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maxerickson

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maxerickson··on Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
Humidity makes a big difference in how stressful the temperature is (wet bulb temperature accounts for this somewhat). The age of the attendees and the tendency of the building to heat would also be factors.
maxerickson··on Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center
The power plant probably amortizes over roughly that period. Price would be higher without a matching purchase guarantee, and so on.
maxerickson··on Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering
Your argument needs to be why it is practical in a smallish device, not that it seems possible.

Like you first have to infer what satellite you are even measuring, before you can decide where it might be.

maxerickson··on How Alberta Eradicated Rats
Warfarin is reversible with vitamin k. I suppose he was also getting a low dose per unit of body mass.
maxerickson··on Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost
You could get angry about anything I say, I don't really care, you do you.

I guess Medicare and Medicaid also don't have the incentives. Nor does Tri-care or the VA. My employer self insures as far as I know, and we are a few hundred people. Maybe 90% is a bit off?

maxerickson··on Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost
Large swaths of US insurance are underwritten by employers, with the insurance companies acting as contracted administrators. Employers don't have the incentives you list.
maxerickson··on Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost
They have similar targeting but are not the same molecule.
maxerickson··on Fox to Buy Roku Streaming Service in $22B Deal
Fox owns Tubi, which has a similar model to PlutoTV.
maxerickson··on Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages
I wonder what typical AUR usage looks like. I apparently have 27 packages installed and last updated one in November.
maxerickson··on Electric motors with no rare earths
There are electromagnets in the rotor, it is directly energized.
maxerickson··on Renault: Electric motors with no rare earths
They are electronically commutated. The stator field is more or less variable AC.
maxerickson··on Tesla Full Self Driving uses bicycle lane in official Denmark approval video
It's not that plausible, unless the idea is that differing traffic laws is some obscure concept.
maxerickson··on Report on an Unidentified Space Station – J.G. Ballard (1982)
You could write a tale in response, about how you spent seconds, minutes, hours, days, years...a lifetime identifying that the several hundred words at the link were fictional.
maxerickson··on A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center
If you take one step further back, you can make the discussion about what deed restrictions are reasonable rather than about breaking the deed restriction.

Like for an example with different dynamics, Menard's will say you can't use the building as a hardware store when they sell to build elsewhere. That's a stupid restriction for society to allow.

maxerickson··on Dopamine Fracking
The other post is also just an assertion.

Can you link to evidence that countering assertions with assertions kills discussions? (This is sarcasm)

maxerickson··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
Of course they are themselves. The question is whether they are a different self.
maxerickson··on Cutting a photon in two creates an infinite swarm of particles
Do they even exist?
maxerickson··on Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study
The result in the study is a few percentage points difference in the disease rating scale after 5 years, with relatively large variation in the underlying individual results.

The potential for there to be a mechanism that accelerates progression is a great thing to publish, but the data looks like it is in the "do you want to enjoy coffee for 5 years or go without to maybe avoid speeding it up a little bit" category.

maxerickson··on US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds
Did you mean half a century? Meaningful change in 5 years would be pretty amazing.
maxerickson··on US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds
Medical assistants and nurses work with you before the doctor to increase billable events for the doctor. You could describe this as saving money, but it's not the goal.

Phone and front desk stuff is just administrative burden, scheduling the appointment and making a paper trail.

maxerickson··on You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)
In the US, local governments are often far worse than state and federal governments.

In general, it's because it's harder for the larger entities to get away with playing favorites (I'm not saying it doesn't happen, I'm saying that it happens a lot more in smaller units).

Paying all your taxes to the corrupt local judge (county official) is in fact not a win.

maxerickson··on Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism
The displacement will rather obviously be task by task, not job by job.

Okay, edits it is. The displacement will rather obviously be incremental and be task by task, not job by job.

maxerickson··on Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism
If somebody thinks the computer can make a better PowerPoint, what business is it of yours to stop them from using the computer to make a PowerPoint?

There's a big political problem to solve, but it's how to give most people decent material standards of living if computers are doing all the work, not how to freeze things in place so that people can keep doing tasks that (assuming success) the computer is better at.

maxerickson··on Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism
Say you own a well and sell the clean water.

I learn that boiling the stream water makes it safe and tell people about it.

What do I owe you?

Uber and AI are certainly more complicated than that, but you are pretty close to arguing that the constructed rights of some people inhibit the rights of other people.

maxerickson··on Pandoc Templates
Right, most people don't want to do that, they want the burden of applying styles to the couple headings or whatever.

Unfortunately, most people don't use paragraph styles, but if you do, it's a couple clicks.

maxerickson··on Pandoc Templates
Basic familiarity with the paragraph styles in Word is like a 20 minute task.

If you are using markdown, you already understand the conceptual basis for it, so you just need to understand how it's implemented over there.

I'm not arguing that it is something you should do, just rolling my eyes at "I would be lost".

maxerickson··on Pandoc Templates
For the short, simple documents that most people make, a versioned, wysiwyg word processor is going to beat everything else.

I mean, they don't want to think about building the output, never mind controlling the process.

maxerickson··on The dead economy theory
Your analysis assumes our current politics where money roughly equates with power. That won't hold if people feel controlled.

AI of course also has the potential to concentrate power, but people aren't just going to ask the accountants who should be in charge.

maxerickson··on Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens
Why? The current method is cheap.
maxerickson··on How to convert between wealth and income tax
Pretty cool that the taxes high earners stop paying are not considered income taxes.

(Social security and Medicare)

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