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by waterheater 4d ago
BP once had a game where you run around refueling cars at a gas station.
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by waterheater 16d ago
>So while there is a small amount of faith that some catastrophic failure won't happen, I would say its categorically different to believing things with almost no evidence. Evidence is the key. I don't know where you stand on t
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by waterheater 16d ago
Have you ever called someone crazy, only for them to stop dead in their tracks and say, "wow, you're completely right, how could I have been so blind?" I haven't, and you probably haven't, though if you have, I&#x27
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by waterheater 16d ago
>But how could you be alive and not have observed that the earth is curved? I know someone who is almost 40 years old that has never left his hometown. He's a reasonable person who holds gainful employment, but from our conversation
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by waterheater 16d ago
As someone who's also thinking about their child's future, I've come to the conclusion that building their capacity for precise language by expanding their vocabulary and grammar in an array of domains and subdomains is the b
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by waterheater 16d ago
>If you say the sky is blue I'm going to say it's green because I'm so smart. Flat-earthers are definitely wrong about the shape of the earth, but even they admit the sky is blue, assuming they aren't afflicted with s
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by waterheater 25d ago
You might find interesting an old comment of mine speculating about legal rights of a human being born by an artificial womb: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37314083
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by waterheater 25d ago
So what's stopping the Belgian people from grabbing torches and pitchforks, marching to the castle, and demanding that this injustice be immediately reconciled?
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by waterheater 27d ago
I remember hearing once that a core element of collegiate humanities education involves teaching that a great work can only be understood and appreciated when the reader first understands the work's context. Only then should the reader
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by waterheater 29d ago
Sugar is not a harmless substance but actively changes the brain with repeated exposure (that is, eating sugar regularly). Here's a few links from various venues which discuss the neurobiological effects of sugar: https://on
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by waterheater 1mo ago
If no federal law exists on that subject, then yes, that's how the Supremacy Clause works. However, an existing federal law preempts state regulations. As an example, let's say Congress deemed fidget spinners a serious hazard to s
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by waterheater 1mo ago
Most people invoke the "states' rights" platitude when the federal government oversteps on constitutional matters that haven't been specifically legislated. In this case, Congress already passed a law regulating these ac
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by waterheater 1mo ago
Interesting, because X is able to work the same. When an obvious bot follows an X account, the user can simply block the bot. Also, your X feed can be configured to show posts only from accounts you follow in chronological order, so if you&
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by waterheater 1mo ago
The real percentage of bots on X is a baseline of 10% and can quadruple around contentious topics; see: https://www.clickguard.com/blog/twitter-spam-bots/ Information on bots on Bluesky is limited, but from diggin
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by waterheater 2mo ago
The Remarkable can spin up a web server if you connect it to your computer via USB. You can then access the files through a web browser by entering a dedicated IP address, which the Remarkable will give you. This features is disabled by def
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by waterheater 2mo ago
What a throwback. I remember reading this guy's build of the "Flying Nimbus" [1]--an early version of the Onewheel--back in 2015. In fact, the Flying Nimbus and the Onewheel were both released in 2014, but it appears they wer
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by waterheater 4mo ago
On one order, correct, but it's still on the order of hundreds of millions to billions. Also, keep in mind that a stock price discounts expected future cash flows. Is it likely that SpaceX will have a near-peer competitor within a few
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by waterheater 4mo ago
I've seen the ins-and-outs of academia within an R1 research institution from about as top-level as one can while remaining a student, and my idea is based on extensive interface with the reality of academia. Your observation that the
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by waterheater 4mo ago
A few years ago, when I was actively involved with the academic world, I came to a similar realization. They're trying to do too many things at once. Universities need to acknowledge this reality and adjust. After thinking about it, I
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by waterheater 4mo ago
I knew a foreign student like that. He was a great guy and a friend, and we worked in the same building. One day, I told him that I purchased a condo to save money during the doctoral program (in my unique situation, my mortgage was less th
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by waterheater 4mo ago
Consider Person A, who is self-interested and may use a secret recording against you, even if you're following all rules and acting ethically. Additionally, consider if Person A is neutral but shares the recording with Person B, who un
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by waterheater 8mo ago
> can they knowingly allow their child to do something harmful and then sue because it turned out poorly That likely depends on how that "something" was publicly marketed to both parents and children based on the company's
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by waterheater 8mo ago
From my cursory web searches, your photos may be the first online evidence that the restoration project was indeed completed.
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by waterheater 11mo ago
Just because something is common and widespread doesn't mean it should continue to be common and widespread, though it will continue to happen due to human nature. And yet, people striving to be constructive and positive won't cel
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by waterheater 1y ago
This is a bad idea. Now, with that established... Microsoft has many intelligent people who work there and certainly do many risk vs. reward calculations for each modification to Windows. From Microsoft's perspective, they have much mo
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by waterheater 1y ago
Some years ago, I snagged a great deal on some Sennheiser HD600s. After also acquiring a Schiit stack (Magni + Modi) and finding high-quality audio sources, I would close my eyes, lay down on the couch, and just listen...actually, I'll
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by waterheater 1y ago
Tokamaks are conceptually elegant but contain significant inefficiencies which negatively impact potential net power output. Both tokamaks and optimized stellarators have magnetic fields possessing omnigeneity [1], but tokamaks require two
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by waterheater 1y ago
>serial interfaces dominating over the parallel ones Semi-accurate. For example, PCIe remains dominant in computing. PCIe is technically a serial protocol, as new versions of PCIe (7.0 is releasing soon) increase the serial transmission
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by waterheater 2y ago
Great argument overall. What strikes me is that I have also thought long and hard about fundamental natural rights, and my proposition is that Free Will is paramount and Privacy is the close second. I believe such a claim can be robustly su
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by waterheater 2y ago
True. You should look into Project Xanadu, which was created with seventeen original rules, one of which is the following: >Every document can contain a royalty mechanism at any desired degree of granularity to ensure payment on any port

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