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by wyager 4y ago
> This is a vastly skewed measurement that excludes 99% of the deaths from chernobyl and fukuhsima which are diffuse and externalised. Only the most rudimentary linear models predict non-negligible diffuse loss of life from these events.
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by wyager 4y ago
> It is particularly bad for minorities, since ALL of them will be suspected of having their position/funding/etc because of their identity instead of merit It's bad for the ones who would have achieved these things on mer
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by wyager 4y ago
> Does anyone have a strong rebuttal against DEI issues being a "pipeline problem" in tech? Yes and no - this explanation is partially correct, in that the impossibility of hiring the kind of demographic distribution DEI advoca
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by wyager 4y ago
Matter/thread is nothing like zigbee, except the MAC layer is the same. For one, Thread uses IP(v6), and Zigbee does not use IP at all. This will make managing thread networks much more like managing normal networks (hopefully). I don&
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by wyager 4y ago
The sun barely looks different from an artificial blackbody of the same temperature. The atmosphere is not a big consideration here.
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by wyager 4y ago
> Life is going to suck anyway, might as well drag others along for the ride How in the world did you get that from anything I said? I can't pick out any part of my comment that could be construed to mean that. Marginal life is (as
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by wyager 4y ago
> They’re expensive ($300k each You can easily adjust your spending by an order of magnitude either direction. > they age you faster Yeah, I'm sure you'd have been looking great at 60 if not for those damned kids. > ther
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by wyager 4y ago
> But we shouldn’t shame people for shooting for the moon and landing on earth. We should shame them for lying in their marketing materials.
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by wyager 4y ago
I assume GP is being sarcastic. Basically every "reputable" media outlet is constantly trying to convince people not to have kids.
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by wyager 4y ago
The genetic factors estimates come only from adoption data, and there are studies that condition further on things like adoptive parent material conditions. The researchers are not dumb; they have put some thought into it.
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by wyager 4y ago
If you find yourself wanting any of this, just use a language with algebraic data types and save everyone (especially yourself) some pain.
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by wyager 4y ago
I have plenty of beef with SQL, but your insert versus update example doesn't make sense to me. That's a perfectly reasonable difference; insert is always a dense operation while update is usually a sparse operation.
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by wyager 4y ago
> Unless a child is put up for adoption They have, of course, tested this as well.
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by wyager 4y ago
> However any look at generational wealth dynamics quickly dispels that idea Generational wealth statistics, as well as heritability research, are consistent with the idea that expected wealth is causally preceded by genetically heritabl
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by wyager 4y ago
Are you trying to imply that those are straightforwardly causally related?
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by wyager 4y ago
Have you considered that you have the causality flipped, and that people are generally rich because they're good at making money under adverse conditions? Would you expect someone who was capable of accumulating large amounts of wealth
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by wyager 4y ago
Why aren't you saying something like this to the comment I responded to? They posted inflammatory nonsense, and I responded with a factual refutation.
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by wyager 4y ago
Doctors used to be viewed with (justified) suspicion. That suspicion is mostly still justified, but doctors are riding the coattails of several significant medical inventions in the last 100 years, especially antibiotics. This gives them a
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by wyager 4y ago
> what is the point of having the camera on Human social interaction is deeply dependent on facial communication.
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by wyager 4y ago
Suppressors are legally required in many european areas, and completely unrestricted in many countries even with restrictive gun laws. They are primarily a nuisance reduction and hearing safety device. The US's strict regulations mostl
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by wyager 4y ago
Why do you think I'm angry? I'm just pointing out that you are saying things that don't carry semantic content without prevaricating about it. Apologies if that comes off as hostile - I don't really have time to write th
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by wyager 4y ago
This is why it's not an obvious win for containers over VMs. Existing low-assurance operating systems aren't good enough to trust the basic set of usermode syscalls to be totally privesc-free. But I guarantee you that the set of s
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by wyager 4y ago
> VMs are simply more isolated than containers. This doesn't mean anything - it is just a cliché. > VM isolation happens in hardware -- the processor, and is supported by the processor This is also meaningless, or at least doesn&
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by wyager 4y ago
I have a Helios QD Ti suppressor (same company, also 3D printed out of titanium) - just got ATF approval after about 6-7 months. It was pretty pricey (around $1300 IIRC), but it's very cool. Super lightweight, suppresses very effective
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by wyager 4y ago
Than what? In most of my containers I only expose extremely basic devices like `/dev/random`, which are extremely unlikely to have vulnerabilities. Virtio drivers are very complicated and very privileged.
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by wyager 4y ago
What do you trust more: kernel-mode virtio drivers or the limited subset of kernel-mode /dev drivers and user-mode APIs exposed to containers? It's not at all clear to me that a VM is safer than a (well-designed) containerization
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by wyager 4y ago
Ah, I did not see this update! Tfti
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by wyager 4y ago
Who cares? It doesn't matter. No one doing serious work in physics, simulation, etc cares about units at all besides very broad distinctions between systems like natural units vs constructed. Arguing about imperial, metric, pi, tau, et
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by wyager 4y ago
Unless you believe in culinary Cartesian dualism, there must be some physical characteristic in which the effect of the processing is embodied. The actual issue is almost certainly insufficient granularity in classification of nutrients. Fo
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by wyager 4y ago
It's a reasonable parody of EA-style uniform utilitarians, but has nothing on hedonic/non-uniform utilitarians. I also don't take EA-style uniform utilitarianism seriously (specifically because of the type of thing in that st

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