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by orborde 1mo ago
Mirror chloroplasts do not seem very risky, but the ability to create them is probably close to equivalent to the ability to create whole mirror bacteria/algae, so figuring out how to make mirror chloroplasts is a very risky line of re
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by orborde 4mo ago
Pangram (low false positive AI detector) tags this article as AI-generated: https://www.pangram.com/history/a520d0fd-335f-4cf2-8522-c608...
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by orborde 5y ago
The final versions used for the tables/figures in the book are here, I think: http://www.bcaplan.com/returns.htm
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by orborde 5y ago
Why do you still work with the useless partners?
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by orborde 5y ago
This uses domain fronting, which both Google and Amazon forced Signal to stop using in 2018: https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/ Did cloud providers get more permissive since then? EDIT: Tor also go
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by orborde 5y ago
The US adult obesity rate is 42.4% [1]. To get to 75% of deaths being obese people, you'd need about a 4x death rate of obese people compared to non-obese people. Most obese people find it extremely hard to stop being obese and often f
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by orborde 5y ago
(OP here) This essay set may superficially appear to be another repetitive salvo in the interminable US healthcare political conflict, but I recommend reading a bit deeper. I think the perspective these essays offer (that, at the margin, me
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by orborde 5y ago
What specifically has changed since this essay set was published that would render it moot? If "the ACA", what specific ACA policies?
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Our main problem in health policy is overemphasis on medicine (2007)(cato-unbound.org)
53 points by orborde 5y ago|76 comments
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by orborde 5y ago
Isn't this strongly explained by the likelihood that Valley companies will start expecting everyone to come in to the office again this year?
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by orborde 6y ago
What is a PWA?
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by orborde 6y ago
As a company, why would I want to pay the hourly rate at all? Why not contract with a reputable bounty hunter, give them the level of access I'd give the hourly consultant, and pay the hunter bounties for what they find? Seems like tha
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by orborde 6y ago
Okay, so that's like 5/40 of your workforce that's in training at any particular moment, right? That's not a trivial cost.
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by orborde 6y ago
> There is effectively no reward for the rich to make this technology broadly available. What about reduced training costs because you can keep your existing expert staff instead of needing to constantly hire fresh but clueless youngster
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by orborde 6y ago
More concretely: Amazon's drivers (arguendo) don't care what they're getting paid $15/hour to do. If Amazon removes the incentive for antics, then it can pay 14/15 the per-delivery fee, and each driver can do 15&#x2
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by orborde 6y ago
Efficiency. If a driver has to spend 4 minutes of every hour doing stupid antics to get an order, and can earn $15/hour doing antics+delivering, then effectively $1/hour is going to pay for stupid antics, from Amazon's perspe
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Reflections on GPT-3(gwern.net)
8 points by orborde 6y ago|0 comments
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Novid: Privacy-preserving contact tracing app that you can use now(novid.org)
1 points by orborde 6y ago|0 comments
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by orborde 6y ago
I don't think so. Consider that many governments with professional public health departments, including those of the richest countries in the world, downplayed the unfolding disaster, completely blew it on containment as a result, and
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by orborde 7y ago
Would you prefer that the companies involved did nothing instead of taking this costless action?
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by orborde 7y ago
You can deduct it, but there are a couple of distinct minimums in the tax code for how much you have to spend before it starts reducing your taxable income. ( https://www.insurance.com/health-insurance/health-insurance-
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by orborde 7y ago
One major factor in the US is that, from the perspective of an employee, employer plans have a massive tax advantage compared to anything the employee could buy outside their employer. If your employer pays your insurance premiums, this doe
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by orborde 11y ago
> The characters of this article are so carefully constructed to evade this question that I have to assume malice. Julia Wise and Jeff Kaufman are real people who are, so far as I know, pretty much as the article describes: http:/&
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by orborde 11y ago
I have little experience with this matter, but it seems like the correct answer here is "get a job at another company that doesn't have broken procedures that render them unable to authorize paying for the people they need."
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by orborde 11y ago
Internet access is more valuable than you surmise, I think. Having good telecommunications allows people to coordinate much better, and that efficiency bonus could easily create enough extra real wealth to help with the food, water, and job
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by orborde 11y ago
Citation?
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by orborde 11y ago
The story of healthcare.gov is that one set of federal contractors totally messed it up, and that another group of folks managed to get it back on track. It's not reasonable to claim that the latter group is somehow profiting unethical
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by orborde 12y ago
> Meanwhile, I have friends who work for companies who write the software that control train scheduling throughout the country. After what they've seen, they refuse to ride on trains, and from the stories they've told I don&#x2
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by orborde 12y ago
Not exactly. I read "I know this because of all the money they give me" as somewhat tongue-in-cheek, like he's saying something he wants to believe, that the world tells him to believe, but cannot help questioning the truth o
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by orborde 13y ago
This could equally well have been done to an SHA1 implementation. MD5 is not especially susceptible to brute-force preimage attacks.

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