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by wyager 3y ago
> I used the 1x camera, which is 26mm at f/1.5 I find this way of describing the iPhone cameras frustratingly misleading. It's not the author's fault; Apple does it in their official specs. The "26mm" rating is &
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by wyager 3y ago
The electrical consumption of the train is most likely not its largest externality-source. The largest cost might be wasted human life-hours, which used to be more or less correctly internalized but now (due to these flight bans) is not. Yo
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by wyager 3y ago
There are negative externalities beyond the cost of electricity. Installing and maintaining rail, land disruption, wasted human life-hours, etc. all impose internalized and externalized costs.
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by wyager 3y ago
The negative externalities of a plane ticket absolutely do not double the cost of a plane ticket. They are not significant - certainly smaller than the taxes already levied on flights. What this tells you is that flights, as they exist, are
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by wyager 3y ago
I have a hope that over the next 20-40 so years, we see extensive commercialization of digital night vision (not the crap you get on amazon, but the solid-state version of high-voltage IITs that the military is currently testing), flat lens
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by wyager 3y ago
American banks don't rip us off to that degree. They aren't nationalized. The biggest rip-off in American banking is that narrow banking is effectively illegal (not the banks' fault), but HYSAs are starting to get around that
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by wyager 3y ago
I have no idea if anyone has covered it. It's industry knowledge. Source: me I figured it would be generally known at this point, especially with the whole perceptual hash debacle (intended to satisfy LEAs despite the plan to finally
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by wyager 3y ago
Don't project your use of spare time on everyone else. Some of us use spare time towards productive ends. I would personally prefer not to spend all my time living like a subsistence farmer from 1200 years ago.
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by wyager 3y ago
> but it is much more energy-efficient than power tools Only if you forget to amortize the cost of supporting a human life for the extra marginal hours it takes
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by wyager 3y ago
Would it? Apple crippled iCloud image encryption for years at the request of federal LEAs.
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by wyager 3y ago
There are diminishing returns to exogeny, especially in species with a high degree of genetic redundancy (like dogs, cf https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17437958/ ), whereas with guided endogeny you can achieve better ou
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by wyager 3y ago
If you need a dog to perform any kind of specific function, you're 95% of the time vastly better off with a purpose-bred dog than some random mixture. Plus, a huge fraction of the dogs up for adoption in the US have strong admixture wi
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by wyager 3y ago
(Neuro-)Physiologically, it's not clear to me why the sense of pitch should decohere. It's not like the cochlea is physically unstable, and the hartley-ish-transformed data the brain is pulling out of the cochlea should be quite r
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by wyager 3y ago
Yeah, but the murdering was: * Well motivated * Tightly scripted and shot * Had a lot of attention to mechanics, and attention to detail where it was important
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by wyager 4y ago
The final movie was by far the worst in the franchise. They completely abandoned a lot of the attention to detail and carefully managed suspension of disbelief that characterized the first movie. Turns out they fired/didn't hire t
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by wyager 4y ago
If you have solar on every domestic rooftop, that also doesn't actually let you address realistic power consumption patterns. If we're talking about not-yet-extant technology that would allow solar to meet 24/7 demand at grid
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by wyager 4y ago
Any electrical infrastructure is a strategic target. If it's not a power plant, it's a substation.
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by wyager 4y ago
Until we have energy storage orders of magnitude cheaper than we do now, a power source is only as good as its minimum output.
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by wyager 4y ago
We've been in a Schmittian friend/enemy political environment for decades now. We've long since abandoned politics-as-societal-optimization-mechanism; it's now just competition for resources. The republicans were just sl
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by wyager 4y ago
> hired and based admissions on pure skill/ability/talent This would be great, but I will present without comment the fact that lots of large universities are suddenly getting rid of standardized-test-based admissions, which is
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by wyager 4y ago
Obama era emissions regs make it impossible for (new) small trucks to be economically feasible. The way the regulations work disproportionately punish small vehicles.
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by wyager 4y ago
Netflix 4k compression is pretty bad. Lots of aggressive banding, blocking, and other compression artifacts. If you don't notice them, good - don't try to start looking for them.
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by wyager 4y ago
Yep - Netflix 4K compression is pretty bad. They put a fair amount of work into specifying content delivery requirements (although they have some weird requirements like asking for P3 rather than Rec.2020) but then they compress the hell ou
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by wyager 4y ago
For many outcomes (including medical outcomes) the differences do not go away when conditioning on wealth/income, so if there's a separate "root" causal factor, we have not yet found it.
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by wyager 4y ago
Many of these conditioning effects persist even when controlling for wealth. Evidently there are other factors at play. Perhaps dietary differences, differences in medical requirements, etc.
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by wyager 4y ago
Because evidently it's a significant factor in the problem under consideration. It doesn't "need" to be brought into it unless you actually want to solve the problem.
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by wyager 4y ago
> The average French person has a life expectancy of 82. In Mississippi it’s 74.9 Like 90% of these "gotchas" for southern states (including lifespan comparisons) end up decreasing or disappearing entirely when you condition on
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by wyager 4y ago
... which is to a large degree because hiring and firing in the EU is so encumbered by red tape.
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by wyager 4y ago
Because that's what the thread is about? If twitter marked lockheed as "government funded organization" I would not care
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by wyager 4y ago
So evidently NPR disagrees with the "it's just a small percentage, who cares" judgement (until that judgment being on their website becomes embarrassing)

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