tomohelix

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by tomohelix 2y ago
Interesting how this is not yet flagged while Paul Graham's piece a few days ago was flagged almost instantly and required manual approval to stay up. Imo, both are heavily opinionated albeit in opposite direction. And both having litt
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by tomohelix 2y ago
I will get flak for this but just too funny to not say it. This looks to me the equivalent of: "software engineer is a real engineering discipline" argument. Some practitioners of one field consider themselves to be equivalent to
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by tomohelix 2y ago
They are still building but none of these are at the scale China is doing. Most US projects are less than 10B, majority are around 1-2B. Meanwhile this article shows the dam China is building is over 100B. That is why I mentioned that nothi
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by tomohelix 2y ago
Even before clicking, I already knew it would be in China. It has been a while since the US or other western countries have done a major public infrastructure project (compared to what have been done before). The US especially is lagging be
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by tomohelix 2y ago
There were definitely a lack of funding justification as the previous wars dragged on. Iraq and Afghanistan cost trillions of dollar each, against tiny forces. The US could hang on for as long as it did simply because of the massive budget
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by tomohelix 2y ago
Yes, very likely. The US has no means to rapidly switch into wartime production. It is woefully inadequate when you realize that there is only one factory making tanks and it almost got shutdown. Even Russia is out producing the US. China w
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by tomohelix 2y ago
I think training and experienced crews are in the same boat as equipment. It takes too much time and effort to train someone to do things like flying the F35 or crew an aircraft carrier. By the time a new pilot is certified, in a real confl
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by tomohelix 2y ago
The US's main strategy is to dominate the battlefield and achieve the objective as fast as possible using technology and overwhelming firepower. So yes, they could and did win the "hot" stages where they were able to deploy a
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by tomohelix 2y ago
A bit on the tangent, but seeing how the US often struggles to fight clearly inferior forces, I have to question how effective the US military really is. The US has the most advance tech and the largest budget, nobody can deny that. But how
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by tomohelix 2y ago
Well, a century or so ago, we were still arguing about whether skin color is a reliable indicator of sentience and intelligence... Right now, we are still arguing whether elephant or great apes are intelligent. Human as a whole is too egois
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by tomohelix 2y ago
A PI test is quite controversial. Personally, I consider it pseudoscience at best and trash from incompetent MBA managers at worst. At its core, the test tries to force complex human behaviors into predefined categories and doesn't car
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by tomohelix 2y ago
I don't like that description very much. The cell being "alive" is literally the top reason the cellular machineries work so well. By being "alive" it is keeping the environment optimal and perfect for the enzymes t
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by tomohelix 2y ago
I have strong doubt it will work. On paper we are just removing an arbitrary boundary that is the cell membrane/wall and combine trillions of cells together to form a giant cell. So it sounds very reasonable and attractive in engineeri
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by tomohelix 2y ago
Bacteria is supposed to be really low on the complexity scale of life. Just above viruses and some other controversial "lifeforms". Yet, when put into the analogy of human technology, I realize just how enormously sophisticated th
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by tomohelix 2y ago
To be fair, this kind of spying is quite outdated and inefficient. What is easier is a Chinese company establishes a branch in the US that barely has any operation. But they then try to poach experienced Chinese-born workers in other US com
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by tomohelix 2y ago
It is incredibly entertaining. It is the closest thing to full dive VR we can get right now and I doubt we would ever get the "realness" as close as lucid dreaming without some physical hijacking in the brain. The world is your oy
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by tomohelix 2y ago
Indeed, if you are pragmatic and want actual, certain results, violence and force are the surefire methods. That is why the GP put the "evolved" in quotes. It takes something more than the basest human instincts and the animal sid
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by tomohelix 2y ago
Get it a bit better in term of precision and we have a killer lab automation tool. Labs around the world would be willing to pay 1M for a robot that can handle manual lab works and it is not like they are very difficult. Lots of labwork is
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by tomohelix 2y ago
Well having to soak the rice overnight and reboil it multiple times doesn't seem like an easy method to me. Also saying rice is filled with arsenic and warn against eating it multiple times a day is not that different from saying it is
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by tomohelix 2y ago
It is funny to me that any time an article or claims regarding rice being unhealthy appear, it would be from some far West country whose diet barely contains any rice. Meanwhile, Asian countries whose populace exclusively eat rice every day
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by tomohelix 2y ago
> previewed “as early as December,” ... After that, Jarvis might be made available to early testers, so a launch does not seem imminent. Google is trying to show they are not behind in the AI race by advertising something probably barely
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by tomohelix 2y ago
One only need to look at the current depictions of sex in popular shows to see why people don't like them. These are incredible gratuitous and basic and exist for shock value without a shred of passion nor artistry. Worse, they can det
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by tomohelix 2y ago
I guess by using the word "fair" I may have caused the discussion to focus on the wrong idea. It is about what is acceptable to both the employer and the employee. The employee would like the freedom to WFH but the employer consid
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by tomohelix 2y ago
The comparisons are to show how other professions have a common level of benefit. On the overall market, RTO is not exceptional and it is understandable why employers for a particular field would be hesitant to grant WFH as an added benefit
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by tomohelix 2y ago
I know this is HN and most people here heavily support WFH. But as this article shows, people will support whatever benefits they can get, even if it is very likely come at the cost of productivity. With WFH, it is a mixed bag of whether th
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by tomohelix 2y ago
The Kinect was revolutionary and had interesting applications beyond consumer uses. Same with Hololens. Same with Google Glass. Same with 3D TVs. Same with others tech ahead of its time. IMO, Apple's most successful approach is perfect
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by tomohelix 2y ago
We use synthetic biology to modify what is already available in nature and then call it "synthetic lifeforms" but it is like a cheap knockoff of the original with barely functional system. All of these "synthetic lifeforms&qu
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by tomohelix 2y ago
From an engineering perspective, a single bacterium is a state of the art self contained factory. It has thousands or even ten of thousands of feeback circuits each with multiple interweaving depdendencies that somehow works perfectly to ad
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by tomohelix 2y ago
He was from Vietnam. Suing someone there for copyright infringement is like suing a chinese company for stealing an IP. It is not easy and it is not likely to go anywhere. Also, he probably got enough money to retire. If it did get $50k a d
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by tomohelix 2y ago
First of all, I doubt TSA agents are "well trained". They are incompetent at their main task, which is screening for weapons in luggages and they are assisted by state of the art technologies. Second, I also doubt people waiting i

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