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by tuatoru 3y ago
It's just that the real world is fractal. With apologies to Jonathan Swift, the exceptions have smaller exceptions that upon them prey, and they have smaller yet to bite 'em.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> It seems like reproduction rates in wealthy countries trend closer towards replacement levels... That seems unlikely, given that total fertility in wealthy countries is well below "replacement" (2.1 children per woman). Repr
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Besides tobacco and alcohol use, obesity and type 2 diabetes are risk factors for cancers. High fructose corn syrup FTW.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> Siu, who's trying to use his pharmacy degree to work in other parts of healthcare, is finding it harder to land interviews than in a prior job search. HR is using AI application tracking systems to screen applicants, and it's
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Hand-grips on trekking poles. Hmm, probably a bit niche, although pretty salient for me.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Yes. Off topic, but take a look across countries for example Austria and Switzerland. Similar geography, language, culture, ethnicities and religions, very similar total fertility rates, but in Austria childcare is cheap (~3% of average wag
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Yeah, Simon Monk omits a great deal from his writing. But usual practice is to use the 10% to 90% range of the ADC anyway. Too many people are unwilling to learn about basic op amp circuits to buffer and condition the input signal.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Living in submarines is possible, too, for certain values of "living" and for certain durations of time.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> “The systems are intelligent in the relatively narrow domain where they’ve been trained. They are fluent with language and that fools us into thinking that they are intelligent, but they are not that intelligent,” explains LeCun. “It’s
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Why anyone buys anything from the Amazon store besides e-books is beyond me.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Diffusers are a thing. Fairly well understood.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Where I live PLBs have a lower sticker price than the InReach, only require a one-time payment for life, and they have a ten-year battery life. I don't know about EPIRBs or ELTs. You don't need feedback: Search and Rescue WILL se
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by tuatoru 3y ago
So an alternative title is " ... is reducing safety margins by 50%". (Sensors sense what they are designed to sense, not other things, and sometimes lose calibration.)
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by tuatoru 3y ago
It's already nonsensical and has been for over a decade. Planes have ELTs, emergency locator transmitters, that are activated by G-force in a crash (or manually). Any sensible person going somewhere remote has a PLB (personal locator b
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> The smart thing to do if you were going somewhere remote would be to have a Personal locator beacon, PLB, on land; or an EPIRB, emergency position indicating radio beacon, on ocean. Satphones and cell phones are luxuries but these are
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Yes it is. We do it with urban wastewater in thousands of locations around the world. This is not a hard problem, nor is it expensive.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Battswap is being trialled by trucking companies, with much larger and heavier batteries than in cars. The engineering problems are fiddly and time-consuming to get right but not intrinsically difficult. With battswap also being done at the
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by tuatoru 3y ago
The battery market is not yet mature enough for this. When the big car manufacturers have all had another decade's experience selling EVs, and battery tech has stabilized, the logic of standardization and swapping will become apparent.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> ... trying to find chargers with the right plug, ones that aren't broken, ones that were available, downloading various apps, etc. Then when I did find a charger I sat in the parking lot waiting for it to juice up. These considera
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by tuatoru 3y ago
A general principle of backup systems: if you didn't test it this month, it's broken.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Obligatory: we have had robot vacuum cleaners in homes for two decades now. They still can't clean floors properly except in the most minimalist houses, let alone clean windows, dust window-sills, water plants, or do any of the myriad
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by tuatoru 3y ago
If, when surveyed by the BLS, they say that they are working (part time, whatever) or have looked for work in the last six weeks, they are counted as "in the labor force". (New jargon: "economically active".) Unemploymen
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by tuatoru 3y ago
FRED (using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics) claims that 83% of men, and 78% of women, aged 25 - 54 are working. In the prime working years, there isn't much of a problem, if any. (The data series are Activity Rate: Aged 25 -
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Does "government" include teachers, police, and fire-fighters?
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Solar PV is intrinsically scalable from microwatts to hundreds of gigawatts, or even larger. There were and are markets at all of these scales.[1] That's what allowed its development. The space industry funded early development, Japa
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by tuatoru 3y ago
It makes more dollars to build cars with smaller batteries. Sticker shock is a real phenomenon. You can't get to the long term unless you survive the short term.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> Light bulbs were patented only after 40 years of work by multiple researchers Not actually true. The early ones were patented, but used filaments made of materials like platinum, and glass-blowing and evacuation were costly as well at
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Saving five percent (US) to thirty percent (generic less-developed country) of generated power in T&D losses. There isn't any obviously-orders-of-magnitude-better application for room-temp-and-pressure superconductors apart from MR
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by tuatoru 3y ago
"40 tears" is a nice typo, although it's more likely to be gigatears than individual ones. Much wailing.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
DEI policies force employers to look at all potential employees as members of ethnicity- and gender-based categories. Some people object to the racism and sexism inherent in this forced ontology and don't see how it fits with meritocra

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