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by telchior 4y ago
Medical device prices are typically nosebleed high, so a $70 pair of glasses really doesn't strike me as being expensive at all, relative to other devices, even if it only cost them $10 to make. A device mentioned in a different thread
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by telchior 4y ago
When people say "early" they can mean very different things, it's not really useful for gauging your actual risk. Check a yearly UV index for your area. There are times of day that are completely safe for your skin type; but
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by telchior 4y ago
This is neat, I'm going to try using it on some searches tonight. I have two pieces of immediate feedback: - I need a date range option. I'm searching for something about a piece of software and getting answers from around 2011, s
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by telchior 4y ago
Yeah, but penalizing people based on metadata or keyword lists is incredibly easy. Compare that to trying to figure out which recipe site is keyword stuffing vs which happens to have a story by someone who really did journey to Tuscany to l
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by telchior 4y ago
This kind of problem isn't just because of search, it's also because of content creators. I believe what all content creators quickly learn is, on any given topic, the funnel is extremely wide on the most introductory knowledge an
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> Nicotine gum won't ever replace cigarettes, nor will people who don't smoke start chewing it. There are non-smokers who use nicotine gum; I'm one of them. Similar effect to caffeine with a lower half-life, so it's s
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by telchior 4y ago
WolframAlpha has a niche use case and rather steep requirements for learning how it wants things to be asked. Also there's a ton of stuff it just can't parse in any format. It can tell you how long to cook an egg (I think) [edit:
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by telchior 4y ago
I've always enjoyed drinking hot coffee / tea on hot days, and found out this is a sort of tradition for some people (e.g. kopi in Singapore). Supposedly, it cools you down by kickstarting your sweat, but for me it also makes me f
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by telchior 4y ago
Cellphones are perfect for this. For maximum effect, hold it above your face while falling asleep. (Only semi-joking, I've done this multiple times.)
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by telchior 4y ago
I've always been interested in trying skateboarding, but my balance is absolutely miserable (due to a vestibular injury), so I sort of just know better than to try. Balance declines for a lot of people naturally with age, so that'
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by telchior 4y ago
Instead of thinking in terms of "everything", "everyone", etc, it may help to think in terms of bell curves and outliers on that curve. Would you be willing to believe that, out of 7+ billions people in the world, there
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by telchior 4y ago
Seemed clear to me what they mean: assign full blame to management. The blameless part is for engineers. > Southwest has many highly technical developers, cloud architects, Site Reliability Engineers and DevOps Engineers, so talent at th
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by telchior 4y ago
I'm really curious about this viewpoint. Can you point to a couple specific items in the Twitter Files that you find to be terrifying? I've taken a look -- definitely not a thorough reading -- of the Files and nothing particularly
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FWIW "regular criminals" routinely get bail. Even murder suspects do; around half of them. Despite that, there are some obvious issues with cash bail, which is why bail reform is a major area of legislation in some places. Several
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In my experience, having spent some years as a professional writer with a bunch of colleagues, every writer comes with their own distinctive flaws. In terms of output, for some people getting words out is like juicing a stone. For others, t
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by telchior 4y ago
I agree that what's being attempted is pretty implausible, but you're comparing it to people pursuing perpetual motion, which is in direct contravention of physical laws. A better comparison might be people pursuing fusion for pow
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by telchior 4y ago
You're probably right, not sure how old you are but growers kept selectively breeding solely for appearance up to (I think) the 2010s.
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by telchior 4y ago
Probably much more important than chivalry: you can't ransom off a captive who is dead. Ransoms were really, really large in that period. Five years after this battle, the English captured the French king at Poitiers. His ransom was 4
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by telchior 4y ago
I think modern medical ethics demands a physical treatment for literally everything and anything that's discovered, including quite a few that either aren't physically dangerous (e.g. atypical brains) or are inevitable (a 90+ year
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Isn't the danger of knowing there's something weird there caused by the rarity of knowing anything at all? I'd imagine that if there was consistent, good information available, we'd figure out how and when to act on it.
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Oh, sure, you can easily build your own propane pilot light to release a bit of CO2 indoors and it'll very likely be perfectly safe. But I don't think you could sell it to other people. Most of those "mosquito" capture d
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by telchior 4y ago
I've been playing with the idea of an indoor mosquito capture device, so this study is interesting to me on a number of levels. (In case you're wondering why this would be any more difficult than outdoor capture: almost all of the
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I don't think that "Algorithmic Everyone", the one you're phrasing as "real human interaction" is really either everyone or real humans. Instead, it's turning a handful of Kardashians into a million Kardas
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Based on the other comments I thought this article would be suggesting that there's a new trend taking place with people in their 30s. The author does seem to be trying to position it as "hey look at this interesting phenomenon&qu
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Administration costs have gone something like 4x since 1980. The specific share they take is probably dependent on the niche, but like universities, a huge portion of cost is siphoned away to paper pushing.
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One of the items this article doesn't cover is healthcare spending, which has increased between 2 and 8 times since 1980 (depending on whether you're looking at individual spending or share of GDP). Here's a decent collection
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I did read it. Sounds like there may be some issues that need to be worked on. Possibly some lawsuits filed. But my question was simple: why should other countries not having euthanasia make it harder to get MAD in Canada? A huge number of
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Why would it be relevant whether euthanasia is or isn't allowed in other places? We know exactly why it's not allowed in most places, and that reason has nothing to do with medical care.
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Back around 2008-2012, investors were dumping massive amounts of money into cleantech. It's interesting to see how much the definition of what "cleantech" is, has changed since then. Back then it was solar, energy storage, hy
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Which companies with similar concerns have actually managed to increase productivity in a way that satisfies the C-suite? A much older anecdote: I had a friend who worked at Yahoo around the time Marissa Mayer was coming on as CEO. At the t

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