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541.
by zamfi 5y ago
Aluminum is easy to cut, but not melt — twice the melting point of lead, and hard to achieve without knowing what you’re doing.
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by zamfi 5y ago
Wouldn't that make the search engine the hazard, not the computer itself?
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by zamfi 5y ago
Well, basically every river from the Sierra that goes into the Central Valley has been dammed or redirected, and yes many are now a trickle because of it, and the Bay and Sacramento River delta are saltier for it. I think the pushback is ab
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by zamfi 5y ago
I do think there’s an argument to be made for this, and it’s in fact what’s happening in California — where water reservoirs (Hetch Hetchy, etc) flooded valleys that were once habitat for spawning fish, the state has built fish tunnels, etc
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by zamfi 5y ago
California is a great place to grow what is grown there, but it is not efficient in terms of water use, in part because the incentives are screwed up. The end result of the existing water rights systems is that for some farms in very arid r
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by zamfi 5y ago
> California uses an incredible amount of water that can be blamed on maintaining habitats Wait, am I reading this right? Are you saying California is to be "blamed" for letting water run through rivers it normally (i.e., witho
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by zamfi 5y ago
> This is kind-of what happened to "SARS-1" - it tended to kill its hosts before they could pass it on. Quick nit: while this is true, SARS-1 was also not particularly transmissible before symptoms appeared, in contrast to Covi
548.
by zamfi 5y ago
Only true if the virus lasts long enough to outlive a lockdown. So far that hasn’t been the case for the vast majority of single hosts.
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by zamfi 5y ago
> Except "Everybody goes inside and stops spreading" is not something that is unique to a variant of concern. But it is — this will not be the response to a variant that doesn’t cause an increase in hospitalizations or deaths.
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by zamfi 5y ago
> Do you realise that mutation is not something the species can consciously control? Very much so, and my post was carefully worded to refer to evolutionary selection pressure, and not any kind of agency on behalf of a virus. I assumed t
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by zamfi 5y ago
Sure, and this is where the immune erosion comes into play: as vaccination rates go up, so does selection pressure for immune erosion. Re: delta, think of this counterfactual — what would happen if a new variant appeared that is more lethal
552.
by zamfi 5y ago
That’s only one pressure driving viral evolution. Another pressure is social response to infection: so far, the predominant response to a more-virulent or more-lethal strain has been lockdown and/or other behavioral change, see: delta
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by zamfi 5y ago
> passwords are a symetric key, hence if the server is compromised, so is the password Pretty sure that’s not how it works, iirc passwords are stored one-way encrypted. And if it were true, then anyone with root access to a box could c
554.
by zamfi 5y ago
> Start clearing products with any detectable heavy metal content, and you'll start clearing shelves. Great. And maybe then producers will take it more seriously?
555.
by zamfi 5y ago
projecteuler.net?
556.
by zamfi 5y ago
Yes but this is perhaps overly pedantic. No one would legitimately try to cook a chicken by keeping it at room temperature forever, you still want cooked meat — it’s just that 165 overcooks it. For breast meat, you typically want 150, and y
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by zamfi 5y ago
tl;dr: botulinum toxin. From TFA: It is perhaps strange that such a rare poisoning event shapes our modern food system so profoundly, but this is perhaps because the toxin produced is one of, if not the, deadliest on earth. It has been esti
558.
by zamfi 5y ago
Perhaps, but this sounds like what someone who doesn't know many extraverts would say. If your default preferred way of being isn't "with other people" -- to the point where you feel anxious when you're alone for an
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by zamfi 5y ago
> what I am against is immigration to the UK, and any other already overcrowded place for that matter Ah, so you'd like emigrate...off the Earth? /s
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by zamfi 5y ago
What’s the unknown scalar? We know the case fatality rate.
561.
by zamfi 5y ago
I think your math doesn't distinguish between rates and amounts : indeed, if every kid in the US got COVID and only 600 died, then sure, you could make the claim that it's less risky than driving. (Also, the pandemic would be o
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by zamfi 5y ago
> Meanwhile, if you look at the CDC stats, the risk of injury from covid for his demographic is at least an order of magnitude lower than his risk from riding in a car You have to look at the CDC stats and the vehicle fatalities to mak
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by zamfi 5y ago
Vehicles are already far more regulated than smartphones, it's not a stretch to imagine that "turning off your car" for something like taking it to a non-authorized shop should be illegal. (Utilities, for example, can't
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by zamfi 5y ago
Do you avoid carrying your phone with you too, to avoid a large corporation with a known predilection for cooperating with law enforcement knowing where you are at all times? Honest question.
565.
by zamfi 5y ago
Because you can be asked/expected to come in to the office at any time — so you have to live nearby.
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by zamfi 5y ago
> For a legal warrant you have to have probable cause that a specific person committed a crime. You can't just search everybody and see what sticks, that's blatantly unconstitutional. Sure, though it’s worth noting that nothing
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by zamfi 5y ago
I work with good people, and when they screw up, I cut them some slack. Everyone sometimes screws up. Some more than others. Some distractingly so, and some so often that it's not worth continuing the relationship. But the mere fact th
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by zamfi 5y ago
> We have "big data". We have (brittle and rather poor) "pattern recognition". We have (very limited) "simulate a conversation". Yes, yes, yes, exactly. > We have NO artificial intelligent systems, for an
569.
by zamfi 5y ago
Poor communication does not imply everyone involved is incompetent idiots. It's unfortunate, and important to address, but if you quit any project every time there is inadequate communication, you'll never get anything done. Assum
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by zamfi 5y ago
You are doing something very wrong. Look at that median and ask yourself: Why would you compare yourself to median income if you have 20 yoe and two books? That is far more than the median SWE has accomplished. You are paying a lot in oppor

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