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541.
by mlyle 2y ago
> Complications aren’t about utility. They’re about art. It’s intentionally overcomplicating something. This is not the original usage; "complication" does not imply "grande complication." > ..."features&quot
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by mlyle 2y ago
> You’re reverting to your priors despite evidence to the contrary. Eh, I don't think what he's saying now is unreasonable. Certainly no one feels a pressure to use a modern term that might have less perceived value-- to say &q
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by mlyle 2y ago
I'm not sure buying the super fancy handbag is primarily about showing off, either, and I think people who consume a lot of these goods have a lot of brand knowledge. I mean, I think you're right in that watch nerds usually have
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by mlyle 2y ago
The word "movement" for a watch movement is old. Ditto for "complication". Or "calibre". They come from the late 1700s and early 1800s. They were the normal words for the items described. They only sound fa
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by mlyle 2y ago
> But do you assume that getting to n=10,000 is going to show little or no effect (e.g. having a level you define as little effect)? I don't necessarily assume this, but even if you assume linearity, 0.7 * -0.32 is pretty dang small
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by mlyle 2y ago
> Human beings evolved to eat whole foods. If you're going to eat something else, you better be very, very sure about the long-term effects. I think if you apply similar processing to sunflower seeds and cocoa beans, one isn't
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by mlyle 2y ago
That's why I said it's not too expensive.
548.
by mlyle 2y ago
It's not too expensive of a Macbook to fit 109B 4-bit parameters in RAM.
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by mlyle 2y ago
If you were connected to usenet, you could send emails, also delivered by uucp. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc976 (Feb 1986, but it mostly sets out as standards the practices that are already widely in
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by mlyle 2y ago
He didn't say ARPANET. He said Usenet. A whole lot of Usenet was store-and-forward (over UUCP). https://i.imgur.com/V8CmQV4.gif
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by mlyle 2y ago
> I think at that point, these vehicles become more viable for certain types of sustainment. You could for example priority rush more NSMs to a detachment. Sure-- like 3 per trip. If they're not too long for the vehicle (they might
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by mlyle 2y ago
> This will not primarily be for rescue ops It seems like combat SAR in the maritime environment is what these are best at. > The "Viceroy" craft that Regent has mocked up on their website claims 180 mile range, 3500lb of ca
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by mlyle 2y ago
> > but it's not like we have an absence of research below 1.5 mg/L). > But it is? But it isn't. There's 7 studies included in that meta-analysis looking at levels below 1.5mg/L, covering 2832 children. T
554.
by mlyle 2y ago
> It is IMO both very reasonable to fund more research into this to know conclusively if 0.7mg/L is indeed safe How exactly do you propose we do this? It's tough to prove absence of harm. The meta-analysis put together tons of
555.
by mlyle 2y ago
> If one's management is playing political games, they are failing in their communications, trying to win in some personal game Is this not A) ubiquitous, B) rich with incentives, and C) not downright implied in "They are maste
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by mlyle 2y ago
But, there's a hyperparameter here; we culturally and organizationally get to choose how much of this game exists and how effective it is. And certainly some of these games are useful; abilities of this kind are highly correlated with
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by mlyle 2y ago
> There is a crossover point somewhere. I think his point is explicitly that that crossover point is rather high. And let's not forget that crashes, in addition to their other costs, do cause significant delays themselves.
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by mlyle 2y ago
> Wouldn't the 'US did a better job with probes and unmanned spaceflight' depend on when you want to plant the flag that the space race ended? I was talking about post-1970 stagnation. Russia basically scaled everything wa
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by mlyle 2y ago
> I do agree that declaring the race suddenly over with a man on the moon was a case of taking the ball and going home. See, I would characterize this differently-- after the US reached the Moon, Russia pretty much gave up-- gave up on t
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by mlyle 2y ago
> The real space race, having the ability to nuke any point on earth, was clearly won by the Soviets. The US and the Soviets had operational ICBMs at pretty much the same time-- dueling milestones from 1957 to 1959. Then the Soviets pull
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by mlyle 2y ago
> Too bad the only way out is to use less and do less... To be clear: you're saying that "doing things more efficiently" and "using power sources other than fossil fuels to do stuff" are not parts of the solution
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by mlyle 2y ago
Musk has talked explicitly about unwinding portions of NASA and replacing it with SpaceX to "improve efficiency." Which honestly should happen to some extent (I'm not a fan of SLS). But we shouldn't become beholden to o
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by mlyle 2y ago
What a long gallop. > If people in government are benefited directly or indirectly by fraud, that's literally included in the definition of corruption. Yup, that endpoint is fine and can be agreed with. People in government having a
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by mlyle 2y ago
If you are going to say that anyone who ever takes public health money -or- private industry money is conflicted, then everyone who ever does -any- research for a living is conflicted.
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by mlyle 2y ago
Seed oils seem to be a tiny, edge portion of their advocacy. It's probably a conflict, but a relatively weak one.
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by mlyle 2y ago
You're saying that Novo wants to obscure the true causes of metabolic disease to make, decades from now, marginally more from metabolic disease treatments? There's far more lucrative shenanigans that pay off much sooner :P
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by mlyle 2y ago
> This study has a few that we know of: The International Nut and Dried Fruit Council may or may not be a conflict of interest about seed oils. NIH and Novo Nordisk wouldn't be. > I wish we could get studies without any conflic
568.
by mlyle 2y ago
People spending money in ways that you consider wasteful is not the same as corruption.
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by mlyle 2y ago
Here in California, we tend to have total property tax rates of ~1.5%, which includes improvements like buildings. For various reasons, this is lower than the rest of the country which is more like 2-2.5%. But also, the assessed values of
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by mlyle 2y ago
> If sellers are not in a particular rush to part with a given good, for whatever reason, there is no reason for an over-supply to lead to lower prices. This just says that supply isn't very elastic at that point. It's hardly

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