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Here's hoping they don't have four comorbidities, because that plus covid equals trouble. Actually four comorbidities minus covid also equals trouble.
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So basically, if you build perfectly optimal sized battery trucks and run them on a perfectly optimized schedule and route system they're perfectly optimized and attain very high levels of efficiency. That's vacuously true for jus
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China is not worried about safety and reliability in the same way Western producers are. They don't have the same liability laws. Tesla and the major automakers can't risk their name and reputation on a crap product.
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Its a CV brag. It means you're a big shot if you're giving the keynote at a top conference. Most people never do that so it's a big deal. It grants high credibility in the outside world which gets you invited to additional op
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How many of <T> ethnicity are in the community? What is the average level of commitment and capability of <T> in the overall community? If that is low relative to the community distribution members of <T> may not feel comf
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3y ago
As someone learning the language on production code I must agree that the error handling of Rust is terrible. Exceptions have never been a struggle point for me with other languages, but Rust error handling has literally given me headaches.
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You can't print bitcoin. You can't print natural resources. You can't print manufacturing capabilities. Trade will work on verifiable assets in the future. If Bircoin picks up even a small percentage of foreign exchange it
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Couldn't read the article. Did the author not recognize that the BRICS and associated countries are getting very tired of this arrangement, especially because the US uses it for political leverage?
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IBM is a consulting company that is trusted to build enterprise solutions. McKinsey and the like can't do what IBM can.
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You understand that an LLM running against a corpus of your collected online presence and payments would be able to make astonishing insights into your life and habits, and that anyone who had access to such a tool would have great power ov
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Why do the Paris police carry military rifles? Even in the US your kids are not likely to get shot unless they're involved with youth drug gangs, that's where most of the child gun deaths come from. In France they trade the mass s
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3y ago
Internal destabilization by manipulating group fractures is a known specialty of US foreign policy. China has valid reasons to be concerned about such methods given explicit admissions from the US government at the highest levels, that they
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The executives don't either. They're all passing through on their way to bigger and better gigs. If they can get more out of the employees for less money it just makes them look better. They don't care if they burn down the t
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3y ago
Depending on the route and the time of day you'll find homeless, nodded out addicts, groups of bored young people looking for a happening, insane people, and sanitary issues. Depends where and when you're going, and some is just p
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Come to Sacramento and ride the light rails end to end. It isn't rocket surgery.
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Sounds like a great off road vehicle.
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3y ago
Try cutting down trees on your forested property in California. Environmental regulations can make that really tricky. California should have regular wildfires. It's part of the ecosystem. Government regulations that prevent fires have
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3y ago
Is the real split in this country between liberals and conservatives? Or is about whether the political contest we observe is mostly genuine or mostly constructed? Are we watching UFC or WWF? UFC gives the impression of an authentic contest
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3y ago
Sure you have. That's the way the corporate technology hype machine works. So many amazing things are perpetually just around the corner: cold fusion, cancer vaccines,cheap powerful batteries. Invest now!
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Practice non-distraction. Start little. Decide, for example, that you're going to make your bed. Then don't do anything but make your bed. Don't check your phone in the middle or go on a side quest to dust the headboard. Just
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The CDC Red Book used to list the chances of a permanent or fatal response to polio as being < 0.5%. They took that out a while ago when people started citing it. Oftentimes you find that a bad outcome to an illness, especially when rare
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It wasn't enough data to be interesting to anyone. An entire apple got me up over 180 as did half a bag of In N Out fries with no ketchup, and I'm not diabetic. Glucose response is very personalized. One monitor for two weeks was
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Even the Bible called for Jubilee years when all debts were forgiven. In the modern paradigm we are all slaves to whomever controls the currency, and there is no off-ramp.
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Yeah. I tried a Constant Glucose Monitor for fun. Seeing what fruit did to my glucose levels was shocking.
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It means splitting the country politically so that it is impossible to generate opposition to the leadership. It's pretty clear that that is the modus operandi.
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The government funded misery industry has metastasized in SF.
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The Romans managed their empire with divide and conquer tactics. Guns, abortion, trans issues are just red meat the corporations throw to the masses to keep their eye off what's really going on. What's really going on? The pension
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CO2 has been a constant part of the atmosphere at 0.01-0.05% forever. The atmosphere is sensitive to small changes. So what might introducing new particles to the atmosphere do? What could possibly go wrong with this irreversible experiment
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Fox doesn't have the same bench it did. There is no one with the credibility and charisma of Carlson left. When O'Reilly left they still had some talent.
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Scientific American is the new Newsweek. How the mighty have fallen.
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