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by elil17 1y ago
Is this a bad thing? You'd only leave if you weren't contributing to the local economy. People who, for example, run a small business in the UK aren't impacted at all.
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by elil17 1y ago
Only as opposed to what? VLAM/something else more trendy?
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by elil17 1y ago
As I understand it the Disney bots do actually use AI in a novel way: https://la.disneyresearch.com/publication/design-and-control... So there’s at least a bit more “there” there than the Tesla bots.
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by elil17 1y ago
People need to understand that the minimum energy required to separate water from air is much higher than the minimum energy required to separate water from salt. This fact of physics means desalination will always be more efficient than wa
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by elil17 2y ago
Actually I think it’s an upside even then. It’s a lot easier for someone who’s out of shape to start trying pickleball compared to a lot of sports since you don’t need to run as long. Once someone starts to get in shape, they can still get
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by elil17 2y ago
This reminds me of "The View of the World from 9th Avenue": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Ave...
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by elil17 2y ago
Not saying ACX is a reliable source, but you can totally see the trend they are talking about in publicly available data. Murders had already fallen a lot by the time the imprisonment campaign started.
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by elil17 2y ago
I’m far from an expert on this - but doesn’t it seem like they are just locking up all the people inclined to commit murder, not actually deterring people for the most part? It still seems consistent with the idea that crime is mostly impul
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by elil17 2y ago
Sure - but now that's looking like a lot more work and you're not saving much money. VT is 7 bps but VXUS is 8 and VB is 5. So if I want to use double just for my US large caps, I've got maybe 40% of my money there, 20% in VB
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by elil17 2y ago
I do think this is a great model for someone who wants to hold the S&P 500 (which many people do). However, educated index investors typically hold a total market index fund. Double’s US small cap offering is severely under diversified
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by elil17 2y ago
In these types of puzzles, a "liar" is meant to be someone who makes only statements which evaluate to false. They are meant to be riddles about formal logic.
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by elil17 2y ago
Many computational fluid dynamics programs have per core licensing and also benefit from large amounts of cache.
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by elil17 2y ago
Does this mean the therapy won’t be used anymore, or is Cerebral Adrenoleukodystrophy so bad that the FDA will let people roll the dice?
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by elil17 2y ago
We do know that the benefits stop as soon as you stop taking it. You'll start gaining back weight. No negative long term effects have been observed in humans yet, but some animals in trials were at a higher risk of cancer. We haven&#x2
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by elil17 2y ago
Napkin mathing here since available data isn't great, but the US definitely doesn't lead the world in healthcare R&D spending relative to our size. We're spending something like 0.22% of GDP on healthcare R&D, putting
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by elil17 2y ago
How is that a valid comparison though? Fighting against a coal plant makes sense, fighting against a nuclear plant doesn't - that's the key difference.
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by elil17 2y ago
That's just 500k Americans - far more people have been killed globally.
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by elil17 2y ago
It's insane because killing people is the modus operandi of fossil fuel power - and I'm not even talking about climate change. People often die on oil fields and in mines, toxic waste from coal plants leaches into our water supply
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by elil17 2y ago
The article quotes that number as the cost of the actual nuclear fuel. That number makes no sense - I'm sure it's a typo. They probably meant to say 4/10ths of a cent per megawatt hour. Of course, most of the actual costs com
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by elil17 2y ago
The idea of using humanoid robots in the automotive industry has always been a bit confusing to me. Automobiles are all the same within a model and are built on an assembly line, so they are well served by robots with fixtures specialized t
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by elil17 2y ago
Except it was Trump who agreed to the withdrawal… Biden just happened to be president during it.
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by elil17 2y ago
Short answer re: investing in active managers (based on my many years listening to rationalreminder.ca) is that, if you eliminate some of the worst active managers, the average returns net of fees are the same. However, eliminating the wors
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by elil17 2y ago
It sounds like they got a commitment to end it. Am I understanding that right? When will I be able to be confident that my food packaging no longer has any PFAS?
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by elil17 2y ago
https://www.mass.gov/guides/clothing-and-textile-recovery#:~... . You don’t have to donate, you can also recycle.
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by elil17 2y ago
An oxide is just a molecule with one oxygen atom and one other element. Different oxides would have different effects on atmospheric chemistry.
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by elil17 2y ago
That would be so awesome! Reminds me of the sci-fi book “Children of Time”
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by elil17 2y ago
I'd guess that there's not a lot of stock trading value in tracking oversize load permits. I think most publicly traded companies announce large capital investments like new factories long before trucks hit the road.
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by elil17 2y ago
It sounds like you’re saying you knew the Top Gun Maverick shots were CGI because you know a lot about planes, not because the footage looks wrong. Barbie was chroma keyed - they discuss it in the aforementioned YouTube videos. And, yes,I k
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by elil17 2y ago
Yes? Much longer than a decade in fact. AlexNet is from 2012, and many would point to that as the end of the AI winter.
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by elil17 2y ago
What do you mean by Concur Travel cancer? What are the downsides of Concur?

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