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by uup 4y ago
That guy has a really good sense of proportion.
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by uup 4y ago
Burying blades is worse than burying nuclear waste?
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by uup 4y ago
How does ending the drug war take away 90% of their revenue. If you legalize drugs, the cartels would become legitimate producers and corner the market through fear and intimidation.
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by uup 4y ago
The issue is that the cartels are now endemic to the region. They're part of the government, they're extorting legal businesses, they're laundering the money and investing into legitimate businesses. You can't just undo
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by uup 4y ago
> I'm not saying living near a chip fab doesn't present the risks you outlined. What I'm saying is it's very likely there are comparable risks living basically anywhere that isn't very sparsely populated Doesn&#x
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by uup 4y ago
I thought a lot about this over night. As a parent, it's a question I constantly grapple with. "What will I tell my child when they want real-world applications of an abstract, yet extremely important, topic?" The conclusion
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by uup 4y ago
Some are just good salespeople. Selling is a large part of gaining traction. I think a lot of good salespeople go out with an idea, try to sell it to potential customers, come back with feedback on what the potential customers actually need
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by uup 4y ago
You’re basically asking for perfect data to answer this one very specific question. You’re unlikely to get it. I’m just presenting what we currently know. PM2.5 (a measure of air pollution) exposure is highly correlated with all cause morta
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by uup 4y ago
This is not an argument against living in cities. This is only an argument that you shouldn't live next to sites with significant industrial operation if you care about your risk of cancer. Look at the map I posted. There are plenty of
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by uup 4y ago
These are the EPA limits for semiconductor fabs: https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2008-07-22/E8-16746 You’re free to live wherever you choose.
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by uup 4y ago
This assumes most people care about making optimal financial decisions. They don’t.
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by uup 4y ago
I wouldn’t want to live next to a chip foundry personally. Any type of of large industrial operation is going to pollute the air. Check out this interactive map about the likelihood of cancer [1]. Living in areas with high industrial air po
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by uup 4y ago
That’s only if you’re from Westchester. If you’re from the city, Westchester is considered upstate.
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by uup 4y ago
Wouldn’t the upper range, 70% recycled water, still be 3,000,000 gallons of water / day?
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by uup 4y ago
What would be the reason for keeping it secret? Usually, I’d expect the government to be transparent with spending unless it had a reason not to be.
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by uup 4y ago
And also refused to share his research progress reports when asked to by a Covid origin committee he was a member of.
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by uup 4y ago
A lot of backstory on this guy and his organization: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/the-virus-hunting-no... TLDR is that this guy was acting as a fundraiser for research at the Wuhan Institute of Vir
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by uup 4y ago
A comparison against GPU rendering would also be interesting.
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by uup 4y ago
Both Uber and Lyft are public companies, so they can raise money on the stock market, selling bonds, convertible notes, etc.
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by uup 4y ago
You'll never have to do the laundry again
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by uup 4y ago
I'm just judging by the multiple 200+ year old trees in my own yard. There is no way anything remotely close to these trees will grow back in 30 years. Or go walk around Olympic National Park, which is very close to BC both in distance
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by uup 4y ago
After replanting, how long does it take for the old growth trees to return? /s
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by uup 4y ago
It's actually pretty common to separate music and lyric writing. For instance, I'm sure you recognize names like Puccini and Verdi as famous opera composers. It was very common for someone else to write the "lyrics" to t
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by uup 4y ago
Having recently implemented a WebSocket service in Go, the Javalin way seems preferable. This is what a similar Go version would look like: wsHandler := func(w http.ResponseWriter, r \*http.Request) { conn, err := upgrader.Upg
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by uup 4y ago
How about build a product people love? There are so many reasons listed in the article, and there are so many counter examples where companies did the opposite and still built a rabid fan base. The only unifying thread is that people will d
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by uup 4y ago
I agree that it’d be nice if he could deliver on more of his promises, but selling dreams is basically the job of upper management. Also, most other companies promise really mundane and uninteresting things. Sure, they deliver, but it’s sti
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by uup 4y ago
If there were biases, then the pattern of permeability would be predictable. For instance, encrypted data is not random, but it's not predictable.
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by uup 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty
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by uup 4y ago
Stuff like yogurt and cheese can often be tolerated by those with lactose intolerance, especially cheeses with lower lactose levels. For whey, I would verify that you're eating the same amount of whey in both cases. Obviously, powdered
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by uup 4y ago
It does

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