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by matheweis 3mo ago
I’m not sure that what’s happening right now in California is any better.. even Nate Silver is crying foul and this point.
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by matheweis 6mo ago
> Prices of things that require natural resources will go up. This suggests a potential equilibrium sooner rather than later .. few modern technological advances have been as resource hungry as AI
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by matheweis 6mo ago
It’s not a free market construction issue at all, it’s a regulatory zoning and permitting issue. Read the article and the peer comments here; Austin’s boom came about from reducing regulatory constraints. Nationally remove the artificial re
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by matheweis 10mo ago
We should also not ignore the fact that USAID was responsible for many hundreds of millions (if not more) in fraudulently directed contracts and spending [1]. [1] https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation&#x
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by matheweis 1y ago
The problem is that the cancerous cells are themselves descended from healthy cells; other than the small differences that make them cancerous, they are in fact the same thing. Many of the cutting edge immunotherapies for cancer essentially
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by matheweis 1y ago
There are at least two reasons: First is Hanlon’s Razor; “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”. It appears to be especially applicable here. Second is that this kind of information (with far richer data
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by matheweis 1y ago
> prices double every 7 years, which is obviously not what we observe. It’s not? The first two things that came to mind to check are almost exactly doubled: Case-Schiller for Seattle metro area for example is almost exactly double: http
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by matheweis 1y ago
Tangentially related from two days ago; Solar becomes top source of electricity in California - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44512968
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by matheweis 1y ago
If so, this shouldn’t be flagged because it would be a significant event relevant to tech
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by matheweis 1y ago
I have a bunch of related questions so I will drop them all here: * You mentioned focusing the spectrum on humans, but I have always wanted to have light that works well for both humans and plants (e.g. houseplants) as they are also benefic
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by matheweis 2y ago
According to one of my local pharmacies (that closed in the last year), there are laws in some states preventing brick and mortar stores from imposing additional fees over online pharmacies. Reference in a sibling comment.
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by matheweis 2y ago
> There is no law against a pharmacy owner from charging whatever they want. On closing, one of my local pharmacies claimed otherwise and referenced the following: > states have enacted legislation prohibiting certain PBM clients from
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by matheweis 2y ago
Yea, where I live there is sometimes a 2+ hr wait at the Rite Aid.
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by matheweis 2y ago
It’s not even legal for them to try to compete. Even if someone preferred to pay more for the convenience the brick and mortar shops aren’t allowed to charge a premium over the online pharmacies.
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by matheweis 2y ago
Yes, pricing regulations forced brick and mortar pharmacies to sell drugs below cost. Several closed in my area in the last few years and this was one of their cited reasons why.
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by matheweis 2y ago
How is that statistic not severely flawed? Unless they are performing large scale sampling of the general population, the denominator (cases of confirmed influenza) is potentially much larger in practice. Moreso because it seems likely that
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by matheweis 2y ago
Exactly the issue; inevitably someone will forget to follow those rules, at which point esoteric bugs will have been introduced. I think it’s somewhat similar to unchecked memory access. Used correctly it works just fine and offers extremel
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by matheweis 2y ago
> A Few Rules For Using Globals: > If you change observable state, restore it I’m sorry but no. Humans are human and mistakes will be made. I’ve lost count of the number of esoteric bugs I’ve had to track down due to global state bein
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by matheweis 2y ago
The FAA publishes supplemental charts specifically for helicopters in areas with high concentrations of helicopter activity: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/productc... Specifically the Ba
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by matheweis 2y ago
The XB-1 prototype is powered by three General Electric J85 engines; mentioned in this writeup: https://boomsupersonic.com/flyby/xb-1-pilot-profile-tristan-...
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by matheweis 2y ago
I’m not surprised by this at all. I purchased a pro-sumer grade (Ambient Weather) weather station a couple of years ago that happened to include an indoor CO2 sensor. Among other things I discovered: * Modern building codes (for energy effi
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by matheweis 2y ago
We have a bit of a vague idea what might happen, from the recent election of Javier Milei in Argentina
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by matheweis 2y ago
> New Toyotas come with … worst of all, hybrid drivetrains. Yea, they just put out a TSB for the hybrid drivetrain in a large number of Tacomas. Seems odd, though, to blame the hybrid drivetrain as something fundamentally flawed .. the C
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by matheweis 2y ago
Yup, I get around 64mpg in a Corolla Hybrid without trying at all.
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by matheweis 2y ago
Asked for this 5 years ago, nice to see it finally implemented! https://x.com/matheweis/status/1109106624612859904
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by matheweis 2y ago
There are at least two dimensions to this that I believe that the author has overlooked: 1. Economies of scale. It may be that drafting something up in CAD takes more cycles to get right up front, but once you have an established design it
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by matheweis 2y ago
A study posted here yesterday, had the interesting statistic that the “clearance rate” i.e. percent of crimes solved by the police - when reported - is down drastically in recent years, a trend that seems to have started long before covid:
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by matheweis 2y ago
> It's also interesting to note many food allergies have increased in prevalence in the last 30 years Wonder how much of this is due to the relatively recent trend of having dual incomes with both parents working? Cause and effect m
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by matheweis 3y ago
I think that software engineers put people in danger more often than they would like to believe; have a look at the UK Postal Service scandal for a great example of a seemingly innocuous bit of software absolutely destroying numerous lives.
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by matheweis 3y ago
Average over $4 a gallon in WA state, due to the extra taxes

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