HarryHirsch

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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
It's not to replicate 'big pharma' capitalist production. It's not? Elsevier finally relented when universities could finally cancel their subscriptions because librarians could direct people to Sci-Hub.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
With certain niche medications like trientine it used to be a small manufacturer, the scale of a man with a garage, who had the FDA registration and sold the stuff for a price that allowed him to make a living. That worked fine, until inves
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Regular people would buy their mifepristone from across the border, in Mexico or ask a friendly Mexican. That's the correct way of hacking the system, not that kind of circus show. That said, one wishes that you hadn't dragged abo
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
The whole show feels like the financial literacy courses that are being offered by credit card companies. The system is stacked against the individual, we need to keep the notion of "personal responsibility" alive. Do we want this
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
With bufo some bufonauts have switched to synthetic DMT because it's bad karma to abuse the poor toads. Maybe the peyoteros could grow cactus from tissue culture or switch to San Pedro cactus, that one grows quickly, actually.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Die britischen Nationalsportarten: Dartspiel, Ehebruch und Fußballrowdytum
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Maybe the solution is that Facebook shouldn't exist. It solves both the problem of distribution and the problem of moderation.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Once a sufficient number of people have peed in the pool the strategy fails to work: this physician is incompetent and dug in, that physician is incompetent and dug in, another physician who is incompetent and refuses to own up, and here&#x
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
You do notice that it is the HBCU student who drags race in ("white male professor teaching at an all women’s HBCU"). Math education in large tracts of the country is not good, more so in areas plagued by rural and urban poverty,
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Europeans of a certain age will remember the assassination of Siegfried Buback, the German Federal Prosecutor at the height of Red Army Faction political terrorism. There was a pamphlet in left-wing 'zine, where the "Göttinger Mes
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
That's one side. The other side looks like this: https://spelmanblueprint.com/810/opinions/professors-bitter-... The background is a new faculty member actually teaching at university level. We know that pr
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
The trouble is that there needs to be some way for the grid operator to take x % of generating capability off-line or bring y % more on-line, and the panels themselves can't decide autonomously, so there must be an external data connec
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Practical Engineering had a video on the subject not too long ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G4ipM2qjfw The short answer is: it's for load balancing, it can't be avoided.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Look at Aspen, CO - the indigent commute in from far away because they are priced out and disposable.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Don't forget that Norway banned Life of Brian and people had to travel to Sweden to watch it.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
An opinion article in the NY times by Herbert Hovencamp. Wikipedia states that 'Hovenkamp is sometimes cited as "the most influential antitrust scholar of our generation"' Could this be a backhanded compliment, since thi
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Haven't we all had bosses who were socially adept but fully inept otherwise, who would laugh and scoff at anything they couldn't understand? Proxmire is just another such figure.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Emmy Noether, paging Emmy Noether, Emmy Noether to the red courtesy phone please! You can't say that given <conditions>, 1-phenylpropane rearranges to 1,2-diphenylpropane, you cannot pull whole atoms out of thin air for an indefi
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
The argument was that with current word-based methods an LLM can puzzle out mechanistic problems better than a human. Turns out it can't at all, it makes errors that no human would. Anyone who looks at such attempts recognizes them as
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
That is emphatically not true - animals and small children that can't speak yet know about object persistence. If something has come from over there and is now here then it's no longer there. LLM's do not have that concept, a
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
The family would have heard about airplanes, they were from Perm Oblast, which isn't exactly remote. It isn't exactly a big leap to think that what they were seeing was the lights of airplanes. Ships carry lights for safe navigati
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
TB is a disease of poverty, it doesn't spread that easily, but the risk goes up for people in overcrowded living situations and for those who are chronically malnourished. It's not a great surprise that one would find TB in cross-
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Things are pretty chummy in the supermarket space right now. Here is the price of ketchup: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU02440127 , and there is no reason why the price should have gone up by 50 % between Summer
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
And yet in real life it looks like this: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/08/us/hamline-university-isl... A member of the Somalian community instrumentalizing anti-black and anti-Muslim feelings to boost
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Not sure one should believe that - everyone with even mild experience of public spaces knows that at the end of the day rules are enforced by people. Doesn't matter if you pour a few liters of woke over the system, it's still the
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
We are seeing that in Sinaloa right now - El Mayo is out of commission, but there's money to be made in fentanyl, cocaine and avocado.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
You can ask it about Nietzsche, and it will reply with wonderful and esoteric interpretations of his work, because he is widely studied and ChatGPT has ingested all the works of all Niezsche exegets there are. You ask it about Hölderlin, an
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
For those using a smaller bore diameter, 7 T is 300 MHz proton frequency, and the engineering challenges to maintain a homogeneous field over 600 mm are immense.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Oh, it's worse than that. I have yet to see any of the DEI types come out in favor for raising the cap on damages related to violations of the ADA Act. When Bloomberg is getting concerned that the law written to be ignored and the aver
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Wouldn't such equipment attract anti-radiation weaponry very quickly? Combat practice with anti-aircraft battery is to light radar up for 30 seconds at most and then relocate immediately, because anything more will attract counter-batt

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