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by pasiaj 5mo ago
Not an expert but what I’ve heard is that AI-based radiology analysis has brought down prices so much that there’s been a huge increase in demand, which has led to employee shortages.
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by pasiaj 10mo ago
You seem to mistake an ideal for reality and forgo a few difficult eventualities: eg. tyranny of the majority, corruption, regulatory capture, etc.
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by pasiaj 1y ago
Past canaries of Apple's software downfall: Scripting and the new Notification Center. The key thing to make macOS feel welcoming to everybody from noobs to the nerdiest of power users: Pretty much all functionality used to be accessi
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by pasiaj 1y ago
Yes, all of us born in the 80s or earlier …
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by pasiaj 2y ago
> Security monoculture is not necessarily a great approach See: Hezbollah & pagers.
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by pasiaj 2y ago
Having two different RFCs on this is clearly causing confusion! I think I'll create a new RFC to supersede both to clear up the situation.
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by pasiaj 3y ago
Discounted Cashflows calculation for Nvidia would require 10x growth and a 55% profit margin for 10 years to justify the current valuation. If the company achieves a 4-5X growth (15% per year) and 30% margins (instead of 55%) that would pla
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by pasiaj 3y ago
The law is the will of ”we”. ”They” can’t change the law – only ”we” can.
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by pasiaj 3y ago
Better than what?
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by pasiaj 4y ago
> literally had 2x4's on fire stuck in the combustion chamber I REALLY wouldn't want to be the person tasked with starting that fire.
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by pasiaj 4y ago
This was one nefarious operation by the hacker: - He hacked the patient files of a psychotherapy center Vastaamo. This included therapy notes for more than 22.000 patients. - First the hacker blackmailed the therapy center. - Next he starte
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by pasiaj 4y ago
Memorable, for the last year two years I've been working on identifying structural causes of procrastination caused by working from home and working on a digital device. While I'm sure there are personality factors that are affect
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by pasiaj 4y ago
In Finland wind power provides roughly 30% of the nominal power on average. The problem is that it fluctuates between 0-80%. The National Emergency Supply Agency calculates 6% of the nominal power capacity as the guaranteed capacity of wind
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by pasiaj 4y ago
There are burnmarks high up on the pillars of the train bridge but not on the lower parts. This would suggest that the explosion happened on top of the bridge.
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by pasiaj 4y ago
I seriously doubt that. Please elaborate why you think this is the case.
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by pasiaj 4y ago
Road rage and horribly antisocial driving behaviour exists. I don't think it usually includes murderous intent, but intentionally dangerous behaviour is quite common.
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by pasiaj 4y ago
For comparison: Finland (338,440 km²) is three times the size of Iceland (103,000 km²) Finland has 23 million hectares (76%) of forest cover. http://www.metla.fi/metinfo/sustainability/finnish.htm
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by pasiaj 4y ago
Soros was a disciple of philosopher Karl Popper, one of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science. Popper was a big influence on empirical falsification. Popper wrote the book The Open Society and Its Enemies that has
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by pasiaj 4y ago
Soros was a disciple of philosopher Karl Popper, one of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science. Popper was a big influence on empirical falsification. Popper wrote the book The Open Society and Its Enemies that has
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by pasiaj 4y ago
The algo surely is quite basic. I believe JanneVee is saying that a "rather basic" algorithm that tries to maximize engagement drifts towards promoting the more divisive posts that amplify our tribalistic tendencies. And by giving
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by pasiaj 5y ago
San Francisco is often clogged, with motorcyclists lane splitting and therefore travelling at significantly higher speeds compared to others. I'm sure median speed gives a better approximation of actual thruput than top speed.
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by pasiaj 5y ago
I started using Google Apps for Domains pretty much the day it came out. 3 of my companies are using Gsuite right now. But all my domains tied to a Google Account that could get cancelled with no recourse? No, I think I'll pass.
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by pasiaj 5y ago
I was talking specifically about Finland. Our situation is such that our energy consumption peaks during the winter months when onshore wind farms perform poorly. You can see that the total share of renewables has climbed significantly, but
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by pasiaj 5y ago
Wind turbines work on average at 18-30% efficiency in Finland. The nadir efficiency is roughly at 6%. You'd need to build 1300+ 3MW wind turbines to match the average production of Olkiluoto 3, or 7000+ turbines to guarantee the same l
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by pasiaj 5y ago
We've had this type of arguments in Finland over NATO for decades. It seems fairly obvious now that the "bear" is a sociopathic narcissistic of a country that cannot and should not be reasoned about. Right now everybody here
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by pasiaj 5y ago
I had a similar experience that I might be able to explain logically. I was thinking about death, the exact moment of death, and thought about the last sensation felt by a dying person. I had a thought that the last affect you experience s
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by pasiaj 5y ago
That's not an argument against MBA's having hard skills. It's an argument for a finely standardized product. MBAs are a commodity, but they do or at least can have hard skills. I've wasted plenty of time and money on sub
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by pasiaj 5y ago
At current energy prices in Finland, it would take less than 1/10 of the time expected. (Of course the current price is a bit of an anomaly.)
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by pasiaj 5y ago
I've hooked up Hammerspoon to a bunch of APIs for fast lookups: translation, autocorrect, company lookup, etc. Translate (Requires Google Translate API key) https://github.com/pasiaj/Translate-for-Hammerspoon Auto
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by pasiaj 5y ago
A political opponent of my grandfather got angry at him in a meeting. After the meeting the opponent followed my grandfather as he was walking home and hit him in the head from behind with a ”metrin halko”, a meter long log. He died of a he

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