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by prewett 3y ago
Given the high requirements to enter the field, and a likely mismatch of interests between many of the patients and the interests required, it would probably be more effective to try to fund some researcher directly. Identify someone doing
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by prewett 3y ago
He's the Jim Cramer of geopolitics... > We've yet to hear him really explain in a coherent way It's hard to explain geopolitics in a coherent way in a five minute video... I listened to one of his videos on China, and as a
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by prewett 3y ago
The chicken nugget and McChicken batter are different from when I worked at McDonald's as a kid. Naturally it was better back then...
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by prewett 3y ago
It's not Puritanism, but Judaeo-Christianity. In the Bible, God is always described as telling the truth, so any form of misrepresentation is moving yourself towards the opposite of God's character. Cheating is basically a form of
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by prewett 3y ago
I was hoping this was somebody with network equipment in NASA, seeing actual DSN traffic over their network...
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by prewett 3y ago
That's because works created by the US Government are public domain (at least within the US). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_t...
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by prewett 4y ago
Given that the CCP frequently "disappears" its nationals that it has some problem with, I think giving the CCP the benefit of the doubt is unwise and harmful. Given it's demonstrated pattern over many years, I think we can sa
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by prewett 4y ago
This article finally pushed me over to thinking that we need to start pushing for some laws to limit this sort of thing. It's just pervasive, and "not giving [them] money" is completely ineffective. And for some companies, li
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by prewett 4y ago
The last one where he goes to India to mess with call centers is pretty crazy, too, but not as hilarious as the first video.
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by prewett 4y ago
I couldn't even find a repository of the images, which I would assume would have information on exposure time. Makes me wonder if these are testing images. The closest I could find was 17 minutes for an image from their 2016 run. http
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by prewett 4y ago
The US had a strategically ambiguous alliance with Taiwan a long time before TSMC. Take a look at a map of the Pacific. Color China red, color Taiwan blue. That really bottles up China's navy. Change Taiwan to red: now China has easy a
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by prewett 4y ago
The etching process that uses a laser to blast a moving molten tin sphere to shape it so the next laser blast that vaporizes it produces parallel EUV light is pretty insane, too. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ge2RcvDl
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by prewett 4y ago
Once or twice, although it wasn't a major sort of fair. There were a lot of animals, and now that I think about it, quite a wide variety of chickens. But it's only a few weeks out of the year, and in summer. And not very much bloo
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by prewett 4y ago
Using "privilege", with its connotation of inherited wealth, and applying it to a profession that pays well above average but is open to anyone--the opposite of inherited wealth--is kind of rhetorically dishonest. Disingenuous at
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by prewett 4y ago
People in China also interact more closely with animals, and with a wider variety, than in the West. The West does not have any wet markets or nor the wide variety of species available for consumption. This helps in the virus jumping specie
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by prewett 4y ago
Stability is a feature of industrial processes. Natural processes are all over the place. Also, there are external shocks that you can't control (e.g. oil producers raising prices in the 70s, Russia invading Ukraine, etc.). Compare pre
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by prewett 4y ago
Grocers are typically a commodity business, one feature of which is that the companies do not have pricing power. So unless the grocers have increased their net profit margins, I don't think evil-powerful-corpos is a tenable answer.
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by prewett 4y ago
Have you ever been employed by someone poor? (And I don't mean a middle manager spending someone else' money) The rich have historically funded the arts (e.g. patronage), public buildings, public institutions (e.g. Carnegie's
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by prewett 4y ago
I think you're doing that thing that makes software developers' estimates chronically low: we find a pathway to the solution and think, great, that's basically 80% done, and we don't think about everything else. Let&#x2
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by prewett 4y ago
I've taken to using "organic-branded" for the agricultural products, since "organic" is essentially an FDA brand, with regulations for usage of the branding. Its also my personal rebellion against "organic&quot
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by prewett 4y ago
I like your analogy, but I need help seeing how it applies to Consider Phlebas . From my perspective, the story is pretty arbitrary. The aliens have arbitrary features that have no internal reason for they must inevitably be that and not s
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by prewett 4y ago
Ha! Now that would be a lovely parallel to his complaint about children disobeying parents. I think it would be refreshing to know that conspiracy theories are a expression within humanity, not a unique expression of modern (moral) failure.
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by prewett 4y ago
Not OP, but I see the situation more as 100 years before Caesar. You had competing interests but inability (unwillingness?) to compromise. Various people tried increasingly heavy-handed solutions, including the populist Gracchi brothers, an
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by prewett 4y ago
Generally militaries attack because the leader(s) want to attack. Russia invaded Ukraine because Putin wanted to invade. The US invaded Iraq and Afghanistan because the President wanted to. Different reasons for wanting, but nobody did it
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by prewett 4y ago
There's lists that make the rounds. Einstein, Edison, Abraham Lincoln, and JK Rowling have notable stories. Google's top pick is https://www.wanderlustworker.com/48-famous-failures-who-will...
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by prewett 4y ago
Maybe I should know what this is about, but after reading the web page and the Github site, it's unclear to me if this is a set of fonts I download, or a useful set of font CSS settings, or a font renderer or what. What problem is this
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by prewett 4y ago
The problem is that they are worth $100m if held to maturity (you get your $100m back, ergo their value is $100m if held to maturity), but the current price is $80m, because who wants to buy a bond at 0% when you could get around 5% at
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by prewett 4y ago
Technically flash memory storage would weigh more as a 1 (or maybe as a 0, depending), since it works by storing electrons. Apparently it stores something like 500 electrons [1]. My phone has 6 GB of storage, so if they are all ones that gi
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by prewett 4y ago
I'm beginning to wonder if a lot of the posters to these kind of thins are just young. When I was 25 I thought I had well-reasoned and insightful opinions, and I certainly had forceful opinions. But I had no depth of knowledge in thing
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by prewett 4y ago
GP's point was that they have no conception of that, so it affects how they think about things, and their proposed solutions. The fact that the situation they have no conception of happens frequently, even near them, means that their

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