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by kurthr 2y ago
Yes, but to be fair we're much closer to rationalizing creatures than rational ones. We make up good stories to justify our decisions, but it seems unlikely they are at all accurate.
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by kurthr 2y ago
I'm sure it has a lot of sources, but it was popularized more recently as a mistranslated Circassian proverb, which caused a Turkish journalist to go to jail and then was picked up by various English news outlets.
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by kurthr 2y ago
Put clowns in charge and you'll get a circus. Öküz saraya çıkınca kral olmaz. Ama saray ahır olur.
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by kurthr 2y ago
I really wanted to agree with your comment, but what I read looks like gibberish. There were 8 million "contacts" with migrants from 2021-2024. That's not a number of immigrants. It's bizarre to believe 3% of the populat
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by kurthr 2y ago
I guess it's nice if you want to have that much control over your kid's time. I wouldn't worry about Tiktok till they're 10 anyway, but by then highschool or homeschool will be the big question. Teaching them to be in co
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by kurthr 2y ago
And don't forget the tides, both solar and lunar. I'm sure a large enough mirror and photocell could get power out of the aurora borealis. An argument that the magnetic field in a location remains completely constant as the earth
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by kurthr 2y ago
We covet that which we can see. Put it in a box and it ceases to exist.
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by kurthr 2y ago
Complex systems are by definition high dimensional. We often build them with fault tolerance and soft "failure modes" to prevent catastrophic events. However, the dimensionality and complexity mean that almost every sufficiently c
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by kurthr 2y ago
This reminds me of the time I had a horrible ant infestation in my dorm room shared kitchen (also had a horrible room mate infestation, but separate story). Lines of ants everywhere through the kitchen, but I had a 5lb bag of sugar. Went ou
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by kurthr 2y ago
I've been thinking for a while, that since these chatbots will be optimized for profit (if accounting and legal can be profit centers, why not customer service), we'll see all the same anti-patterns. You won't be able to canc
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by kurthr 2y ago
That and it's only in reading A LOT that builds the proficiency needed to absorb, evaluate, comprehend, and respond to other documents you will eventually come upon. Whether it is reading for enjoyment and allowing a virtual world to w
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by kurthr 2y ago
Anyone, anyone, Yewler?
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by kurthr 2y ago
I expected there to be something interesting in this loveliness. Instead, I found boredom. I wanted to share in the joy, but found despair in both the original comment and the shocked responses. Understanding the definition of percentages a
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by kurthr 2y ago
Sounds really expensive for the municipality. The local jailers are probably doing well, though sticking it to the local rubes who support them.
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by kurthr 2y ago
I thought Mitsubishi was 三菱 for Three Diamonds? Seems to go better with their log. Mitsuboshi, 三つ星, would I think be for three stars, particularly the stars of Orion's belt. "According to Samsung's founder, the meaning of the
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by kurthr 2y ago
I'm going to guess this is largely based on the Yanomami who consume all sorts of grubs and larvae.
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by kurthr 2y ago
The cake is on fire!
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by kurthr 2y ago
Frankly, I don't have a dog in the fight either. I have to wonder if those writing the refutations do. But frankly, if it is viable, it will be done by one of the majors. Just look at the overfishing problem. Then everyone will just bu
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by kurthr 2y ago
Privatize profits. Socialize costs. If you're in international waters, you can destroy whatever you want and even at low marginal return, if you can scale fast enough the total ROI can be good. The solution to pollution is dilution (of
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by kurthr 2y ago
But since I stopped eating seed oils I haven't been mauled by a lion. Also, I ate seed oils in middle age and gained a bunch of weight, then I got healthy started exercising, spent money on a trainer and a diet, and stopped eating seed
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by kurthr 2y ago
Yeah, the Alto had a mouse. The Chipmunk had a scrollwheel. LG Prada phone had a touchscreen. Few remember them though.
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by kurthr 2y ago
I may have worked for that company, but I came away with a different take. People are User Interface bigots! People get used to something and that's all they want. The amazing thing Apple was able to do was get people to use the mouse,
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by kurthr 2y ago
I almost feel like there is a different use of the word ER in Canada. Patients usually don't stay in ER/ED for long periods, they're released, sent to surgery, sent to ICU, or to Med-Surg. There just aren't that many bed
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by kurthr 2y ago
You have expertly summarized the first and last lines of my original post about Color NTSC. Interlacing is effectively dithered color super-resolution at low frame rate with blur from fast motion line tearing at the interlace rate. You
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by kurthr 2y ago
Well, aktuuallly it's 59.94Hz and 29.97Hz, exactly BECAUSE the NTSC color "burst" carrier is only 3.579545MHz (note these are relatively prime 5×7×9/(8×11) MHz) and it has to be an exact multiple of 15734.2637Hz to gener
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by kurthr 2y ago
With 100+Hz displays it's not that hard to do temporal dithering as well. Your cones are surprisingly low bandwidth (why old color TVs even worked at 30Hz), while your rods provide danger/flicker cues outside the fovea. Getting an
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by kurthr 2y ago
First the dotcom boom pushed the artists out to Oakland by 2000, but there were still burners and hipsters in 2005. Then the subprime boom/bust took a lot of the hipsters and older businesses out, but the tech busses brought the Silico
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by kurthr 2y ago
Maybe, because it seems like the same old tool still ill-suited for the job. Surely, there are some situations where opaque anonymous money is not the solution, but recognizable reputation is? Perhaps it’s most situations. Maybe we should u
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by kurthr 2y ago
Without our gut bacteria/biome, we’re cooked. Not surprising there are other cases as well. How important are eyelash mites?
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by kurthr 2y ago
You're a lot better off, if it's just a Heimlich. They don't say it, but probably much better, if you have access to an AED (most of that remaining 10%).

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