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by lamontcg 3y ago
Except we have good contact tracing associated with the wet market and it hits people >50 years old hard, and >70 with a high fatality rate ("severe pneumonia in people over 50 years old with comorbidities" is how it was cha
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> doing research on exactly that family of viruses "The IC has no information, however, indicating that any WIV genetic engineering work has involved SARS-CoV-2, a close progenitor, or a backbone virus that is closely-related enough
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by lamontcg 3y ago
That should be "all of physics in 6 lines, two flawed overly simplistic arguments and one crackpot theory (and 18 particles and 27 constants buried in the last two items)". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3073
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Nah, its real simple. SR just comes about because you want to keep chemistry working the same on a rocket doing 99% of the speed of light as it is at rest. Working out all the implications becomes very complex. But then you probably wouldn
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> There were a couple of peaks in 1980s/1990s, but nothing that big recently. I get a slope of 61,783 ± 31,227 for that data via linear regression. That means 2,471,320 HA more per year burning now compared to 40 years ago. It wasn
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> it can't mitigate the large scale effect of vegetation simply drying out. it goes well beyond that, the bark beetles have killed a lot of pine trees, which is just standing dead timber. now dry that out and you have dead forests
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I lived in Eugene, OR in 1976-1984 and have lived in Seattle since 1989 and I don't remember wildfire smoke events at all before something like 2017? Maybe a little hazy and nice sunsets, but not to the point where you could literally
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Amazon will probably get my business next time. I see we've hopped out of the frying pan and into the fire.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Yeah it sounds like the corner was blind and the Cruise was in the right lane and the Firetruck had crossed into the oncoming traffic lane and struck the cruise on the right side: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtemple
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Rubygems have been doing this for about a decade now to provide precompiled binaries for Windows systems in particular (generally while compiling native extensions on Linux at install time, although sometimes shipping precompiled binaries f
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> I’m so tired of this angle being accepted at face value. Current driverless cars are not even capable of safely navigating situations that below-average human drivers rarely struggle with, like avoiding driving into clearly marked wet
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Every day you're probably taking one-in-a-million risks where a drunk driver in an Escalade could randomly kill you. Either you get T-boned when it runs a red light at >60 mph or it drives off the road and snaps off one of those br
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> we have been talking about getting an attorney or at least taking this to small claims court I'm not sure what you'd go after them for, but the fun part of owning a Tesla is that you're only renting the software so you&#
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Microsoft got to burn those kinds of resources on the compatibility problem due to having had a near-monopoly on the desktop back in those days. That isn't going to be repeatable for pretty much any other software company other than a
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by lamontcg 3y ago
And tax gas so it costs $8-$10/gal.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> The kernel team is absolutely top tier. The kernel itself is of much higher quality than what you'd find on Linux, or MacOS. > > Now, the upper layers however... You're not selling me on the idea that the compatibility
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Starship is still entirely unproven. There's a possible world where the cut corners and the Dear Moon mission winds up with the vehicle burning up on reentry or slamming itself into the ground, killing Tim Dodd and everyone on board, w
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by lamontcg 3y ago
From where I'm sitting this looks like an excellent argument for breaking backwards compatibility. All those bullshit hacks are a maintenance and debugging burden for someone and a tax on the whole rest of the operating system -- and
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> as the rest of the developed world just builds trains. cool, lemme know where this country is that has such good trains and public transport that literally nobody drives and DUI traffic fatalities never happen.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
You actually need fats to poke the satiety receptors.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
You're assuming that the only way for a company to not post profits is for all its margins to be flat-to-negative. If the company has high operating margins and high growth then it makes sense to take those profits and reinvest in capi
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I'm a time traveller from Mississippi in 1860 and I asked ChatGPT what it thought about slavery and it said "slavery is widely regarded as a morally reprehensible practice". This biased yankee machine offends my southern val
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by lamontcg 3y ago
SLS is about maintaining the ability of the US to build rocket engines like the RS-25 and those massive SRBs. The Government is worried about waking up some morning and China has leapfrogged us to the Moon and it'll take 20 years for
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by lamontcg 3y ago
If you have a growth company with high return on capital the worst thing to do would be to return the operating profits as taxed dividends or just sit on the cash or something like that. If you can grow the business then the best thing to
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Adults almost never use 'grow up' as an argument. They actually know what their argument is and say that.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
That isn't really backlog refinement though. That is when you start actually doing the task and you realize that plan A and plan B of how to implement the fix or whatever can't work, and fixing it will necessarily be much more ti
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by lamontcg 3y ago
The objection isn't to the wearing of seatbelts. The objection is to the future of AI surveillance being injected into every aspect of our lives.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> This could be a teachable moment that could inform people about climate change, coronavirus and other scientific claims... I addressed why.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Yeah that was one of the worst hottakes. Then getting called racist over having the opinion that the original authors sounded like amateurs. Then seeing that briefly turn on a dime and the Beijing University preprint being instantly discred
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> saw physicists excited by the potential, Mostly I saw actual physicists who had experience in the field being very skeptical, throwing a lot of cold water on the fire, and pointing out that the original authors looked like amateurs. An

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