teorema

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by teorema 5y ago
But even if it grows linearly in transactions, that depends on transaction growth which might not be linear... and that's still independent of what's tolerable for a typical user. I was going to post something related, which was w
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by teorema 5y ago
This is part of a body of research pointing to the same things in different areas. Scientific and industrial progress is heterogeneous, incremental, and relentless. It's more like hordes of searchers noticing the same things simultaneo
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by teorema 5y ago
"None of the bat viruses isolated in Laos harbors a so-called furin cleavage site in the spike that facilitates cell entry. It’s a feature of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that has led some scientists to theorize that it was created in a labora
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by teorema 5y ago
On the other hand, critics of natural talent explanations often point out that too is tautological: someone is talented if they're successful and vice versa. Clearly there aren't proteins for violin bow control, so something happe
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by teorema 5y ago
I might fall in that category. The problem is I've been turned off in a big way by stories of unethical practices at the NY Times in preventing people from cancelling subscriptions. Combine that with what people are pointing out about
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by teorema 5y ago
Whatever happened to the idea that boosters would be tailored to currently circulating virus variants, ala flu vaccines? Somewhere along the way the policy discussion shifted and I don't know why. I'm becoming increasingly infuria
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by teorema 5y ago
In general it makes sense to me to have a legal contract framework for defining stakeholders more broadly than shareholders. What those stakeholders are seems specific to the needs of those involved. Seems like a useful mechanism; not sure
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by teorema 5y ago
The models aren't political. That is true. But the models do not exist without humans generating them and interpreting them. The idea that science is somehow apolitical is dangerous. It's no more true than the idea that journalism
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by teorema 5y ago
Ugh... in one of the these threads on HN someone said a manufacturer was doing that, or at least openly speculating about it, offering a low tech model. I think it was in France but my memory is fuzzy.
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by teorema 5y ago
Not really a great time for anyone really, at least from the vantage point you're referring to.
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by teorema 5y ago
There's definitely a rural poor but the lack of social and physical infrastructure puts a baseline on what's survivable as you get more rural. I don't know they flock there as much as they can't leave. Probably too more
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by teorema 5y ago
Yeah I saw that. I guess my point is it's a dangerous path to go down, using access to care that has a public health benefit as a punishment to some. It just ends up hurting everyone in the end. I wish everyone would get vaccinated. Bu
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by teorema 5y ago
The problem, at least speaking as a US citizen, is that children cannot be vaccinated and are subject to testing requirements if they become ill. Also, even the vaccinated are having breakthrough cases and if not, are afraid of them or are
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by teorema 5y ago
I'm surprised there wasn't more discussion of environmental and industrial change. Some of the examples are closer to pure fantasy, but I suspect there were larger, and more larger, specimens of animals in the sea, 150 years ago t
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by teorema 5y ago
... or you incentivize the wait by decreasing cost. Sometimes I feel like these discussions about EVs are strangely divorced from most people's lives. We will likely make our next purchase an EV purchase, and I think the cost of waitin
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by teorema 5y ago
I'd love to see more examples of this, both with Heaven's Gate and other films. Some films have the right idea and filmed material, but were edited suboptimally. It's also informative to see how a director like Soderbergh app
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by teorema 5y ago
What's really depressing to me is the struggles of the student and lecturer involved, intimated at but never really a focus in their own right: https://www.statesman.com/news/20170314/herman-35-years-late...
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by teorema 5y ago
This theme stretches elsewhere in the pandemic discourse. There's an interview appearing alongside this article, where they discuss the failures of the FDA in approving the vaccine for children and booster shots. The FDA's comment
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by teorema 5y ago
This sort of thing is one of the more disturbing things to me about COVID-19, and why I wish there was a less exclusive focus on death in talking about the pandemic. Clearly that's important but there's these hugely significant pr
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by teorema 5y ago
Call me skeptical too. The essay concludes by highlighting a meta-analysis the author considers comprehensive, and the best that can be said is that insect population decline isn't as bad as was previously reported, only a "3 to 6
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by teorema 5y ago
There's so many ethical problems constantly overshadowing the Olympics that it's hard for me to enjoy watching them. I have some excitement for the athletes but no longer make a point of watching them. It's a shame because it
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by teorema 5y ago
Lets say we're talking about VCs and shareholders. Shouldn't the public enjoy the same expectations? Especially when we're just talking about a zero percent payback? I think there's a legitimate argument taxes exist for
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by teorema 5y ago
The question isn't whether a good employer-employee relationship is possible. the question is whether a horrible employee-employer relationship, one that has significant butterfly effects, is possible. More pertinently, the question is
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by teorema 5y ago
There was a very good article about this a few years ago, after this Slate piece (this Slate piece was referenced). It was titled something like "Since when did caramelizing onions come to mean browning?" I wish I could find it. S
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by teorema 5y ago
To be fair to the grandparent poster, who was downvoted, in the decentralized networking community there are protocols designed to be robust to different hardware setups, like over wifi or other ad hoc systems. Depending on tor from that pe
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by teorema 5y ago
Yes, here you have Briar bumping up against the inability to run any fully decentralized mobile communication software on iOS. Seems like a serious limitation on the part of iOS at this point given trends towards decentralization in gener
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by teorema 5y ago
You'd be wise to be careful with stinky tofu, at least in many places. The safest methods simply marinate tofu in fermented amaranth; the tofu itself isn't aged. But there's many approaches to it with and without questionable
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by teorema 5y ago
I'm probably in the minority with this, but I think all licensing laws should be abolished. Even with cases like the one you describe, other mechanisms could be used to handle the problem and those individuals likely at are risk for do
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by teorema 5y ago
FWIW, .biz always has seemed unprofessional-sounding to me. Why that was ever created with the intent of being a legitimate domain is beyond me. It cast a shadow over the whole process of creating those new domains at that time, almost as i
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by teorema 5y ago
I love eink devices but got turned off by the first couple of generations because they always underdelivered with PDF display, which seemed like a central use case to me. I should be able to open a random graphics-heavy PDF and have it disp

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