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by hcknwscommenter 12d ago
Funding for basic research is being slashed by the current administration. Our society is underinvesting in basic scientific research. And, AI will not fill the gap.
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by hcknwscommenter 16d ago
tech writers disrupted by AI a couple of years ago? Seems very dubious. A couple of years ago, AI was terrible at writing anything.
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by hcknwscommenter 16d ago
AI writing is soooo annoying. It's always way too long and way too "serious" for what ultimately is almost always a really dumb point. There is no calibration to the seriousness of the topic or thesis against the actual len
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by hcknwscommenter 23d ago
ever since the discovery of amyloid plaques, it's been an open question. Are they causative or a symptom? Would reducing or eliminating them help treat the disease? There is lots of data that supports amyloid as a disease treatment t
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by hcknwscommenter 23d ago
not really. your comment is a vast oversimplification of a very complicated topic.
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by hcknwscommenter 2mo ago
I think that's an incorrect way of looking at it. A small unforeseen factor is almost always going to be a negative factor, not an unforeseen benefit. Space is a hostile and unforgiving environment without an easy way to bring things
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by hcknwscommenter 4mo ago
Will be interesting to see if, in hindsight, there are clues to this in the preexisting literature that we just hadn't quite recognized.
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by hcknwscommenter 5mo ago
There are so many counterexamples proving that your statement is just not true. I'll give you just one example, the Berkeley physics professor Richard Muller that took funding from the Koch foundation to attempt to "prove" t
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by hcknwscommenter 5mo ago
You can't definitively diagnose it without an autopsy of the brain.
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by hcknwscommenter 5mo ago
We truly do not know the root cause. There are plenty of folks with "degraded" endocrine, cardiovascular, and both systems. Most of them do not develop Alzheimer's.
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by hcknwscommenter 5mo ago
I know this is a joke, but you did it wrong. There are obviously people (like me) who have had DHMO and are not dead. 100% of the people who have died have been exposed to DHMO.
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by hcknwscommenter 6mo ago
Not really accurate. These chemicals are quite unreactive. Precursors from manufacturing waste can be very reactive, but most of the problematic contamination regards the forever chemicals themselves, not precursors. This paper is probab
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by hcknwscommenter 7mo ago
The budget wasn't appropriate regardless of tariffs. And OP's point is that 130B is a tiny number that no where near makes up for the loss in tax revenue from the very very stupid "OBBB".
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by hcknwscommenter 7mo ago
You may be right, but the honesty has destroyed an insane amount of good will and privilege that the US previously enjoyed (deservedly or not). To throw that all away for literally no benefit is . . . not good.
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by hcknwscommenter 7mo ago
If the OP had (incorrectly) rounded 130B to 200B, OP's point would have still been perfectly understandable and correct. Your odd quibble about rounding completely misses the point. Whooosh.
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by hcknwscommenter 7mo ago
Any insights (anecdotes) from those in Russia and willing to opine on whether the economy seems like its collapsing presently?
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by hcknwscommenter 8mo ago
Most of my comments on hacker news are to point out something incorrect or mischaracterized. All I can come up with here is that this is a brilliant and heartfelt and entertaining documentary. Thanks to OP for posting.
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by hcknwscommenter 8mo ago
I agree with your overall point. But I find it odd that you consider sales taxes to be the "fairest". Similarly, I find it odd that you put "progressive" taxes in some tension with "fair" taxes. Folks in the
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by hcknwscommenter 8mo ago
you literally said "cheap" and the comment said "cheap-er not cheap". I think the comment is correct and you are wrong. China is building the same design again and again and again. And it's still not cheap.
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by hcknwscommenter 9mo ago
Doesn't really work that way. If you want to sue Abbot, then you have to reveal yourself. At which point, it will be clear that you were in fact using the product and did in fact agree to the ToS. If you never sue Abbot, then sure.
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by hcknwscommenter 9mo ago
Flat tax and dregulation. Pretending like they are new ideas.
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by hcknwscommenter 10mo ago
I have overseen over 20 phase III clinical trials. Many of those clinical trials have failed to show statistical efficacy. In every single one of those trials there are patients who see dramatic and undeniable benefits. In the oncology f
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by hcknwscommenter 10mo ago
Very strange article. The author is very upset that an "intimacy tracker" might receive an 18+ rating on the app store. I mean yes, younger folks do it, but the vast majority of potential customers are 18+. Why is this an probl
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by hcknwscommenter 10mo ago
all the machinery used to obtain and maintain an economically viable fusion reaction. Having worked with particle accelerators and synchrotron rings, I'll tell you that stuff breaks down all the time.
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by hcknwscommenter 10mo ago
Something similar happened to a friend of mine. In San Francisco. I just sort of assumed it was just bad luck. Bad things happen occasionally even in good systems. But maybe that assumption is wrong? Is this a thing? Are ambulances ju
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by hcknwscommenter 10mo ago
Very unlikely that would happen. The way similar issues have been dealt with in the past is that settlement is negotiated to something "reasonable" (at least arguably so) and administrable. Probably the settlement amount would j
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by hcknwscommenter 10mo ago
Ehh. I've done mushrooms, lsd, etc. about once to three times a year pretty much my whole adult life (decades). I find it fun. I have a relaxed good time with like minded friends and that's it. I think the whole "mind awak
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by hcknwscommenter 11mo ago
I think the numbers of those early leafs (a lot were sold), their horribly degraded batteries, and their consequently low sales price make the numbers appear a bit more dire for resale EVs as a whole than they are in reality (breakdown loss
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by hcknwscommenter 11mo ago
>For EVs the depreciation curve is especially aggressive because of perceived advancements. And many comments disagree with this statement. There are few perceived advancements. Used EVs are not trusted, particularly because the used b
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by hcknwscommenter 11mo ago
Aside from battery longevity is there really anything better about a new model S compared to a 5 year old model?

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