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by nscalf 5y ago
This is a terrible approach to teaching. I’ve been in high school classes where I played the TA role, and when I couldn’t switch to another class I started skipping. It slows down the students who learn too quickly for the class, there’s no
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by nscalf 5y ago
I've been largely acting the same way my whole life. I never really got into social media, it mostly felt creepy to me, though I admittedly have been using twitter more lately. That being said, I've seen friends and family become
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by nscalf 5y ago
Yep, this is more or less what I meant by post evolution. We are clearly still changing by natural means, but for most of the existence of all living things in the world, change occurred by evolving. Humans change by using technology to in
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by nscalf 5y ago
Lots of knee jerk hate on the government for spending money in this thread. Investing in R&D (and infrastructure) is more or less the best investment the government can make. Historically these investments have been incredibly success
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by nscalf 5y ago
Can you explain why? If the government values this type of ongoing research by a variety of organizations, doesn't it make sense to fund that? Isn't that how research has always been done? I get that the guy who owns it is rich
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by nscalf 5y ago
Uhh, we also weren't evolved to read books. We're post-evolution, even if we're not post-biology. There are plenty of people thinking through how we could have a sustainable society on Mars, not really sure why people could
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by nscalf 5y ago
Or even just a sample video. There’s a good bit of friction before even knowing what this is.
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by nscalf 5y ago
Plenty of reasons to actually criticize the company, without the intellectually lazy act of crying racial and sexual preference with no basis.
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by nscalf 5y ago
Back in 2020, a Japanese team did the worlds first transplant of lab grown heart cells into a patient. There is definitely progress being made on this.
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by nscalf 5y ago
We can now make the safest, most effective vaccines ever in 2 days. We're making huge advancements with mRNA. CRSPR is still a new technology that is being rapidly improved. Last years big biotech story was that we have more or less
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by nscalf 5y ago
Last weeks article was 130. Clearly take this all with a grain of salt, and realize that bioengineering is having an explosion that will redefine everything we think about medicine and the human body.
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by nscalf 5y ago
Is there any alternative available? While rich parents can train/educate their children better than non-rich parents can, I don't really see much of an issue there. It's not entirely equal, but I don't see it as much o
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by nscalf 5y ago
Lot's of conspiracy theory people and no investigation ever people in here. I don't have any view on either side, but I think it's appropriate to investigate the possibility that the point of origin was from a lab. Honest q
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by nscalf 5y ago
This is a really good point. I did have Silicon Valley, VC funding startups in mind when I said this. To add on to this, I would probably ask about what their goals and timelines are. If they’re aiming to raise a round and get acquired, you
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by nscalf 5y ago
In my experience, there are 2 major things that contribute to this from the company. If you want a solid work/life balance, avoid very small companies like the plague. Their whole thing is working you hard to see if the company can b
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by nscalf 5y ago
Then they would probably be winning elections on the state level instead of trying to redefine what the state is.
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by nscalf 5y ago
I mostly disagree with this breakdown. The product is great if you're not making email your full-time job. I love the screening process, I find I get less spam in my inbox than I did with gmail and miss less emails that I care about.
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by nscalf 5y ago
These headphones have been an amazing bump to quality of life. My neighbors have a new baby, the other neighbors are constantly yelling, and I live across a school that recently reopened. Can't recommend these enough. I also used th
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by nscalf 5y ago
In my opinion, SF has peaked. I personally moved to SF during the pandemic, and am planning to move out when my lease is up. The amount of disarray in the city is wild. Crime seems to be entirely ignored, the homeless problem has explode
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by nscalf 5y ago
The information that a former Florida state data science employee was fired and alleges it’s because she refused to falsify data is not misinformation. She may be lying, it the information I stated was 100% true. Also, don’t come at people
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by nscalf 5y ago
It still doesn't change the underlying issue you discussed. Just because there is some friction removed in PoS doesn't mean that PoW isn't weighted to favor people with large pools of capital to invest.
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by nscalf 5y ago
They're going to buy carbon credits to offset the carbon emissions derived from using the network, then lock them away so they can't trade them off at a later time. That is definitely some marketing lingo tied around "we buy
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by nscalf 5y ago
I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist here, but Florida has seemed like a pretty untrustworthy source of info on their covid numbers. There is even an ongoing battle with a data scientist who was fired, according to her, for refusi
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by nscalf 5y ago
It does seem like the most obvious cause. Though inflation is really really weird, I had a professor explain the feds tools to control inflation back in college. According to her, the #1 tool they have to control inflation is announcing w
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by nscalf 5y ago
I'm so sick of this overly negative and defeatist way of thinking. You don't have to go back in time all that far to have people from that time think most things in our day to day life would be impossible to make. Maybe you don&#
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by nscalf 5y ago
To reject the idea of discovery because we may not be able to understand it is absolutely anti-intellectual. Sure, maybe we can't fully understand it, but to just throw that out there with virtually no evidence other than "maybe
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by nscalf 5y ago
Why should we care if there is something fundamentally different about the world? Why do we go to school then, or why do we even bother publishing non-fictions? Your argument here is that we wouldn’t understand it at first anyway. This is a
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by nscalf 5y ago
'Pop' can also take the form of increasing inflation, making people take bigger risks for returns, leading to a bigger pop that is not coming soon. People saying this market can't sustain need to think about the inverse: wh
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by nscalf 5y ago
To call out one I heard about recently, Chia is doing proof of space and time. Computationally heavy to set up a “plot”, like 6-8 hours of work. Then virtually zero overhead unless you’re chosen as a “winner”.
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by nscalf 6y ago
That's really nice in theory, but in the real world money IS a proxy for time and value creation. Having money is the same thing has being able to create value, and gives you freedom to create value at your own pace however you want.

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