jmward01

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by jmward01 10mo ago
For the year ending May 2024, China released more scientific papers -in English- than the US [1]. We have been on a decline for a while. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of... [edit] I thin
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Banana is Generating Antimatter, And I Detected It [video](youtube.com)
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The point I was making isn't that we are or aren't actually narrowing down our options, it is that diversity of options is important. We have artificially limited diversity in our energy ecosystem and the rapid adoption of solar&#
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As always, diversity in the energy ecosystem is a huge plus. Time and time again we see that 'one size fits all' is simply not true so I'm a fan of alternative approaches that use completely different principles. This enables
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Other medications become lifelong medications but without this level of scrutiny. I am 100% in favor of finding a more permanent treatment, but switching blood pressure meds, and cholesterol meds, and other daily meds for a single once a we
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by jmward01 10mo ago
I've said it before and I will probably say it again, this is digital assault and should be thought of and treated that way. Companies, and their officers, should be treated criminally for things like this. Most people do not know&#x2F
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And not having gone through the formal contract law education required to be able to understand that TOS.
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I want a tech shift to allow this concept. Ownership will require me to physically maintain my own data, or at least have the ability to do so. I really want personal cloud capabilities so that services like iTunes and others are required t
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A core concept here is that of ownership. People think they own their accounts and data. Stories like these, and unfortunately the law, make it clear that they don't own anything. I personally think it is false advertising of companies
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Exactly why this is a terrible thing. It isn't liberal or conservative to say 'power accumulation in one person is bad'. We need to be actively stripping the executive, and any entrenched position, of power. Democracy needs d
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At this point I think we can clearly see that the interpretation of our laws is extremely partisan at the moment, to the point that what exact text says is basically irrelevant. The broader issue here is a massive, completely unchecked, pow
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Thanks! I'll give it a look
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I'm all about monitoring privacy related things, but I think the bigger piece here is the monitoring of city counsels for this kind of data. Wow! I just hadn't thought about doing that before. This is a massive trove of informatio
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by jmward01 10mo ago
This is digital assault of 8m people and should be treated that way.
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Fundamentally we need safety valves for labor supply that always creates a net advantage for workers, but how? My take has always been that advances in productivity that reduce the need for labor should be given back to the workforce via in
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by jmward01 11mo ago
I think there is a calculation that makes the point a little clearer. There is some distance, x, where it is cheaper to transport the electrons mechanically than it is to push them over a wire. Every month that distance gets shorter as batt
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Batteries are probably going to kill long-range transmission lines and open up remote generation at a scale never thought possible. Desert solar, remote hydro, etc etc. As the price continues to fall and the density continues to rise the ec
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I totally forgot about the remote. That really opens up possibilities for home assistant type stuff. I hadn't looked at this space a lot before. I see some articles on how to jailbreak various devices but nothing about standardized dis
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Seems like there is a big opportunity here for something a router distro to combine with a tv jailbreak. How good is the hardware? It would be nice to have my tv serve a couple purposes if it has the hardware to do it.
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These are exactly my thoughts as well, both the positives (it doesn't need to be air-tight) and the negatives (providing documentation). I don't know that there is a great system here. The best I can think of is having independent
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by jmward01 11mo ago
We need to force change to encourage growth and exploration. "Science advances one funeral at a time" acknowledge this but that doesn't mean actual death is needed. We need to create strong systems that encourage forcing peop
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Vendor lock-in has always been the product.
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I am a believer in the new agentic coding tools (I wasn't 6 months ago) but the delays and time it takes to build something haven't really changed even though everyone I know is using them. What I see is what has always been there
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I'm not a geologist, but this was pretty deep (44.1k) so not likely a foreshock right? Any actual geologists have a thought here? I know we have seen some indications that foreshocks can happen before megathrust earthquakes but it woul
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by jmward01 11mo ago
The core issue here is one of companies lying about the service and the price. TOS should not be allowed to hide price at time of checkout, which they effectively are doing by allowing selling personal data. So the fix is simple. if they ar
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They will just let stories die down and try again in a few more months. It is inevitable.
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Any web historians know the timeline of ads and search engines? It seems like the killer feature of ChatGPT was being able to find something again since ads have made search engines basically useless. With ads in ChatGPT it just feels like
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I tell people we have inverted control with the latest agent concepts. Instead of deterministic code treating LLMs as functions, we have LLMs determining the flow of the app and the interaction with the user. It is much more organic when it
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Just to put the market into perspective, the UK was looking to build an undersea cable to push power from Morocco but canceled it [1]. That cable would have provided somewhere around 8% of the power to the UK and the whole project was slate
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I did some fast back of the napkin math on the idea of sahara solar + electrified shipping + sodium ion batteries. A lot depends on the, as yet, fully disclosed pricing of sodium ion batteries but the trend in pricing, and capacity, is clea

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