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by slwvx 9mo ago
Even if this isn't a blatant scam or phishing attempt, my inclination these days is to be sympathetic to fugitives. Tech such as this seems like another step towards a police or feudal state
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by slwvx 9mo ago
I'd like Psylo [1] to be available on other platforms like Linux and MacOS. Psylo puts each tab behind a VPN and give them their own cookie storage space. It feels like a dramatically more private tool than Orion. I tried Orion in Dec
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by slwvx 9mo ago
re 12% vegetarianism in Argentina: One trip out to a steak house in the region almost turned me vegetarian. I can imagine vegetarianism rising in response to immense amounts of meat.
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by slwvx 9mo ago
Jensen Huang (Nvidia CEO) says he is "perfectly fine" [WSJ, Fortune] with the Cali wealth tax. I am no billionaire, but if I hade made it big in CA, I hope I'd be thinking about economic inequality and would be more in line
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by slwvx 9mo ago
If one wants to contribute to an open-source LTE modem, the best place to start may be OpenLTE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenLTE The core of any LTE modem is software, even if it is written for DSPs or other low-
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by slwvx 9mo ago
As useful as that might be for the researchers, I felt completely stupid when doing it. Maybe instead of someone whispering ‘Remember you are mortal’ to us like story of the Roman emperor, we can just do an online test designed such that w
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by slwvx 9mo ago
Someone who reads every email, or at least looks at the subject long enough to do something with it (delete, move, ...) and don't leave unread emails in their inbox
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by slwvx 9mo ago
Eric Topol has a more useful summary [1] of the peptides, including which have FDA approval and the health effects. Here's a quote: "Why have peptides become so popular without data to support the promotional claims? This, in
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by slwvx 9mo ago
Become an email completionist, and send emails to other people as if they should also be email completionists.
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by slwvx 9mo ago
Yuval Noah Harari said something along the lines of "communism is a religion, but so is capitalism, and so is Google." Of course Harari is being a bit of a troll, but so is whomever wrote "Marxism is a cult of power" vi
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by slwvx 9mo ago
I'm all for higher estate taxes. If one ignores FICA (social security) taxes, the US has a negative income tax for the lowest income brackets. I think this is a wonderful thing in that it encourages low income people to get into and st
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by slwvx 9mo ago
Others wrote their own NYT editorials in response to Romney: https://archive.ph/iPN3E On a related note: I was intrigued to see Vitalik Buterin talk about wealth taxes in a post today. He favors "diffusing not dollar
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by slwvx 9mo ago
How many products did they introduce? A simpler question: how many iPhones were introduced and how many retired in 2025?
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by slwvx 10mo ago
Tidepool is a non-profit focused on diabetes. Among other things, they are working on an algorithm (loop) that does insulin dosing: https://www.tidepool.org/tidepool-loop If one wants to separate the hardware (insulin pump,
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by slwvx 10mo ago
> The labs on this website are designed to accompany the Foundations of Applied Mathematics textbook series. [1] It's great that they are making the labs free and putting them on GitHub. Even so, the fact that the textbooks are not
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by slwvx 10mo ago
Quanta Magazine's Year in review: https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/2025-in-review/
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by slwvx 10mo ago
Booker T Washington was a big fan of vocational training. Maybe these CS guys can switch to plumbing or construction.
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by slwvx 10mo ago
Two things that are as (maybe more) important to me as server location are the data use restrictions and the profit model of the site. If (for example) Kamunity explicitly said that data would not be sold, and was explicitly a non-profit I
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by slwvx 10mo ago
A more positive-sum view is that the US is bringing the rest of the world up in science every time it exports a PhD.
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by slwvx 10mo ago
The paper implies the work could be used for a "biometric proximity proof"; is that right? How would it work? Minor: the references for the paper are formatted in a careless way
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by slwvx 10mo ago
my immediate question was whether fentanyl is unique in that a vaccine can be developed for it. From [1] we read "Vaccines for cocaine, methamphetamine, nicotine and others have all been tested in rats and, in some cases, people.&quot
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by slwvx 10mo ago
"8 Scientific Papers That Were Rejected Before Going on to Win a Nobel Prize" https://www.sciencealert.com/these-8-papers-were-rejected-be...
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by slwvx 10mo ago
Yes, I think day trading is zero-sum I think gains on assets held for less than (say) two days should be taxed at a rate higher than normal income. On a related note, long-term investment is the good part of capitalism, and I'm ok wit
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by slwvx 10mo ago
Learn or die.
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by slwvx 11mo ago
you gain all kinds of health benefits from the exercise, and if enough people bike, you'll gain health benefits from lower pollution in your environment. That latter is more of a society thing though, which you don't seem to care
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by slwvx 11mo ago
Offline connections FTW
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by slwvx 11mo ago
Source code or other proof?
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by slwvx 11mo ago
I don't think anyone but the author of this article knows what happened before the Big Bang. We're so lucky that they wrote this article...
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by slwvx 11mo ago
> They claim that they get all the IP and I can get 40% of the royalties Forty percent of royalties sounds pretty good. I think that's similar to what my US uni gave me after getting a patent 20+ years ago during PhD research in eng
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by slwvx 11mo ago
I see such questions as a sort of trolling. A question that would be more educational and would result in less click-bait headlines would be to ask people to pick from among a multiple-choice list for the name of the numbers: "Are 1,

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