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New comment by tsco77 in "Gemini Omni"

tsco77 — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:53:30 +0000

Then, if the Ai bubble is truly a bubble, the giant compute warehouses can be transitioned to power plants and used to store Amazon junk for delivery instead. Wonder what the economic wonkiness looks like when energy is that abundant.

New comment by tsco77 in "When did people stop being drunk all the time?"

tsco77 — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:08:38 +0000

And wine to circle back to our topic at hand.

But simple pasta and fish dishes appear quite often in the "blue zones" around the globe. Something I should do a better job of eating more of.

New comment by tsco77 in "When did people stop being drunk all the time?"

tsco77 — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 13:59:33 +0000

White pasta has one of the best insulin indexes of common foods. They're complex, not simple. Common misconception.

New comment by tsco77 in "179 Arrested in Global Dark Web Takedown"

tsco77 — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 22:44:51 +0000

Can a physician not just call it in?

New comment by tsco77 in "DMT drug study investigates the ‘entities’ people meet while tripping"

tsco77 — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 18:05:50 +0000

Just to be pedantic, dogs can count (probably, or something akin to it).

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12357291/

New comment by tsco77 in "R U OK?"

tsco77 — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 16:02:03 +0000

Well, you've sent me down an interesting rabbit hole on the moral status of animals in ethics, and I figure I might as well share what I read:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-animal/#Sent

New comment by tsco77 in "Amazon launches Halo: tracks activity, body fat, emotions"

tsco77 — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 17:15:38 +0000

Lol, these self monitor systems can't even produce useful data in regards to heart arrhythmias, I would be surprised if they are any better at mood recognition given how complex mood is by comparison to heart function.

New comment by tsco77 in "People work longer and different hours under lockdown"

tsco77 — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 19:19:49 +0000

I can feel stressed cooking, but usually that's from an Internal desire to create something good. It's also avoidable with frozen or delivery (or asking my wife to cook). The end result is often enjoyable, too.

Driving in traffic stress is external, reduces my faith in humanity, and is most often unavoidable. The end result (was) often that I was at work or home late. Not enjoyable.

For me at least.

New comment by tsco77 in "Hospitals are suddenly short of young doctors because of visa ban"

tsco77 — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 16:01:18 +0000

$200/300. Everyone uses income based repayment plans. It's literally impossible to make standard payment plan monthly payments on a residents salary (assuming a average debt).

Those payments don't even reach the principle though, so it's more just kicking the can down the road.

New comment by tsco77 in "Trust, Slavery and the African School of Economics"

tsco77 — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 19:20:17 +0000

Thank you for sharing. I'd love to find more of this sort of thing through HN.

New comment by tsco77 in "Google will delete new accounts' data by default in 18 months"

tsco77 — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 00:25:33 +0000

Less than 1% of Facebook ads get clicked. Not sure what sort of roi marketing folks have come up with to convince purse strings their ads are actually producing, but if the "marketing" department can't spin numbers to look good, might be time find a new marketing department.

Then you can get 2% of your ads clicked on.

All that said, I'd be interested in learning if my layman's perspective is garbage (which, let's be honest, it probably is).

New comment by tsco77 in "Crows’ ability to discriminate between languages"

tsco77 — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 03:11:10 +0000

I do believe that article should be about lab rats.

New comment by tsco77 in "High doses of ketamine can temporarily switch off the brain, say researchers"

tsco77 — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 19:32:17 +0000

Ketamine, psilocybin and electro conclusive therapy are all similar in that regards.

Ect is the definitive treatment of resistant depression, but if you can get the same effect without requiring a psychiatrist, anesthesiologist, cna, respiratory, and nursing, why wouldn't you?

New comment by tsco77 in "Walmart says it will discontinue Jet"

tsco77 — Tue, 19 May 2020 13:12:40 +0000

Yeah, comparable infrastructure for deliveries, but my point isn't about distribution centers though.

If stores are closed all their stock can just be delivered with UberDash(tm) delivery drivers because they are everywhere:

https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/mu18i_4q9FQSqMWuBtGuXw--~B...

New comment by tsco77 in "Walmart says it will discontinue Jet"

tsco77 — Tue, 19 May 2020 12:54:54 +0000

All their stores are local warehouses, no?

New comment by tsco77 in "The economic devastation of the pandemic could kill more people than the virus"

tsco77 — Wed, 13 May 2020 03:29:26 +0000

"Although the central causes of the depression are still hotly con- tested, there is a consensus that the "passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff exacerbated the Great Depression."34 Vice President Albert Gore's assertion (in his NAFTA debate with H. Ross Perot) of our consensus on this issue, has been corroborated. On top of the profession's lack of agreement about the genesis of the Great Depression, there is a disagreement about the effect of the New Deal. In fact, the economists in the sample are almost evenly divided on the question of whether or not when taken "as a whole, government policies of the New Deal served to lengthen and deepen the Great Depression." The consensus among historians is that the new Deal did not lengthen and deepen the depression."

Whaples, Robert (March 1995). "Where Is There Consensus Among American Economic Historians? The Results of a Survey on Forty Propositions" (PDF). The Journal of Economic History. Cambridge University Press. 55 (1): 142–151. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.482.4975. doi:10.1017/S0022050700040602. JSTOR 2123771.

New comment by tsco77 in "PC games are fighting a new surge of cheaters and hackers"

tsco77 — Sat, 09 May 2020 14:54:31 +0000

Even better for them.

New comment by tsco77 in "PC games are fighting a new surge of cheaters and hackers"

tsco77 — Sat, 09 May 2020 13:20:49 +0000

This may have been true in the past, but the Tf2 hat model (dunno if tf2 was first to the cosmetic market, but it was my first memorable experience with it) proves that you can continue to extract value from customers after initial purchase.

How much does it cost to run a server compared to a $3.00 hat? (which if you're valve you develop a secondary market to trade those items and take a cut after creating demand by restricting the number of earbuds available).

New comment by tsco77 in "Two Heads: A marriage devoted to the mind-body problem (2007)"

tsco77 — Wed, 06 May 2020 14:27:59 +0000

True. But agency is just how we rationalize responsibility being "fair", no?

The legal system is designed with "agency" in mind, but it's true purpose is to create law abiding citizens. We hold people responsible, because doing so alters behavior, mechanism of altered behavior is just window dressing.

New comment by tsco77 in "Two Heads: A marriage devoted to the mind-body problem (2007)"

tsco77 — Wed, 06 May 2020 14:02:43 +0000

I thought quantam mechanics was enough doubt to refute the materialistic mind. A probabilistic system does not lead itself to a physical reduction of outcomes as follows from specific inputs.

If someone more knowledgeable about the subject would like to chime in, I would appreciate it.