Amezarak

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by Amezarak 4y ago
I don't support products like this. We know much more about biology than we used to. Incomparably more. But what we know is still very little. Replacing foods consumed for thousands of years with foods dreamed up in a lab is a fool&#x2
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by Amezarak 4y ago
Whatever the ideal is, the reality is that everything old is pulped to make room for the latest political fare and romance novels, especially if it’s not been checked out lately. An ideological criterion is applied on top of this. God only
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by Amezarak 4y ago
Sure, no doubt, a video can sometimes make things much clearer. A great example (to me) is this [1] for example. I had understood from the old illustrations that I was supposed to imagine something like that, but video makes it incredibly c
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by Amezarak 4y ago
It is not clear to me that is the case. Has the proliferation of screens actually improved learning outcomes? It appears to me that e.g., HS graduate standards have been gradually lowered over time, particularly the further back you go. May
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by Amezarak 4y ago
They're cleaning the eggs somehow. Maybe they're not washing them, and I don't know about the rest of the comment, but having chickens myself and getting eggs from others all my life, chicken eggs are not clean besides an occ
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by Amezarak 4y ago
Nietzsche is fond of playful personal attacks (which do sometimes become shrill by the end of his life on some matters), but he engages with the thought honestly. Russell does not. That is what I see as the difference. It's one thing
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by Amezarak 4y ago
Russell's opinions of Nietzsche border on libel. I had a lot of respect for Russell until I read this book and discovered that he either misunderstood Nietzsche extremely badly for some reason (emotional response?), and/or felt no
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by Amezarak 4y ago
It’s pretty clearly written by a non-native speaker, likely with Indian origins. It’s not AI.
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by Amezarak 4y ago
I've been using BingGPT or whatever you want to call it and it seems OK to me. The only obvious hallucination I've seen is that I asked it to summarize a relatively new but niche book, and it was curiously and bizarrely wrong - it
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by Amezarak 4y ago
This is definitely the case. > Analysis of the mid-Victorian period in the U.K. reveals that life expectancy at age 5 was as good or better than exists today, and the incidence of degenerative disease was 10% of ours. https://
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by Amezarak 4y ago
All those things are great, or at least you and I think they are. But that's not the question. The question is do those things make for greater human thriving and fulfillment? Increasing things that people find pleasurable does not nec
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by Amezarak 4y ago
For some reason, in the humanities, especially with "pop" stuff like this, you can find a lot of extremely strong claims with basically zero backing. At any rate it's not a translation issue. You can see in your link, which a
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by Amezarak 4y ago
I've seen dozen of examples of journalists sending these with ridiculous timelines (eg sending 10PM Friday night for answer by Saturday), seemingly because they do not care for or do not want your input on the story, but know asking is
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by Amezarak 4y ago
I don't really understand what people want out of these LLMs. You deliberately and specifically ask for an essay representing the beliefs of a specific conspiracy theorist, and you get it. OK, that seems correct, but this is presented
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by Amezarak 4y ago
> Neither does Christ on the cross asking why God has forsaken him. He's quoting Psalm 22. Jesus very frequently quotes the psalms, probably more than any other book, and "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me" is the o
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by Amezarak 4y ago
Yes. That wouldn't have gained them appreciable new users, but it would have slowed losses. Almost all my browsing is done in Chrome and Brave now. There's not really any reason to use Firefox besides habit now, and I don't
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by Amezarak 4y ago
It's probably coming through your window, not the walls. Try it from a bathroom.
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by Amezarak 4y ago
This is a huge overstatement of the problem, which generally refers to the last six verses of the book. Consider the comparison of the KJV with the NIV, which is based on a newer/modern critical Greek text. Eramus made up the missing v
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by Amezarak 4y ago
The article overstates Webster's influence. He did not invent those spellings (the article says they are "new versions of old words"), which predated him sometimes by centuries. He simply standardized them. English spelling a
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by Amezarak 4y ago
> (A quick search will find you people telling you not to use the King James translation.) Most of them are bad reasons - for example, one very popular criticism is the claim that KJV invented the usage of the word "unicorn" i
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by Amezarak 4y ago
The US federal government (and particularly the IRS) doesn't know what kids you do or don't have. Millions of American kids vanished when the IRS decided that to claim a kid you must provide a valid SSN. [1] https://www
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by Amezarak 4y ago
I’ve had this problem with Twitter since I signed up years ago.
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by Amezarak 4y ago
+ it is generally possible to set up autopay for credit cards in the US, but it is not the default and I have never seen it not be very obvious on how to turn off. There's regulations about this in the US. + US debit cards and credit
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by Amezarak 4y ago
Precisely the advantage of credit cards is that your money can never be stolen, only the bank's money. People keep talking about fraud protection, but that's the difference between a debit card and a credit card. When your debit
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by Amezarak 4y ago
What card has the same fraud protection? In the US, debit cards do have "fraud protection", in that if someone steals my card or number somehow and spends $500, after an investigation it will be restored to me. With a credit card,
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by Amezarak 4y ago
We don’t have an IT department per se but hundreds of offline sites consisting of thousands of servers each which cannot be changed in this manner and for which neither I nor any person I have ever met has the option of complaining that the
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by Amezarak 4y ago
I haven’t had any trouble with 1920x1200, but I haven’t tried to watch full-screen 1080 video or something either. Probably the most intensive thing I’ve done is watch IP camera streams on Firefox over X forwarding. I understand that not ev
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by Amezarak 4y ago
I don’t know what to tell you. I use Firefox every day over X forwarding and it seems to work just as well as anything else with no noticeable slowdown. This is exactly my confusion, why people say there is one. I guess things would be diff
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by Amezarak 4y ago
Can you provide specific examples of such applications? I use X-forwarding daily and everything seems to Just Work with no noticeable slowdown.
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by Amezarak 4y ago
By law, the bank is liable for accepting a forged check, not you. They are required to reimburse you unless you did something very careless. https://www.helpwithmybank.gov/help-topics/fraud-scams/forge... .

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