ramblenode

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by ramblenode 2mo ago
There may always be a moral panic but that doesn't mean every moral panic is equally misplaced. Most high school age children of the 1800s weren't inclined to read novels 12+ hours a day and neglect their sleep and hygiene to fini
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by ramblenode 2mo ago
> is it damaging if your caregiver uses phone a lot but remains responsive. > but that is the question I find most interesting as someone who uses my phone to get away from my desk but keep work going so I can spend time with my kids
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by ramblenode 4mo ago
You can get nearly as good source reconstruction with 16 channels as with 32 channels after MEMD, and even 8 channels under MEMD performs nearly as well as raw MSP 32-channel array. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/
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by ramblenode 4mo ago
> Like the panic over fracking Fracking is absolutely not harmless. I posted elsewhere in this thread about how I have had family property damaged by fracking-induced earthquakes. This is in a region with no active faults, with no record
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by ramblenode 4mo ago
> Honestly, fracking is a better deal than a data center. I know this is a bit of a tangent, but fracking is an absolute plague, and I would encourage you to do more research about it's downsides if you think it is mostly benign. As
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by ramblenode 6mo ago
I'm sure there's plenty of people who say that (on earth), but how many are going to have buyer's remorse after the first month? We tend to only send the most exemplary humans to space because you have to be in excellent ph
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by ramblenode 6mo ago
Looking out for the best interests of your members isn't activism.
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by ramblenode 6mo ago
"French scientist denied entry to US over anti-Trump messages" < https://thehill.com/policy/international/5205954-french-scie... > "Korean Scientist With Green Card Detained for a Week and Denie
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by ramblenode 7mo ago
Most of China's large projects are actually some type of competition with the US. The Tianjin Grand Bridge was basically built to eclipse the Causeway and showcase China's engineering prowess. The massive Shanghai subway buildout
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by ramblenode 7mo ago
"Grains" usually refers to cereal grains. Everything you listed except for oats is typically classified as a legume or a pulse, not a grain.
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by ramblenode 8mo ago
I think your second point is a good one, although most economists would probably say this is an argument against the minimum wage rather than an argument for tariffs. The ultimate problem with your first point---that tariffs boost domestic
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by ramblenode 10mo ago
Economies of scale aren't specific to states. That's something every cooperative group benefits from. Historically, the formation of most large states was not a voluntary merger of smaller states for the benefit of all but the con
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by ramblenode 10mo ago
Here is my (hot take) proposal for regulation: 1) *All major players open source their unobfuscated training data.* a) The evidence so far shows that every major AI company engaged in intentional and historically unprecedented copyright vio
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by ramblenode 10mo ago
Simply, the scale of observation matters. Making observations at scale is categorically different than manual observations. And yes, there is a spectrum. But the important thing is that there is a difference between the ends of that spectru
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by ramblenode 11mo ago
I bet it could be done if even a fraction of the Artemis budget were devoted to it.
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by ramblenode 11mo ago
The parent is correct. JFK famously didn't consult with engineers when picking the timeline. It was just lucky that it all worked out.
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by ramblenode 11mo ago
It's a significant feat to even get a robot safely to Mars. We've never gotten one back to earth. I think you are underestimating the complexity.
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by ramblenode 11mo ago
The British won out over the Spanish because they realized they didn't need enormous warships to win naval battles. The Spanish weren't ignoring the need for a navy--they miscalculated and misallocated resources. The irony is that
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by ramblenode 11mo ago
So what would the actual mission be if we went back, taking into account all these advances? Gather more rocks? Build a permanent base to... gather more rocks? I love space exploration too, but its expensive, and we should focus on areas th
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by ramblenode 11mo ago
Your example does not support your argument. Unlike heart surgery, there hasn't been a major shift in what we could do if we went back, and more exploration probably won't change the commercial or military prospects of the moon.
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Rand Paul's last-minute demands push key cybersecurity law to the brink(axios.com)
3 points by ramblenode 1y ago|0 comments
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by ramblenode 1y ago
I'm leaning toward this being top-notch satire, but I can't be entirely sure---and that's a good thing. > Without those standards, the profession would lose its weight, its dignity. If becoming a doctor were simply a matte
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> This is very similar to the minor fraud of an academic publishing an overstated / incorrect result to stay competitive with others doing the same. I completely disagree. For one, academic standards of publishing are not at all the
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by ramblenode 2y ago
The story is really worth a read. The writing speaks for itself: > The biographical questionnaire Snow referred to as the “first phase” was an unsupervised questionnaire candidates were expected to take at home. You can take a replica co
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by ramblenode 2y ago
"31 Amphibious Ships are 'Not Enough,' Expert Says" [0] I guess the US is about to invade Cuba. [0] https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2023/4/5/31...
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> Less capital cost, less labor, less wasted inventory, less chokepoints I don't think this is a fair comparison without considering the subsidies that go to trucking, which are substantial: the interstate highway system, manufactur
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by ramblenode 2y ago
The well-being literature does seem surprisingly fuzzy. I can only speculate what is going on there. A more robust finding seems to be grades: "The effects of mobile phone use on academic performance: A meta-analysis" [0] "Re
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by ramblenode 2y ago
Look up "informative vs uninformative prior".
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China's DeepSeek prompts global sell-off in AI-linked stocks(reuters.com)
6 points by ramblenode 2y ago|1 comments
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Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers' Posts(nytimes.com)
10 points by ramblenode 2y ago|1 comments

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