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by schainks 3y ago
Is an optimistic suspicion _enough_ to risk inflicting a lifetime of suffering if our suspicion was completely wrong on multiple levels? Even if the genes we splice work as expected, do we know they correctly produce an individual who can c
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by schainks 3y ago
There was a good Oxford style debate on NPR about whether resurrecting the mammoth is a good idea. The most interesting point I heard _against_ doing something like this was along these lines: If we were to use an elephant mother host to gr
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by schainks 3y ago
THIS. It's hilarious and infuriating our digital assistants struggle to understand variants of "set lights at X% intensity". However, if I spend the time to configure a "scene" with the right presets, Google has no
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by schainks 3y ago
There is a nuclear waste disposal site next to aboriginal villages on Orchid Island off the coast of Taiwan because someone handed a contract to a Chinese-illiterate person and said, "sign this and we will build a cannery and help your
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by schainks 3y ago
Do not have mercy for a faceless corporation continually posting profits that grow quarter over quarter. They are rolling in money and could cut executive comp or something else, but choose not to.
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by schainks 3y ago
AIUI Helion’s bottleneck is the number of capacitors needed to run a sustained reaction at a given scale. The numbers don’t seem out of this world to me, and it’s probably smarter money than what we are throwing at ITER given time to market
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by schainks 3y ago
This. And if you're really lucky, a large corporate enterprise will let you have hosting space for _free_ at _very specific times_. Otherwise, you must find local community resources who usually: 1. Charge a fee 2. Request you do some
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by schainks 3y ago
> wanted to make use of my health insurance This is the root of a lot of emotional problems for employees in the USA.
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by schainks 3y ago
My kid in the future probably will want to have a conversation with a machine that sounds and talks like a character from a book or school lesson. ChatGPT has gotten us there in writing, and the AI generated vocals are already really close.
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by schainks 4y ago
_All_ powerplants have those problems, not _just_ nuclear. I agree it's a bit sensationalist of them to not consider the whole picture and declare nuclear "carbon free". What are the total carbon emissions over the life time
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by schainks 4y ago
::sobs:: zing!
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by schainks 4y ago
One caveat that has worked in our household: if your kid has eczema on their face anywhere near the mouth, put a good barrier on it before eating said allergens. Lanolin or vaseline work great.
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by schainks 4y ago
In addition to Bamba, Puff Works in the US makes great peanut butter puffs for babies: https://puffworks.com/pages/baby IMO the baby ones should be in adult sized packaging, they taste better than the adult puffs!
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by schainks 4y ago
If software were that simple, surely all these other languages wouldn't exist?
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by schainks 4y ago
If you install packages on your linux infrastructure or docker images to provision anything, and those things are based on the “default” install, you are relying on the mirrors. That infrastructure is already “web scale”. It’s just a matter
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by schainks 4y ago
LastPass’ lackadaisical attitude internally for defense in depth is indeed embarrassing.
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by schainks 4y ago
I agree with this assessment. I am also required to run security scanning software by corporate that inspects a lot of activity on my machine.
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by schainks 4y ago
There are many distribution mirrors that are financed by universities that are on the the Internet backbone in the US Heck, even in Asia I did not have trouble with finding a good mirror.
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by schainks 4y ago
> The buck is supposed to stop at security, not at each employee's personal hygiene … if your game plan depends on the latter, it's game over. I have to take security trainings twice a year that literally talk about the buck st
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by schainks 4y ago
Are you a parent?
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by schainks 4y ago
Maintaining things sitting in the ocean is still expensive. You can’t send robots out, you must send humans. Oil rigs are worthwhile just because they can be turned on/off relatively easily depending on market conditions and when they
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by schainks 4y ago
Algae also produce waste that SMELLS. Now you have costs to deal with that, which also reduces _where_ you can put them, since most people don’t necessarily enjoy living near the smell of a wetland. Then there are the ocean-based startups t
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by schainks 4y ago
I read that sentence in the voice of a dystopian future cartoon that is forcefully cheerful.
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by schainks 4y ago
> provides resources on the other end to moderate impersonation. Eeeehhhhhh, I don't think so.
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by schainks 4y ago
If you're in the Ohio river basin, I recommend you install reverse osmosis and carbon filters on your tap water, which will effectively filter nearly all vinyl chloride. Ventilate rooms where you shower before / afterwords to ensu
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by schainks 4y ago
This utility used to work wonders, too. Should still work despite what looks like the author moving on: https://github.com/blabber/ripit
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by schainks 4y ago
TikTok’s algorithm in China promotes more “socially positive” content than in the west. For example, you don’t see “steal a car” challenges go viral there.
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by schainks 4y ago
Isn't that what the media tour has been for?
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by schainks 4y ago
It only takes three shoulder height plants (of a couple widely-available species) to recycle the CO2 produced by an adult human. Relevant talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/kamal_meattle_how_to_grow_fresh_ai...
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by schainks 4y ago
Citation needed. This sounds interesting, though!

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