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I would have "show sphere" on by default--this kind of threw me at first, too. This is a really nice project. Great work and a great write-up. Thanks for sharing.

With all the salt, you'd turn your fields into the next Carthage.

Again, inaccurate. You can get a PrEP shot twice a year now. Access is a valid point. Perhaps the money being used to fund a superfluous vaccine should be used to fund access to Pr…

This is completely inaccurate. There is PrEP that requires dosing two times a year. You can also get PEP if you engage in a risky activity without PrEP.

Finally, I get to see my company plugged on HN!

I'm personally a fan of more than 50% of children surviving past the age of 6, something that didn't happen until the 20th century.

Thanks for recognizing my greatness :)

It's hard to find good info on Chinese netizen culture in English in general. I loved chinaSMACK back in the day, but haven't found a good replacement. Do you know of any blogs or …

Plenty of companies are willing to pick RHEL or paid Ubuntu for that very reason, even though they are infinity times more expensive than free Debian

$TSLAQ was a thing long, long before Musk was openly donating to Republicans or running DOGE. It's always been a shit company making shitty cars that fall apart and kill their driv…

There is a lot of highly classified knowledge about nuclear weapons that has been deduced and published in open literature. That information is still treated as secret, restricted …

>Any physics teacher should know the theory for constructing a nuclear bomb. Should we be controlling that knowledge too? Maybe not the best example, since that knowledge is some o…

Not to harp on you (already being downvoted to oblivion for expressing a reasonable and common opinion), but the whole conversation about LLMs enabling bioterrorism or explosive ma…

Amazing timing, Jerkcity hits 10,000 strips in like two weeks.

You should (I assume it's Rands), he clearly does not want to be rembered as a Jerkcity guy now that he's a Serious Palantir Poobah.

Great, looking forward to needing 16GB RAM to watch youtube :(

It's a rewarding project! I fixed up a freebie old Schwinn roadbike a few years ago and it's so much fun to ride. I have a freebie Nishiki too waiting for a decision on what to do …

Oh alright fair enough, measured vs. expected basically?

I also took it 20 years ago but I feel like they were (of course I also did undergrad chem 16 years ago so I may be conflating things). It's difficult to explain isomers without ex…

Are "magic coefficients" not just a result of the units you are using? Like how h-bar is 1 if you are using natural units

You had a poor organic course. Even orgo 1 should have you thinking about resonance + electron-rich or -deficient areas of molecules and how those lead to reactions.

Solidarity. Cars belong in the rubbish bin of history. The Soviet Union had the right idea, as usual--make cars unbearable to drive to encourage public transportation.

Imagine a Democratic president with a spine like that.

There are already people dying of malnutrition, preventable disease, etc. in the third world. Half a billion dollars could do a lot of good there, instead of going towards a pipe d…

I guess man. This kind of doesn't apply to workers who are enabling the bourgeoisie state (cops, programmers making systems to feed data to the NSA, etc.)