Solstinox

It’s not grain or corn you could eat though. Not fit for human consumption.

It’s the biggest tell for AI writing, especially as people get more self-conscious about overusing em dashes.

These are the types of assumptions and blindspots that lead to unintended negative effects.

Your approach assumes that the distribution of those SNPs at the population level is immaterial.

What makes an allele attractive at one frequency can expose new liabilities at a different frequency.

I’ll let them go first. I insist.

We can barely manipulate simple organisms without causing negative second order effects to cascade through our systems.

I suggest you go to random.org and play with the coin flipper or dice roller for a couple of hours.

[edit] I just rolled 60 dice and got a string of 7 2’s in a row. Can someone calculate the odds of that happening for me?

Also, over half the world's population has H. Pylori, which interferes with B12 absorption.

Humans creating problems they then need to then solve transcends and predates any ideology.

Capitalism just lets you scale it out to new heights! :)

The transfer of wealth from the UK to the US as a result of WW1 and WW2 debts is one of the more substantial wealth transfers in history.

These resonated with me as the world's AI-automating all the things.

Particularly:

"Digital devices tune out small errors while creating opportunities for large errors."

Use the pen that comes with it, magnet side facing the screen and sweep across the areas that are misaligned or the whole screen.

This fixes things for me.

Agreed. Messy overlap + an app called HazeOver where you can dim apps out of focus is the best approach to this.

If you are desperate for a job you probably shouldn't be negotiating too hard.

If your downside is protected and you've got options, you're a fool if you're not negotiating.

It's nice to interact with people who are strangers. Grocery store employees, baristas, mechanics, service people etc.

As you get older, a lot of the people you interact with regularly you have a responsibility for/to. Co-workers, bosses, family, kids.

With strangers, even the grumpy interactions are fun. No responsibility.

It would be a sad day for ballistics if you needed 3.7 GBs of data per day to guide a missile.

It's so common that I've had it happen on a flight. We were midway over the Atlantic, so we made it to the destination.

It sounded like getting the replacement part is a pain though. They're not just sitting around at every airport. So after they landed they'd have to fly with a cracked windshield to another European country.

Wind-based energy tends to be par or worse than fossil fuels in terms of energy return on investment.

Photovoltaics are more grim depending on whose numbers you pull.

Right now nuclear is the only energy source we have that could sustain growth and be more environmentally friendly than fossil fuels.

If we want growth. And this is not to say we should only have one energy source by any means.

Growth is fueled by energy. If we're not exponentially growing it's because energy is a limiting factor for some reason.

I find the table in the middle of this page illuminating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_return_on_investment

If you were to map human population growth against the energy technologies in the table, you would basically see that human population growth bursts with jumps in EROI.

There are a couple of elephants in the room on that table that warrant some discussion.

One is nuclear: the massive jump in EROI it provides and our comparative hesitant/tepid adoption of it.

The other is a lot of the renewables: the massive leap backwards they offer.

"Such large structures should not exist according to one of the guiding principles of astronomy, called the cosmological principle. This states that all matter is spread smoothly across the Universe."

This passage/article doesn't make intuitive sense to me here. What in this physical universe is smoothly spread? Only if you average or look at a massive aggregate level, sure. But at each "zoom level" there should be another non-smooth structure, while things at a smaller level smooth out.

It's more or less fractal all the way up and down.

I don't think this challenges our thinking on the cosmos?

When you work in a temple, you can’t just skip the customary prayer and blessing before the meal.

Mathematica is probably one of the biggest and most complex commercially available applications that still has an artisanal/craftsman made quality about it.

It’s something special. Maybe a bit of a relic in its distribution (not open source, not that SaaSy), but it’s so well thought out.

Most companies approach this in two ways:

1. Say nothing until day of. 2. Say someone somewhere at some point or by some date.

For the employees, neither solves the problem of uncertainty that causes the most psychological turmoil.

The best for the employee is being told several months in advance exactly who is going to get axed and when.

This is considered risky for the business though. At that point you have an effective outsider with access to your systems for several months.

Africa as a whole is going to be more and more important to world in the years ahead. It's a continent of 1.2 billion whose constituent countries have been aligned to the US and US/western aid.

Now it's becoming a stage for some of the Cold War-ish struggles between Russia/China and the US. Hopefully it remains mostly an economic stage where it's a battle of who pours more money into the continent's economies for friendship.

In the real world, the exact same idea in one time window can fail and succeed in another.

This may or may not fail.

You are not an ally, you are a de facto vassal. Compared to other vassals in history you don't have to send much in the way of tribute.

Frankly, you have a pretty good deal. We provide your protection, you can do your Dutch things, and we don't bother you too much other than the occasional McDonalds garrison.

You forgot two rather substantial oceans on each side and no comparable powers on its borders.

Yes yes, airplanes, missiles, etc. but the impact of this physical distance cannot be overstated.

As someone born to parents who were struggling, I think you should not hold such sure opinions on hypothetical matters you don't actually have experience with.

To play devil’s advocate to this mindset: life isn’t an optimization game. When you’re being nibbled away at by maggots or a pile of ashes, you will receive no trophy for how you optimized your life in a particular order.

You don’t need to perfect one thing to do something else. Nor does getting your ducks in a row on one thing guarantee you’ll be better off in another.

Sometimes you hurl yourself into the fire and you get burned. Sometimes you hurl yourself into the fire and you figure out everything else because you did it.

I know several once lost and now successful adults who found their drive and focus in the moment they held their first child in their arms. Others who, like you said, are still lost.

If you want to have kids, have kids. You’ll figure it out. Sometimes you won’t. Don’t sit around and wait for the optimal circumstance and opportunity. If there is an opportunity, take it. It may never come again.