lambdadmitry

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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
It's both. Look up council complaints and demands for the HS2, they're full of unreasonable NIMBY stuff like asking for the line to be put in a tunnel because it comes closer than 100m to an industrial estate. They didn't get
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
We do though! The first geological storage is going online next year in Finland https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_re... There is nowhere to leak when we're talking multi-cm copper casks, me
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
The first geological repository goes online next year in Finland https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_re... . It's not in the sparsely populated north of the country either. There are no probl
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
We do though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_re... is going operational next year, and the amount of research that went into it guarantees that it's safe. This podcast has lots of detail
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
Something else that came to mind while I was reading the comments: you do want phonetics/pronunciation classes when you're C2+. Do learn IPA and learn the sounds, it's crucial not just for your accent but for understanding
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
Two things I observed while slowly getting better at English. First, the "sophistication" can backfire. There're a lot of comments about reading here, but there're very fine lines between - "simple English", th
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
Why speculating then? There is plenty of hard data on skin testing of various sunscreens. There are physical sunscreens, too, which were around even longer. We have MUCH better understanding of biological processes as well than in asbestos
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
Indeed, it makes it worse.
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
That's not a rando, that's Vinay Gupta https://twitter.com/leashless/ Edit: staying more factual
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
I don't understand though how do you explain those transaction to your tax authorities and pay taxes. Surely it can only be so long that you can get massive (by local standards) and fairly constant salary month to month and not get the
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
Between bots, wash trading, and algo traders it doesn't say much about real world adoption.
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
It would require quite a lot of it because you need to significantly change the orbit, especially if you want it to still be plenty fast on impact. And it doesn't make much sense either. A billionaire can just pay a few millions to sen
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
What do you mean "it's not working"? We already have BCIs for paralysed people, they're quite bad: very invasive, very expensive, very poor user experience, e.g. [1]. What Neuralink is doing right already looks much bett
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
According to [1] and [2], most German plastic waste goes to Netherlands. Moreover, apparently a third of it gets incinerated or recycled domestically. So yes, officials turning a blind eye to developing countries pseudo-recycling plastic wa
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
If you live in a developed country, your contribution to the microplastic problem is minuscule regardless of the amount of plastic packaging you use. Landfilled, or better yet burned in industrial setting plastics don't get into the oc
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
Until you encounter an instance that blocks any instance federating with what they consider undesirable. Then you have to choose.
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
There are at least three distinct use cases that Twitter somewhat covers: a) participating in already existing, well-defined communities. Mastodon works for that, but so does Discord, Gemini, Gopher, tilda communities, IRC servers, and so o
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
You are right that simplified reimplementations make good property tests, but in this case I'd go the other way around: generate an AST, render it a in test case-dependent way (adding whitespace as you said, but also parens etc), injec
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
Thing is, for something like an AST parser you want a property test, not a bunch of autogenerated boilerplate. Generally, if something is boring and repetitive it's probably shouldn't be written, better code generation is rarely a
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
Trading is not exactly zero sum. Trading is price discovery + arbitrage, both of which are useful even if imperfect.
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
Yes, it seems the split was triggered by the war, but the censorship/promotion/collaboration with the government [0] were not worth breaking the ties. A cynical view would be that it's only now that the association became bad
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
It's interesting how diligently they wiped our any and all mentions of Yandex from their website, to the extent that Google struggles to find meaningful mentions apart from a few exceptions like [1]. Quite peculiar considering that jus
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
It still doesn't, unless you mean as a cause for activists. Stocks are here to stay too, and SP500 returned about 12% since mid-20th century while being much lower risk and having no withdrawal restrictions. Why settling down for 4% wh
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
I'm saying that right now staking is an activity with a serious risk of losing all of the staked money, an undefined period of the money being inaccessible, and just 4% gross reward for that, which is so poor I can only imagine very s
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
What's more, it's still impossible to withdraw from staking. Which means there will be another massive change of incentives some time later.
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
What boggles my mind is that there is no withdrawal from staking and almost no one talks about it. That is, staking right now is a one way street with a promise to be able to withdraw some time in the future and returning only about 4% gr
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
No, the argument is that nationalisation/privatisation is irrelevant to the problem at hand. There is no causality, there are plenty of examples of well-regulated private companies and disastrous state-owned ones. There might be a corr
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
Because I'm well aware of horrible evil governments doing exactly the same. Norilsk became what it is now under Soviets, which were not keen on private enterprises. Pollution is more or less orthogonal to the form of ownership. No, the
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
I really don't like this kind of knee-jerk "privatisation bad, fatcat CEOs bad" reaction sadly prevalent in the UK. Let's talk about the underlying argument, shall we? Firstly, you're talking about a failure of a re
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
Even then, scaling is an almost self-solving issue, as it usually comes with money attached, which buys quite a lot of engineering hours spent on scaling things. Overscaling in advance on the other hand with all of its associated complexity

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