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flashfaffe2··on The real story of Pinocchio
Without the arrogance to provide an expert view of the book, but it seems that the author did follow up the path of Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens to describe the dark side of Italian society at that time. I would definitely consider drilling down and understand the part of the Italian story
flashfaffe2··on To learn more quickly, brain cells break their DNA (2021)
Actually I would think the other way around.

Though, this doesn't seem to be a clear correlation.

flashfaffe2··on Longer elected terms would lead to better government?
Actually, France reduced it's political term mainly for avoiding the " cohabitation" effect.

But agree the short term led the impossibility to define and implement a Vision.

flashfaffe2··on Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?
Have you checked frame.work?

They offer fully customisable laptop where each pieces can be replace.

Ps: I've just bought mine and tested it for few days so should take my view with a pinch of salt but so far the laptop is inline with my expectations.

You can check some reviews on YouTube as well.

https://youtu.be/jmgBwMHpP1w

flashfaffe2··on Introduction to K-Means Clustering
Depending on the task but using K- means implies you have have idea of the clusters you might have ( unsupervised learning). KNN assumes the groups already exist.
flashfaffe2··on The Fed released a paper outlining pros and cons of a “digital dollar”
Given the current geopolitical events, I'm note sure to understand how any country would agree to jump into the use of this CBDC. My understanding is that with this new tool, the fed will be able to know where is the money in real time. Tough this makes a lot of sense from th FED side ( solutions implemented addresses in 2008 failed mainly because money received from th central banks failed to be re-injected in the real economy). Not sure to see a large enthousiasm from other countries to have this asset denominated in this USCBDC Being remove in one click....
flashfaffe2··on Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine
Cannot remember the US general defining the purpose of the NATO as below:

"Keeping the US in, the Russia out and the Germany down"

flashfaffe2··on No limit to maximal lifespan in humans: how to beat a 122-year-old record
Basically , if you ( the species ) live forever then how would expect the natural selection occurs? This underpins That you have reach the pinnacle and no can adapt in any kind of environment
flashfaffe2··on No limit to maximal lifespan in humans: how to beat a 122-year-old record
This no limit to maximal lifespan has always stuck me as this is in total contradiction with the evolution theory as defined by Darwin

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinism#:~:text=Darwinism%....

flashfaffe2··on Show HN: I had some time yesterday so I made a GPT3 podcast to help you sleep
Great news. Please keep us posted
flashfaffe2··on SF suspends cannabis tax to help dispensaries compete with drug dealers
Irrespective of the judgment made, the expert mandated for that case( they were two distincts group) concluded the same. The cannabis hashad an effect on the behaviour.

I use the case as an illustrative example of the effect of the cannabis. Not judging the case here

flashfaffe2··on SF suspends cannabis tax to help dispensaries compete with drug dealers
Indeed surprisingly, cannabis can have bad effects on human. This has been taken I to account in a French case where murder of an old lady was declared not responsible due to its cannabis consumption.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56929040

flashfaffe2··on Show HN: I had some time yesterday so I made a GPT3 podcast to help you sleep
This sounds very cool. Out of curiosity, if anyone how to such stuff... interested to learn it
flashfaffe2··on Quarter of Twitter Users Produce 97% of Tweets
Pareto acknowledges this statistics
flashfaffe2··on Will the climate crisis force America to reconsider nuclear power?
Thanks for the explanation.

Glad to hear have some folks like you to providing additional for non expert like me.

flashfaffe2··on Will the climate crisis force America to reconsider nuclear power?
Réf wiki:

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, SF 6 is the most potent greenhouse gas that has been evaluated, with a global warming potential of 23,900 times that of CO 2 when compared over a 100-year period.[37] Sulfur hexafluoride is inert in the troposphere and stratosphere and is extremely long-lived, with an estimated atmospheric lifetime of 800–3,200 years.

flashfaffe2··on Will the climate crisis force America to reconsider nuclear power?
Based on the ref below it can be up to 2tons a year. Again this comes from french nuclear plant which I know are very different from US or Japan ones.

https://www-boursorama-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bourso...

flashfaffe2··on Will the climate crisis force America to reconsider nuclear power?
Unfortunately not captured. Again this depending of how to he nuclear plant has been engineered.

Based on the ref below (in French) Up to 2000 kg can be released each year.

https://www-boursorama-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bourso...

flashfaffe2··on Will the climate crisis force America to reconsider nuclear power?
Actually the notion of cleaner should be taken with pinch of salt.

I was very pro nuclear until it came out of my mind.

Given its construction, the nuclear plan can have an intensive use of the sulfur hexafluoride ( SF6 Gas) Which according to Wikipedia

"According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, SF 6 is the most potent greenhouse gas that has been evaluated, with a global warming potential of 23,900 times that of CO 2 when compared over a 100-year period"

This puzzled me as pro- nuclear tend not to mention it.

Unless new technology come up addressing this issue, I would not judge nuclear as clean for the time being.

Page Wiki for additional information:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_hexafluoride

flashfaffe2··on AI predicts accident hot-spots from satellite imagery and GPS data
So is AI really needed here?
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