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by lr1970 2y ago
In this 2003 article Warren Buffett proposed a clever mechanism of ICs (Import Certificates) instead of blunt tariffs to deal with trade imbalance. IC is a "soft" control variable that effectively transfers money from importers to
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by lr1970 2y ago
The title of the article is terrible. The death rate everywhere in the world is the same and is equal to 100%. Everyone dies someday. The article's title should have used something like "life expectancy" instead of "deat
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by lr1970 2y ago
> He was fantastic in the Doors movie. RIP In fact in the movie Val Kilmer did vocals himself and real members of the Doors said that they could hardly distinguish his singing from real Jim Morrison.
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by lr1970 2y ago
> 2. On the other hand, corrupting of the courts would prevent correcting the system by voting. If the courts are corrupt all hope is lost. Just last week a turkish court arrested the mayor of Istanbul under similar "corruption&quot
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by lr1970 2y ago
> It's an ontological issue, if everyone is potentially compromised, how do you know anything ? You just made a strong case for freedom of speech and free press.
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by lr1970 2y ago
Right, why not SUSE Linux which is European?
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by lr1970 2y ago
Germany enters the arms race. What could go wrong...?
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by lr1970 2y ago
Obsidian has an excalidraw plugin that supports LaTeX both math and text. Then you can export your final diagram in many formats (pdf, svg, png, jpg).
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Zig-0.14.0 Landed(ziglang.org)
10 points by lr1970 2y ago|3 comments
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by lr1970 2y ago
After 9 months of intense development Zig team released zig-0.14.0 with many fixes and new features [0]. Ziguanas rejoice! [0] https://ziglang.org/download/0.14.0/release-notes.html
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by lr1970 2y ago
> people with "good intentions" The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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by lr1970 2y ago
> It's amazing how right-wing billionaire figures have captured social media platforms and news media outlets, such as Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter/X, Jeff Bezos's takeover of The Washington Post, Patrick Soon-Shio
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by lr1970 2y ago
> I think the suggestion is that the EMR should flag dangerous conditions like this, and notify the doctor on duty to at least take a look at it. Or a PA or CRN. They are cheaper. As the last resort you can have an AI doing it :-)
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by lr1970 2y ago
If this story narrative is true as described in the article this is a ground for reporting the primary care physician to the state board for a review. I am not saying it is a malpractice per se, but a clear fail of the doctor's practic
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by lr1970 2y ago
sci-hub's legitimacy.
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by lr1970 2y ago
Should sci-hub take arXiv under its wing? A great way to gain legitimacy.
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by lr1970 2y ago
> Distilling means fine-tuning an existing model using outputs from the bigger model. Crucially, the output of the teacher model includes token probabilities so that the fine-tuning is trying to learn the entire output distribution.
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by lr1970 2y ago
> If the voltage was higher (i believe 'low volt' classification tops out at 48v) Yep, 48V through sensitive parts of the body could be unpleasant but 24V is almost as safe as 12V. Why didn't they use 24V and 25A to achiev
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by lr1970 2y ago
> Why "BalancedI8"? Because now that we've removed this most negative number (to provide a niche) the remaining value is symmetrical, it goes from -127 to +127 Actually instead of just removing the most negative number i8:
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by lr1970 2y ago
> Basically, imagine if Russia conquered Ukraine and then renamed Kyiv to "Vladimir Putin City". This is really a poor analogy. Kyiv is the birthplace of ancient Russia (Kyiv Rus) and for both Ukrainians and Russians it is lik
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by lr1970 2y ago
> The ideological bits are: ... Should we expect Meta doing 180 degrees u-turns every 4 years when another party wins US Presidential elections?
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by lr1970 2y ago
> It'll be interesting to see if Apple can offer a good counter for the desktop. Mac Pro [0] is a desktop with M2 Ultra and up to 192GB of unified memory. [0] https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/
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by lr1970 2y ago
> Within living memory, 10 million Soviets were killed in an unprovoked invasion from Europe. Correction. WWII costed Soviet Union between 20 and 30 million lives [0]. Main thrust of the German onslaught in 1941 went through Ukraine. The
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by lr1970 2y ago
Instead, I would recommend Ghostty [1] terminal recently released v1.0 by one and only Mitchell Hashimoto of Hashicorp fame. It is OSS native cross-platform application (not an Electron one). I have been using it for the last year (private
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by lr1970 2y ago
> Amazon has E7-E9 above Staff Few clarifications: Amazon labels levels with "L" rather than "E". Engineering levels are L4 -- L10. Weirdly enough, level L9 does not exist at Amazon. L8 (Director / Senior Princip
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by lr1970 2y ago
> trying to compile against the prebuilt duckdb_static.so Typically you statically link against .a object library. .so are shared objects intended for dynamical linking only. Does duckdb provide something like duckdb.a ?
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by lr1970 2y ago
Did the missile hit the plane or the pilots ejected preemptively when their aircraft detected an incoming missile?
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by lr1970 2y ago
> If normal communication does not come naturally to you, it's difficult to convince people as well as there is a greater tendency of misunderstanding and lack of trust. OTOH, in the age of eloquent writing by genAI a total BS can b
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by lr1970 2y ago
No, AM radio are low RF frequency and have little spectrum for data transmission. also due to long range it will be severely interference limited.
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by lr1970 2y ago
> Dutch and Swiss healthcare systems are entirely private (more so than in the US since there are no Medicare or Medicaid equivalents) and Swiss doctors are paid very well compared to let say German ones. There is long waiting list of Ge

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