collegeburner

... because it could reduce amazon's marketshare and pricing power? which would reduce the supposed need for such efforts. is this just schadenfreude desire to see amazon get fucked in court?

no, i'm saying 1. transportation is only a certain amount of our infrastructure and the cars can be electrified, and 2. your paradigm assumes we hold the environment above people's quality of life. i do not.

trains are exclusively fixed point-to-point. many cities are not constructed for walking and/or are 110 in the summer. respectfully, screw walking.

nitpick, BRICS now that south africa joined. which is frankly baffling given that the other members were only too happy to continue doing business with the apartheid regime, excepting only india: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:International_sanctions...

a barrel of oil is equivalent to around twenty-five thousand man hours of work. sacrificing that would result in a colossal hit to quality of life. and ironically, the additional people needed to mitigate that might actually result in more ecological impact, to say nothing of broadening a global underclass of widget producers

we can and should use our limited hydrocarbons to bootstrap our way to higher-potential energy sources. but "using less" is a misguided assumption

"just use less" is a very prescriptive line that i rarely find accompanied by concrete ideas on how to do so without huge reductions in welfare and quality of life. past some point, we must consider how highly we value the habitat of a rare lemur or something weighed against the benefit to conscious beings

the above does not exclude a reduction in our hyperconsumerist tendencies. i live in a pretty minimalist fashion and 90% of what i own was passed down from relatives or picked up secondhand. i am somewhat baffled that more people don't do this, if for no other reason than cost savings

the guys i mentioned in my other comment will not be refining in china. too many natsec concerns and there are federal $ to be had if you help secure a durable supply of critical minerals not constrained by an evil empire

depends on which player you're looking at. i know of at least one other firm partnering with experienced deepsea companies that has highly favorable economic projections (they look pretty reasonable based on their partners' cost history) and is using a much less disruptive method of nodule collection. very significant reductions in the silt plume

problem is, you'll never make these people happy. o&g? emits carbon, must go. cobalt for batteries? tears up the congolese landscape, must go. seabed recovery? messes with ecosystem, must go.

to be clear, i'm not trying to preclude cleaner alternatives. just saying there seems to be a rising idea that basically no level of anthropocene change is acceptable and we must retvrn to communes and mud huts or something. some folks need to quit letting the perfect be the enemy of the good

even if you agree with the almost inevitable conclusion that we should simply use less, you must recognize the political reality that almost no one is willing to suffer a substantial downgrade in standard of living. increased buy-in to the energy transition is largely due to promises that we can continue living how we are, tolerating what impact is left and mitigating costs with a combination of technological innovation and making "the rich" pay

not as antitrust laws are written, no. not a sherman section ii monopolization of trade or commerce, not a section i restraint of trade, not a clayton tying. as with most antitrust cases, it comes down to market definition. the reasonable market is phone messaging or some such; the only way to win would be basically defining the market as imessage itself which no court would suffer since whatsapp and similar are free with equal or greater features.

you can argue antitrust statute should be expanded or changed, but there's no reasonable case as things stand.

It's all about user privacy until the jackboots might want that data, then suddenly it's Very Important and Law Enforcement Critical!

i think the takeaway here is if you do this, just check the admit status of every single student

i am not, nor have i ever been, employed by apple. i use none of their products as my primary devices. stop breaking the forum rules.

yes, i primarily use an android phone. nearby share is janky and terrible. additionally, the fact that it's not built in everywhere is a ding from the standpoint of an end user.

editorialization. you know as well as anyone that restricting your feature development to your own platform rather than doing a retarded design by committee helps one innovate faster.

yeah also means you can't just delete a utm parameter to avoid being tracked. devilishly clever

related, Maroofy: https://maroofy.com/

shows you similar songs and imo does a pretty good job of it

okay but this "interoperability" is legitimately hard without degrading the user experience because apple's unique level of control allows it to produce a superior product with more consistency. airdrop is best-in-class; open-source solutions like wi-fi direct are dumpsterfires with trash UX. LE proximity pairing is, i believe, a custom chip apple put in airpods (h1 chip) because bluetooth is stuck in 2005 and still doesn't have easy pairing, full quality two-way audio, etc. carplay/auto have different feature sets and airplay is an objectively easier experience than google cast.

the EU is fundamentally interested in these changes regardless of consumer welfare. this is sour grapes because they fail at tech by every conceivable metric and by degrading everything to a common feature set and commoditizing certain standards, they hope to give domestic companies a prayer. that it prevents innovation and improvements is merely a secondary concern for the hard-headed anti-Americans in brussels.

you already have to do this to get certain apple services (including imessage) working on hackintoshes. turns out there's a really easy work-around: guess-and-check serial numbers on apple's web site until one works. they rate limit it a bit but you can usually find a working one without a terrible amount of hassle.

this is my napkin math read as well, but aspirin is an inhibitor of both COX-1 and 2 with somewhat higher affinity for the former. this leaves you messing with something else that's important for regulating platelets, your gut, etc. even selective inhibitors of the latter aren't out of the woods yet. there's some literature that's starting to suggest COX-2 may be at least somewhat constitutive in some tissues (endothelium, hence coronary vasospasm) even if it's also mostly inducible.

not sure why no one has tried developing a prostaglandin e2 inhibitor instead. going further downstream might be safer.

because the FDA are sticks-in-the-mud who get blowback when they approve something bad and but barely hear anything if they delay or restrict something good. there was also a to-do about celecoxib potentially increasing risk of heart attacks, plus the off-label marketing thing that led to the largest (at the time) settlement of that sort in history.

the process was also crazy complicated until some new 2020 legislation. the FDA published monographs saying things like "you can make a pain reliever with the following active ingredients and in the following forms." for example, no changes to the monographs on cough and cold medicines were made between 1987 and 2020. the new regime is of course a new mess to figure out, and consumers won't necessarily know the difference between a selective versus nonselective cox inhibitor. so you spend all this money and maybe inertia just keeps people buying ibuprofen and naproxen because it's what they know. and marketing something explicitly as "safer than ibuprofen" would be a massive hurdle to get cleared.

you can find all the FDA's monographs here, where it lists specific ingredients, concentrations, labeling, and testing procedures. https://dps.fda.gov/omuf/monographsearch

being so real rn i thought this was an llm (insert skull emoji) twitter is breaking me

might be helpful to change the title to integrity-178 since that appears to be the OS' name while DO-178B is a standard

you have two problems with new formulations though. one is lead-free solder seldom works as well as the box claims. two, antimony is somewhat concerning from a toxicity standpoint though i'd say less than lead

i wonder if we don't just quit and go to brazing all joints. rod is pricier than solder and takes more heat but probably less toxic and certainly more dutable

i just set mine to 1gb on creation and have never had space issues besides one time when i had to have an obscene number of different kernels bc reasons. not sure why distros default to spending less than 0.1% of disk space on a boot part.

it turns out you don't actually have to spend a lot on marketing a miracle weight loss drug, word spreads pretty well on its own. lots of companies spend lots of money on promoting drugs and basically none every go viral like this. you don't hear phrases like "ozempic face" because of novo's marketing budget. you can even see this in how people still talk about ozempic despite the actual weight loss labelled name being wegovy, and despite zepbound (tirzepatide) arguably offering a better option with lower side-effect burden through dual agonism of GIP.

non-zero harm but it's necessarily a lot less than making the whole thing out of lead. think about the difference between a square inch of lead exposed per joint versus many square feet. not a one-to-one comparison since the shear stress at a joint will be higher, but such a relatively smaller area it will have a relatively tiny impact.

which sucks bc nextcloud is an ugly, heavyweight beast of a suite to run. whereas roundcube i'm happy running it on my lightweight el cheapo VPS.

does quinn want companies to run large, expensive servers to do inference with no compensation? half the reason you're using services is because the hardware to do it locally isn't cheap. idk why he's kvetching about this when you also have to pay to host a web site, run a compute workload, whatever. but "muh bigcorp bad" ig

sure it is. running vector search over a permissioned subset of all available data seems pretty safe. i don't see how that would translate into direct code execution

you don't actually want to nuke your IGF-1. it's important for metabolism, maintaining muscle tissue (also important for health in old age), and general quality of life. this is a lifespan versus healthspan thing, sort of like a lesser version of why eunuchs live longer.

we're increasingly seeing that mTOR/PPAR/metabolism aren't great targets for antiaging because you can't square the circle of worse quality of life over those increased years.

i should probably flesh out my reasoning more on this but i think we should preserve the ability for people to do wrong rather than trying to box it out. practically, it functions as a useful last resort of the system is very screwed up and we can probably punish noncompliance in other cases.

i think if we successfully remove the ability for people to break laws, regardless of whether it's done in a "privacy-preserving" way, that would be bad. but then again i'm against the feds knowing who anyone is so i'm probably biased.