vladTheInhaler

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by vladTheInhaler 3y ago
I'm not sure that's true. Operating in a radioactive environment makes every single task so much harder. When Russia can barely afford the time to teach its recruits how to shoot, how could they possibly spare the time to teach
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by vladTheInhaler 3y ago
If by "the same thing" you mean that Ukraine has requested the assistance of its allies to avoid being being coerced by Russia, then yes the same thing is happening. Why exactly would that be bad?
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by vladTheInhaler 4y ago
A while ago there was a result that relates to materials science: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04135
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by vladTheInhaler 4y ago
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/harvard-boys-do-russ... American consultants were instrumental in organizing the massive selloff of state assets, and quite a few of them turned around and used their knowle
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by vladTheInhaler 4y ago
It has everything to do with Ukraine. The low gas storage levels were engineered to create additional leverage over European countries during the upcoming invasion. "The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimated that 50 percent of t
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by vladTheInhaler 4y ago
Apparently it has been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS#Centurion_C-RAM
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by vladTheInhaler 4y ago
Tyson once said on twitter “An airplane whose engine fails is a glider. A helicopter whose engine fails is a brick.” Now it's not at all obvious why that's not true. But that's why it's important to be humble about wha
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
> I cannot name a single "expert" who has attempted to calm people at all. That's odd, because here are some excerpts from President Biden's remarks on covid [1]. "THE PRESIDENT: Good evening, my fellow American
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
> population group x seems to be the source of this wealth Here's a fun thought experiment - if Jeff Bezos (actually Andy Jassy nowadays, but that just proves my point further) suddenly vanished, how many orders would fail to be del
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
See for instance DALL-E: https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
I don't think there's any chance moving most of that machinery on short notice, what with the incredibly small tolerances and clean-room conditions required in that industry. Here [1] is one EUV source. It's the size of a s
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
So you have to be strapped whenever you want to visit Starbucks? No thanks.
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
I failed high school algebra largely because I lost my glasses and was just trying to imagine in my head what the teacher was talking about. The adults in my life knew I had a prescription, and had the money to pay for them and yet nobod
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
I completely agree on your first point. I was going for a bit of understatement, but to be clear, doing any of that is firmly on the other side of many revolutionary breakthroughs in our understanding of biology. But that being said, the
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
Agreed. Skimming Humbird's analysis, he mentions concentrations of catabolites as a significant limit on cell density, and points out that their removal is usually the job of the kidneys. To me that immediately raised the question of
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
Having your children abducted and held for ransom. People wanting to kill you because they think you put microchips in their bodies through a vaccine. Not knowing if people you meet are just trying to extract money or publicity from you.
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
"___ is so essential, ubiquitous, and universally understood, that to change it for the sake of changing it seems both foolish and foolhardy." This quote is Elon Musk in a nutshell.
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
I'm not sure how to say this, but have you ever been to the sunset? There is nothing but space in large swaths of the city.
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
That cashflow problem can be addressed through bonds.
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
So if the hate brigades were being launched by a group with a long track record of bad-faith and abusive behavior, you don't think that should inform your decision making?
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
Okay, so we should not give exemptions to specific categories of people who are a priori assumed to be good. I think that's fair. Are you concerned that that's the situation in the original context? Or would be, if we somehow k
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
I completely agree. Outside of these toy examples, there really is no way to know the complete truth. But I don't think we should give up on doing the best we can to recover as much context as possible, and we certainly shouldn&#x2
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
I'm not sure what you think a law would look like that is completely impartial. The very existence of a law represents a thumb on the scales of otherwise unconstrained human behavior. What specifically should we make laws impartial
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
That's not true at all. Context is the only way to make any useful judgements. A couple examples: Person A tackles person B to the ground and holds them there against their will. Is that morally acceptable? There's no way to
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
I'm not sure I understand why you say that the position of the LDS leadership is an argument against causation. If anything that would seem to suggest that it's a a position related to being religious, since both religious an
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
I know somebody who has been navigating Atlassian's PTO policy. For what it's worth, their manager and team have been very accommodating, notwithstanding the extremely unclear policies. That being said, unlimited PTO is a scam.
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
Let's not beat around the bush. Trump is not very smart, and not at all well-informed. In fact he actively removed anyone from his inner circle who showed signs of being either of those things. So I think China was able to move conf
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
Not every business has room to grow by a factor of 1000 or 100 or even two though. Some of them are close to the largest and most profitable they are ever going to be. I think the criticism of Wall Street is usually that they can't l
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
Is magenta a color? A real one? We perceive it as such, but there is no place on the electromagnetic spectrum corresponding to magenta. If you went hunting for magenta photons, you'd be hunting for quite a long while. What that s
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
Its actually called Planetes, which means "wanderers", and was the term the ancient Greeks used for the "wandering stars", i.e. other planets. I cannot recommend it highly enough! It starts out pretty slapstick, but if

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