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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
The EPA values one human life at $10M. A conservative estimate of the number of people killed by the Sackler family's companies (testified in court) was ~~245,000~~ Edit: probably at least 100,000, see below. So if opiates were environ
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by hyeonwho4 7y ago
Disposable income of the Chinese consumer is almost all locked up in housing.
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by hyeonwho4 7y ago
Legislation is reactive rather than proactive, slow in its reaction, easily corrupted by lobbyists, and likely contains loopholes anyway. Not to mention that competent regulation acts as a barrier to entry for competitors.
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by hyeonwho4 7y ago
You don't seem fully serious, but the writing is probably on the wall for third party tools which integrate with GMail. I use InboxZero through Beeminder, and could see Beeminder being locked out.
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by hyeonwho4 7y ago
It feels like Google search is already curated. At home I cannot find academic articles which appeared in the search at work, because my girlfriend trained the home's recommendation engine on searches for cute cat pictures and domestic
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by hyeonwho4 7y ago
Setting preferences really should not be shocking, given that they have the capacity to run automatic updates. I'm more surprised that they can push code without certificates.
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by hyeonwho4 7y ago
Unfortunately, the code in this book uses a modified version of scheme which is no longer maintained.
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by hyeonwho4 8y ago
Global Entry is a TSA program you can apply for. The TSA charges a fee of 100 USD and runs an in person interview. Edit: those under investigation, warrants, or charged with crimes are not elligible. Neither are those with passports from
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by hyeonwho4 8y ago
I think part of the issue is that tech salaries are insane in SF and NYC, everywhere else and every other field salaries are not increasing. I was looking at engineering postdocs and the typical salary is 50k. For bio postdocs it's 35k
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by hyeonwho4 8y ago
The problem is not jargom, it is tone. If we criticize the ideas instead of the people we can reach an understanding. But by using "you" it becomes more personal and more inflammatory.
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by hyeonwho4 8y ago
Sometimes even the instruments are maintained. I know a consultant whose job is to repair bespoke factory and laboratory microcontrollers in situ . When we hired him he spent two weeks covering our lab in blueprints, two weeks troubleshoot
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by hyeonwho4 8y ago
Of the pictures at the top of the article, almost every bedroom captioned as being in an underground bunker had a window visible in the frame. One of them had something that looked like the door to a residential apartment next to that windo
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by hyeonwho4 8y ago
My impression is that the relevant laws for crash liability are those of Indonesia and Ethiopia. So nobody professional is clamoring for it. The silence of the pundit class is curious; I guess we will find out how political this in the next
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by hyeonwho4 8y ago
That's a terrible show of confidence. What are the chances that the next plane to have an accident is carrying the CEO? What is the average expected punishment to the CEO for getting it wrong? It's probably less risk than BASE jum
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by hyeonwho4 8y ago
To be fair, "just nuke afghanistan" was a phrase I heard several times in 2001. Maybe 10% of the US population would have welcomed use of nukes. More, if it had been packaged as part of with-us-or-against-us rhetoric.
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by hyeonwho4 8y ago
This seems like a PR piece. Too positive, a lot of discussions of pilot's smiles. Given the very high program costs and the need by Lockheed Martin to convince US allies to buy the plane despite the high price tag, I think HN readers w
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by hyeonwho4 8y ago
This is the theory of phonons: pseudo particles which transfer heat in materials.
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by hyeonwho4 8y ago
But alcohol consumption is ridiculously evolutionarily beneficial. The ability to digest ethanol has evolved independently twice, and each time it swept to dominate ~95 percent of the population in less than 500 years.
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by hyeonwho4 8y ago
Not really. A TI-class supertanker has a length of 380m, breadth of 68m, for a surface area of less than 7 acres, and run on a 37,450 kW engine. (Wikipedia). Meanwhile, a 50 MW solar installation in Ohio takes 500 acres of space.( https:&#x
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by hyeonwho4 8y ago
But the choice here is not "fly or drive", the choice here is "fly 737 MAX or fly another plane". I expect very few fliers have the budget and time to change flights, and those who can, will.
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by hyeonwho4 8y ago
That, and how the fick do you machine diamond... regular glass fiber optics needs to be cut to a smooth surface and fused together. The devices to do this use diamond-coated blades. Oh, and diamond has a large birefringence due to its cryst
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by hyeonwho4 8y ago
Temporal smear is caused by the varying refeactive index of glass with wavelength and the fact that a short time pulse must have finite (large) spectral width (by the uncertainty principle), not by the bouncing.
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by hyeonwho4 8y ago
That's not true. The typical total reflection angle in single mode fiber optic cable is less than 4 degrees. The refractice index of glass, however, is about 1.45. So almost all the slowdown is due to the glass directly slowing down th
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by hyeonwho4 8y ago
I've been auto-deleting emails from * @facebook * for 8 years. Never fails.
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by hyeonwho4 8y ago
This style of editorial is becoming more common, and IMO is almost useless. Saying that "Advisors should take care of their students' well-being." doesn't account for the fact that incentives are for advisors to overprom
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by hyeonwho4 8y ago
Is data saved to disk encrypted? Can you plausibly state that what I have been reading is invisible to a computer repair shop? Can I plausibly state that there are no links to (child) porn searchable on my disks?
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by hyeonwho4 8y ago
How much text content does an active user produce over 6 months? Most uers lurk, so the average user is probably producing a few hundred kilobytes of text. That adds up (and compresses) to only a few gigabytes.
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by hyeonwho4 8y ago
... and they were only discovered to be frauds by the twitter feeds that mock social sciences research.
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by hyeonwho4 8y ago
Peer review is supposed to catch cases like Sokal's. As an editor, if you are not qualified to read the paper, then you should try to contact someone who is, or suggest publication in a different journal. But the problem goes deeper th
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by hyeonwho4 8y ago
Seems like a problem that can be totally cured by insurance agencies raising premiums on unvaccinated children.

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