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by lettergram 2y ago
It’s pretty damn easy to solve this tbh. Yes, you imprison people, push them out of your cities and confiscate all drugs. You don’t have to change the laws, just enforce them, it doesn’t matter if you’re addicted to drugs, taking a dump on
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by lettergram 2y ago
I know, that's my point. We already have a highly efficient and nutritious way to obtain meat.
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by lettergram 2y ago
It also has to have some inputs, which come from things like grain. The more interesting part, is imo there will be a lot of nutrition we miss
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by lettergram 2y ago
I find the idea of lab grown meat almost comical… So we have these animals, which eat plants and generate fuel (poop) & food (meat). Our bodies are adapted to eating them, our bodies need the same nutrients, and we’re programmed to enjo
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by lettergram 2y ago
If anything it could vaccinate folks
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by lettergram 2y ago
Having used Racket in college for programing language ecosystem, I can say I don't enjoy that aspect either haha. Racket is easy to get started with and definitely great at what it does. If you're wading into Lisp IMO it's th
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by lettergram 2y ago
On the republican side, those voting yea are almost always the old McCain crowd. What the right calls “RINOs” or republicans in name only. That’s not surprising, they’re also the group funding wars, voted for the initial spy bills, etc. Wha
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by lettergram 2y ago
We applied to YC and were rejected, which was probably good for us (less dilution, etc.). That said, you get some pretty unfair advantages being a YC company. My cofounder has 20 years in the industry and I have a solid tech background with
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by lettergram 2y ago
lol ban wakeboarding? Ah yes let’s ban fun because… > The risk of Naegleria fowleri infection is very low. There were 29 reported infections in the United States in the 10 years from 2013 to 2022, despite millions of recreational water e
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by lettergram 2y ago
They missed the part where the Soviet Union actually flew missions with their flying air craft carriers. https://youtu.be/IjCylxs8hZU?feature=shared They were largely successful too.
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by lettergram 2y ago
The 737 Max was released in 2014 and has flown millions of flights, there's 1400 planes. Here's from Wikipedia: > After one year of service, 130 MAXs had been delivered to 28 customers, logging over 41,000 flights in 118,000 ho
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by lettergram 3y ago
When I launched Lettergram.net - https://lettergram.net/ I didn't think about it initially (was making something for my kids related to letters from santa), but I ended up getting a lot of folks from prisons to sign up
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by lettergram 3y ago
Everyone I’ve ever known who struggled in this manner has narrowed it down to lack of purpose. If you have a reason to live, it’s not ambition that keeps you going, nor contentment. It’s a reason to do something. My buddy finds purpose in p
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by lettergram 3y ago
They simply aren’t necessary at all. It’s that illegal aliens (they aren’t migrants) can be used as slave labor, lest they’re deported. You can easily pay a US citizen $10/hr. They’d prefer $5/hr. The cost of the overall product i
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by lettergram 3y ago
lol this is why everything is in an NDA upfront. For us, every customer has pretty unique, so even two feature sets that look the same might have wildly different support agreements.
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by lettergram 3y ago
Eh I know what we worked on ended up being deployed in production systems. most of the team went on (not me) to found a company too: https://reconstructinc.com/
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by lettergram 3y ago
Imo there’s a lot of rationalization. I worked on an autonomous quad copter learning to fly in a simulated environment back in 2013-2014. It would then target and track a target following it. We then moved the AI from a simulation to realit
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by lettergram 3y ago
The fine was the 1/3 of yearly revenue, in 2023 their revenue was $32.68B, net income was -$7B (that’s a negative seven billion). Im not sure of the payment timeline or if they have insurance, but it seems likely this will wipe out a f
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by lettergram 3y ago
Okay sure, I shortened it a bit. My point is the discovery wasn’t directly related to the claims. Your description is more apt than the hyperbole in use cases. To accomplish what they describe would need a lot more research
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by lettergram 3y ago
Eh a lot of “these particles bonded with glucose - so now we can measure blood sugar levels” that’s a massive stretch from where they are at. It’s cool, but nothing close to what’s described.
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by lettergram 3y ago
Yeah, like the way DNA evidence is used or bullet matching or finger print matching or blood spatter analysis or lie detector tests or fire analysis… All of these have massive error rates (for various reasons, but simply that it’s an uncont
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by lettergram 3y ago
Appreciate, that’s the context I was looking for
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by lettergram 3y ago
That’s not an explanation about exactly how intention was derived. I suppose I’m asking for the chain of events that led to the conclusion. I see lots of technical hot takes for how something could work, with no validation it does, nor inte
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by lettergram 3y ago
What I’d like to understand is it’s proven intentional? My understanding is it was a few added characters in a header file. I can’t tell you the number of times I was tired and clicked an extra key before committing, or my cat walked across
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by lettergram 3y ago
I was just talking to a coworker about this. Imo it should be illegal, but what ever I guess haha Basically, no need for a warrant any more. As long as it’s “in view of the public” they can track you entirely. Champaign IL set these up on a
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by lettergram 3y ago
lol not a troll, I really am excited. We're talking about a massive increase in resources, more usable land, more food production (from increased heat and CO2), less ice, etc. it's a positive for humanity, after it all shakes out
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by lettergram 3y ago
What I will say, is their board of advisors is impressive - https://www.jetzero.aero/company And they have many roles open. To me this seems like it has a decent shot. I do wonder if they should focus on one category (e.g.
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by lettergram 3y ago
> The Claude models refused to perform a number of coding tasks and returned the error “Output blocked by content filtering policy”. They refused to code up the beer song program, which makes some sort of superficial sense. But they also
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by lettergram 3y ago
One could argue the US has been an empire since we gobbled up the Spanish empire in the Spanish American war. So it has been 125 years or so.
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by lettergram 3y ago
Basic question I have yet to have answered - are the planes actually less safe than 10 years ago OR is this a media blitz on the topic? Alternatively, is this a maintenance issue or a construction issue?

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