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I'm curious -- how do banks actually do this, then?

Hydrogen is simple to produce if you have access to water and electricity. Gasoline is much harder to do, though.

Fair! Those seem like reasonable stats for a cool setup.

I’m curious: what kind of latency do you observe on this setup?

Ok, let's agree to disagree, then. I'll note that I never "pretended that it's not justifiable". I did explicitly say earlier: > That's a fair position (you seem to be a utilitaria…

I made that point because I argue that patient autonomy is important. Further, I argue that in order to protect patient autonomy, information should not be withheld from the patien…

> If your goal is to actually help people, you should base your arguments on how things are in reality instead of some idealized dream world. That's a fair position (you seem to be…

> Your entire argument here seems to require patients to be rational agents. Yes, my argument does rely on patients being rational agents. > They aren't. That may be true, but it's…

No. Not all screenings/tests are done, even when it's super low cost and non-invasive. For example, one factor that is used to determine whether to screen for certain types of canc…

One slightly reasonable common argument I hear for reduced medical diagnostics is: “we don’t have the resources; it’d overwhelm the medical system”. While this may be the case for …

Light only travels at C in a vacuum (so it doesn't actually travel at C in a standard fiber optic cable, it's actually much slower).

That's cool -- I didn't know that! Imo, the more effective and cheaply we can store energy and smooth out supply/demand curves, the more attractive solar and wind becomes. Perhaps …

Yep, it’s called pumped hydro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit... I think it’s very promising/exciting as a method of smoothing out the demand curves o…

Hi, Michael! Nice to see you on HN and talking about that PR :).

The anecdotes about the propagation of the mannerisms of Wittgenstein are a gem. Here’s a particularly nice one about David Foster Wallace: > James Wallace, who was a graduate stud…

This is great! Another great resource about Kalman filters (with very helpful pictures) is [1], which was discussed on HN [2]. Kalman filters rock! [1]: https://www.bzarg.com/p/how…

Fastmail. It just works and does everything I need, without bloat (I've got it on a custom domain). It also seems reasonably likely to last "a decade or two".

> This seems like not a sound argument to me....is it not tautological, or, simply an observation that perception of reality does not necessarily match actual reality? The argument…

The original text is the best, I think (maybe look at Stanford's Encyclopedia of Philosophy's treatment of the subject [1]). The way I like to think of Berkeley's position is like …

If you’re interested in learning about other metaphysical possibilities, George Berkeley’s works could be worth a read. One of his big statements is that “to be is to be perceived”…

They also offer server-side rendering as well (provided by volunteers through fishnet): https://github.com/niklasf/fishnet

Unrelated, but the fruit of the poison tree doctrine (which you are citing) has exceptions, like the good-faith exception.