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by nradov 6mo ago
Could you expand on what makes arsenic an essential micronutrient? What are the clinical signs and symptoms of severe arsenic deficiency? I've never heard of this before.
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by nradov 6mo ago
Every tech company claims that they need the "best" software engineers. How often is that actually true? Are there reasonably reliable techniques to turn a mediocre engineer into one of the best?
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by nradov 6mo ago
For a lot of clinical decision support use cases you don't even need fancy AI models to get accurate results. If you have good quality cleansed data you can literally just import it into Excel and run a simple linear regression analysi
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by nradov 6mo ago
The US national security establishment is unlikely to learn any lasting lessons from this debacle. So the UK and other impacted countries will need to deal with the situation as it actually exists, not in some hypothetical alternate reality
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by nradov 6mo ago
You're really missing the point. Whether they support the war or not is largely irrelevant because support doesn't count for anything.
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by nradov 6mo ago
You're not thinking through the long-term consequences of that option. The Iranian extortion fees will likely escalate over time. Other countries will use that precedent to impose fees for passage through their territorial waters. Most
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by nradov 6mo ago
Just be patient for a few years. Even with the end of Moore's Law, compute hardware pricing always declines over the long run.
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by nradov 6mo ago
Really? Do you have a citation for that?
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by nradov 6mo ago
Does that even matter? US GDP is orders of magnitude larger than Iran. The American way of war has long been based on minimizing casualties through overwhelming materiel superiority and profligate ammunition expenditure. Back in WWII the US
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by nradov 6mo ago
Ukraine does save up their strike drones. They only launch major strikes on defended targets every week of so. Russia is increasingly running out of air defense systems in many regions.
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by nradov 6mo ago
For now only the USA has reliable access to anything like Starlink / Starshield. Radar isn't any kind of magic solution: it has limited range and field of view.
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by nradov 6mo ago
Bullshit. The right of innocent passage has long applied to straits. But as a practical matter very few US flagged merchant vessels even go through there, so if anyone actually pays it's going to be someone else.
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by nradov 6mo ago
What's your point? Innocent passage never applied to artificial canals. You seem to be unclear on the basics of maritime law.
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by nradov 6mo ago
The primary US strategic war goal was to slow down Iran's nuclear weapons program. That was not a smart reason to launch an attack, but the attack was at least somewhat successful in achieving the goal. Much of Iran's critical equ
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by nradov 6mo ago
It's not a matter of good or bad. Innocent passage through national waters (including straits) without paying tolls has been a fundamental principle of maritime law for a long time. Allowing Iran to charge a toll for passage through th
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by nradov 6mo ago
Fair enough. There are a multiple additional reasons why the UK can no longer afford an expeditionary military to protect their overseas interests, but the full explanation can't fit into an HN comment. The exact reasons aren't re
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by nradov 6mo ago
It's not rhetoric. I'm not trying to convince anyone, I'm just explaining how things work. Since the other countries largely lack the ability to act, their support or lack thereof is irrelevant. The US and Israel have no ince
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by nradov 6mo ago
So what? Attacking Iran was a stupid move, but the US and Israeli regimes don't particularly care about the other victims whining. If other countries are going to make themselves dependent on fossil fuels from the Persian Gulf region t
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by nradov 6mo ago
The US government is already in the shipping insurance business. That hasn't helped. War risk insurance is also still available from other carriers. https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/breaking-news&#
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by nradov 6mo ago
Whether it would be counterproductive or not depends on what those other countries are trying to produce. None of them particularly want to pay tribute or protection money to Iran, especially because Iran could then decide to close the stra
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by nradov 6mo ago
And yet national leaders do phenomenally unpopular things all the time when they decide it's necessary. In this particular case it's mostly moot because none of the other impacted countries really has the capability to act regardl
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by nradov 6mo ago
Yes, Iran has already hit several merchant vessels. Their ability to do that occasionally is not in doubt. It's mostly a question of economics. The ship owners and insurers have to decide whether it's worth the risk to run their c
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by nradov 6mo ago
The US is is not blocking the Strait of Hormuz. There don't appear to be any US warships even in the Strait at the moment. What the US is doing is enforcing a partial blockade against Iran, largely in waters southeast of the Strait. We
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by nradov 6mo ago
If Iran doesn't want to observe the terms of the UNCLOS (regardless of whether they have ratified it or not) then their territorial waters claims revert to the older 3NM limit. They can't have it both ways. Of course, in practice
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by nradov 6mo ago
Modern US surface warships such as the DDG-52 Arleigh Burke class are pretty survivable. The Iranians (and their Houthi proxies) have made sustained attacks on them and don't seem to have hit anything. And a single hit would be highly
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by nradov 6mo ago
Are you asking about criminal or civil law? This was a civil case. The general reason for imposing filing time limits is that it's better for businesses and society in general to have certainty about outcomes rather than perfect justic
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by nradov 6mo ago
There's nothing undignified about terminating excess at-will employees.
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by nradov 6mo ago
Work better in what sense? Do naturalistic theories have more predictive power?
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by nradov 6mo ago
Nicotine has both positive and negative effects but the impact on hypertension can cause pretty serious adverse health problems for some heavy users.
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by nradov 6mo ago
How much money and power is required? Should we stop technological development now or do humans still need new stuff?

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