amscanne

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by amscanne 4mo ago
This seemed high to me. According to Google, one ton of water takes about 730kWh to boil. So I think you’re off by an order of magnitude, it’s only ~450 metric tons. (But this assumes that no heat is radiated away in other forms.)
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by amscanne 4mo ago
Every candidate was probably applying to 100s or 1000s of jobs using AI tools.
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by amscanne 8mo ago
LOL, the first list also seems to use the US as the cut-off & first country that is a “deficient democracy”. The magic number must be between somewhere between 0.811 and 0.821. Having spent a good chunk of my life in Canada and the US,
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by amscanne 10mo ago
> Initial studies tested for signs of infection. If your chance of getting infected is dramatically reduced (which it was in the first few months after vaccination), then of course you are less likely to transmit the virus. If you don&#x
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by amscanne 10mo ago
> Masks turned out to be highly effective if people actually bothered to wear them. Many studies found conflicting results in real-world use, because many people don't wear masks consistently. The correct response to that is to enco
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by amscanne 10mo ago
I'm not sure what you are trying to prove here, but obviously intent matters a lot for the purposes of crime, e.g. if you believed your life was in imminent danger and shot someone, you may not be guilty of murder. You seem to be sayin
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by amscanne 10mo ago
Don't use scare quotes to twist what is being said. Bad science is pretending or thinking that we know more than we do, just as much as thinking the wrong thing is true. For example, claims about the under or over-effectiveness of mask
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by amscanne 10mo ago
You don't think that the current crop of vaccine-skeptics are mostly well-intentioned and that the movement will ultimately fade-away decades down the line? It seems identical to me: soft corruption and bad science shaping government p
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by amscanne 11mo ago
It’s much cheaper than Brenda (superficially, at least). I’m not sure a worker that costs a few dollars a day would be fired, especially given the occasional brilliance they exhibit.
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by amscanne 1y ago
That’s my point. We still have libraries! And most have online lending programs, so you can access way more ad-free books than you ever could have in 90s. How is this not richer?
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by amscanne 1y ago
Are you being objective or just romanticizing the past? Just to use your example: YouTube is filled with talented writers and storytellers, who would have never been able to share their content in the past. *And* the traditional media co
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by amscanne 1y ago
You are missing my point. To me it seems like 680k is just making shit up. Why is this reasonable? I can't even find what this "data point" is based on, so I'm not sure what I am supposedly ignoring! Just say where it is
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by amscanne 1y ago
I mean sure, you are just asserting a range. It is also true that there have been between 0 and 2,000,000 gazans killed by the IDF, but this fact does not do anything useful in discussing the issue. (And just like the 680,000 gazans "m
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by amscanne 1y ago
You are using the "more than 200,000 people" quote to imply that the GHM estimate of 64,718 is wrong, but it is completely in line with it. There is nothing about this revelation that suggests the existing estimates are too low. I
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by amscanne 1y ago
It’s literally the same numbers as the posted ones, and exactly aligned with what I’m saying. > The current official toll is 64,718 Palestinians killed in Gaza and 163,859 injured, since the start of the war on 7 October 2023 You may hav
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by amscanne 1y ago
I don’t think her statements aren’t even factual: the current estimates aren’t the confirmed identities, they include estimates for missing and presumed dead. You don’t think the GHM would publish larger estimates if 1/3 of every livin
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by amscanne 1y ago
I don't believe that what you're saying is correct at all. Only 34,344 of the GHM estimate are confirmed identities. The rest of either missing but presumed dead or gross adjustments. They are open about using "media reports
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by amscanne 1y ago
This is nonsense. The Gaza health ministry continues to report estimates, of which are substantial portion are missing and presumed dead.
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by amscanne 1y ago
Even the Gaza Health Ministry claims only 68,000, so I presume that your 600,000 is a typo.
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by amscanne 1y ago
Before there was an alternative used to take taxis in Toronto occasionally, and the common refrain was that the card machine was broken. And sometimes no change was available. These kinds of soft scams were common. So it’s not a hold-up, bu
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by amscanne 1y ago
San Francisco, Phoenix and LA represent a strong diversity of driving conditions. Certainly not all driving conditions, but no one is throwing a Waymo into a small town in the way you describe. Expanding slowly and cautious seems like the
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by amscanne 1y ago
From yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44286277
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by amscanne 1y ago
The proof here is essentially the execution log of the bounding program. I imagine that this would be TB, PB or beyond. Not every proof is some clever paper, some are just brute force. Like proving a number is prime, or calculating the Nth
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by amscanne 1y ago
Note that the tour itself was found quickly using a heuristic solver ( https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/korea/computation.html ), the achievement here and all the computation is to establish that this is the lower
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by amscanne 1y ago
What are you actually expecting here? The solution was found in a few days by the LKH TSP heuristic solver. They spent months (and decades of CPU time) using well-known techniques to bound the specific problem and prove that this was an opt
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by amscanne 1y ago
You’re being needlessly pedantic. Obviously, “computers” also has varied meanings. In this case, it is referring to systems built with discrete electronics and ICs. That is, its operation is based almost entirely on the manipulation of elec
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by amscanne 1y ago
I’m not sure when this was posted, but it didn’t need reverse engineering: https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations
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by amscanne 2y ago
I think a common mistake (and one you’re doing here) is implying those things are fixed measurements. The common definition of a “small, entry-level” house has dramatically inflated over the last 70 years. When people compare to their paren
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by amscanne 2y ago
It seems the facts of the story are similar though. In the Zhang case, they were driving 50 mph over the speed limit. Brakes were depressed, but not hard or early enough. Automatic braking kicked in, which caused the brake pedal to be depre
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by amscanne 2y ago
That would be a separate issue, those are not the terms of a buy-out package initiated after the acquisition, but rather wanting to enforce the terms of their original agreements (because Musk terminated them).

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