maxerickson

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by maxerickson 4d ago
There's usually a reasonably clear consensus within a region or country. That's less true for niche stuff (vs stuff where two different ideas are in wide use), but there probably isn't all that much of it either. One way to a
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by maxerickson 4d ago
The main method of prevention is blocks on users that make malicious edits. Obviously that doesn't prevent all malicious edits. The larger users of the data are doing some degree of validation of changes before showing them to users.
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by maxerickson 4d ago
Humans commonly have grandchildren in their 40s (less so recently of course). We get fragile in our 70s. I'm wondering about living decades in that fragile state, where cancer happens to be a lot more common.
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by maxerickson 4d ago
Humans have pretty low selective pressure for cancer resistant genes (a tiny fraction of people get cancer before or during their reproductive years). I wonder if whales survive to an equivalent of human old age (where we can be pretty frag
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by maxerickson 6d ago
Web Mercator is easily the most used projection, now and in all of history.
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by maxerickson 7d ago
I meant more with the timing thing. If a workalike drug undermines the argument for long drug copyright, what are the implications of a copycat plot?
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by maxerickson 7d ago
There's very little of those things in most places. It would be nice if there were less, but that change shouldn't come at a significant cost. As an example, the FBI has data on $10-20 billion in property crimes per year in the US
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by maxerickson 7d ago
Are you implicitly arguing that derivative art isn't a thing?
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by maxerickson 9d ago
This regulation seems to relax the rules a bit for batteries that last longer. I wonder if it will just lead to using same size batteries more gently.
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by maxerickson 11d ago
It sort of illustrates the uselessness of the terms. Yogurt is made by sterilizing (likely homogenized) milk and introducing microorganisms that carry out some desired chemical reactions. They produce lactic acid, which is a stabilizer. Eve
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by maxerickson 11d ago
Compare anthropogenic heat release to daily solar gain and radiative losses. Then note that a higher temperatures will increase the radiative losses. 100x heat release and it's still about 1% of solar gain.
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by maxerickson 11d ago
Ah yes, the profit motive kept us off of strict vegan diets. Right, sure.
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by maxerickson 11d ago
There is an antitrust exemption and a direct cap on school to athlete payments. Sure, third parties that aren't associated entities can still make payments to players, but its transparently the intent to lower the share of revenue goin
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by maxerickson 11d ago
Why should the money get spread around? It's a business, pay the people that earn it. I understand what is in it and wouldn't take any of it as long as it is combined with caps on player pay. Where's the cap on media revenues
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by maxerickson 11d ago
Protect College Sports Act not even on the radar for most people. It's wild that a law that is more or less transparently about limiting player pay for their participation in a blatantly commercial activity gets cheered on by "fan
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by maxerickson 12d ago
You misunderstood I think. They aren't arguing water is a bigger problem than energy. They are arguing that negative perception is mostly focused around water use.
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by maxerickson 13d ago
The acidity in many traditional pickling methods is lactic acid produced by fermentation. No vinegar involved. Looking it up, ocean water has the right salt content to facilitate this...
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by maxerickson 13d ago
If you recognize something is bad but lack the knowledge to explain it, it isn't completely crazy to invent a taboo against it.
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by maxerickson 15d ago
How are they determining the relevant government bodies?
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by maxerickson 15d ago
Well yes, the idea is to charge a tax. Charging fees for things that are scarce certainly isn't perfect, but it's often better then simply leaving everyone to suffer.
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by maxerickson 15d ago
I'll bet you a dollar that it is Austin. I guess there are made up reasons not to use public transport there too.
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by maxerickson 15d ago
Why do you assume it would be onerous? New York City apparently charges individuals in private cars up to $13.50? And then imagine if there was offsetting spending.
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by maxerickson 15d ago
I feel like I am not good at anticipating election results, but anyway, the people arguing that the midterms will be a referendum on the economy make sense to me. Expensive gas and groceries are pretty unpopular. I guess some chunk of peopl
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by maxerickson 16d ago
If you maintain the pairing with the statement about the concentration in the honey varying, it's somewhat harder to argue that it is overblown. The concentration varies considerably due to bees harvesting pollen from different flowers
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by maxerickson 16d ago
I mean, the FBI guys that drove to the school probably read it.
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by maxerickson 16d ago
The "So what, babies shit their diapers all the time" argument.
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by maxerickson 18d ago
Lots of people want lots of things. Can they within the light cone of their existence? That's pretty deep. I guess I think that they will work hard for more and thus expect economic growth. Especially with decreasing energy costs. If
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by maxerickson 18d ago
Economic growth (“growing the pie” vs zero sum thinking) was a function of population growth. Global population growth is rapidly ending, with 71% of global population living in countries below replacement rate. As the world ages and the p
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by maxerickson 21d ago
Sanborn was an insurance adjacent company that made detailed paper maps of many towns in the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s. This project is scanning those maps and adding the information that modern mapping software needs to show the
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by maxerickson 23d ago
Yeah that's misunderstanding my point. The compliance software might, for example, only play an old format from USB. Probably at low resolution.

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