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by jtc331 4y ago
Infinite scroll is a terrible UI experience despite being popular; that’s why not everyone has adopted it.
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by jtc331 4y ago
> The fundamental difference with nuclear theory is that nukes don't self-assemble more nukes. It's worse than that: nukes don't learn to become even more powerful nukes while being used. > BSL-4 (+) labs One of the iss
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by jtc331 4y ago
No it matters a lot: which originally is correct is the primary determinant for which of opposite lessons to learn. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32735333
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by jtc331 4y ago
There’s a natural fork in the road here which is why this is so contentious. The best argument gain of function proponents have for their research (besides weaponization of course) is to create the next big thing in a lab first so that we c
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by jtc331 4y ago
I think the better argument isn’t so much about status: it should have a higher prior because the institutions denying it as a possibility were the very ones funding the category of research that could plausibly result in such an incident
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by jtc331 4y ago
I don’t know why you’re being downvoted. The i3 styling was clearly distinguished from other BMWs and not in a good way.
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Startup’s Hydrogen Breakthrough May Give New Life to Coal Plants(bloomberg.com)
1 points by jtc331 4y ago|1 comments
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by jtc331 4y ago
pg_repack has some significant downsides in its implementation; I question whether it’s really a default over re-indexing concurrently. I’ve certainly not gotten that impression, and we maintain many very large Postgres clusters.
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by jtc331 4y ago
Are the containers actually full? Or just the empty containers ready to refill?
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by jtc331 4y ago
That’s nonsense. It’s extremely hard to fire people in many corps. I’ve personally seen it take years even when everyone agreed (including management) someone needed to go . And often the paperwork threshold is so high that even people pro
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by jtc331 4y ago
Isn’t that still circular though? Knowledge of the mainstream research isn’t the same as “knowledge of what’s correct”; the person who holds the non-consensus view may have equal or higher levels of knowledge about the path that got them t
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by jtc331 4y ago
My understanding is most of this waste also isn’t as dangerous or as long-lasting.
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Honda Cars Can Reportedly Be Hacked to Unlock and Start Remotely(honda-tech.com)
2 points by jtc331 4y ago|0 comments
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by jtc331 4y ago
Your math is way off. A single PV produces between 300-400 watts at peak sun. It takes ~300 watt hours to drive an EV 1 mile. A very good sunny location gets 6-7 peak sun hours equivalent a day. So that one panel gets you 6-7 miles of EV ra
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by jtc331 4y ago
You literally ignored all of the parent’s points about wildly changing promises and narratives and inconsistencies to make this for into your story about this just being about an “ unhealthy mix of exceptionalism, anti-intellectualism and c
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by jtc331 4y ago
> cost under $20 Per-dose cost is meaningless. Now do “multi billion dollar government paid for contracts”.
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by jtc331 4y ago
You equivocated from “sharp” to “expensive” which means you’re the one that’s introducing gatekeeping not who you’re responding to. Inexpensive knives can be sharp. America’s Test Kitchen recommends a $35 knife as their best chef’s knife.
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by jtc331 4y ago
Serial passaging is effectively all “natural” (but intentional) infection. That wouldn’t leave signs of molecular techniques since none would be involved. Anyone claiming to disprove the lab leak hypothesis by making a claim against solely
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by jtc331 4y ago
Hash power in the context of potential forks in the BTC chain, not a different coin.
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by jtc331 4y ago
Financial safety is generally more about cash flow than how it’s typically portrayed, and so paying off (even lower interest) smaller loans first increases your resilience to unexpected expenses (because your cash flow is more flexible now)
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by jtc331 4y ago
No, it's indicative of the complexity of the system. Please show other similarly complex systems with fewer bugs: basically doesn't happen.
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by jtc331 4y ago
ISTM the definition of title inflation should be something like “titles frequently connote a significantly higher level of responsibility than the title holder actually has”. If the title communicates incorrect information it isn’t merely a
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by jtc331 4y ago
> Science doesn't get much more certain than this A well designed RCT isn’t much more certain than this? Observational studies are hardly the peak for scientific knowledge.
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The enzyme that puts branches of glucose on stevia (2019)(cen.acs.org)
54 points by jtc331 4y ago|54 comments
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by jtc331 4y ago
And we’ll over 2x the population.
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by jtc331 4y ago
People keep saying “in secret” but that’d only be true if it happened after it were filed or some such. Giving someone an amended contract isn’t fraud.
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by jtc331 4y ago
It’s not secret. This is standard contract negotiation (sending along a new draft).
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by jtc331 4y ago
> > there’s no reason for a supporter or an opponent to leak an old draft now. It's a big assumption that it's an old draft. It could also be the last draft circulated, and that everything since has been on concurrences or
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by jtc331 4y ago
> In 2018, Bloomberg Businessweek published a story called “The Big Hack” that was vigorously denied by Apple and Amazon. Based on these denials, certain tech bloggers became convinced that the story was false. The fact that neither
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by jtc331 4y ago
Anthony Fauci has been at NIH since 1968. That might be a rare example, but long careers do happen.

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