kurthr

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by kurthr 3mo ago
Yes, I'm agreeing with you. There need to be 200 companies willing to pay $10B/yr for this. What is the ROI? That's the pay roll of ~half the work force of the largest 200 companies. Unless you can fire %50 your employees, ev
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by kurthr 3mo ago
That sounds reasonable, it's "just" $1k/yr for 2B workers (there are about 1.2B total "knowledge workers" in the world including gig drivers), or $10k/yr for 200M workers (there are 70M office and technica
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by kurthr 3mo ago
Asking the right questions has almost always been one of if not the most important skills. There are often an almost infinite list of possible approaches, but knowing the domain, you can get close to optimum very quickly. If you just rely o
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by kurthr 3mo ago
Ask Claude to choose a set of improvements that it would rate highly.
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by kurthr 3mo ago
I don't know any Jain well, but I believe they drink milk and fermentation products, but do not consume honey. Open to correction.
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by kurthr 3mo ago
I think it's often called ovo-lacto vegetarian. There are also pescetarians.
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by kurthr 3mo ago
Hindu drink milk and eat cheese, butter, and honey. Not vegan.
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by kurthr 3mo ago
Worse than? What has been done to Ye? I mean, he's known for being a nazi symp and hitler lover, but that's just facts. Should we forgive Hitler too, because he was neurodivergent? Oh wait, you meant Diddy. Yeah, prison for serial
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by kurthr 3mo ago
How is this not labeled (2022)? It sure hasn't aged well. The oppression of billionaires and owners of the media by the few non-bots left on social media is kinda hilarious. The idea that litteral nazis and racists need to have their s
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by kurthr 3mo ago
Any sufficiently advanced satire...
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by kurthr 3mo ago
I think there were big reflectors in the book, but it's been years since I read it. It's the sail that would need to be toroidal and huge. I guess the better point is that, if you can always maneuver the bombs at EXACTLY the right
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by kurthr 3mo ago
It is more similar to the Medusa method. Lots of ideas have been proposed. One problem is getting the nukes prepositioned (and they won't easily stay in one spot!) with chemical rockets is quite challenging (rather than carrying them
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by kurthr 3mo ago
This is really being driven by tandem OLED with blue phosphorescent (not fluorescent which is the current commercial design) layers, most likely from Universal Display Corp. The blue phosphorescent OLEDs have (note red/green are alread
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by kurthr 3mo ago
Well, there is a way to do it slowly, the probe(s) just need to be in a 500AU circular orbit. At that distance power and thrust are an issue, and RTGs seem like a better choice than solar. Certainly, takes longer to get to orbit than fly th
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by kurthr 3mo ago
I'm a bit skeptical of the token cost/ROI for all models, but sunk costs are sunk. It has the feel of self-improving super-intelligence or bust to me. If you get that, the frontier model(s) run away with a faster exponential. It&#
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by kurthr 3mo ago
Part of the reason is that they used NiMH for the batteries in those (I have 3 that are 20-30 years old some predating the Phillips logo). All of mine still work. The NiMH is good for 1000s of deep cycles. The one from the mid 90s is only g
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by kurthr 3mo ago
Even in the 80s HPs would do derivatives (and simple integrals). But, open book tests are the worst, nothing could save you! I still remember giving Mathematica a relational equation of the atomic radius expectation values for it to integr
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by kurthr 3mo ago
If you can't work in order of magnitude calculations and estimations you're not going to last long in physics. Many useful models give good answers only within a certain range of inputs, while at the same time you often can tell w
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by kurthr 3mo ago
But what if those unstudied accessible "natural" remedies have even more problems? Should we choose to do nothing, only study nothing, or just redefine what "natural" is?
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by kurthr 3mo ago
Wait till you find out how much uranium there is in coal ash and how many tons a year are put in the air or dumped into ground water. Both the ash and uranium tailings are in the 50ppm range, but we make 100Mt per year of one of them and ba
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by kurthr 3mo ago
Not the OP, but due to neighboring rotor interactions an even number (or a single helicopter like lift rotor and a tail rotor ignoring airfoil lift possibilities) rotor makes design easier and improves performance significantly. Think of th
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by kurthr 3mo ago
The screwworm is spread by the DOGE fly.
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by kurthr 4mo ago
Yes, obviously no LLM would make this mistake.
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by kurthr 4mo ago
The collapse of global trade would greatly reduce economic efficiency, output, and investment. It has been coming for while, though greatly accelerated by the orange pdf file. It takes a lot longer to build systems of trust and belief in en
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by kurthr 4mo ago
I should mention that the list of thefts (other than an umbrella which I promptly replaced with its neighbor) are not ones that I have personally experienced, nor do I suspect that it is statistically accurate to those reported to police (c
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by kurthr 4mo ago
Japanese police are very rarely willing to even ask to look at any of the disorganized hodgepodge of private cameras for property crimes or even minor physical altercations. They are far more likely to rely on personal accounts. TV dramas n
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by kurthr 4mo ago
All theories are wrong. Some are useful. Having theories that only give answers, but you can't reason about is not as useful. Having a theory where you don't know the limits of it's applicability, can be very dangerous. At le
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by kurthr 4mo ago
Some 10-15% of San Francisco housing is unoccupied. The exact why and how to fix it are arguable, but I'm doubtful the investment is actually helping. https://www.pacificresearch.org/time-to-ask-why-so-many-san-...
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by kurthr 4mo ago
So no need to do any deep consideration or evaluation, just the approval of the Epstein class.
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by kurthr 4mo ago
QQQ is the largest of the Nasdaq100 tracking funds. It's only about 1%, increasing to 4% of the QQQ, which is ~$350B in size. So it's only $3.5B of forced buying or a little less that 5% (of $75B). For the second float would be an

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