ikrenji

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by ikrenji 2y ago
pro lab leak: 1, WIV being 10 miles from the outbreak area 2, WIV housing dozens if not hundreds of strains of coronaviruses 3, poor bio security / laboratory technique amongst WIV staff 4, previous incidents of accidental leaks in Chi
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by ikrenji 2y ago
i never heard of the postdoc owning the IP. it's always the university
93.
by ikrenji 2y ago
more experts would be a good thing, if there was money for them. no point in producing phds if they don't get the resources to do research (including a respectable salary)... as it stands now academia is almost a scam (phd+ level)
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by ikrenji 2y ago
why not have a 100 feet buffer clear of vegetation around housing? seems like an easy fix.
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by ikrenji 2y ago
it's a disgrace that a university administrator makes over a million a year... in a public school to boot
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by ikrenji 2y ago
a country debt is not like household or business debt. the only way US can default on its debt is if a bunch of idiots in washington DC decide to do so.
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by ikrenji 2y ago
11, for an immigrant who overstayed their visa he sure has some spicy views on immigration
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by ikrenji 2y ago
so the interpretation happens inside the soul? otherwise it matters very little if a specific computation happens in a silicone chip or a human neuron...
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by ikrenji 2y ago
well then it's a first. i don't find it that unbelievable that a missile detonates near a plane and damages it but not enough for it to immediately crash...
100.
by ikrenji 2y ago
the plane probably got hit by a pantsir missile, not autocannon fire. the damage is consistent with a proximity fuse warhead detonation. mh17 had exactly the same type of holes, except the buk missile is more powerful...
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by ikrenji 2y ago
how many times in life do you experience AD hits from within a plane as a pilot/passenger? how would they know what to expect? it's clear that the missile hit the back of the plane (tail / fuselage), how would the pilot know
102.
by ikrenji 2y ago
fusion is the ultimate clean energy source. we shouldn't give up on it just because it's a difficult problem
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by ikrenji 2y ago
DRY fanaticism is just as bad as not thinking about DRY at all
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by ikrenji 2y ago
he said they don't play competitive games.
105.
by ikrenji 2y ago
you do realize all of the worlds most valuable companies are either built on/for internet or heavily leverage it
106.
by ikrenji 2y ago
regular exercise + healthy diet / weight >> any medication you can take...
107.
by ikrenji 2y ago
a gpu is all you need if you’re one of two companies worldwide that makes them
108.
by ikrenji 2y ago
isn't moat the many billion dollars one needs to invest in compute to get these models?
109.
by ikrenji 2y ago
clinton would have won if it wasn't for the nothing burger that was the FBI investigation of her private servers...
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by ikrenji 2y ago
when UAF was ramping up the counter offensive wherever they made any gains into the minefields a couple of ka-52s showed up and shut that down. UAF had no answer to them as their ATGMs simply outrange any SHORAD that UAF has...
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by ikrenji 2y ago
citizens united = sell the election to the highest bidder. no need to put lipstick on a pig
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by ikrenji 2y ago
be better of lighting the money on fire than shorting AI companies rn.
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by ikrenji 2y ago
In some ways being human is also data analysis at scale and being reliant on what others have produced...
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by ikrenji 2y ago
it's literally the best possible outcome for humanity.
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by ikrenji 2y ago
considering the outright insane hiring practices of canonical im not surprised...
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by ikrenji 2y ago
canonical has some of the most ridiculous IT job postings i’ve come across. just sounds like a bananas software shop. didn’t give me much confidence in whatever they cooking up in there
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by ikrenji 2y ago
The fall of yahoo was caused by out of touch C suite not engineering handbooks.
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by ikrenji 2y ago
we know that people don't become someone else after a heart transplant for example
119.
by ikrenji 2y ago
well the brain is special because it gives rise to consciousness. lungs, kidneys and heart don't
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by ikrenji 2y ago
why is Swift crappy? I thought its a nice language

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