioning is required fo
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by elil17 3y ago
Although natural gas is "clean" compared to, say, coal, the advantage of a heat pump is that it uses less total energy than natural gas. That means it would be more efficient to run a heat pump off a natural gas power plant than t

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