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by maxfan8 3y ago
I'm curious -- how do banks actually do this, then?
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by maxfan8 4y ago
Hydrogen is simple to produce if you have access to water and electricity. Gasoline is much harder to do, though.
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by maxfan8 4y ago
Fair! Those seem like reasonable stats for a cool setup.
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by maxfan8 4y ago
I’m curious: what kind of latency do you observe on this setup?
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by maxfan8 4y ago
Ok, let's agree to disagree, then. I'll note that I never "pretended that it's not justifiable". I did explicitly say earlier: > That's a fair position (you seem to be a utilitarian), and probably quite defe
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by maxfan8 4y ago
I made that point because I argue that patient autonomy is important. Further, I argue that in order to protect patient autonomy, information should not be withheld from the patient. Accordingly, the patient should be given everything neces
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by maxfan8 4y ago
> If your goal is to actually help people, you should base your arguments on how things are in reality instead of some idealized dream world. That's a fair position (you seem to be a utilitarian), and probably quite defensible. But,
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by maxfan8 4y ago
> Your entire argument here seems to require patients to be rational agents. Yes, my argument does rely on patients being rational agents. > They aren't. That may be true, but it's certainly paternalistic (in the formal, def
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by maxfan8 4y ago
No. Not all screenings/tests are done, even when it's super low cost and non-invasive. For example, one factor that is used to determine whether to screen for certain types of cancer is "Possible harms from follow-up procedur
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by maxfan8 4y ago
One slightly reasonable common argument I hear for reduced medical diagnostics is: “we don’t have the resources; it’d overwhelm the medical system”. While this may be the case for some tests, there are probably a great number of tests that
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by maxfan8 4y ago
Light only travels at C in a vacuum (so it doesn't actually travel at C in a standard fiber optic cable, it's actually much slower).
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by maxfan8 4y ago
That's cool -- I didn't know that! Imo, the more effective and cheaply we can store energy and smooth out supply/demand curves, the more attractive solar and wind becomes. Perhaps one way of encouraging a "greener"
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by maxfan8 4y ago
Yep, it’s called pumped hydro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit... I think it’s very promising/exciting as a method of smoothing out the demand curves of the electric grid. Plus, it’s f
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by maxfan8 4y ago
Hi, Michael! Nice to see you on HN and talking about that PR :).
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by maxfan8 4y ago
The anecdotes about the propagation of the mannerisms of Wittgenstein are a gem. Here’s a particularly nice one about David Foster Wallace: > James Wallace, who was a graduate student in philosophy in 1959-1962, not only learned philosop
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by maxfan8 5y ago
This is great! Another great resource about Kalman filters (with very helpful pictures) is [1], which was discussed on HN [2]. Kalman filters rock! [1]: https://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-picture...
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by maxfan8 5y ago
Fastmail. It just works and does everything I need, without bloat (I've got it on a custom domain). It also seems reasonably likely to last "a decade or two".
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by maxfan8 5y ago
> This seems like not a sound argument to me....is it not tautological, or, simply an observation that perception of reality does not necessarily match actual reality? The argument is trying to say that the distinction from "actual
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by maxfan8 5y ago
The original text is the best, I think (maybe look at Stanford's Encyclopedia of Philosophy's treatment of the subject [1]). The way I like to think of Berkeley's position is like an equivalence argument. Suppose one is argui
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by maxfan8 5y ago
If you’re interested in learning about other metaphysical possibilities, George Berkeley’s works could be worth a read. One of his big statements is that “to be is to be perceived” — that is, anything that cannot be perceived doesn’t actual
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by maxfan8 6y ago
They also offer server-side rendering as well (provided by volunteers through fishnet): https://github.com/niklasf/fishnet
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by maxfan8 6y ago
Unrelated, but the fruit of the poison tree doctrine (which you are citing) has exceptions, like the good-faith exception.
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by maxfan8 6y ago
The article addresses this point: > Instead events—including the staggering cost of delay, the spectacular failures of institutional authorities to adapt to the scientific realities of covid, and the long-awaited finding that all the maj
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by maxfan8 6y ago
Correction: #youtubearchive (also, not an official ArchiveTeam effort)
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by maxfan8 6y ago
ArchiveTeam has a larger YouTube archival effort running (on IRC, hackint/#youtube-archive) -- I think the channel list is on the order of tens of thousands. You can email me or ping me on IRC if you want to setup some coordination eff
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Rust in a Notebook, REPL, and More(github.com)
3 points by maxfan8 6y ago|2 comments
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by maxfan8 6y ago
I wonder if this was built with security in mind. How easy would it be to tamper with the opaque switch? Also is it fail-safe? Does it turn clear when the power fails? It could be very embarrassing and/or result in some liability issue
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by maxfan8 6y ago
Right, thanks — that’s what I meant to say. I just edited the comment to fix the mistake. You’re totally correct!
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by maxfan8 6y ago
The correct term for this is hypercorrect (this is more accurate description of this phenomenon than “less/more correct”). [1] I’m trying not to quibble over language — just wanted to note that this is a well-documented phenomenon with
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by maxfan8 6y ago
There are a lot of comments here, but for anyone who’s looking for a well thought out implementation of publicly verifiable ballots, I suggest taking a look at Scantegrity [1]. Gotta love all the brilliant minds who worked (and implemented

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