kiliantics

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by kiliantics 1mo ago
nice, "ultracrepidarian" is going to be getting some use from me, looks like I'm late to the game though: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=ultracrepidari...
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by kiliantics 6mo ago
There are a lot of baked in assumptions here. For instance, as an extreme example, betting on nuclear war or climate collapse happening and then "winning" doesn't really provide you anything of much use in the society you wil
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by kiliantics 7mo ago
While the idea in the post is an interesting one, the analogy to planing is terrible. The difference in results from a power planer and a hand plane (even with a pretty basic blade) is night and day. Wood planed with high quality and sharp
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by kiliantics 8mo ago
I took a boat ride in Maine on a lobster boat once that was owned and operated by a man in his 90s. Someone else in the town told me that he was being pressured to stop working by his family because he had recently fallen out of the boat wh
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by kiliantics 8mo ago
The phrasing in the article shows very strong bias towards Israel in general
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by kiliantics 8mo ago
It's about how the taxes are spent too. If the government cuts welfare and gives handouts and subsidies to special interests, that is not an effective redistribution.
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by kiliantics 9mo ago
I'm a European living in the US and my sense is that perceptions towards AI are generally more positive here than in Europe if anything (I do work in tech though which skews things a good bit). This article almost feels like some kind
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by kiliantics 9mo ago
Check out forum.woodenboat.com to read from a lot of amateurs taking on the project, just be warned that the rabbit hole is alluring and very deep. It's typically not recommended to self-design, the physics gets technical and there are
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by kiliantics 9mo ago
Same, specifically boat-building for me because it just draws me in. But more generally, I would like to commit my time to making the built world more beautiful and sustainable. I despise the obsolescent plastic slop that we all are forced
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by kiliantics 9mo ago
Taxes used to be based only on property rather than labour, maybe we should go back to that. Of course this won't happen as it is a force of wealth-deconcentration.
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by kiliantics 9mo ago
Most left wing movements and organisations in the West drew strength from the existence of strong socialist states, both materially and ideologically. These kinds of groups were a balancing force against the right wing/capitalist direc
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by kiliantics 1y ago
Wouldn't really be to my taste either but this whole story just reminded me of how much more interestingly the wealthy used to spend their money. What legacies of high craftsmanship will be left by Musk and Bezos and their ilk? The ric
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by kiliantics 1y ago
Duration of the signal, along with intensity variation, is consistent with the duration of any possible point source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal#Time_variation
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by kiliantics 1y ago
Location: NYC Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: perhaps but unlikely Technologies: open to any, have lots of experience in ML with python/pytorch, some C/C++ and Julia, on the edge and in the cloud Résumé/CV: https:/&#x2
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by kiliantics 2y ago
The right time would have been when the going was good some years back. Tech workers could have put together an unparalleled strike fund and commanded unprecedented political power. We could have truly changed the world. But, as already men
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by kiliantics 2y ago
It's definitely an under-explored area of business but I don't see why there couldn't be a scalable "co-operative" form of banking that could serve this need. Something like a credit union, which distributes the ris
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by kiliantics 2y ago
Well if only we put as much energy into thinking about how to scale this model rather than the get-rich-quick startup/corporate model that typically just benefits investors, maybe we as a society would have good answers to your questio
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by kiliantics 2y ago
I am a member of the local food co-op. While not a perfect model for society, I think it's a good example to provide some alternative to the system of work we all take for granted. I want to be able to buy food at the co-op but only me
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by kiliantics 2y ago
This "mutually beneficial" transaction only seems so simple and obvious if we refuse to investigate the many unstated assumptions here. It would require far less labour to secure these living standards if all the land in the world
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by kiliantics 2y ago
I think OP must have grown up in a pretty affluent neighbourhood. (How many schools have programmes with epidemiological institutes?) If I had done TY in the school I went to with the others in my cohort that did, my experience would have l
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by kiliantics 2y ago
The book "fom winde ferfeelt" is basically a book-length version of the joke, written by a brazilian who was frustrated with the inconsistency in the rules of the German language.
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by kiliantics 2y ago
This reminds me of an interesting video I saw of someone making garum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICZww0DtQKk His description of the flavour is so intriguing.
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by kiliantics 2y ago
I think rope, at least of any appreciable length and strength, is a much more modern technology.
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by kiliantics 2y ago
I've spent the last couple of years researching and building my own timber frame structures and I have come to be of the opinion that aesthetics exist for a reason. A functionally sound structure will have pleasing aesthetics. Understa
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by kiliantics 2y ago
While this might be true on the technical level you mention, I don't know the details, I think the general pattern holds true even for larger cities. Think of NYC, where many suburbanite "bridge and tunnel folks" choose to li
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by kiliantics 2y ago
When it comes to analytics or machine learning type products, the scaling without massive implementation effort problem seems to be pretty universally hard to solve. Of course the usual big names seem to manage this on some level but startu
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by kiliantics 2y ago
I built a storage system with these, which are almost down to $300/kWh now: https://www.currentconnected.com/product/sk48v100-48v-server... Of course you will need a charge controller and some other components whi
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by kiliantics 2y ago
obligatory link to the road space picture that shows why this would not be a good move for urban transit systems: https://danielbowen.com/2012/09/19/road-space-photo/
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by kiliantics 2y ago
Your point is valid but if it's a good reason to stick with the ban then maybe we should be employing it to enforce other rules that would have a far greater impact. Not enough people are attentive and thoughtful and yet we allow them
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by kiliantics 2y ago
Come on, it would be pretty simple to do with even pretty conservative metrics: abrupt lane changes without indicating, frequent rapid acceleration and deceleration and swerving, if the car has cameras, then proximity to other vehicles or p

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