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by eszaq 4y ago
This doesn't seem like a bad thing to me. In the same way we have public defenders who professionally defend scoundrels, it seems good to have people who professionally critique new technologies. I'm old enough to remember the na
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by eszaq 4y ago
There are 3d printers which print metal right?
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by eszaq 4y ago
How about flagging anything that looks like obfuscated code?
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by eszaq 4y ago
Maybe partner with a firm that will get insurance approval then? Could help with distribution as well.
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by eszaq 4y ago
Nice vid! You can print one of these for just 30 GBP? You know high end locks go for a lot more than that right? You could be printing money!
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by eszaq 4y ago
The thing that turns me off of VR the most is rumors I've heard (sometimes here on HN) of eye health issues from excessive VR use. Is anyone working on that?
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by eszaq 4y ago
https://www.ivpn.net/ also generates a random userid and also accepts cash in the mail (only for large purchases unfortunately). I wasn't able to get mullvad's multihop to work on Android, but iVPN Pro does the t
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by eszaq 4y ago
How about ivpn or perfect privacy?
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by eszaq 4y ago
With more housing, the relative expense decreases, and some people will move in just because they like the bustle of living in a city. Those are also the kind of people who will patronize local establishments. Years ago, the center of the
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by eszaq 4y ago
I wonder if DARPA et al will decide that the leaks are just the price they pay for having soldiers spend their free time fooling around in simulators with tanks they actually operate.
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by eszaq 4y ago
Do you have a link?
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by eszaq 4y ago
Sorry I think I'm missing some context here, was there recent definitive research on alcohol and mortality?
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by eszaq 4y ago
A specific form of bad research which could be at play here: The researchers programmatically searched the space of possible control variables to include until they came up with a model which maximized the apparent effect size for coffee, s
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by eszaq 4y ago
Thanks for sharing your expertise! As Bayesians, shouldn't this effect size cause us to update in the direction that coffee is good for health, even if we think confounding contributed to the large effect size? Seems to me that a lik
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by eszaq 4y ago
Pretty sure Elon founded SpaceX himself. If you have a good source for the claim that it existed before he came along, you should take the matter up with Wikipedia.
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by eszaq 4y ago
Could also be renewed
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by eszaq 4y ago
Interesting idea! Reminds me of a podcast I was listening to: >...if we want to understand the economic geography and political paths and political stability of a country, we need to understand what commodities they started out with. Wh
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by eszaq 4y ago
This book did a tremendous amount to help me with my chronic pain issues: https://www.painscience.com/tutorials/trigger-points.php