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by ovi256 7y ago
200 bu/acre is at the high end of corn yields, so your $10 cost estimate is probably a bit low. Current price per bushel of corn is $4.4. Adding $10 per bushel will be a huge economic shock. Given corn is a big input in most animal hus
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by ovi256 7y ago
>we already are and have been doing it for centuries Now you're conflating traditional crop breeding such as selection and hybrid breeding with GMO crops, which is dishonest. The article is specifically about GMO crops. >eat gene
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by ovi256 7y ago
That happens with ICE vehicles too, Grand Tour got several to overheat and go into "limp home" mode. They're also not designed to be run at a high load factor.
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by ovi256 7y ago
FWIW, there's a income tax reduction scheme in France that allows people to invest in film production companies. If the project fails, you get to write off your whole investment - no harm right ? If it makes any money, you get your sha
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by ovi256 7y ago
Since the demographic transition started (first in France, after the French revolution) humans have been selected for resistance to anti-natalist ideas. Literally only people with some resistance to them perpetuate their genes! Empirical pr
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by ovi256 7y ago
In the Python world, Django Rest Framework does this (and a lot more!). The out-of-box getting started experience is not as smooth though, as you need to define serializers and views objects too. Of course, they're probably going to be
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by ovi256 7y ago
This classification is very useful to discuss this issue. The difference between 3 and 4, noble as it is, can be caused by feasability concerns that push people into 3, not just ignorance of the privacy impact. Human labelling of training d
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by ovi256 7y ago
Google Maps does not have all the trains. Use a dedicated train planner like https://www.thetrainline.com/ which works great for EU trains.
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by ovi256 7y ago
For the even lazier, one can just add https://sci-hub.tw/ in front of the nature URL and through the great work of the sci-hub people, get access to a web page that has the paper. It's an amazing UX!
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by ovi256 7y ago
Yes, as there are plenty of those being done by humans today. Manual labour in developping countries (and plenty of small manual tasks in developped countries too, how many people wash dishes manually when dishwashers exist?), weird one-of-
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by ovi256 7y ago
Anything that increases societal atomization is bad. People need to feel they're contributing to the commons, to society at large, that they're needed and useful. Also, multi-generational welfare, the logical result of chronic une
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by ovi256 7y ago
>This seems to completely stump the algorithm, even when your eyes are plainly visible That's a false positive. This uses quite simple algos, decisition trees, which have more false outcomes (both positive and negative) on this pupi
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by ovi256 7y ago
A brief introduction can be found in this post here: https://chasethedevil.github.io/post/the_neural_network_in_y... It talks about “Dynamic Branch Prediction with Perceptrons” (Jimenez 2001) which sparked the whole th
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by ovi256 7y ago
This works, but it does force you to ignore new enabling technologies that make new use cases economical, where most innovation and value creation is. You'll be very efficient at accomplishing old use cases, which is just as well, beca
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by ovi256 7y ago
>In addition jet fuel in Europe is tax-free which enables these ultra low prices. This kind of Orwellian double speak is amazing. Lack of tax leaves too low prices for the consumer! If you really feel that this tax is important, you can
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by ovi256 7y ago
>you define middle class as the middle of the income distribution I don't think that's a good definition for the middle class. There's strong support for the fact that income distribution is an exponential distributions -
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by ovi256 7y ago
We definitely should! The current state of infosec as practiced, regarding, say, vulnerability to email trojan horses, is like using sharp knives for door handles, that instead of just mangling your fingers make a copy of the door keys and
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by ovi256 7y ago
A copy-on-write mechanism triggered by `y[0] = 3` would look the same and pass the test you devised, so you can't eliminate the possibility that it exists. A better way would be to track memory use. A copy being created by either `y =
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by ovi256 7y ago
Everyone has missed the most important aspect of search engines, from the point of view of their core function of information retrieval: they're the internet equivalent of a library index. Either you find a way to make information find
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by ovi256 7y ago
You just grant right of abode to a number of young men that know how to handle weapons. They'll be very motivated to defend it - and you! - from the hordes, especially given their families are residing there too. There, you just reinst
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by ovi256 7y ago
Yeah, "hellbanning" scammers is a good idea, instead of giving them a simple 401 code. Increasing the cost of their scam is the best mechanism.
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by ovi256 7y ago
One of the widely available $20 garden watering timers that flushes water down the toilet. I bet Melbourne already has entrepreneurs selling the installation of this "water surveillance solution" at value pricing: a fraction of t
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by ovi256 7y ago
Right, that would be different, but I feel that's the kind of detail that gets lost in translation when it becomes government policy. Given the average EU government greatly enjoys the already 100%+ tax on fuel they have, why would the
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by ovi256 7y ago
Here's a study, "The Blue Book of Social Mentality", sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, replicating this finding that China is a low-trust society: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/201
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by ovi256 7y ago
For the imported good buyer, there's a price increase. It does not matter to him who collects the tax that increased the price - an import tariff imposing government or an enlightened carbon-scheme participating foreign government. Thi
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by ovi256 7y ago
Broke: import tariffs motivated by short-termist trade war one-upmanship and bigotism. Woke: import tarrifs motivated by long-termist climate change reduction. We swear they're not the same thing so they can't have similar effects
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by ovi256 7y ago
>year after that, Google will announce that they're shutting theirs The line no one can disagree with.
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by ovi256 7y ago
>After the collapse of the USSR, regional governments and foreign governments stepped in There was nevertheless a 30% drop in GDP. That's bound to have some effect.
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by ovi256 7y ago
The supervisor can still be right! Scientific relevance and societal relevance are at odds all the time. Just look at cosmology or any other field with very very long term, slim, payoff and huge costs. As much as we curiosity oriented peopl
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by ovi256 7y ago
That's a way too bold assertion for the very weak evidence behind it. The studies are mixed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachidonic_acid#Dietary_arach... One study pointing in a direction in biochem can be safe

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