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by mchusma 6y ago
It's been an exciting year or so for nuclear in the US. (1) the democratic party switched stances to support nuclear energy (2) the US allowed several small nuclear reactor designs to move forward (3) fusion research got extra funding
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by mchusma 6y ago
It's absurd. This thing happens on the play store. I've seen it happen multiple times due to pure mistakes. It takes an appeal and time to resolve the issue, in the meantime you are stuck. Their appeals form only lets you submit 1
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by mchusma 6y ago
I think it's fine if you have an issue, but just so others no I have never had any issues understanding him, and he has gotten a lot better. Issac Arthur is a treasure, I wish high schoolers could take a semester of him.
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by mchusma 6y ago
If anyone finds this interesting and hasn't listened to/watched "Science and Futurism with Issac Arthur", go watch some episodes now. His "upward bound" and "outward bound" series are probably most re
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by mchusma 6y ago
We have been assessing migrating from our own Hugo based site to webflow, so that our designers and business folks can more easily make edits and spin up landing pages, etc. The main hangups right now are lack of transparent pricing around
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by mchusma 6y ago
They banned Ron Paul? This is getting insane. He is so far outside the Trump camp. He was the only person to vote against the Iraq war. His voice is a voice of peace and classical liberal values. You might disagree with him, but to ban him
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by mchusma 6y ago
This is horrible. I have no interest in parlor, but to require all users on iOS to only be able to communicate in public forums that are moderated is a horrible outcome.
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by mchusma 6y ago
The idea of making this pandemic last longer in order to prevent a future pandemic seems to fail any reasonable cost benefit analysis. That's because it is not based on any such analysis, it's based on people myopically looking at
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by mchusma 6y ago
The problem with this action is it seems it would apply equally to pro-democratic demonstrations in China. I am deeply uncomfortable with censoring things, and don't see any need for it on Facebook or twitter, because both literally ha
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Microsoft DeBERTa surpasses human performance on the SuperGLUE benchmark(microsoft.com)
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by mchusma 6y ago
I guess to state what I think should be a real solution to this problem: people should have their own AI lawyer that works on their behalf to flag things they might want to object to. I helped build a surprisingly effective prototype of suc
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by mchusma 6y ago
While I am a bit sympathetic with this ruling, I think it's a net negative result for rule of law. There should be some terms under which you are interacting. The terms as listed are pretty easy to find. The link pretty clearly says th
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by mchusma 6y ago
These apple privacy questions are confusing and highly legally relevant. We found it very hard to accurately answer the questions for a SAAS company that collects data in an obvious way to provide service. It should not be a surprise to any
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by mchusma 6y ago
Good article. Its hard not to see the FDA as responsible for >50% of the deaths in the US. Using our prior knowledge about vaccines, we could reasonably expect them to be safe and effective, with no long term side effects (there has only
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by mchusma 6y ago
"No data" is wildly incorrect. We have priors from other vaccines and vaccine candidates, and the data from these trials. All data about the first dose suggests strongly that 1 dose provides very strong protection against severe d
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by mchusma 6y ago
I keep hoping that someone makes a run at the most obvious health care need: a consumer centric medical record that you control with automated diagnosis engine. Diagnosis is fundamentally an information problem, so should be zero marginal c
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by mchusma 6y ago
I thought the most interesting part of this was the fact that it is not a "traditional union" or "required union", its "members only union". Linked from the article: https://tcf.org/content&#x2F
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by mchusma 6y ago
In this particular case the mRNA technology Moderna (and Pfizer) is completely new, these are the first two vaccines approved. Yes they spent a lot (including OWS money) to ramp production, all previous mRNA vaccine production was <1M do
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by mchusma 6y ago
I feel like that is the lowest of low hanging fruit in immigration policy, to let people who we subsidize their schooling stay in the US. (Most schools have a variety of government subsidies).
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by mchusma 6y ago
Good series of posts. I'll add briefly to point (1) and (2). (1) vaccine manufacturing was very much blocked by approval. For example, instead of having 30M doses of Astrazeneca in December, because of approval delays they delivered 5M
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by mchusma 6y ago
It looks good. I've found good documentation SAAS something that is lacking. I've used ArchBee a bit now and they are pretty good. Search is your main issue feature-wise. I can't even look at a project without search.
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by mchusma 6y ago
The content that is there is good, so I would recommend this article, however it omits anything related to the FDA, or Operation Warp Speed. For an article that purports to describe the year of the virus, this is a huge gap. I think the big
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by mchusma 6y ago
Great post, but even he underestimates how obvious an approval decision it was. Vaccines have a strong safety and efficacy history. I think if you replace the words "not approved" with "banned", the insanity of the vacci
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by mchusma 6y ago
Japan took over most of the Pacific I'm the time it took for the FDA to schedule the meeting to approve the vaccine after EUA was submitted. In 1947 we vaccinated 5 million people from a "cold start" in 2 weeks. https:/
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by mchusma 6y ago
The rational response worldwide to this new varient is (1) to review all vaccine candidates and approve all that have a net expected efficacy and (2) target vaccinating >1% of the population per day, immediately. Israel is the only count
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by mchusma 6y ago
I also see a lot of people who feel overworked are mistaking async for sync. At our company, we harp on the fact that slack is async.
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+1 too. The author also failed to discuss the many actualv advances in AI this year. Neural nets on 3D point clouds has become much better, image based transformers are doing some fascinating work, massive improvements to training efficienc
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by mchusma 6y ago
That would be suprising, given the quantity already produced by their partners worldwide. Because of the more standard supply chain they have many manufacturing partners. But I'll look for sources. Astrazeneca was always supposed to be
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by mchusma 6y ago
Amazing news, and so happy to see a lot of good sense here from the UK. They have distanced themselves from the US with the fastest approvals of Pfizer and Astrazeneca, the smartest targeting of the population (a focus on saving lives by ta
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by mchusma 6y ago
I had heard that the FDA rejected the outside the US data, stating it would not be sufficient for approval. They are supposed to be in constant communication with the regulators, so nobody is submitted EUA until its basically a sure thing.

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