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Not an expert but what I’ve heard is that AI-based radiology analysis has brought down prices so much that there’s been a huge increase in demand, which has led to employee shortag…

You seem to mistake an ideal for reality and forgo a few difficult eventualities: eg. tyranny of the majority, corruption, regulatory capture, etc.

Past canaries of Apple's software downfall: Scripting and the new Notification Center. The key thing to make macOS feel welcoming to everybody from noobs to the nerdiest of power u…

Yes, all of us born in the 80s or earlier …

> Security monoculture is not necessarily a great approach See: Hezbollah & pagers.

Having two different RFCs on this is clearly causing confusion! I think I'll create a new RFC to supersede both to clear up the situation.

Discounted Cashflows calculation for Nvidia would require 10x growth and a 55% profit margin for 10 years to justify the current valuation. If the company achieves a 4-5X growth (1…

The law is the will of ”we”. ”They” can’t change the law – only ”we” can.

Better than what?

> literally had 2x4's on fire stuck in the combustion chamber I REALLY wouldn't want to be the person tasked with starting that fire.

[dupe]

This was one nefarious operation by the hacker: - He hacked the patient files of a psychotherapy center Vastaamo. This included therapy notes for more than 22.000 patients. - First…

Memorable, for the last year two years I've been working on identifying structural causes of procrastination caused by working from home and working on a digital device. While I'm …

In Finland wind power provides roughly 30% of the nominal power on average. The problem is that it fluctuates between 0-80%. The National Emergency Supply Agency calculates 6% of t…

There are burnmarks high up on the pillars of the train bridge but not on the lower parts. This would suggest that the explosion happened on top of the bridge.

I seriously doubt that. Please elaborate why you think this is the case.

Road rage and horribly antisocial driving behaviour exists. I don't think it usually includes murderous intent, but intentionally dangerous behaviour is quite common.

For comparison: Finland (338,440 km²) is three times the size of Iceland (103,000 km²) Finland has 23 million hectares (76%) of forest cover. http://www.metla.fi/metinfo/sustainabi…

Soros was a disciple of philosopher Karl Popper, one of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science. Popper was a big influence on empirical falsification. Popper w…

Soros was a disciple of philosopher Karl Popper, one of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science. Popper was a big influence on empirical falsification. Popper w…

The algo surely is quite basic. I believe JanneVee is saying that a "rather basic" algorithm that tries to maximize engagement drifts towards promoting the more divisive posts that…

San Francisco is often clogged, with motorcyclists lane splitting and therefore travelling at significantly higher speeds compared to others. I'm sure median speed gives a better a…

I started using Google Apps for Domains pretty much the day it came out. 3 of my companies are using Gsuite right now. But all my domains tied to a Google Account that could get ca…

I was talking specifically about Finland. Our situation is such that our energy consumption peaks during the winter months when onshore wind farms perform poorly. You can see that …

Wind turbines work on average at 18-30% efficiency in Finland. The nadir efficiency is roughly at 6%. You'd need to build 1300+ 3MW wind turbines to match the average production of…