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   by slwvx 2y ago

   It's not just moms, and it's not just Down Syndrome: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8416834/#Sec6
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   by slwvx 2y ago

   I support a wealth tax. I think a good starting point is a 1% tax on wealth above $10M and 3% on wealth above $100M. I also support a more progressive income tax, say the tax rates of 1945, which had lower taxes on the lowest income people
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   by slwvx 2y ago

   > Anywhere outside of Scandinavia, the socioeconomic label would probably have been ‘poor’, but Danish safety nets and support systems did their best to suspend the facts and offer better. > But don’t worry: This isn’t a rags-to-riche
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   by slwvx 2y ago

   The previous license also allowed multiple launches, so this license allowing multiple launches would be consistent.
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   by slwvx 2y ago

   I'd prefer a more substantive critique than an ad-hominem statement
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   by slwvx 2y ago

   I drink once every 3-6 months when I go to dinner in situations where it is awkward to decline. My understanding is that there is no safe dose of alcohol, though less is better.
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   by slwvx 2y ago

   We already know how to use feces in making bricks; see the link. I participated in a construction project in Ecuador where cow dung was used in making mortar, so I know it can be done. Sure, feces can be used as fertilizer; both should be
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   by slwvx 2y ago

   the interesting part to me is that Tim Berners-Lee has started a company [1] that is focused on decentralized tech. Sounds like the WWW Foundation is shutting down so he can focus on the company. [1] https://www.inrupt.com/
9. 279.▲
   by slwvx 2y ago

   Previously on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...
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    by slwvx 2y ago

    I personally would not like the complexity of one Bitwarden account, two Authy accounts, and five email accounts! I wonder if your current desire to "go that extra distance" now would fade, and in the future the complexity of your
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    by slwvx 2y ago

    > Blockchain interoperability conflates the need for distributed systems to communicate with third-party systems without a canonical chain or orchestration layer. As there is no “chain to rule them all” (for performance, privacy, and mar
12. 282.▲
    by slwvx 2y ago

    Are you sure that there is not a decrease in casual sexual encounters? My impression is that young people are having much less sex these days.
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    by slwvx 2y ago

    In the US, one can use Libby [1] (and likely other tools) to read books online. I guess it's the same elsewhere in the world. I don't think it will be the end of the world if public libraries put more and more of their books on
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    by slwvx 2y ago

    I'd like to use Emacs key bindings for Safari, but at present Safari doesn't obey a shortcut (^Y, CTRL-Y) for Paste in Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > App Shortcuts > All Applications. It also doesn't s
15. 285.▲
    by slwvx 2y ago

    If I were to estimate my blood caffeine, I'd calculate the caffeine right before I took more, add that to the new caffeine, and use that in the exponential decay function.
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    by slwvx 2y ago

    sfdictionary.com [1] looks to me like a more traditional dictionary of SF, while technovelgy.com is a bit less academic. I definitely like the UI and layout of SFdictionary.com more than that of Technovelgy. [1] https://sfdictio
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    by slwvx 2y ago

    Nice pun! I guess "wait training" could be used for intermittent fasting, slow food, or in general to promote delayed gratification.
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    by slwvx 2y ago

    One might also argue that political economy (tax policy) should be a field of engineering as well. I'm very sympathetic to this; I like the idea of using control theory to make a stable society with stable distribution of wealth and in
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    by slwvx 2y ago

    https://archive.ph/oGM8h
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    by slwvx 2y ago

    Polynesian contact with the Americas has been discussed on HN before [1] The article is talking about Rapa Nui, or Easter Island [2]. The article also talks about ecological collapse on the island; one of the books that promoted this is Jar
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    by slwvx 2y ago

    The association between altitude and suicide has been discussed on HN before [1]. The paper from the University of Utah that is mentioned in the Nat Geo article is at [2] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37120758 [2
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    by slwvx 2y ago

    I agree. If someone wants to do something interesting with protocols, how about making a zero-knowledge [1] protocol wherein the person sending a packet can't see who requested it, nodes which forward it can't see the sender or re
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    by slwvx 2y ago

    Looks like this is a WSJ article about the same topic discussed previously [1] on HN about the article [2], with the figure that illustrates the waves at [3]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41247085 [2] https:&#x
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    by slwvx 2y ago

    At present the link above goes to [1], while I guess it should go to [2]. I.e. it should not have the final two slashes. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion-dollar_coin// [2] https://en.m
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    by slwvx 2y ago

    Cafe Gratitude used to seat strangers together in their Northern CA locations, which are now closed. I have no idea if they still do so in their other locations.
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    by slwvx 2y ago

    Lotsa places (e.g. Wealthfront) offer a High Yield Savings Account (HYSA) that has checking attached. I used to know why the US has this odd situation that checking accounts typically do not offer good interest. I guess regulatory capture:
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    by slwvx 2y ago

    dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41375828
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    by slwvx 2y ago

    If I understand Table 4 [1] correctly, they estimate the cost to be $28.5M, which looks inexpensive for a cutting-edge telescope (BTW, the new html papers on arxiv are nice). Phys.org [2] has further details. [1] https://arxiv.or
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    by slwvx 2y ago

    Videos from JuliaCon 2024 are available at the link below, though I don't think all videos have been released yet; there was some talk about releasing them slowly. https://www.youtube.com/@TheJuliaLanguage/videos
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    by slwvx 2y ago

    I think a version of this video that used a semilog plot [1] for wealth, included specific suggestions for how to overcome economic inequality (like [2]), and skipped the snarky tone would be useful. I am all for reducing economic inequalit