Definitely tend to think that working a lot (not necessarily all in one organization, and for a pretty expansive definition of "work") is the way to have a good life. Even before starting to think about money.
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Patents last for about 25 years, but important innovations have returns far into the future, hundreds of years. At that rate, you would very often be better off accumulating interest on capital anyways.
Notwithstanding the nature of scientific progress as an accumulation of smaller experiences (each individually harder to justify with a profit motive).
Indeed, even privately funded research is often openly published, such as the now-famous paper "attention is all you need". There's just not that much to gain from keeping every single thing under wraps. More to gain with openness.
Still applies I guess.
Alcohol famously disrupts the metabolism of B1, making it ineffective in the body. In the extreme case it causes the Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome which is exactly related to B1 metabolism.
The "insulinergic" role of potassium and so on in fruit juices also does make them easier to process in this way than something like coca cola.
If we believe that our personal experiences can be an ingredient of real knowledge about the world, etc
Otto Warburg wrote about the bioenergetics of cancer cells as favoring fermentation over respiration.
I used to be ketogenic, but ultimately moved to consuming more simple sugar from fruit juice etc per Ray Peat.
-- Mao Zedong
Software has been going through the same productive shift for many decades now, e.g., Free and Open Source Software. Simply because copying bytes is absurdly cheap. It's still around.
Zotero is cool. Hits some of the same requirements here, I think.
Bohr effect and others corroborate the idea that Co2 is not just a "waste gas" produced by respiration but has an important biological role in its own right.
Ingestion of baking soda, which supplies Co2 to tissues, is so effective at countering the effects of lactic acid from muscle overexertion that its administration is banned in horse racing.
It stands to reason that higher Co2 can protect against lactate throughout tissues, perhaps even including the brain, especially in a condition where the brain favors fermentation over respiration (as in cancer, per Warburg effect, and depending on who you ask, in mental illness/depression)
It is intentionally designed for longer range, with lower datarates, with lower power consumption. It's in the name. "LOng RAnge".
Not to be too annoying but "Radio like LoRa" reads to me as "microwave" which includes "WiFi" which is plausibly something you use for file transfer all the time. So some more clarification would be helpful.
He reports that some 80% of his class have left the country. I would say that his generation (i.e., some of the first to come of age in the post-communist period) especially were very eager to find lucrative work in the states and elsewhere. The capitalist structure of early capitalist Russia was quite unstable, not offering good pay, or in many cases even consistent pay, and that's if you could find a professional opportunity.
Maybe consider promoting this free tier in/to university students? Worked for UNIX. I could see a lot of college kids wanting something more advanced than a twitter feed to create a web portfolio, willing to use something new, but without the investment of learning Jekyll for someone that's, say, a MechE or ChemE student.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/08/security-and-...
The article is directly talking about mass-produced electronic commodities. The same is even more so for bits where the cost of copying is not merely "low" as in microcontrollers, but essentially free.
In my opinion, systemd does solve a lot of problems, at a cost of somewhat more complexity and resource utilization. But it is the nature of material culture to complexify with time as more physical resources become available, i.e., "progress". More advanced commodities don't come out of a thin air of "better processes", but processes that interweave with other parts of the economy more intimately given the previously produced commodities. Something similar can be true inside the computer.