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by erkkie 9y ago
Melanoma correlation with sun exposure is tricky; regular (non burning) exposure tends to correlate with lower risk (eg in outdoor workers). Non-melanoma skin cancers are usually curable. It's plausible to argue the benefits of regula
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by erkkie 9y ago
Elaborate? I mean mining pools in China with the oligopoly bit. Are you saying that's not a problem? I would say the current bitcoin PoW scheme is inherently seeking to end up in a few actors having most of the power due to the higher
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by erkkie 9y ago
What about a hybrid PoS/PoW system? In reality, bitcoin as PoW is also near monopoly, more like oligopoly, still requiring trust.
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by erkkie 9y ago
This is tricky as half of the premise of Brexit was to not allow free movement.
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by erkkie 9y ago
Pushing through the pain barrier is wrong, point of training is to find that subtle balance where you push enough to advance but not too much to avoid injury.
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by erkkie 9y ago
Interesting question here to me is how to align incentives in a manner that works out best for both, the employer and the employee. Automate your job and then move on to higher level problems, rinse and repeat. Profit share?
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by erkkie 9y ago
"unique clarity of mind, a change in ego, a confidence game" - as an climber with some mildly risky free solo experience, this is a very good description. It seems to me with no consequences of falling, that ultimate level of foc
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by erkkie 9y ago
Curious about your thoughts on evo psych.
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by erkkie 9y ago
There's a difference in actually being unreliable (which I'm sure Feynman wasn't) vs projecting the negative of "I will help everyone every time". It boils down to finding enough courage to focus on your priorities
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by erkkie 10y ago
You can also learn a ton about how to bend rules when cheating, something that's often useful out in the real world. I feel like half of what I learned in school was how to be better at avoiding doing things (including cheating, when a
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by erkkie 10y ago
Elaborate?
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by erkkie 10y ago
"This time it's different" sounds a cliche but there's many reasons to believe this time truly is different wrt the pace and magnitude of change.
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by erkkie 10y ago
I want orange to appear on a google search, what bytes need to be sent over the wire from my brain.
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by erkkie 10y ago
I get (and perhaps even agree) to the sentiment, logically at least, but realistically all marketing is deceptive. It's pragmatically more useful to understand the how's and why's of that and play along.
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by erkkie 10y ago
If I'd had to guess and theorise, and it's highly likely I'm wrong, making thoughts available semantically for an computer to parse requires more bandwidth than (once command+control is figured out) recalling of information +
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by erkkie 10y ago
Why should people be able to tell the difference vs the outcome of those products, unless someone (investors?) is specifically just buying into the AI hype itself? (in which case, this is nothing different from when everything was "soc
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by erkkie 10y ago
Lemme know when legislation catches up with state of art technology.
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by erkkie 10y ago
Imagine thinking about something and having it appear on your brain interface HUD vs typing a google search on your phone and reading it from the screen. How is that not a bandwidth problem?
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by erkkie 10y ago
Only way to have enough bandwidth (for a varying definition of enough I guess) is to interface directly with the brain. Doing that non invasively is much more difficult.
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by erkkie 10y ago
Everything is/was going to be used for control since the start of times, what's the alternative?
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by erkkie 10y ago
Gluten free is often a useful proxy (for the most parts of the world) for less processed foods. Doesn't apply to speciality "gluten free" items but chicken and rice and vegetables are also gluten free. Try it out when flying
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by erkkie 10y ago
Reply to their emails in an timely manner.
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by erkkie 10y ago
Agreed, the skill to differentiate good and bad sources and get your world view from a combined set of sources, each having their own (known and accounted for biases) is key.
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by erkkie 10y ago
The problem now is information overload. Effectively we've gone from less information, to good information, to too much information causing overload leading to less information. This makes it easy for bubbles to form by various biases.
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by erkkie 10y ago
I'm sorry but maybe, just maybe the thought of "be exposed to imagery that really is not going to help them be well-adjusted in life, without any safeguards in place" is a tad protectionist. There are still people (including
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by erkkie 10y ago
Yes, nice read, thanks!
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by erkkie 10y ago
There is quite some, eg https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3106288/ . I believe at least some of the pathways are shared with exercise as well so exercising and/or exercising while fasting woul
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by erkkie 10y ago
Nope, with faster charge via usb power delivery built in, inductive charging is on its way out. The premise is that a short plug in gives enough charge to keep going. See the nexus line, which used to include inductive charging and dropped
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by erkkie 10y ago
Thanks for the link, hit at 21000 feet just earlier does change the risk profile, but then again, it's hard for the Safety Board to come to any other conclusion post the facts.
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by erkkie 10y ago
Are you for real? There's war zones all over the world, usually that doesn't mean shooting down a passenger flight 10km high, for which you need specialized equipment, not just a random shoulder carry rocket. Until the incident, a

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