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by Camillo 9y ago
> a moderately active man weighing 154 pounds > 3,000 Calories It's really striking how much heavier and how much less active Americans have become.
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by Camillo 9y ago
The classic "if we could put a man on the moon, why can't we put a man on the moon" situation.
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by Camillo 9y ago
> Briefly stated, the universality hypothesis claims that all humans communicate six basic internal emotional states (happy, surprise, fear, disgust, anger, and sad) [...] What the fuck. It's either "happiness, surprise, fear,
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by Camillo 9y ago
> The correlation was true regardless of the patient's age, the presence or absence of cardiovascular risk like high blood pressure or other health conditions. Perhaps we should say that a sedentary lifestyle is by itself a cardiova
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by Camillo 9y ago
I have always found Toki Pona incredibly creepy. It's like someone read about Newspeak in 1984 and decided "yes, that sounds great, let's do exactly this" unironically.
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by Camillo 9y ago
Under US anti-discrimination laws, _any_ group identified by one of those characteristics is a protected group, with the notable exception of age. For example, laws against sexual discrimination protect men as well as women. In practice, it
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by Camillo 9y ago
> We’ve come a long way from the 2007 study by Italian nuns on the connection between stress and disease. You know, which I read about at the job I started on March 15th (ref: HELen). Have you read about theory of mind? It involves the a
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by Camillo 9y ago
I mean, George Bush used to live in Compton. How bad can it be?
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by Camillo 9y ago
There is a simple and equitable solution, which is to transfer the debt to the universities where they studied.
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by Camillo 9y ago
> Additionally, it’s important to note that the communications industry is one of the largest lobbying groups in US history; internet providers and the telephone companies before them are notorious for spreading wealth across the aisle.
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by Camillo 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_term#Basic_color_terms
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by Camillo 9y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/3yrw2i/i_never_though...
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by Camillo 9y ago
I suspect that "impostor syndrome" is just what many people feel when the comforting illusion of the Dunning-Kruger effect starts to fall apart.
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by Camillo 9y ago
The Greeks and the Romans prized realism in art above all else. We know this from literature (e.g. the story of Zeuxis and Parrhasius), from surviving paintings (frescoes, portraits, etc.) which show skillful and realistic use of color, and
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by Camillo 9y ago
The headline is clickbait, and directly contradicts the report's conclusions. The article says as much ("While the report lays the blame on training"), but by that point you've already clicked. But look at that bridge sc
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by Camillo 9y ago
Do we have a significant number of accused billionaires fleeing the country and forfeiting bail?
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by Camillo 9y ago
It's ancient history to me, and I'm not even a teenager. I can't believe it was 2012... I would have said 2005 or something. According to Wikipedia, it was actually 2013. Wow.
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by Camillo 9y ago
You don't have to go straight to subway. Surface light rail can use the same stops as buses. All you need is to lay rails on the street, and you get transit that is vastly more comfortable and inviting than buses. Setting up dedicated
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by Camillo 9y ago
I just realized that they don't even sell the old form factor any more. They kept it around for a while, but now it's gone. Where can I get an old-style MBP?
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by Camillo 9y ago
I agree, the examples in the article look terribly confusing. And they're inconsistent with Swift's own for loop syntax: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Sw... for ite
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by Camillo 9y ago
I have personally spoken to a Democratic voter who told me about committing voter fraud. It does happen. Of course, because there is no voter ID there is no accurate way to measure voter fraud. Because there is no way to measure it, it can
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by Camillo 9y ago
Why "idea of silence" and not "silent thinking"?
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by Camillo 9y ago
Puerto Rico's population is close to 3.5 million people. How large of a population do you think it was able to support before industrialized capitalism? "The bottom end of capitalism looks like subsistence tribalism"; how pow
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by Camillo 9y ago
Google Photos's automatic indexing of pictures is one of its best features. They're not trying to figure out where you have been, they're just saving you the work of tagging your photos. If you put your SF pictures in an albu
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by Camillo 9y ago
Germany is successful because it kept its manufacturing jobs through the collaboration of capital and trade unions: the capitalists kept the factories in Germany, and the unions accepted wage restrictions [1][2] to stay internationally comp
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by Camillo 9y ago
Always.
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by Camillo 9y ago
It would be nice if Bazel could generate CMake projects.
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by Camillo 9y ago
If he made his money by honest means, he still wouldn't have been able to take it to the afterlife. I make a honest living, but, having no wife or children, I know that all the money I save will ultimately be enjoyed by people who hate
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by Camillo 9y ago
There is a rich literature on culture-bound syndromes [0], but the same phenomenon is visible in certain criminal behaviors. To state it succinctly, crimes can be memes. In the US, for instance, the school shooting is a meme: it's just
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by Camillo 9y ago
One problem is that these accusations tend to come from sectors which are far more "evil" (e.g. the media, academia), and whichever cure they have in mind is likely to make things worse.

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