Why is there demand for something that is more likely to kill the user? Is it cheaper to produce? Harder to test for? Does it give a stronger high?
Aye. No problem with hospitals, insurance companies, doctors, or drug companies being greedy as long as they provide value. The problem is that over time the value received by the patient is dropping while the value…
Vested interests have succeeded in creating a system where the individual has almost no agency, but the individual's interests are not being served. If my primary care provider is too expensive or too inept, I should be…
I can't quite pin words on it, but just intuitively it feels like there is less barrier to reading and more of a break from studying when the newspapers are printed and sitting there than when you have to swipe on a…
Around 2013 our university digitized their newspaper displays. Prior to the renovation, newspapers were posted daily in large vertical glass-covered display cases in the student lounge of the library (the library would…
For that one would have to define morality. Also, the iterated evolutionary game theory of life supports the emergence of moralities among creatures which gain fitness by cooperating well to form groups that are more…
By nature of being human and prioritizing my own existence and the existence of the people I love, I fundamentally believe humans (specifically these humans) have more moral worth than "digital beings." In fact, digital…
Wait, I thought the 15 minute city idea was about reasonable mixed-purpose zoning and public transit, and now it is about limiting car access to cities?
That also means engineering, management and labor for construction are much reduced in cost, provided you can find domestic engineers working at domestic salaries and management which isn't corrupt.
What would your goal be in calling it out? Admin mandated ethics training, so it is either going to happen or it is going to "happen". Professor is not getting grants to make research ethics slides, so he's not going to…
After a scandal in our institution with medical professors publishing in pay-for-play journals, we were required to take an ethics class. Our PI scheduled this for 10 am, and not knowing better I booked an hour of time…
Do we? Besides takeoff and landing, it is pretty common to take off shoes during flights.
> I’ve heard it’s a pretty nice town with good outdoors options. A US military vet once told me that "the base has good hunting and fishing" is code for "it's in the middle of nowhere".
Yes? If I were a minor, they would.
> The idea that might can make right in the modern world turned out to be false; The idea of racial might has been disproven, but international might (including allies) very much still makes right. The undisputed…
Does the NTSB look into train derailments? Would be interesting to see whether the systems engineering for trains hauling large quantities of industrial chemicals is on par with that of airlines. If not, it probably…
Interesting idea, to include rent payment in the loss function or goal instructions... But I'm pretty sure it's going to be a human or human company setting that up, and so the human gets the…
Thanks. That is an answer which makes sense.
In other countries the population will unite after natural disasters, and leadership is usually given credit for the response as long as they continue support for local response efforts set up in the immediate…
While three stoves was probably ahistorical for most homes, a fire which heats the home and is also used to cook (food in ceramic containers) was absolutely commonplace. In particular, a controlled cooking fire in the…
Only need to look so far as Canada for financial supporters of a protest movement getting cut off from the financial system in midwinter. Now imagine that was centralized and could be done without informing anyone…
Can FreeCAD save .stl files yet? Last time I tried it (2019) the exported models (made only from extrusions and rotations) were totally broken. I want to script up these models in python, but if I can't print them then…
I was going to disagree with you, but a back of the envelope calculation shows that the energy of computer production is probably equivalent to that of a few hundred hours of use, and so if you can save 10% on energy…
Most indoor air purifiers have low purifcation thoroughput compared to the space they are designed for (30 min to 5% PM2.5 concentration migh be a typical filtration rate). If you model that as an exponential decay it's…
That's an American problem. The Amtrack sleeper I went on was much much more shaky than any of the trains I have been on in Europe or Asia (except for maybe a commuter train in Norway). I think it has something to do…
Why is there demand for something that is more likely to kill the user? Is it cheaper to produce? Harder to test for? Does it give a stronger high?
Aye. No problem with hospitals, insurance companies, doctors, or drug companies being greedy as long as they provide value. The problem is that over time the value received by the patient is dropping while the value…
Vested interests have succeeded in creating a system where the individual has almost no agency, but the individual's interests are not being served. If my primary care provider is too expensive or too inept, I should be…
I can't quite pin words on it, but just intuitively it feels like there is less barrier to reading and more of a break from studying when the newspapers are printed and sitting there than when you have to swipe on a…
Around 2013 our university digitized their newspaper displays. Prior to the renovation, newspapers were posted daily in large vertical glass-covered display cases in the student lounge of the library (the library would…
For that one would have to define morality. Also, the iterated evolutionary game theory of life supports the emergence of moralities among creatures which gain fitness by cooperating well to form groups that are more…
By nature of being human and prioritizing my own existence and the existence of the people I love, I fundamentally believe humans (specifically these humans) have more moral worth than "digital beings." In fact, digital…
Wait, I thought the 15 minute city idea was about reasonable mixed-purpose zoning and public transit, and now it is about limiting car access to cities?
That also means engineering, management and labor for construction are much reduced in cost, provided you can find domestic engineers working at domestic salaries and management which isn't corrupt.
What would your goal be in calling it out? Admin mandated ethics training, so it is either going to happen or it is going to "happen". Professor is not getting grants to make research ethics slides, so he's not going to…
After a scandal in our institution with medical professors publishing in pay-for-play journals, we were required to take an ethics class. Our PI scheduled this for 10 am, and not knowing better I booked an hour of time…
Do we? Besides takeoff and landing, it is pretty common to take off shoes during flights.
> I’ve heard it’s a pretty nice town with good outdoors options. A US military vet once told me that "the base has good hunting and fishing" is code for "it's in the middle of nowhere".
Yes? If I were a minor, they would.
> The idea that might can make right in the modern world turned out to be false; The idea of racial might has been disproven, but international might (including allies) very much still makes right. The undisputed…
Does the NTSB look into train derailments? Would be interesting to see whether the systems engineering for trains hauling large quantities of industrial chemicals is on par with that of airlines. If not, it probably…
Interesting idea, to include rent payment in the loss function or goal instructions... But I'm pretty sure it's going to be a human or human company setting that up, and so the human gets the…
Thanks. That is an answer which makes sense.
In other countries the population will unite after natural disasters, and leadership is usually given credit for the response as long as they continue support for local response efforts set up in the immediate…
While three stoves was probably ahistorical for most homes, a fire which heats the home and is also used to cook (food in ceramic containers) was absolutely commonplace. In particular, a controlled cooking fire in the…
Only need to look so far as Canada for financial supporters of a protest movement getting cut off from the financial system in midwinter. Now imagine that was centralized and could be done without informing anyone…
Can FreeCAD save .stl files yet? Last time I tried it (2019) the exported models (made only from extrusions and rotations) were totally broken. I want to script up these models in python, but if I can't print them then…
I was going to disagree with you, but a back of the envelope calculation shows that the energy of computer production is probably equivalent to that of a few hundred hours of use, and so if you can save 10% on energy…
Most indoor air purifiers have low purifcation thoroughput compared to the space they are designed for (30 min to 5% PM2.5 concentration migh be a typical filtration rate). If you model that as an exponential decay it's…
That's an American problem. The Amtrack sleeper I went on was much much more shaky than any of the trains I have been on in Europe or Asia (except for maybe a commuter train in Norway). I think it has something to do…