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by stefco_ 7y ago
any reason for this vs. plumbum?
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by stefco_ 7y ago
Right. My point is that, as with a battery, you'd need to store the product so you can reverse the reaction. Practically none of our current infrastructure for using CH4 is set up to store the output CO2 + H20; it just dumps it into th
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by stefco_ 7y ago
This definitely applied to me. I picked up Chrome partly because I trusted Google, and I moved away from it mostly because I no longer do.
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by stefco_ 7y ago
You'd still need to capture/sequester the CO2, which to me sounds much harder (or else you're only solving the "renewable" part rather than the global warming part). Water is nice because it naturally precipitates o
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by stefco_ 7y ago
I think gp's point is that nobody does this in an organized way that's not tied to a platform. When Facebook and Google eventually die, their archives will die too. You'd ideally have some format with the openness and durabil
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by stefco_ 7y ago
Proved his own point
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by stefco_ 7y ago
I think that if you read it symbolically it doesn't really matter whether the psychological model is inaccurate. This is why literary critics still use Freud in discussions. It's not about whether the model is accurate; the point
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by stefco_ 7y ago
p=0.05 is an absurdly low bar even with an extremely well-defined hypothesis. Once you open things to p-value hacking (i.e. trying a bunch of hypotheses until one seems significant), p=0.05 is almost guaranteed for one of your hypotheses an
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by stefco_ 7y ago
She may not be a crackpot within her field of expertise, but she is writing confidently without doing background research. I stand by my characterization of this piece as being of crackpot quality, and while I trust that she is perfectly
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by stefco_ 7y ago
I'm a LIGO Ph.D. student and this is a crackpot hit piece. I won't go through everything, but let me address this point: > But, as critics have pointed out correctly, the LIGO alert for this event came 40 minutes after NASA’s g
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by stefco_ 7y ago
Likewise. Sticking to generic DigitalOcean/AWS/Azure services for cloud hosting.
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by stefco_ 7y ago
Others have pointed out many weaknesses of this product already, but one seemingly annoying issue is homophones in the context of verbally communicating your location. They use a 40k word dictionary; surely there are tons of homophones in t
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by stefco_ 7y ago
> Why are people assuming racism? Because a huge number of black people in America describe a frequency and quality of interactions with police that are vastly different from white people's described experiences, claims which are ba
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by stefco_ 7y ago
That explanation only makes sense if the police are already targeting black or hispanic neighborhoods at higher rates, which they do—but it's often blatantly for reasons other than the residents' wellbeing. The Department of Justi
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by stefco_ 7y ago
I know what you mean, and I agree that the term's construction can easily lend itself to unproductive and divisive rhetoric, though I think it's a bit more complicated. I do think "toxic masculinity" is very different
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by stefco_ 7y ago
Not GP, but: I think it's a useful phrase, though it's often overloaded/misapplied/used vaguely. Some (generally recognized as) non-toxic stereotypically masculine traits include having confidence, a can-do attitude, bei
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by stefco_ 7y ago
They added the last important missing feature from ITAMatrix, which was a direct link to a prefilled checkout page. That part is nice.
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by stefco_ 7y ago
A lot of people love working on more esoteric technical things and get more satisfaction from the intellectual component than its direct utility (I certainly feel this way about some things, though trans-architectural portability is not one
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by stefco_ 7y ago
Links say you need to log in; by “anyone” do you mean subscribers?
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by stefco_ 7y ago
Also worth pointing out that there are 4 times as many 777s as there are A340s. Doesn’t mean A340 isn’t great, just that the odds of no accidents go up with fewer flight hours. The popularity of A320 and 737-NG makes their safety records
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by stefco_ 7y ago
> The crux of the argument is you will still need the algorithmic complexity in the end with or without LIDAR, so it doesn't add any advantage. The approach described still uses the same ML on a Lidar data representation, but with a
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by stefco_ 7y ago
Of course, they were presumably using a mostly-stock car with custom niche sensor products, so that comparison would be a bit more favorable in production.
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by stefco_ 7y ago
> So in the end I think Elon will be proved right. Those currently investing in LIDAR-based systems will eventually ditch it for purely practical economic reasons. Those that don't will be completely destroyed in the open market. Hi
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by stefco_ 7y ago
This is cool for off-planet macronutrient production, but plants already do this at scale on earth with excellent efficiency and relatively little supervision. Marketing this as eco-friendly sounds, to me, like utterly shameless greenwashin
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by stefco_ 7y ago
If you had feedback for where you were pointing I think most people would get pretty good pretty quickly (excepting people with movement disorders). It wouldn't be very precise, but I think it would be great for lazily triggering multi
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by stefco_ 7y ago
To elaborate on this a bit: you can talk about electric and magnetic fields as properties of space itself, and they have a fully-established physical reality to them. Moving charges appear as terms in Maxwell's equations making contrib
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by stefco_ 7y ago
Yeah, people who are completely direct about what they want in both their profile and communications tend to have a much better time on apps. I try to put things in my profile that will be charming to people I might like and alienating to p
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by stefco_ 7y ago
Oh yeah, by “swipe indiscriminately” i really meant “swipe on literally everybody and then downselect from matches”. It’s a very obnoxious thing to do. Pretty easy, but it discourages people from messaging any guy first when you know ther
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by stefco_ 7y ago
Right, yes, That’s what I meant: it’s advantageous for fascist agitators to encourage traditional repressive masculinity for the reasons you outline. Being susceptible to it makes you useful to fascists.
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by stefco_ 7y ago
Some of us really like the parentheses!

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