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Why can't CTE be diagnosed until after death? Do the lesions not show up in scans?
I understand about Turing machines.
For chess though, there are time constraints. The 386 is a lot slower. Is it fast enough?
I wonder how far back you can go? Could a modern chess engine run on a Cray 1? 386? 68k?
I've been seeing more and more JAC small pickup trucks (diesel though, not electric) around Austin lately. I think people are bringing them up from Mexico.
Would plugging the ONT into a UPS work?
Reagan was mostly known as a film actor.
The other performer was, of course, Trump. He had a TV show.
Three times. Nixon was a stage actor and in fact that’s how he met his wife, Pat (she was also an actor).
One thing that has hurt the public climate change discussion is how terrible science communicators are. They tend to talk about facts and population-level problems and generation-spanning change.
Facts matter, but not nearly as much as emotions do. Talking about problems is important, but the impact is much greater if you can put it in context of a single person or very small group of people that you can name. As soon as the effect is on thousands or millions of people, the impact tapers off.
I agree with you though about politicization. It’s too easy and effective. It can be used for good though. Nixon passed most of the US’ environmental legislation. He created or passed the EPA, the NOAA, the endangered species act, marine mammal protection act, and clean water act. The political influence of hunters and the NRA at the time was a big driver (but not the only or even biggest driver) of those changes.
> What kind of article shows you a newsletter pop-up as soon as you load the page?
One that knows the more you read, the less inclined you are to want more.
They may need some kind of backup, depending on where they are in the world. A lot of heat pumps don’t work well below -20F / -30C.
Making electricity cheaper is exponentially easier than getting people in a democracy to choose short term pain for themselves on a politicized issue.
The difficult part is that as demand for petroleum products drop, they will get cheaper (at least initially). Electricity costs need to fall faster than oil prices as oil demand drops.
Since they are comparing to the cost for a month of gas, I would assume it’s per month.
When somebody says:
> They represented years of hard work, sacrifice, aspiration, and the dignity of finally being able to afford something that was genuinely well made. Something that would last. Something that could be passed down.
you're probably not thinking plastic Casio. Casio are great watches that are accessible to just about everybody on the planet.
> These weren't merely consumer products. They were milestones. They represented years of hard work, sacrifice, aspiration, and the dignity of finally being able to afford something that was genuinely well made. Something that would last. Something that could be passed down.
That’s basically what Rolex and other Swiss watchmakers say about their products.
How well are the AI companies stocked up on Aerons and other nice chairs? I'm guessing a lot of us have chairs dating back to the dotcom bust 20 years ago and could use an upgrade...
> In 2008 the USA managed to export the shit assets generated by the mortgage boom, mostly to Europe
I didn't know about this. How did it work?
My dad had Lewy body dementia when he died and it was awful. I'm really sorry to hear that Stewart and his family had to deal with that.
Are you also opposed to school lunch programs that provide free or very low cost food to students?
I had a similar reaction but after thinking a bit, I can see some merit in the idea.
I wouldn't mind if my mom had access to a free grocery delivery service. She's 80 and has very bad vision.
Don't grid operators typically have excess capacity most of the time?
> One consistent thread was that cooking is supposed to present you with difficulties and challenges and the whole point is figuring them out by yourself.
That’s such a dumb thing to say. When I’m making something for me and my wife, I want a recipe that is idiot proof.
It might not be the right machine for you and that's ok.
If I needed one of these for my work (I don't) and was going to be using it every day for the next two years, I think I could justify it. It would be about $4 / day which is within reach. Add in the fact that Mac's have decent resale value and the daily expense could be quite a bit less.
I live in the suburbs of Austin and we get them around our backyard. On nights when they were most active I would go wake up my kids and we would watch them for a while.
A lot of parents are not great parents and can't be relied on to make those kinds of calls. They are not going to put their foot down and it's up to all of us to help make crack less accessible.
Twenty years ago it was easier to be a good parent.
> but don't expect that much improvements
What improvements are needed? It sees pretty much complete to me and I think it's a good thing for it to be in maintenance mode (ie stable).
I think you and I align closer to Robert Pirsig's ideas on quality. It feels worse, so it is and you can't really measure it.