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toomuchtodo

110,887karma·51,744submissions·October 26, 2011
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Forward deployed scholar

"We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them."

In life, everything is a wager. Whether you realize it or not, you are constantly making implicit and explicit predictions about the future state of reality. To live is to predict.

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Are there any projects or products today available for monitoring heart rate and respiration without needing a smart watch using this technology?
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I was unable to find the NRC filling, if someone finds the link to it, please drop a reply with it. This is potentially interesting as this reactor recently had its operating license extended earlier …
1h ago·view thread
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Cool to see my thesis validated. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664223
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Updated June 15th, 2026. Indicates 41% (~21GW) completed towards 2045 goal of 52GW of storage serving California’s CAISO electrical grid. At current deployment rates, California will likely reach thei…
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Purpose and use cases?
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There are escorts, and there are partners. One gets paid in fiat, the other in your time. If you can’t make the time, you can’t afford a partner. The time is the cost of a committed, investable relati…
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People who cannot afford to survive without this credit and need it to fill the wage expense gap for basic living needs. This is why the unemployment rate is a poor metric. It doesn’t matter much if y…
18h ago·view thread
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Indeed, they are attempting to shape and control the narrative with proclamations. Luckily, they’ve exhausted any trust and social capital outside of their bubble. “The authoritarian tech bros have no…
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Another public good to be repaired when this is over. > The SPR will sit at around 243 million barrels after the drawdown is finished. > The Energy Department has said at least 70 million barrel…
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https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11458693/
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Login.gov had/has some technical gaps for agency customer identity use cases, which is why you don’t see it used by some agencies yet (depending on their customer identity assurance requirements)…
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The arc of progress is like the visibility curve over the horizon. We keep sailing.
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Unfortunate it’s not login.gov but definitely an improvement over their bespoke customer identity and access management solution.
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Just pattern matching as an autistic human. Similar results were seen on a ketogenic diet (and to some extent, intermittent fasting). What do they have in common? Sugar intake reduction. Is it surpris…
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-14/oklahoma-... > “Protect Our Farms. #StopTheInolaSmelter,” reads the text below the image, splashed across a billbo…
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Western disease and sugar heavy diets broadly speaking, which Semaglutide is a countermeasure against. Not yet a vaccine, but in due time (probably via gene therapy). Fructose also helps cancer metast…
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$40M a year to operate, roughly. https://archive.org/donate (we must be willing to support the public goods we find value in and wish to persist if we want them to continue to persist…
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https://worksinprogress.co/ https://arenamag.com/ https://killprettymagazine.com/ (nsfw) https://jacobin.com/ https://mou…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Arday
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Have to protect shareholder profits, this is America after all. Get out of the US if you can, you’re just a sponge to squeeze.
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He was too early.
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Grab a coffee with Leopold Aschenbrenner, ask how their experience with intuition went. You must be right, on time, and with sufficient capital behind you to win.
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Gas Prices and Consumer Behavior in the United States - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6703058 - May 3rd, 2026 > This paper looks at how changes in gaso…
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That’s correct.
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