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by typest 4y ago
I am really not that knowledgeable about this space, but I would imagine it's because A) there are a lot of subsidies for the meat industry, and B) there are a lot of economies of scale present in the meat industry that do not yet exis
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by typest 4y ago
As someone who would want to be a vegan but struggles not to eat meat, I've been very interested in Impossible since it started. The idea that you might make synthetic meat that tastes as good as real meat while being cheaper is very a
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by typest 4y ago
Heroku’s loss is Replit’s gain. They’re making everything so easy, I expect them to basically be able to pick up this slack in helping make deployments simple.
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by typest 4y ago
Given how many people have failed to prove P=NP, and how strange the world would look if P did equal NP, it seems very likely that P!=NP. This would also help explain why it's so hard to prove P!=NP -- finding the proof is itself in NP
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by typest 4y ago
The heart is fundamentally a pump. Are we not able to build a replacement? I understand it’s not simple at all, and that people have tried and failed in the past, but is an artificial heart something that we should be able to build?
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by typest 4y ago
As someone who is strongly wants to "get rid of cars and switch everyone to public transit and cycling" -- no one is talking about doing this in rural areas. Should we decrease reliance on cars in cities and focus more on alternat
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by typest 4y ago
It seems that crypto and blockchain-based systems may well hurt the standing of the US if they allow US adversaries to evade financial sanctions. I wonder if US lawmakers would step in to try to shut down these systems. It may be politicall
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by typest 5y ago
It’s well known, but https://slatestarcodex.com/ was the best I ever found for just really interesting and thought provoking essays that changed my mind.
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by typest 5y ago
Your second suggestion is not possible. iOS Apps must be installed through the App Store. Hence, Ben's point in the article that Apple has ultimate control over this process.
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by typest 5y ago
> I'm 100% confident Joe Rogan will be removed from their platform Really? I'm 90% confident Joe Rogan will not be removed from their platform. They spent 100M to get exclusive rights to his podcast, and their market cap subs
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Cockroach Labs raises 278M at 5B valuation(techcrunch.com)
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by typest 5y ago
The author dismisses futurists’ predictions as ludicrous, without providing any evidence to the contrary. Robin Hanson has some crazy claims, but he thinks things through and is extremely willing to bet on what he believes in. Just because
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by typest 5y ago
> 2050, that super futuristic year, is only 29 years out, so it is exactly the same as predicting what the world would look like today back in 1992 The problem with this analysis is that the rate of change of the world is accelerating; t
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by typest 5y ago
There has been. With work from home, people are spending way more time in their neighborhoods, and online. They’re simultaneously discovering that their neighborhoods aren’t very nice, and (through urbanist social media) that nice walkable
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by typest 5y ago
In my senior year at Duke, I took her ML class (her first semester at Duke). She was an excellent professor, one of the absolute best I had while there. She focused heavily on both implementation and theory, which I found to be rare. Her cl
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by typest 5y ago
It is quite common for engineers with Cynthia Rudin’s ability to earn > 1 million. If you have that level of ML skill you can lead teams at many companies for over that amount.
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by typest 5y ago
I believe it. I don’t mean to imply this is only true for America — I just didn’t want to overstate my case. Perhaps once we get really good at asynchronous work, the opportunity will be on the table for one city to try to import substantia
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by typest 5y ago
There is a huge opportunity left on the table by so many of America’s cities to, basically, build a great city that can scale, attract everyone, use taxes to provide public goods, rinse, repeat. Unfortunately, none of our cities seem to be
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by typest 5y ago
Ah, okay, my apologies :) I read that as a synonym for "mcmansion".
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by typest 5y ago
Remote work could help to alleviate the pressure on housing markets in major cities, but mini mansions are the opposite of dense, affordable housing. Even if the price is cheap to you, the associated costs for the city — more infrastructure
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by typest 5y ago
I think the answer is yes. Most of the people setting the remote work/in office policies seemed to be thinking that vaccines offered a path back to normalcy. Delta seems to have blown that idea out of the water. It is possible that in
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by typest 5y ago
This is overly cynical. I agree that in general cooperation is very hard, and if things can be solved by a private entity, that is a good strategy. But the world has united behind causes before. A good example is the hole in the ozone layer
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by typest 5y ago
The problem is that a rule of thumb is about averages, not edge cases. For a really long retirement, you are going to hit a lot of edge cases. The 4% rule was based off the Trinity study, which looked at 30 year retirements and assumed the
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by typest 5y ago
Agreed. People look at homes and things like light switches and blinds that have stayed the same for decades. These things seem boring, but the fact that they haven't changed is evidence of great design. Smart homes to me have always f
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by typest 5y ago
Politicians gaming the system by promising short term benefits at the cost of long term gain happens alls the time. But, it's not quite so cynical as you think. First, understand that while people definitely want short term gain, the
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by typest 5y ago
There are so many resources on how to make the most of the time we have. All sorts of philosophies, teachers, books, etc. Undoubtedly people would benefit from engaging with this more, but there is a lot of effort already going into this. A
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by typest 5y ago
I did my undergrad at a top 10 university in the US. At the time (around 2015), most students fell into either "come from extremely rich families" or "very poor students on full financial aid". This bifurcation has only
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by typest 5y ago
This is because Netflix, knowing Apple would take 30%, does not allow you to sign up via an iPhone app. Apple takes 30% if you sign up via iPhone, not if you sign up via web and then use the iPhone app.
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by typest 5y ago
Any in particular you recommend? I played around with them in college, we had to spend months building one. I would love to get back into it, preferably without all the hard work of building the printer this time :)
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by typest 6y ago
I'm not an expert, but if 51% of the existing hashpower doesn't want a change, it sounds less a 51% attack and more like miners voting against something that isn't in their interest. The whole point of blockchains is that t

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