its_ethan

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by its_ethan 8mo ago
This is a nice example/re-stating of what the heritability % "means" here. I'm curious, with something like smoking/drinking, how you can be confident that you've untangled genetic predispositions to addiction
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by its_ethan 8mo ago
What is it that you're arguing for then? That there be some entity that gets to decide what is and isn't a productive use of all of our excess money? Who gets to decide what's excess? Who gets to decide what is and isn't
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by its_ethan 8mo ago
Well it's more like a currency than any other object because it has been used historically to either a) be the currency, or b) back the currency. Sure that's not true today in the United States, but like, it's obviously diffe
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by its_ethan 8mo ago
Sure, that stuff too. The point still being that it's a pretty predictable set of changes being made to whatever photo you give it.
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by its_ethan 8mo ago
There's a pretty clear expected transformation here though? It takes an image and then reduces the "shiny-ness" of it by giving it the same transformation: change the sky to overcast, add material degradation like rust, reduc
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by its_ethan 8mo ago
I don't recall the exact specifics, but I do remember a while ago there was some outrage that Nestle was bottling some really large sounding amount of water (think ~millions of gallons a day?) from a Great Lake. The math behind how muc
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by its_ethan 8mo ago
Sure, but that's to my second point of if they pick up camp and leave, that's still developed property that has potential to be more useful than it had been. And in the same way that construction-damaged roads can lead to costs on
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by its_ethan 8mo ago
I'd also chime in that the presence of a datacenter in a smaller community can also help through the increased tax revenue the town/county gets. Likely there's some kind of tax incentive for the datacenter to be built in one
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by its_ethan 8mo ago
> Due to the United States Supreme Court ruling in Wisconsin v. Illinois, the State of Illinois is not subject to certain provisions of the compact pertaining to new or increased withdrawals or diversions from the Great Lakes. I mean it
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by its_ethan 9mo ago
They may not always work, but it's also not the case that they never work - which is what it seems like you're suggesting.
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by its_ethan 9mo ago
Sorry, but if someone makes a claim and cites a reference, how do you verify "is the stuff correct" without checking that reference?
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by its_ethan 9mo ago
0 degrees F is a cold winter day, 100 degrees F is a hot summer day 0 degrees C is a cold winter day, 100 degrees C means you're dead I think he's suggesting that a 0-100 scale for temperature/"relative warmth outside&qu
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by its_ethan 9mo ago
Hi, so I generally actually agree with you and your criticisms of this blog post (in your thread with the author). I think there's something pretty true in the blog post you shared from Joel (true in that it applies to more than just t
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by its_ethan 9mo ago
I think there is reason to think that we will reduce energy consumption. US energy consumption per capita peaked in 1975 and has trended down even as population has increased. There's going to be a peak in global population, likely bef
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by its_ethan 9mo ago
I don't think the OP is saying he has an issue with the reporting of facts. I think what he's getting at is that a lot of what passes for news today (especially online) are really just op-eds. Presenting just the facts is being
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by its_ethan 9mo ago
That's fair, it just bothers me when examples are like "a block with two holes in it" and sure the result is a block with two holes, but when are you going to want that without having those two holes in very specific spots at
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by its_ethan 9mo ago
Not sure if it's a "flaw" or not, but I always get stuck on AI + 3D design stuff with there being no dimensional information or control. How big is that mug? Slowing it down and trying to catch some dim info the initial cylin
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by its_ethan 9mo ago
No other thoughts on my actual questions? You're just addressing one-off sentences from my responses. "it's antitrust because they have a failed product" is objectively hilarious > What would Siri's position be l
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by its_ethan 9mo ago
So if it mirrors something they were already accused of (like you're saying), my questioning should be pretty easy to map onto that issue as well? It's the line of thinking that I'm trying to dig into more, not the specifics
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by its_ethan 9mo ago
I feel like this ignores how big of a part the software is for those "consumer electronics" Apple is so good at making. Apple definitely has software expertise, maybe it's not as specialized into AI as it is about optimizing
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by its_ethan 9mo ago
So because Apple chose not to spend money to develop it's own AI, it must be punished for then choosing to use another companies model? And the reason that this is an issue is because both companies are large? This feels a little squis
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by its_ethan 9mo ago
Yea I'd say any university. Here's the results of maybe 3 minutes of quick googling for universities around the world: University of Mumbai: "The Fruit of Learning is Character and Righteous Conduct" - highlights charact
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by its_ethan 9mo ago
That feels like a fairly narrow view of what the purpose of a university is. Look at the charter of any university and they do not just say: "create students who excel in their academic subject of choice". The vast, vast majorit
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by its_ethan 9mo ago
Quite a few routes on the heat map that appear to not be following great circle lines (i.e. "straight" lines from china to the west coast) - is that from seasonal currents allowing for more efficient transit with the tradeoff of t
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by its_ethan 9mo ago
In those thousands of years of history, did we ever have multiple cities with populations over 10 million people? Did we have electricity demands? Were the agriculture/ food expectations the same? Are you really trying to make the argu
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by its_ethan 9mo ago
The price of entry is actually just being born in the country (or at least that's all that's required in most democracies). You personally might have the expectation that when you vote, you should be informed about what you'r
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by its_ethan 10mo ago
"you can only work on one thing at a time. It should always be the highest priority item" The thing you're working on in any given moment is the highest priority thing (in "your" mind) by definition though. If you t
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by its_ethan 10mo ago
Maybe it's a stupid question, but how does the poliovirus "work"? Like at this scale, the DNA strand is still pretty visible and a decent-ish percentage of the polio virus in size.. is it just a ball with DNA inside and not m
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by its_ethan 10mo ago
Is it not sort of implied by the stats later: "Revenues from Claude Code, a program for coding that Anthropic introduced earlier this year, already are said to be running at an annual rate of $1 billion. Revenues for the other leader,
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by its_ethan 10mo ago
So "streaming service" (the term you used) implies something like Netflix or Hulu or something, which is a paid service and definitely not piracy. At least in the USA that's how that term is used. I'm not actually sure

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