trhway

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by trhway 1y ago
>Am I missing these crazy, happy, funny, exciting times? Sure I am, but they are gone to never come back. Well, some aspects of that paradise are coming back - new law in Russia puts FSB back into the science curator position, and all th
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by trhway 1y ago
>It’s a bit of a class thing, isn’t it? reminded - the "amateur" (vs. paid "professional") requirement in Olympic and other sports, i.e. participation for the sake of only pure sport spirit, back then came from the ar
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by trhway 1y ago
the society reneging on its contract today means that the current taxpayers will lose the trust in the society and in particular will be significantly discouraged from paying taxes, etc. as they would lose belief in the society keeping its
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by trhway 1y ago
ok, call it a contract between an individual and society - the individual pays taxes today and when retired gets his/her medical needs taken care about by the society. Looks like an insurance contract to me, btw. Anyway, like with any
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by trhway 1y ago
No, they paid into it their whole life. So, it is their dime not the current taxpayer’s. The taxpayer is paying for their own future.
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by trhway 1y ago
And the patient made that choice by establishing that family dynamics and by not having specific instructions even while seeing over decades the family dynamics they created themselves. I'd say that is an explicit clear choice. And any
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by trhway 1y ago
>Sadly, hospitals are full of 80-90+ year old people who cannot ... and the family continues to insist we "do everything" to help this person. so what? It is on their dime, not yours. If i'm a 90 years old and wanna drag m
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by trhway 1y ago
>new data that is the main point for me. There are a lot of claims, yet almost no verifiable data. With smartphones everywhere and having seen how war is documented say in Ukraine (and also how the propaganda lies are made there), i beli
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by trhway 1y ago
>So if an electric car requires 2000 pounds of iron and 50 pounds of lithium, that works out to 4000 pounds of iron ore that needs to be mined and refined, vs 25,000 pounds of lithium ore. means recycling of lithium batteries will be a t
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by trhway 1y ago
> spatial data flow model. Instead of instructions flowing through a centralized pipeline, the E1 pins instructions to specific compute nodes called tiles and then lets the data flow between them. A node, such as a multiply, processes it
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by trhway 1y ago
Now lets do a robotic rhinos and elephants. Upon detection of a shot and a specific place it came from (using radar and sound sensor) the robot turns and starts to run in in that direction unleashing a salvo from a range of weapons - from n
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by trhway 1y ago
>I’m just saying it’s not a good argument as it does not hold for other cases. No. It does hold for other cases where severe impairment is present. >My comment makes it clear I’m not comparing the two exactly. Because your case doesn&
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by trhway 1y ago
>But I’m gay, and while there are pros and cons to it, I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world. Having Dawn syndrome is severe impairment. Being gay isn't an impairment. At least nowadays in US. I'm not sure you would fee
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by trhway 1y ago
Well, the test is simple - would you like to get Dawn chromosome yourself? Or may be have your children get it? I’m sure the answer is No.
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by trhway 1y ago
As long as you can pay for it. Not everybody can drive Ferrari. (Or rephrasing a USSR movie quote - A society without an upper/lower differentiator has no purpose)
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by trhway 1y ago
even if it is the same, you're still end up farther into the future where iPhones are even more advanced.
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by trhway 1y ago
Bolt EV was 20K after tax rebate (and that is an US car, ie. it has more safety and other required features than say a 12K car legal in many other countries). Not many people bought. Instead they buy more expensive EVs. While GM probably di
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by trhway 1y ago
>Chinese competition simply won't be allowed. Easy as that. Then the domestic industry will just rot from inside. It is usually a worse outcome than if the domestic industry were competing in the open market. Tariffs and other prote
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by trhway 1y ago
Doing it for fun and popularity is completely different. And especially in such a cruel and torturous way the Osborne did. He did it on several occasions and knowingly at that.
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by trhway 1y ago
judge for yourself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nhp7U0rwdM
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by trhway 1y ago
lets start working our beliefs up from easier places : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ_0ImDYrPY https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7H2IDc-5QdQ
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by trhway 1y ago
everybody mostly discusses real vs. imitation/vegan, yet i think it has nothing to do with the current BYND situation. "on an operating basis Beyond Meat lost 45 cents from every dollar of sales." that is a culprit. Bad manag
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by trhway 1y ago
As the basis for representation, Gabors work well for 2D (be it biological visual cortex or converged CNN kernels - the math on Gabors efficiency as such a basis explains that commonality of biology and CNN) and with beginning of our ventu
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by trhway 1y ago
Interesting point there: "The other problem is with viral vector based gene therapy is you can’t have it again. You develop antibodies which prevent it from working again, and it could cause a dangerous immune response." Just won
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by trhway 1y ago
one can always press the door bell button - works like a charm with my Chihuahua. Though he prefers to factorize numbers more like 529 than 21.
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by trhway 1y ago
For companies like Google, H1B isn’t about bringing into US, it is just an expensive way to satisfy their US hiring hunger. That difference can be understood by imagining that H1B isn’t foreign devs, instead it is devs grown in a jar by the
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by trhway 1y ago
We're already seeing it with DeepSeek's and other optimizations - like that law with highways - the wider the highway the even more usage of it. Dropping by 90% would open even more use cases. For white-collar jobs replacement - w
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by trhway 1y ago
thanks, i see. So, MS can't get them really. https://www.nafsa.org/professional-resources/browse-by-inter... "AC21 [codified at INA § 214(g)(5)(A)-(B)] exempts the following petitioners from the H-1B cap: Ins
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by trhway 1y ago
Google would be required to pay 900K instead of 600K. You think that would stop Google?
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by trhway 1y ago
i think you're mistaken. The H1B cap is 65K. Cap-exempts are capped at 20K. Thus total cap is 85K. No above and beyond of that number. Speaking about original post US tech industry is 16M people. So 600K+ of H1Bs, suppose they all in

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