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811.
by orwin 1y ago
To be fair, their isn't any evidence for any explanation how COVID happened. The only thing we know is that gene splicing isn't involved, it's a genetically 'natural' variant. All other theories about what happened,
812.
by orwin 1y ago
Disclaimer: I think the most correct criticism of Chomsky was by Everett, and the following shitshow that ensued is _really_ a shame for linguistics in the Anglo world [0] (Chomsky wasn't the instigator, but his silence doesn't pa
813.
by orwin 1y ago
I'm pretty sure AI would advantageously replace high level executive and McKinsey-type consulting (or most consulting even), but middle manager i'm not too sure. Depends on your company and what their job is.
814.
by orwin 1y ago
Agree in spirit, but 'Growing corn on the same land the data centers currently occupy would consume more water and provide far less value' makes the argument weak because those 'agriculture is barely 2% of GDP' argument
815.
by orwin 1y ago
Like the flu (the real flu). Viruses are always dangerous and carry a risk of long term neurological issues, always. He did all the mandatory vaccines, the rest is a tail risk. Unless you vaccinate yourself against the flu and your children
816.
by orwin 1y ago
The story in the third world is that vaccination campaigns are a front for the US to get their DNA. Which, I mean, was at least true for one of them. Cia, indirectly killing children since 1950 would be a great catchphrase.
817.
by orwin 1y ago
That's Adam Smith liberalism. You can have a market and competition without capitalism. Just look at what China did for EVs and solar panels, its full liberalism under state planning. China does have _some_ capitalism, state capitalism
818.
by orwin 1y ago
During the middle ages, France and Spain (and probably Sicily/Southern Italy) used two numerals: Arabic and Roman. In the end, Arabic numerals gave our (western) current numbers and Romans are mostly kept in titles and names. Some watc
819.
by orwin 1y ago
> That opens up greater margin for local production My country mostly produce pine wood (and other soft wood). I like hardwood furniture, but its only imported stuff because we have very few producers. Putting a tariff on hardwood furnit
820.
by orwin 1y ago
Yes, but: depends on what he ingested. Deuterium/tritium cannot emit Alpha particles, the ones blocked by your outer/dead skin (also they're an order of magnitude more dangerous than the other at equivalent grey), so he'
821.
by orwin 1y ago
CPM doesn't mean anything, it's useless to compare it to anything without more information. For his job, depends on the dose he took. In my country he would have been on benefits until the dose was calculated, then if possible, re
822.
by orwin 1y ago
CPM is so useless as a unit, it doesn't mean anything.
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by orwin 1y ago
External contamination is not comparable to internal, at all. Bq is a terrible unit to understand radioactive danger. Doses are usually detected in Grey, then converted into Sievert because Grey didn't take into account the difference
824.
by orwin 1y ago
Yes, something i didn't know whan i was 18. It's not easy to know what to eat when you're young, and to pick up bad habits. Then when overeating destroyed your hormonal balance (insulin, ghrelin are appetite regulating hormon
825.
by orwin 1y ago
Can you do the installation yourself? In my country i have to make a HVAC technician come to check the installation and sign a paper before i can start mine (200€ for a 15 minutes job, but it's less than the 2-4k it would cost to not d
826.
by orwin 1y ago
I used to drink orange juice. Around 2 liter a day. I've learned since that it was almost as bad as drinking 2 liter of non caffeinated soda.
827.
by orwin 1y ago
Not always, not if your hunger is caused by hormonal issues. Also, drinking more decrease your hunger if caused by grahlin (that's my secret technique when I'm invited to a meal, I drink a lot of water).
828.
by orwin 1y ago
And Tesla have basically two models, that's probably why Ford have more recalls but less affected people.
829.
by orwin 1y ago
Are other people subscribed to Academia.edu for unknown reason, and created an email rule to add them to the spam folder? I'm not even from the US :/
830.
by orwin 1y ago
They found secret meetings between his close advisors (two of them) and Lybian terrorist in chief before his election (without the embassy being warned of those), they found documents saying Lybia put money aside to found his political camp
831.
by orwin 1y ago
Exactly, and he he is also judged in a separate case to have heavily leaned on a witness, and in another separate case for bribing a judge. At one point when you're this corrupt, putting you away is the only solution.
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by orwin 1y ago
I am _very_ skeptical of the persons leading the MAHA movement or equivalent in other countries, and think they're mostly crooks or charismatic idiots, but it is a grassroot movement, with respectable fears and interrogations, and a le
833.
by orwin 1y ago
The old testament has depiction of rape and violence. If the new testaments is also tagged nsfw though, I'll claim that their sensitivity is too high.
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by orwin 1y ago
Is this quality caused by an improvement in the LLM, or is it caused by a better inference engine? Because i use Claude code, clearly Sonnet 4.5 is way ahead of Sonnet4 (and much better than Codex Imho), but the reason it's more helpfu
835.
by orwin 1y ago
I don't prefer anything, I tell you you have to assign responsibilities, and that's will slow adoption. If the car cause an accident because it fails to spot something, do you pass it on 'mechanical error'? Because in my
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by orwin 1y ago
I think it's two to four years if it's a driving mistake (distracted driving, failure to yield, reckless speed or for people too old to see), a bit more for DUI (up to 10, but it's often around 6), an intentional (road rage)
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by orwin 1y ago
Because of the responsibility. In my country, if you kill someone on the road, you go to jail, and pay a huge fine. Which Google exec is going to jail if Waymo kill someone?
838.
by orwin 1y ago
Gpt5 isn't an improvement to me, but Claude sonnet4.5, handle terragrunt way, way better than the previous version did. It also go search AWS documentation by itself, and parse external documents way better. That's not LLM improve
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by orwin 1y ago
I remember a Cyberpunk setting where basically a corp bought the voting machines in a country, and suddenly all presidents of said country were top level executives of that corp. Which is why I smiled a little when 'Liberty vote'
840.
by orwin 1y ago
In Iran, did the F35 got deep and low, like an A10 would? Were they used as B2 would, high altitude bombers? Or did they stayed at the border and were used as mobile EW planes to coordinate/acquire targets? Because I've read about

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