maxerickson

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by maxerickson 6d ago
Lots of other efficiencies to look at. Tons of them are directly bad for the patient (capturing more of the surplus is an efficiency that businesses generally go hard at). Ultimately, I think the issue is when people making decisions are ab
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by maxerickson 7d ago
If you look at it in terms of abstract benefit rather than profit, it makes sense. We shouldn't be doing things where the cost is much more than the benefit. A lot of political issues sort of boil down to how you estimate the upside of
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by maxerickson 7d ago
Maybe review who was president in 2020 during the most severe phases of the restrictions.
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by maxerickson 8d ago
You can complete a water crossing by phone or so (so like in some random harbor in Wiscansin). That doesn't justify a random search of course, but if there was some reason to believe that you were importing something illegal they could
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by maxerickson 8d ago
It's more or less incoherent to pair the statement about those topics with the sentence that follows. Charitably, they can be thinking that it's fine to have LLMs organize information intended for LLMs.
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by maxerickson 8d ago
More likely something like describing Trumpism.
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by maxerickson 8d ago
I mean, no it doesn't, first principles aren't worth more than actual outcomes.
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by maxerickson 9d ago
It used to be public health recommendation (bathrooms in commercial buildings will often only have warm water, for example, because code required it). There's been studies demonstrating that soap is what matters.
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by maxerickson 9d ago
You argument is that it could have some long term value, which is different than a lottery ticket (which has a calculable minimum expected value at time of purchase).
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by maxerickson 9d ago
I attempted to say perpendicular to the wind and failed.
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by maxerickson 9d ago
The force is perpendicular to the sail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flettner_rotor
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by maxerickson 12d ago
It's a lot of extra stuff to deal with for adding a few tags to a few POIs, with no real benefit for those tasks vs the editor on the site.
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by maxerickson 14d ago
There's usually a reasonably clear consensus within a region or country. That's less true for niche stuff (vs stuff where two different ideas are in wide use), but there probably isn't all that much of it either. One way to a
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by maxerickson 14d ago
The main method of prevention is blocks on users that make malicious edits. Obviously that doesn't prevent all malicious edits. The larger users of the data are doing some degree of validation of changes before showing them to users.
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by maxerickson 14d ago
Humans commonly have grandchildren in their 40s (less so recently of course). We get fragile in our 70s. I'm wondering about living decades in that fragile state, where cancer happens to be a lot more common.
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by maxerickson 14d ago
Humans have pretty low selective pressure for cancer resistant genes (a tiny fraction of people get cancer before or during their reproductive years). I wonder if whales survive to an equivalent of human old age (where we can be pretty frag
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by maxerickson 16d ago
Web Mercator is easily the most used projection, now and in all of history.
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by maxerickson 17d ago
I meant more with the timing thing. If a workalike drug undermines the argument for long drug copyright, what are the implications of a copycat plot?
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by maxerickson 17d ago
There's very little of those things in most places. It would be nice if there were less, but that change shouldn't come at a significant cost. As an example, the FBI has data on $10-20 billion in property crimes per year in the US
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by maxerickson 17d ago
Are you implicitly arguing that derivative art isn't a thing?
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by maxerickson 19d ago
This regulation seems to relax the rules a bit for batteries that last longer. I wonder if it will just lead to using same size batteries more gently.
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by maxerickson 21d ago
It sort of illustrates the uselessness of the terms. Yogurt is made by sterilizing (likely homogenized) milk and introducing microorganisms that carry out some desired chemical reactions. They produce lactic acid, which is a stabilizer. Eve
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by maxerickson 21d ago
Compare anthropogenic heat release to daily solar gain and radiative losses. Then note that a higher temperatures will increase the radiative losses. 100x heat release and it's still about 1% of solar gain.
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by maxerickson 21d ago
Ah yes, the profit motive kept us off of strict vegan diets. Right, sure.
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by maxerickson 21d ago
There is an antitrust exemption and a direct cap on school to athlete payments. Sure, third parties that aren't associated entities can still make payments to players, but its transparently the intent to lower the share of revenue goin
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by maxerickson 21d ago
Why should the money get spread around? It's a business, pay the people that earn it. I understand what is in it and wouldn't take any of it as long as it is combined with caps on player pay. Where's the cap on media revenues
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by maxerickson 21d ago
Protect College Sports Act not even on the radar for most people. It's wild that a law that is more or less transparently about limiting player pay for their participation in a blatantly commercial activity gets cheered on by "fan
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by maxerickson 22d ago
You misunderstood I think. They aren't arguing water is a bigger problem than energy. They are arguing that negative perception is mostly focused around water use.
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by maxerickson 23d ago
The acidity in many traditional pickling methods is lactic acid produced by fermentation. No vinegar involved. Looking it up, ocean water has the right salt content to facilitate this...
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by maxerickson 23d ago
If you recognize something is bad but lack the knowledge to explain it, it isn't completely crazy to invent a taboo against it.

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