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by jjk166 1mo ago
It's actually the opposite. Centrifuges are a cheaper and easier enrichment method. A single uranium centrifuge is on the order of $10,000 to $20,000. It's economical to run lots of centrifuges, but you could in theory get up to h
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by jjk166 1mo ago
"We're not anti-immigration, we're only anti-illegal immigration!" * indefinitely pauses legal immigration *
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by jjk166 1mo ago
For context, a US coal plant on average causes 3 deaths per year due to air quality. If we're not calling a coal plant a major source, wtf would we refer to as a major source? It doesn't matter that the aggregate air pollution of
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by jjk166 2mo ago
I'm talking about the intelligence claim. There is nothing surprising about a gene having a molecular effect.
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by jjk166 2mo ago
I'm referring to the link with intelligence. The e coli experiments has nothing to do with that. > that doesn't mean they're correlated to each other, let alone causal, of course, in either direction. Which was my point.
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by jjk166 2mo ago
I was referring to the correlation (or lack thereof) with intelligence. The e coli work is a non-sequitor.
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by jjk166 2mo ago
It depends on intended use. If it is to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent a medical condition then it is a medical device that may need approval. If it's not intended for anything medical, it doesn't need FDA approval. For example
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by jjk166 2mo ago
Blood glucose levels affect lots of health functions. Diabetes represents an extreme end of the spectrum where the body's ability to regulate these fluctuations fails, but just because your body can get your levels in control eventuall
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by jjk166 2mo ago
A world where investors have grown accustomed to absurd levels of growth.
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by jjk166 2mo ago
The default assumption is non-correlation. No firm evidence was presented demonstrating correlation. Hence "not even clear it qualifies as correlation." This is a one time event that happened sometime after incirrates and cirrates
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by jjk166 2mo ago
All software is going to have edge cases, no matter how good the contractor is. The decision to not have contingencies to manually handle reasonable edge cases is entirely on the government.
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by jjk166 2mo ago
Correlation does not imply causation and it's not even clear this qualifies as correlation.
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by jjk166 2mo ago
LLMs are just revealing how many systems rely on making applications artificially difficult, either to understand or to generate, to reduce volume. These systems have been failing silently for years, unmuting the alarm is the first step to
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by jjk166 2mo ago
> using synthetic fuels made from CO2 and renewable energy where we can't. Guess what plants are made of.
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by jjk166 2mo ago
Burning tokens does little to convince people that more tokens are a good use of money - especially if they are choosing between buying more of your tokens and more of your competitor's tokens.
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by jjk166 2mo ago
That would be 10.9 million years. Could probably get away with a slightly smaller look up table.
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by jjk166 2mo ago
Knowledge of how to fix the system comes from understanding how the system works, which does not necessarily require experience fixing it. Every problem ever fixed was at some point fixed without prior experience - if we can fix problems th
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by jjk166 2mo ago
That makes sense from an engineering perspective, but from a business perspective you don't want the understanding to live in the heads of a small team of people. Companies own the codebase, they don't own their employees. If losi
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by jjk166 2mo ago
The criticism was both impolite and against HN rules. The reply was reiterating HN rules, as well as adding data supporting the original statement.
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by jjk166 2mo ago
They were no dumber then than in 2026, but they fundamentally had much less access to information. How much do you trust the medical advice of an uneducated person in 2026?
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by jjk166 2mo ago
> but embezzlement and fraud at large scale can easily cause the company to die (problem solved) The legitimate societal good that those corporations produced (useful products, valuable services, large scale employment, etc) are gone. Th
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by jjk166 2mo ago
Excluding of course corporate bailouts.
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by jjk166 2mo ago
While I want to believe the result, it seems like the method is far too susceptible to confounding cohort effects. I'd be curious if a similar trend is seen in other countries that ended rationing at different times, and if any such ch
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by jjk166 2mo ago
The high threshold is only for public figures, which must show actual malice. For everyone else (e.g. your typical student falsely accused of plagiarism), they only need to show the statement was false, published, targeted the plaintiff, an
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by jjk166 2mo ago
Seems like exactly the sort of problem the threat of defamation lawsuits are meant to solve.
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by jjk166 2mo ago
Between American science and American government, I know which one I want to see overhauled.
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by jjk166 2mo ago
TFA could really benefit from a concise thesis statement. It jumps around randomly and repeats facts that don't appear to be building a strong case for anything specific. Reading between the lines, it seems like the author believes the
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by jjk166 2mo ago
The article is using probability where it really means proportion and prediction where it means evaluation. The mathematical equivalency is both much less surprising and less revealing once reframed. If we consider the first example with th
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by jjk166 2mo ago
It's not a reference to solid-state electronics, it's a reference to solid state chemical reactions. These are reactions where the reagents are all in the solid state (hence the name). A steam engine isn't a solid-state mot
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by jjk166 2mo ago
5700 is the temperature at which the peak is in the visible spectrum. It has nothing to do with lighting quality.

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