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by ls612 3y ago
Antibiotics and the childhood vaccines are modern medicine and have had an enormous impact on modern health outcomes. The bigger issue is that we picked a lot of the low hanging fruit in the 20th century so now advances are harder to come b
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by ls612 3y ago
So does Google search. There was a whole Supreme Court case about this which said Google showing small excerpts from books in the search results was fair use.
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by ls612 3y ago
It’s only a war crime if you lose.
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by ls612 3y ago
The golden age of Muslim civilization had ended over 200 years earlier due to Mongol invasions and their aftermath. After that they stagnated while Europe started to rapidly advance 150 years later.
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by ls612 3y ago
I got it at launch and use it to this day. The pandemic happened like 4 months later which accelerated the trend for everywhere to accept Apple Pay, so now it's basically 2% cash back anywhere no strings attached. I also got the extra
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by ls612 3y ago
The more charitable reading is that either you do have agency over how you got to where you are and how you can get out of it, in which case it is better to focus on believing what you do matters, or you don't, in which case it doesn&#
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by ls612 3y ago
I get $8/month for YouTube Premium Student and will have 2 more years, so hopefully by then the YouTube-Adblock wars will subside like they did for Twitch.
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by ls612 3y ago
Ostensibly this serves a purpose beyond the MAD incentive, having stocks of the virus on hand makes manufacturing the old style smallpox vaccine easier should the need ever arise in the future. As we saw with monkeypox last year there is mu
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by ls612 3y ago
As soon as they get Nvidia Video Super Resolution working consistently in Firefox I’ll switch, hopefully that happens before June of next year.
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by ls612 3y ago
Amazon at least wants to be also making money renting out H100-H200 instances in AWS so they may be intentionally only using some of their hardware for themselves.
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by ls612 3y ago
They did the bare minimum to let Linux based stuff run on Azure but other than that not much.
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by ls612 3y ago
By assassination I assume you mean metaphorical? As in to derail his rise before becoming party leader?
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by ls612 3y ago
A lot of them have already left this morning. idk for sure why but a good bet is that they are more on board with Sam's vision of pushing forward AI than the safetyist vision.
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by ls612 3y ago
What are the odds Sam can work the phones this weekend and have $10B lined up by Monday for a new AI company which will take all of the good talent from OpenAI?
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by ls612 3y ago
Much more money was spent, and mass to the lunar surface was far smaller than the Starship lander.
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by ls612 3y ago
What sorts of speed limits do they have in Aus? When I was there there was a mix of 2 lane roads and divided highways which looked similar to interstates once I was outside of the city but I wasn’t driving. For context, 100-110km/h is
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by ls612 3y ago
Because the people who support this are also the ones who hate drivers and do crazy things like impose 20mph (30km/h) speed limits in cities on the main roads. The point is to degrade the quality of life and force everyone into public
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by ls612 3y ago
Historians might look back at Intel’s and GloFo’s stumbles in the mid 2010s as being a pivotal turning point. Chips are the new oil and that makes the mid term future very dangerous.
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by ls612 3y ago
Google’s focus on TPUs have caused them many issues though other giant players might see spending FTE-equivalents on PyTorch etc development as a better investment choice.
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by ls612 3y ago
My understanding is that while quantum tunneling defines a fundamental limit to miniaturization of silicon transistors we are still not really near that limit. The more pressing limits are around figuring out how to get the EUV light to con
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by ls612 3y ago
When the 35W bridge over the Mississippi collapsed in 2007 it took a year and change to replace it and they paid a premium to make it happen that fast. I don't recall there being any state of emergency declared in the twin cities thoug
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by ls612 3y ago
I understand analogies just fine, your analogy is just ridiculous because you analogize kidnapping and ticket scalping.
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by ls612 3y ago
Falcon heavy can't even take that much to GEO, only to GTO. But still, while it could have the fuel to send the X-37B into TLI it would not be possible to hide this. So they wouldn't lie about it.
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by ls612 3y ago
If that happened then the scalpers would go out of business first as demand at the face value would be falling closer to the supply.
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by ls612 3y ago
If scalpers (who have overheads of their own) are making money then that implies the restaurant is doing the economic equivalent of leaving a lot of $100 bills on the floor. Before those bills were being picked up by random customers but no
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by ls612 3y ago
The first paragraph is only true if you believe the supply is fixed (ie the elasticity on the extensive margin is zero). This is often a good way to teach economics because much of the math remains the same in a production environment but w
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by ls612 3y ago
Scalpers transfer goods from those with lower willingness to pay to those with higher willingness to pay. This is by definition increasing economic efficiency. Rationing of scarce resources and all that.
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by ls612 3y ago
So is jury duty on a criminal trial. Yet there is a broad consensus in western society as to which way the system should err in this case.
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by ls612 3y ago
Why?
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by ls612 3y ago
I mean insolation at sea level is on the order of several hundred watts/square meter depending on your latitude and the time of day. Sunlight is very bright compared to almost every artificial light source so I'm still surprised t

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