jmward01

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by jmward01 2y ago
There are two questions here: Should gov/company/actual human use x, y or z from the US and HOW can they avoid it? I personally don't see a lot of strong answers to the 'how' question right now. At a basic level I t
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by jmward01 2y ago
People aren't voting for what benefits them which means we are now in post policy politics. That means that what matters is the messaging and not the actual things done or the impact of those things on people. This leads to doing thing
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by jmward01 2y ago
SpaceX shows the natural boom, decay to a rut, bust out of rut cycle that happens in every industry. Strong independent government institutions make sure that the growth phase when that bust out of rut phase happens stays (relatively) posit
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by jmward01 2y ago
I have been calling them the exoburbs for years! The rise of work from home, solar, starlink, remote education, etc etc are just accelerating this trend. You see it in booming lakeside communities and remote islands where people's vaca
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Military Health System Beneficiaries Urged to Download Old Medical Records(military.com)
7 points by jmward01 2y ago|0 comments
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Science communication is a challenge and this particular discussion is a key part of that challenge. The goal is to be able to get a child to understand the issue at hand while not harming their ability to continue to learn further. The wor
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The challenge with any article like this is that the correlated impact on health outcomes is always implied in the article but is rarely studied as part of the research cited. Just because a is bad and b has a property similar to a that doe
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by jmward01 2y ago
Maybe we can use the excess photons in another way? We could bio-engineer sunlight collection devices that would take in sunlight and use it to break apart CO2 and produce other useful materials. We could then spread them around the planet
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by jmward01 2y ago
The article leans heavily on the word disobedience, but I think it would serve discussion more to emphasize the idea of a 'grey area' to distinguish it better from out-right disobedience. When the author was in tactical command of
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by jmward01 2y ago
I have an internal repo that does guided window attn. I figured out that One Weird Trick to get the model to learn how to focus so that you can move a fixed window around instead of full attn. I also built NNMemory (but that appears to be a
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by jmward01 2y ago
This is a coup and we are calmly debating budgets. Debating the % of budget and how useful organization x is and if y will still get grant money, and, and, and... All of this is ignoring the big elephant in the room that there is one single
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Ask HN: I just turned on noprocrast. What are you doing for mental health?
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A billion here, a billion there. Pretty soon you are talking real money.
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Yes and no. It is often just dead equipment. But sometimes it could still be turned on but there is no purpose for it anymore. The P-3 has been used for a -lot- of things over the years. Beyond that it is just heavy old versions of things t
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by jmward01 2y ago
Meanwhile they likely have hundreds or even thousands of lbs of dead equipment in them that accumulates as they are updated over the years. At least that is what happened to the P-3. Removing things is often a lot harder than adding them un
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by jmward01 2y ago
Unfortunately the fox is building the hen-house. They 'should' build products that improve my experience but they have very little incentive to do that when they get paid so much for the data they can extract. What would actually
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by jmward01 2y ago
And that is the core problem with what happened. There may actually be a grain of truth but now there is a backlash. I'd argue though that the mounds of alternative explanations that weren't followed up on should likely get some p
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by jmward01 2y ago
>Regardless of sex chromosome aneuploidies or a desire to be the opposite sex, everyone who is, who could be, or who has ever been pregnant is female. Nature disagrees with you. There are many animals out there that can change sex. Sex,
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by jmward01 2y ago
Swapping fingerprint details is different than your example since it happens immediately and out of view. You could change fingerprints very often/create a new set for every browser tab. Additionally, as I pointed out before, they won&
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A sufficient number of people would need to, not everyone. And if I were the only one then tracking companies wouldn't adjust for just me. Basically, if this were to catch on then ad trackers wouldn't adjust until there was enough
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It would be amazing if you could build and send fake profiles of this information to create fake browser fingerprints and help track the trackers. Similarly, creating a lot of random noise here may help hide the true signal, or at least mak
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My thought here is that there is likely a lot of leaked data on ads themselves, that is one of the reasons why you would need the VPN/proxy. Additionally you could (potentially) create fake browser fingerprint credentials on the fly to
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by jmward01 2y ago
A long time ago I had the idea to create an 'accountability server'. The high level idea was for it to generate unique credentials so that you could track to the source who sold your info. There are some ways to do that now, but I
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by jmward01 2y ago
This isn't mainly about scientific results. This is about hate and power. It didn't start here and it won't stop here. History is very clear that this will get even uglier very fast. We have a very small window left to do som
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We are now at the digital equivalent of book burning in the 1930's. The parallels are pretty clear. This is the moment in history class that someone raises their hand and asks 'but why didn't anyone stop them?'.
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by jmward01 2y ago
These types of false equivalence arguments need to go away. Under Trump norms of career civil servants loyal to doing a good job for the country is being shattered. Institutions that we could trust to be resistant politics are now being wea
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I'd argue that the fact that it isn't frequent makes it insignificant. 40k people die every year on the roads and, to our detriment, we don't treat that as significant. I wish we would focus on things actually impacting peopl
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I guess that explains why Elon is so poor and the company is valued at practically nothing compare to all other automakers.
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Others have pointed out the strategy allows for picking the best year to pay taxes and therefore avoiding a lot of taxes. I'd add to that argument that the current administration is likely to create exceptionally favorable policies for
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Yeah. Economic effects are rarely cut and dry and the actual impact of a minimum wage increase is highly dependent on a lot of factors so pretty hard to say one way or another. But one thing is clear, minimum wage increase do help the emplo

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