Balgair

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by Balgair 5mo ago
Aside: Geeze, are we putting a lot of potholes into the road of life for men. Alcohol, legal weed, illegal drug wars that went no where, prescription drugs that were vastly over-prescribed, schools that were underfunded for decades, the nea
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by Balgair 5mo ago
Most of the people in the pro-natalism space have moved over to the idea that you're not going to be able to convince folks to have a first kid. Instead, you might be able to convince folks to have a third kid. That seems to be where t
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by Balgair 5mo ago
Gosh it's been years, but I think they did the dual animal experiment with rats about a decade ago. I'm likely misremembering but they tickled a rat in Japan and fed the impulses into the internet and had another rat in maybe Braz
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by Balgair 5mo ago
Holy shit, how are my local theaters staying in business?! Like, all the screenings are just empty!
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by Balgair 5mo ago
I mean, the UK isn't in danger of invasion by Russia. Even Finland barely is. Ukraine is currently invaded and Russia seems to be a bit stuck in the mud. The UKs threat from adversarys is nuclear, nearly nothing else. Now the threats t
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by Balgair 5mo ago
Haha, I was just talking to family about early dad-hood. I mentioned that I really felt how a space marine feels some days: https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Daily_rituals_of_a_Space_Ma... Mostly in the short sleep peri
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by Balgair 5mo ago
Haha! I'm ~4 years 'sober' and I can say the same! However I have a rather large confound: Kids. I'm sure that if I was drinking regularly still that I would feel much worse than I do today. But the effects of children a
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by Balgair 5mo ago
Interesting! I have UV filters on my glasses and things really changed when I took them on of off. I was much greener with the UV filtering glasses on. I guess my eyes are not picking up on things somehow.
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by Balgair 5mo ago
> Even Mr. Patel’s nontechnical guests — interviews with the military historian Sarah Paine account for four of his 10 most popular episodes — tie back, if not directly to A.I., then more broadly to the near-future. Always thought that h
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by Balgair 6mo ago
> Japan, South Korea, Philippines and Australia are taking notes. Donny also goes back on his word constantly. Look at all the trade agreements that he signed before 'liberation day'. Look at really everything afterwards too. E
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by Balgair 6mo ago
So, at my BigCo, this rings very true. We've tried to internally pitch many ideas to the larger organization before but mostly got nothing back. Finally, one of the various board members talked to my boss and told them that, essentiall
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by Balgair 6mo ago
Likely the Moon or Mars will be where we do a lot of bulk commodities, since the Delta-V to get the goods off of them will be lower. Then you'll have raw resource extraction in the asteroids and other very light moons. Earth will remai
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by Balgair 6mo ago
0) The odds that any of this massive amount of data is ever used by Meta for anything are very low. Less so that anyone will actually look at it, including lawyers. 1) With vibe coding being so effective, Meta employees have easy ways to po
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by Balgair 6mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUeBMwn_eYc "War isn't Hell. War is war and Hell is hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse" "How do you figure that Hawkeye?" "Easy Father, tell me, who goes t
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by Balgair 6mo ago
Alright, well your buddy just got extra smart points from me then!
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by Balgair 6mo ago
Just so everyone here knows, any LA lawyer is a darn smart person. LA has kinda a dual legal system that it inherited from the French and Spanish codified law system out of Napoleon (yes that one), and ultimately from Roman law. https:&#
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Economics of Curing Cancer (RoR of 1024%)(nber.org)
3 points by Balgair 6mo ago|0 comments
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by Balgair 6mo ago
Seems like the seasons are a local thing. Now, this also seems like a calculable problem. Other posters mention seasonal lag and other effects. Guys, we have computers, we can compute this, it should be straightforward? Grab a few data sets
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Kevin Kelly – Some Contemporary Heresies(kevinkelly.substack.com)
4 points by Balgair 6mo ago|0 comments
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by Balgair 6mo ago
I've noticed this in Latin too. Like, in Latin, the verb is at the end. In that, it's structured like how Yoda speaks. So, especially with Cato, you kinda get lost pretty easy along the way with a sentence. The 'not's wi
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by Balgair 6mo ago
Aside: I've found that 'not'[0] isn't something that LLMs can really understand. Like, with us humans, we know that if you use a 'not', then all that comes after the negation is modified in that way. This is a
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by Balgair 6mo ago
Aside: We should not make fun of both of these lying cheating idiots in charge of either faction. Look, it's really easy to dunk on them, like super easy. This is a very dumb war and will continue to be so, we all can see that. But bot
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by Balgair 6mo ago
Hey, just want to say thanks for the piece and for all the hard work and effort you did to get this out there. I've published a bit here and there, and the actual writing is only ~50% of the work load (for me at least). So thanks for g
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by Balgair 6mo ago
Christ, that sounds like a colossal waste of time for everyone
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by Balgair 6mo ago
In chapter 11 of All Quiet on the Western Front Paul and his unit find an abandoned food cache in the middle of no mans land. Instead of secreting away the food back to their lines where they will have to share it, they decide to just coo
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by Balgair 6mo ago
they just changed the reporting req to every 6 months too
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by Balgair 6mo ago
Rest and Vesters? No. Dodobrains on r/wallstreetbets? The basement has never been so salty. Honestly, it's all clickbait in the end. 'Real' investors are still quietly just plugging their weekly contribution into their 4
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by Balgair 6mo ago
Oh man the Colorado GOP is a complete mess these days. One of the frontrunners for the governorship is just spouting straight antisemitic garbage: https://www.9news.com/article/news/politics/gop-gubernatoria..
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by Balgair 7mo ago
A late uncle of mine did his thesis at Arizona on the practical limitations of interstellar travel. The TLDR of it is that teenagers suck. They assumed the physics of those days (mostly unchanged) and no faster than light travel [0] and tha
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by Balgair 7mo ago
Or Antarctica too. Like, pretty much any of those place has 0) Air at not a near vacuum 1) Liquid water 2) not a lot of radiation 3) appropriate gravity Why would you want to even live on Mars? You have to essentially live in a very small p

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