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4y ago
PD-5WS-DV Model is just on/off without neutral wire https://www.lutron.com/TechnicalDocumentLibrary/369831_ENG.p... They seem to be pretty hard to find / expensive for some reason.
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4y ago
In a similar theme, I can’t recommend Lutron Caseta enough. They work as regular switches/dimmers, have their own simple and rock solid wireless protocol separate from wifi, the hub can connect to the network via Ethernet, can be contr
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qgin
4y ago
If we’re already at the level of truly dangerous ml models… I don’t have a lot of hope for how the next decades are going to play out.
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4y ago
I often think about the earlier days of the internet as a parallel to the pre-code Hollywood era
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4y ago
I don’t know anyone who even knows that the show Cuties existed.
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5y ago
Not super rational for market rates act surprised at RIVN contribution since the RIVN stock price is available to anyone who cares every second of every day. No reason to drop it after hours today for that.
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5y ago
AMZN p/s is less than half of MCD
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5y ago
Ranked choice voting kills the power of fear. Without ranked choice voting, nobody running has to make the case for why they, specifically, will be good. They just have to make the case for why someone else will be horrific and that they ar
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qgin
5y ago
Shades of Lumon.
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5y ago
Managers want to manage people. Beyond a certain size, fiefdoms start growing.
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5y ago
I have literally no idea how a "twitter algorithm" could be published on github. Maybe I've been doing recommender systems wrong.
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5y ago
Has to be
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5y ago
“Everything that isn’t illegal is allowed” sounds great until you see what that actually means on the internet. Anyone who has ever worked in content moderation / trust & safety knows what kind of unrelenting deluge of obnoxious &#
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5y ago
Even in the hard sciences, truly reproducible results take a long time to arrive at. In the social sciences, it’s a serious and multi layered problem. So yes, facts don’t care about feelings. But everyone should likewise check their own fee
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5y ago
Depends on how focused the energy is. The sun is beaming over 1MW per square meter and it doesn’t vaporize people.
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qgin
5y ago
And if you were to talk about a 45 year old today living another 45 years… it’s not a crazy idea to think longevity interventions will improve during those 45 years, pushing things out even further.
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qgin
5y ago
Reading about this strategy reminded me of that question of whether you’d rather fight one horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses. In this case, seems like you get both.
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qgin
5y ago
Sounds like quite a reaction you’re having
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qgin
5y ago
Eagerly awaiting a list of books Brooklyn teens are unable to access.
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5y ago
The idea of taking 250 supplements together, even if they were individually shown to do something positive, is just nuts. There’s no way anyone could possibly know the interactions that would come out of that kind of polypharmacy. That said
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5y ago
Absolutely, the point of a blood transfusion is that a body needs blood replenished faster than it can produce it. A blood transfusion now, PFAS or no, gives someone a chance to survive (and who knows, maybe donate blood themselves at some
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5y ago
I don’t think it’s a stretch to say OP is the typical one while you’re the lucky one.
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qgin
5y ago
How should we think about the concept of discrimination in cases like this where it’s based in reality? I’m not sure.
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5y ago
This sounds suspiciously like writing an article coining a new virtue called “seriousness” and defining it as “doing all the things I agree with and none of the things I don’t agree with”
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5y ago
So in your model, some other random person can come along and force you to use unlimited amounts of your own resources to broadcast whatever they want to say? We have freedom of speech in that the government cannot persecute us for what we
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5y ago
If you’re a charity in 1999 and people want to donate their Beanie Babies to you, accept them and sell them asap.
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5y ago
Another name to add to the list of companies that started in the United States, expanded to Japan, then collapsed in the United States, while it’s Japanese subsidiary continued to thrive and outlive its parent.
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5y ago
If they devoted a few cycles to improving mobile web development app clips would be 100% unnecessary. But a lot of money comes from the App Store.
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5y ago
They’re finally un-disabling it? iOS has provided this functionality for free in Safari for a few releases now and Google has gone to extreme lengths to hack around it and make it unusable in an attempt to monetize the feature.
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5y ago
99% of everyone can afford a wife and kids as long as you don’t insist on the luxury version.
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