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skrbjc commented on First live birth using Fertilo procedure that matures eggs outside the body businesswire.com/news/hom... · Posted by u/apsec112

JumpCrisscross · 8 months ago

> the process of pregnancy is incredibly physically strenuous

Friend just gave birth. I honestly don’t understand how anyone who has been proximate to childbirth can believe in intelligent design.

Everything about human birthing is a hack. The placenta. The rotation and cord and length of the process. The ridiculous frequency of stupid fuck-ups which often result in the death of a baby or the mother or both. Pregnancy strikes me as one of those processes proximate technology could absolutely do better than nature in 9/10 cases.

skrbjc · 8 months ago

Interesting because it seems like a miracle to me

skrbjc commented on Noise-canceling single-layer woven silk and cotton fabric onlinelibrary.wiley.com/d... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

omegaworks · 9 months ago

Incredibly important for the comfort and wellbeing of space travelers. Imagine being in an enclosed box compacted as efficiently as possible next to thrusters and life support equipment. The noise must be insane. At the same time, current noise suppression materials have to be heavy. Every gram saved is worth its weight in gold.

skrbjc · 9 months ago

The Tines would kill for this tech.

skrbjc commented on Who Pays for the Arts? esquire.com/entertainment... · Posted by u/Caiero

keiferski · a year ago

I didn’t see any mention of how the actual “rich people” have changed from a hundred years ago to today. The industrialists of yesteryear tended to care about what high society valued and subsequently funded cultural projects. Carnegie Hall (essentially the top destination for classical musicians) or the Carnegie Library system are prime examples.

Compare that to today, where many of the newly rich are from tech or finance. They don’t seem to care at all about supporting culture or the arts, instead focusing on politics, medicine, or their own pet causes.

This has to be a major factor, and also explains why Bezos Hall or Gates University of the Arts seem like completely implausible things to exist today.

skrbjc · a year ago

I don't think you have been to a university recently, considering it seems like literally everything has some donor's name attached to it - including the actual professors themselves. This is an actual professor's title: "Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield, Sequoia Capital Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering"

Also Stanford literally has a building named after Bill Gates: https://www.cs.stanford.edu/about/gates-computer-science-bui...

skrbjc commented on New Anti-Toxicity Features on Bluesky bsky.social/about/blog/08... · Posted by u/runarberg

anonfordays · a year ago

>If you don't want people to be able to reply critically to a post, why not have a private profile or not post it in the first place?

Exactly. Someone will post something abhorrent, critical replies will be removed, supportive replies will stay. It will make echo chambers worse than they ever have been. Then again, that may be exactly what the users want.

skrbjc · a year ago

This is a key criticism of reddit, and everyone knows how much of an echo chamber reddit is

skrbjc commented on New Anti-Toxicity Features on Bluesky bsky.social/about/blog/08... · Posted by u/runarberg

perihelions · a year ago

I'm only minimally familiar with BlueSky. Is it a fair analogy, for understanding what this is, to say it's like:

- If someone replies to this HN comment I just wrote, and I don't like it, I can delete their comment (because there is an thread ownership concept on BlueSky, and the earliest comment is the owner);

- If someone links to this HN comment I just wrote, and I don't like it, I can make that hyperlink disappear, or invalidate in some way (because BlueSky is a locked API garden and hyperlinks are not plain text, but magic cloud API tokens)

Is this much correct?

skrbjc · a year ago

Pretty much, the first one being more like you can hide a comment that you don't like and if someone wants to see it they can click "see hidden replies"

skrbjc commented on A chemist explains the chemistry behind decaf coffee theconversation.com/retai... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac

ptsneves · a year ago

The reddit post mentions that DCM is evaporated and it is basically not present after the process. Actually the thread mentions that all the fuss like your post is mostly scaremongering without actual understanding the mechanisms. Do you have evidence that indeed the phase change and separations may not happen?

skrbjc · a year ago

My thought is: if the process is followed properly there is very little risk of these chemicals being in the end product, but if a mistake is made, they could be present in levels that may have some negative health effect. However, if the water or co2 processes were screwed up, the only risk is caffeine being present, which is not ideal, but not as bad as those chemicals. We all know mistakes happen, which is why I'd rather go with a process that has less negative outcomes from a mistake.

skrbjc commented on It's Time for Americans to Get over It and Embrace the Bidet (2015) good.is/features/why-wont... · Posted by u/coryfklein

anthomtb · a year ago

Does being part wookie make a bidet less effective? I am asking for a friend.

skrbjc · a year ago

If you had a wookie costume and there was peanut butter spread all over it, which would be more effective: A. wiping it off with toilet paper B. hosing the costume off

skrbjc commented on It's Time for Americans to Get over It and Embrace the Bidet (2015) good.is/features/why-wont... · Posted by u/coryfklein

Tade0 · a year ago

I've had a bidet two apartments back, but part of becoming a parent for me was to discover that flushable wet wipes do an equally good job.

skrbjc · a year ago

"Flushable" wet wipes are still terrible for the sewer system and honestly that is misleading marketing. They still get stuck in municipal systems and anyone that runs such a system would tell you that these shouldn't be labeled so.

skrbjc commented on Supreme Court overturns 40-year-old "Chevron deference" doctrine axios.com/2024/06/28/supr... · Posted by u/wumeow

stvswn · a year ago

It is incorrect, but widespread among left-leaning pundits, that this ruling will force Congress to micromanage everything that would normally be left to the agencies. Agencies can still make rules. If Congress would like to be out of the details business, they can even write statutes that explicitly delegate rule making to the agencies. What this does is prevent agencies from acting in ways that are easily interpreted as _not_ conforming with law. The Chevron test told judges that they have to defer to the agencies _even when_ they conclude that the agencies are misreading the laws, as long as the agencies aren't being manifestly unreasonable. This has led to agencies very savilly expanding their power without any new statutory authority simply because they have good lawyers who know how to craft it in a way that survives a Chevron test. The SC just said something I find completely reasonable: from now on, judges have to interpret the law as its written and decide cases based on whether or not the agency is complying with the law. They cannot abrogate their duties to be the experts on legal analysis simply out of a desire to defer to the agency's interpretation. I think it's correctly decided because Chevron is an illogical mess -- why is it that in one situation and one situation only, our legal system treated one of the parties in a suit as inherently having more authority to intepret the law than a court itself? It is not persuasive to me that we should say "well, because the courts can't be experts," as this is not an argument that works in any other situation where a court must make legal rulings in the face of experts -- such as bankruptcy proceedings, antitrust cases, etc.

skrbjc · a year ago

Yes, exactly. Perfectly put.