wavegeek

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by wavegeek 4y ago
Last time I looked the stats for a lifetime were 1% die in a car accident 10% serious injury in a car accident Accidents 1 / 500,000 miles. https://www.torquenews.com/14335/how-safe-are-tesla-vehicles... I have be
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by wavegeek 4y ago
But I don't want to driving a vehicle on the same road I am on. Well, not exactly you but, you know, those idiots.
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by wavegeek 4y ago
Having driven a tractor on my parents' farm, I can confirm this. It is so mindless it is not boring, because you can think of other things.
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by wavegeek 5y ago
It is interesting but I had the opposite experience. I think two things led to this. 1. In ante-natal classes the person took us through child development and what children are capable of at different ages. In particular, newborns to about
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by wavegeek 5y ago
> 155 met inclusion criteria as smoking 20 or more days per month. That is insane.
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by wavegeek 5y ago
Just how internet stocks fell 90% in 2000-2003, thus demonstrating the "Nobel" economist Paul Krugman's was right. His insight was that the internet was just a fad and would have no more impact than the fax machine. I notice
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by wavegeek 5y ago
These symptoms can also he a manifestation of histamine intolerance. If your enzymes that break down histamines (diamine oxidase - DAO or histamine methyltransferase - HMT) are faulty it will be a problem. High histamines give me the opposi
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by wavegeek 5y ago
I don't know much about the situation in Texas but where I live (Australia) the typical situation - it differs from one state to another - is that you have a semi-deregulated market but with ceilings on rates "to avoid price gougi
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by wavegeek 5y ago
Back in Roman times Cicero pointed out that democracy leads to chaos, which leads to tyranny, which leads to monarchy which leads to Aristocracy which leads to democracy. There seem to be a few democracies sliding increasingly into chaos.
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by wavegeek 5y ago
> allistics are the exception? Actually this seems unlikely given the sequence of evolution. But... Here is a spoof of Allistic Spectrum Disorder imagined as if it affected a small minority of people (trigger warning for those obsessed w
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by wavegeek 5y ago
> actual German Nazi Asperger was Austrian. Asperger was never a member of the Nazi party. Impressive to make 2 errors in 3 words.
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by wavegeek 5y ago
> the term is literally named after a Nazi Asperger was literally never a member of the Nazi party. So what you said it literally a lie.
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by wavegeek 5y ago
> created by a literal Nazi This is a literal lie. See the wikipedia article for example. The fact someone on the internet claimed he was german and a literal nazi is no evidence at all.
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by wavegeek 5y ago
> Nazi doctor Asperger was never a member of the Nazi party. I invite everyone here who has stood up against a murderous totalitarian dictatorship at the likely cost of their life to tell us how Asperger should have done better. > now
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by wavegeek 5y ago
> biases might help You might like the book "Simple Heuristics that make us smart" which explores this idea https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Heuristics-That-Make-Smart/dp/...
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by wavegeek 5y ago
Exactly - the overwhelming nature of these signals (e.g. the searing brightness of eye contact) pushes people away from them. This then produces difficulties as a result of not seeing these signals (and not learning about them). The result
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by wavegeek 5y ago
I notice over the years SA has become more and more influenced by fashion. The pressures to appeal to the popular crowd have only intensified over the years. Why would you subscribe to SA when the internet has more good material than you ca
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by wavegeek 5y ago
Meltdowns are a common feature of the lives of Autistic people. There are vast resources available from books to many good youtube videos. Getting a formal assessment is fairly expensive but screening tests are free. https://novo
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by wavegeek 5y ago
> over that 10-20 year cycle the market is always net up This is simply not true especially if you take inflation into account. And even more so if you look outside the US (one of the top 1% of market performers over the last 100 years -
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by wavegeek 5y ago
> uranium would only last 80 years Thank you for pointing this out. People blithely assume that U235 is available in unlimited supply when it is not. My own view is that it is a useful partial interim solution that buys us some time. Tha
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by wavegeek 5y ago
We have had "off peak hot water" for many decades. Multiple different rates for peak and off-peak. It is not useless but it does have its price in terms of complexity and usability. With off peak at night you tend to run out of ho
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by wavegeek 5y ago
The problem with your great ideas, and "great ideas"generally is the lack of proven numbers. As the poster above you pointed out the capacity of LI batteries is tiny. Yet you tout car batteries as though that were a new idea and a
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by wavegeek 5y ago
> lots of proven ways None of which work beyond a few hours. The sheer number of batteries and the amount of pumped hydro needed is phenomenal. As one data point, Elon Musk's much heralded $100m battery in South Australia stores a f
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by wavegeek 5y ago
False and misleading. First, it only refers to the US, while the headline makes no such qualification. Second, this refers only to electricity generation, which is roughly 25% of US energy use, or 20% if you include energy embedded in impor
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by wavegeek 5y ago
> (defmacro double (x) > `(* x x)) Two bugs in two lines. Lisp is indeed a powerful language.
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by wavegeek 5y ago
Thank you for your patronizing response to the above poster. The problem is to do with things called "numbers". 1. There is no spare land to devote to CC. You could do this only at the cost of poor people's food supply. 2. Th
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by wavegeek 5y ago
This is because they are a) More smart b) More correct. It is not that complex. Also they are more likely to be using emacs, another big win.
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by wavegeek 5y ago
This is poor quality thinking. The problem is that the AI is held to an impossible standard of near perfection, yet we happily accept that human drivers kill themselves and others in droves. The right question is whether self driving is bet
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by wavegeek 5y ago
Daily reminder that inferring causation from correlation is a slippery business. Did you know the S&P500 stock index was highly and 'significantly' correlated with butter prices in Bangladesh for many years?
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by wavegeek 5y ago
I don't put any credence on this. As the authors say this study merely suggests a possible relationship that needs to be investigated in a proper RCT. What I don't like 1. Passive observational studies only. Therefore a huge risk

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