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by jlmorton 3y ago
> Self driving cars are not important other than for a few exec ego This is where you really go off the rails. You can't possibly believe this.
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by jlmorton 3y ago
> Jetbrains are offering 65% off I've always found it telling how British/European english refers to companies using a plural verb, while Americans refer to a company using the singular verb "is."
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by jlmorton 3y ago
All life is a trade-off. There has been massive effort at reducing traffic fatalities, representing probably trillions of dollars of investment, including road design and barriers, speed limits, signaling, car safety features like crumple
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by jlmorton 3y ago
This is the wholesale price of electricity. The distributors plan for price surges like this, and the retail price stays the same. Although, the Texas electricity market is deeply weird, and people can actually pick an electricity provider,
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by jlmorton 3y ago
China spends nowhere near as much as the US on basic research. The US spends $100 billion on basic research annually, compared to $25 billion in China. However, total R&D is quite a bit closer, with the US spending $660b to China’s $556
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by jlmorton 3y ago
I'm not sure that's what the other poster was saying. We say this is a 5-sigma event, but that's based on observations of the mean since 1979. When you then try to extrapolate out from that and say "we expect to see this
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by jlmorton 3y ago
This study almost has Illness as Metaphor vibes. Fight dementia by diligently training your mind, keeping disease at bay! Vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia, and Alzheimers all seem to involve damage to brain structures. It strikes me as
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by jlmorton 3y ago
The rule is simply that foreign-owned airlines can’t fly point-to-point routes between US destinations. I’m in Chicago, and I can book a Korean Air, non-codeshare ORD-ICN-GUM right now. You can find it on Kayak.
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by jlmorton 3y ago
Nevertheless, notice the other example I gave is a United flight originating in Honolulu, Hawaii, transiting Micronesia, and ending in Guam. It’s the same rule.
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by jlmorton 3y ago
> because any flight with a US origin to a US destination can only be sold by a US carrier. That's not exactly true. It just requires the USA and the other country to have negotiated a Fifth Freedom agreement. There are lots of fore
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by jlmorton 3y ago
Yes you can, because they're all small effects, and we are unsure what other confounding, or correlated factors may occur with the studied chemicals. It is _not_ the tobacco story all over again, because the health effect of long-term
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by jlmorton 3y ago
I also feel like it's difficult to discuss on boards like this one the uncertainty in studies and meta studies, such as the linked meta study. Your impression from the linked study should be that there is a large amount of uncertainty,
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by jlmorton 3y ago
We need something like Betteridge's Law of Headlines for the phrase "There isn't a debate." Needless to say, when someone claims there is no debate, there is in fact a debate.
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by jlmorton 3y ago
I did the same a week ago, deleting fifteen years worth and several thousand comments using Shreddit, by editing and deleting, however mine have not been restored, so I doubt this was some kind of broad action. I very much doubt Reddit care
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by jlmorton 3y ago
Importantly, Covid very rarely results in severe symptoms for middle aged adults. In the vast majority of adults, the symptoms are mild and nonspecific. So the idea that all of these researchers would have contracted Covid and present with
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by jlmorton 3y ago
> Now it's Reddit vs what? Nothing is an option. Separately from the API drama, I’ve been questioning whether Reddit is a net benefit in my life. Everyone can draw their own conclusion to that question, and I won’t try to convince a
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by jlmorton 3y ago
This is exactly correct. It is always amazing to me how easily people will accept however an issue is framed for them on social media. Of course this was a threat. It wasn't a language issue. And the post-hoc explanation was nonsense.
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by jlmorton 3y ago
> magical pseudo-sentient enigma or Since when does artificial intelligence imply sentience? They're interdependent and neither are reliant on the other.
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by jlmorton 3y ago
Well, they've sold 20 million Quest headsets [1]. This compares with ~38 million PS5s, and ~18.5 million Xbox Series X/S. That's multiple generations of headsets, but given they iterate quicker than consoles, that still seems
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by jlmorton 3y ago
Yeah, the post was originally a link to Daring Fireball [1]. [1] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/05/31/reddit-apollo-a...
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by jlmorton 3y ago
Here's a much more informative post [1] from Apollo developer Christian on Reddit last month, along with an older post [2] with some additional info. [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w
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by jlmorton 3y ago
Definitely nerfed. Concomitantly, the performance increased substantially, and it now feels much, much quicker (maybe 10x even?), but the quality has decreased quite a bit.
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by jlmorton 4y ago
True. On the other hand, we do know that SpaceX has taken about $10 billion in funding since its inception. With that, they developed Falcon 1, Merlin engines, Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, first full-flow staged combustion engine in the methalox
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by jlmorton 4y ago
Yes, and that was what that line said before, too. The change removed a specific call-out for misgendering, and deadnaming. There were no specific call-outs for anything else. Is this a targeted jab? I have no idea, but it certainly doesn&#
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by jlmorton 4y ago
I'm sorry to be pulled into commenting on a Great Culture War issue in a space thread, but this is really unfair framing. When someone, or a group refuses to ban something, that doesn't mean they support it. Just because the Unite
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by jlmorton 4y ago
The article does not say it's a billing mistake, but it notes that NorthBay Healthcare lists a price online of $547.65 for a rabies vaccine. Surely human rabies immunoglobulin would be another $1,000, maybe more, but there is no chance
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by jlmorton 4y ago
Jedberg currently has 65124
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by jlmorton 4y ago
So you're saying just because this is an entirely different economy, country, currency, money supply growth rate, central bank and interest rate regimen, that this means the elites aren't conspiring to do the thing they hate more
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by jlmorton 4y ago
One of the most interesting things about Reddit is how they’ve managed to grow Reddit, Inc to a few thousand employees, but everyone still refers to the company as “the admins,” as if it’s a rag tag community group, not a Twitter-sized comp
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by jlmorton 4y ago
Just for 2023, though. They're still planning to take delivery of 100k by 2030. I don't think we know the unit cost of a Rivian EDV, but at $100k per vehicle, 10,000 vans is a $1 billion order.

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