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by gwd 3y ago
And what about, something like, say, the measles vaccine? Before the vaccine, everyone caught measles and 1 in a thousand died from it; after the vaccine, almost nobody catches measles, but 1 in a million die from reactions to the vaccine.
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by gwd 3y ago
> Parties don't really pick candidates any more. But that was specifically because of changes in how the primaries worked, correct? I'm not sure exactly what went into that, but there's a pretty good argument that the cur
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by gwd 3y ago
> Judges... don't understand that. I think for the courts the issue is a bit more subtle. The question is, who's job is it to prove that the other person is wrong ("burden of proof")? Should it be the job of the pro
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by gwd 3y ago
Basically the quote we got from the local company gave us the option of a 10kWh non-Tesla battery for about £10k and a 13.5kWh Tesla battery for £12k. The math doesn't change that much between the two. I had also looked into battery
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by gwd 3y ago
Two years ago when I was considering installing a battery along with my solar panels, here was the estimations I did: 1. Additional cost of installing a 13.5kWh Tesla Powerwall was quoted as being around £12,000 2. Warranty was 80% capacity
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by gwd 3y ago
> This sounds like you're describing a system that is a failure but that the solution is not to fix the system but to give up and do something else. Can we not fix academia? The problem with academia is basic mathematics. In a syst
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by gwd 3y ago
> That's why we need proper unicode support everywhere. A couple of years ago when I wrote a little webapp to do some scheduling stuff for our community's yearly conference, I just used plain unicode strings for usernames, incl
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by gwd 3y ago
> Do ants comprehend humans? No they don't. Ants can comprehend only other ants. By this logic we can interact only with civs that are similar or same as us. Do ants comprehend microbes? They don't, but we comprehend (or at le
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by gwd 3y ago
Right, so maybe you can help me understand. Literally the only thing I've seen anywhere , both in TFA and in all the responses (including yours) is "CGI isn't really that slow." So that's a reason not to not us
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by gwd 3y ago
> So I wouldn't be surprised if, for some use cases, Python calling C in a tight loop could outperform Go. I don't have experience with Python, but I can definitely say switching between Go and C is super slow. I'm using
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by gwd 3y ago
I don't think the result is as clear either as the "Moloch" commenter, nor you, seem to think. I agree that the result is not a "Moloch trap": as you say, the new technology actually does de-fang Google Search and e
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by gwd 3y ago
Context: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ TLDR: A "Moloch Trap" is a generic term for situations like the the Prisoner's Dilemma, where optimal actions for the
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by gwd 3y ago
Yes, sorry if I wasn't clear -- I don't fault most of the population.
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by gwd 3y ago
> The US has dominated the global cultural conversation and the "other americans" have given up or never thought to challenge it. To be equivalent, it would have to be the US saying that Canadians and Mexicans were "really
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by gwd 3y ago
"Calorie surplus" could mean two different things (keeping in mind that I'm not a trained physiologist): 1. Over the course of a week, you eat X calories and burn Y calories, where X < Y 2. At any given point in time, is y
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by gwd 3y ago
Right, to be able to sight-sing, you need either perfect pitch, or you need to 1) have a sufficient musical theory framework to describe what to sing without perfect pitch 2) need to know how to translate the notes on the page into that mus
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by gwd 3y ago
Here are the phases I went through as an American using "American": 1. Born in America; it's a big country, don't know much about the outside, just call it "America" and myself an "American". 2. Gain
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by gwd 3y ago
> If it's so easy, why aren't we teaching everyone, like we teach them reading? For the same reason we don't teach everyone the Greek alphabet -- because they're not really going to use it unless they're going to
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by gwd 3y ago
My theory is that it's more to do with going through periods of calorie deficit, rather than total maximum number of calories. There was a paper posted here a year or two ago purporting to show that fasting triggered "autophagy&q
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by gwd 3y ago
Default 14 years copyright, an extra 14 years if explicitly renewed . The explicit renewal was required when the Constitution was written; and renewal remained a requirement for some time, which is why (for example) many of Philip K. Dick
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by gwd 3y ago
I don't think I've ever had that problem -- particularly once they introduced Go modules, which specified a specific version of a library dependency. My experience is like the author's: Even old random packages I wrote 5 yea
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by gwd 3y ago
> The easier answer is to point out that the case barely got a majority decision with 3 Liberal Colorado Supreme Court judges in dissent. Barely a majority decision! This is why you should actually read the case, or at least read informe
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by gwd 3y ago
> Insurrection? gimme a break smh ...what a laughable characterization. Did you read either the Colorado district court or supreme court's analysis of what defines an insurrection, and whether the events on January 6th qualify? Whi
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by gwd 3y ago
I get the idea, but I think that's way too short. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone came out in 1997; imagine if instead of paying Rowling for the royalties to make the movie in 2001, the studios had just waited until 2017
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by gwd 3y ago
> A recall is a mandatory fix that the manufacturer is obligated to provide at no charge and to proactively notify customers of. It comes with reporting obligations and long term warranty implications. This does make sense; but I would n
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by gwd 3y ago
But "recall" means "calling back"; normally it means having to actually send a physical replacement. Consider three possible problems with autopilot: 1. There's a structural issue that affects camera systems which
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by gwd 3y ago
The nice thing about "Potemkin" is that there's a decent chance the video was also designed to fool their own CEOs (in response to an impossible request), just as the Potemkin Villages were used to fool the country's own
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by gwd 3y ago
Depends on which chemicals and what your taste is. I think the main idea of espresso is that by that method you get more of the tasty chemicals and less of the bitter chemicals compared to (say) a French press (aka cafetiere). Since this
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by gwd 3y ago
At least the video by James Hoffman I watched yesterday (too lazy to find the link, it's somewhere else in the comments) wasn't about experience, but about objective measures: How charged were the particles, how long did it take
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by gwd 3y ago
Then say "no" quickly so that they can look for other funding. [EDIT] And be honest about the fact that Africans (or more charitably, countries that have particular laws or a particular pattern of enforcement) Need Not Apply.

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