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by logifail 3y ago
> we need more PhDs who are the people at those outermost edges <spoiler> Apologies if I'm the bearer of bad news, but most PhDs stop working in science and end up working for corporations. > there's been a systematic
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by logifail 3y ago
> We just need all the PhD students to produce those papers to keep the industry going (much like a snow ball system). I'm not sure we agree on the definition of "we just need" in that! > There is no incentive to scale
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by logifail 3y ago
(Full disclosure, I have a science PhD) > the number of awarded PhDs is larger, and therefore the number of Nobel prizes awarded per PhD is lower [..] I don't know what that tells about an average PhD vs average PhD then or 'st
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> It's clear to the reader that it's her point of view I'm not sure how the author is supposed to have any idea that due to "so many [previous] concussions [they knew their] brain could not withstand multiple more blo
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> It's describing her own understanding & perception of her risk profile [..] Q: Is she an [ex-]MMA fighter or a neurologist? > it's not like they're making shit up and trying to sell it to you here Not wishing to s
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by logifail 3y ago
> Rousey had suffered so many concussions in judo that she knew her brain could not withstand multiple more blows to the head. Perhaps it's a background in science, but whenever I read a sentence like that I always expect to find it
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> If you complain about the policy they tell you that it's because the recycling plant can't deal with the bags, it clogs up their machines[...] Machines?! Most press photos that show the inside of plastic recycling sorting p
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by logifail 3y ago
I've become more and more cynical about the incentives involved in recycling. There's not much transparency regarding what happens to to the various types of materials we all collect, sort and "recycle". Localities a
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by logifail 3y ago
Q: What about teams which aren't all conveniently located in the same time zone, or even the same continent? My OH is currently working with two unrelated groups of people, the first group is based in Sydney (GMT+11), the second group
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by logifail 3y ago
> That a company isn't a person. We know this because a person has rights a company doesn't It would appear that this view is not widespread: "In law, a legal person is any person or 'thing' (less ambiguously, an
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> A person has rights other than to hold property, enter into contracts, and to sue or be sued Indeed. In the context of this thread, how are those other rights relevant?
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> To put it another way when a company breaks the law should its shareholders (aka owners) go to prison? The governing body of a corporation isn't its shareholders. If you're asking what happens if a company breaks the law, the
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by logifail 3y ago
> Companies aren't people. Umm, in many jurisdictions they are [almost]: "In most countries, a corporation has the same rights as a natural person to hold property, enter into contracts, and to sue or be sued. Granting non-huma
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by logifail 3y ago
> It's absolutely wild that you're equating the rights of a person to the rights of a corporation. What about a one-person corporation?* * I know that in some jurisdictions you need more than one, but let's not jump on tha
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by logifail 3y ago
> It's the old "I don't want to have a compiler installed on my system, that's dangerous, unnecessary software!"-trope (This is a genuine question). In what circumstances would you need to install/run dev
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Doesn't one increase a system's attack surface area/privilege escalation risk by pre-installing tools such as these?
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> It's not about joining Tesla or Nvidia early. It's about betting on them. It's also possible to bet on Tesla/Nvidia and lose. Badly.
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> the best governance should take into account system scope or level for that competition. Are you competing at the level of hotel rooms and restaurants within a hotel, at the level of hotels, at the neighborhoods clusters of hotels are
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by logifail 3y ago
> The lack of shuttles from those hotels to the terminal https://www.heathrow.com/content/dam/heathrow/web/common/doc... Admittedly, the local bus services around the airport which used to be fre
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by logifail 3y ago
> There are four full-service car washes in town, with a fifth on the way; three are bunched up on a mile-and-a-half stretch of Route 14. Social media complaints about car wash overkill spurred town leaders to take action. Four (or even
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> I would delegate those decisions to healthcare subject matter experts. I'm not qualified to make those sorts of decisions. Neither are politicians, economists, or statisticians on their own. Like the UK NHS's NICE? "The
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> To me it is axiomatic that the value of a human life is not something that can be measured in dollars. That's a laudable view. If you were put in charge, how would you formulate policy for managing a resource-constrained healt
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> The fact that it doubled everyone's risk of dying disproves that. It really doesn't. > It would be pretty bold to make that claim. Do you have any reliable source to indicate that it was? "Pandemics kill people in two
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> a legitimate alternative to peer reviewed research I'm not sure that peer-reviewed research deserves to be put on a pedestal. I've worked in a research lab, I have a couple of [tedious and uninteresting] published papers.
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> a twitter post that links to some dudes blog Some dude? Really? "Sir David John Spiegelhalter OBE FRS [..] is a British statistician and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From 2007 to 2018 he was Winton Professor of the
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> I recommend you to make IgG test for covid antibodies. Most likely you already have some I've had Covid at least twice since this nightmare started, most recently in November 2023. After both a chest x-ray and a CT scan in hospita
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> the (local) universe is finite and deterministic "It is not possible for the Universe being deterministic at any level. Only theories can be deterministic, practical reality is never"[0] Q: Can you calculate your local univer
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> Waymo [..] get[s] maybe 50% better each year. That's a good rate of gain. Remind me what we're measuring? "A seasoned San Francisco cab driver might have avoided the intersection of Jackson Street and Grant Avenue, in
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by logifail 3y ago
Seems the snark detector just went off :) Back on topic, I'd hope all of us would expect value for money for any and all services we recommend or purchase. Search for "site:news.ycombinator.com Away From AWS" to find dozens
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by logifail 3y ago
> The neat thing about AWS' AZ architecture is that it's a sweet spot in the middle What may be less of a sweet spot is AWS' pricing.

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