CartyBoston

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Towards Ineffective Altruism(reboothq.substack.com)
5 points by CartyBoston 4y ago|1 comments
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by CartyBoston 5y ago
that sounds like a bank
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by CartyBoston 5y ago
"thought to be by an analyst in the FSB" pretty bulletproof, good enough for me
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by CartyBoston 5y ago
peeps here can be very literal, it's I suspect no accident
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by CartyBoston 6y ago
It's kind of illuminating to see this issue get so little traction here.
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by CartyBoston 6y ago
in this they behave like a short-term gain focused stock market
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Facebook Engineer Quits(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by CartyBoston 6y ago|1 comments
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by CartyBoston 7y ago
The pain you express here is one I recognize, I'm sorry. For me the answer is simple to say and difficult to execute - if I don't value the world I am in, create a world that I do value. Creating worlds is awesome, literally Godli
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by CartyBoston 7y ago
I love "others as individuals of infinite worth"
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by CartyBoston 9y ago
I did exactly this, at least here in the US the machines are very inexpensive and even free because manufacturers make $ from the strips. So for about $30 I was able to do readings several times a day for a week. My PCP was impressed.
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by CartyBoston 10y ago
Fish yeah but extracting useful DNA from olive oil and other processed foods/ingredients is not straightforward.
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MIT Economists – Being Right Is Necessary but Not Sufficient(nytimes.com)
3 points by CartyBoston 11y ago|0 comments
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by CartyBoston 11y ago
bcheung, I absolutely agree that CRISPR is substantive and even very exciting. But sloppy allusions to things far from fruition make me not like this particular article very much.
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by CartyBoston 11y ago
"Using the three-year-old technique, researchers have already reversed mutations that cause blindness, stopped cancer cells from multiplying, and made cells impervious to the virus that causes AIDS." Ugh. Overreaching rhetoric lik
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by CartyBoston 11y ago
Ellison may be an asshole but “I was told it stalled in committee and the reason why, we found out a few weeks ago, is because Oracle uses it to go after their competitors” Is not the slightest bit specific about what, if anything, he actua
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by CartyBoston 11y ago
Wait ... where is there a $2 burger?
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by CartyBoston 12y ago
That was my first post here, I want to watch my step. Is an "ocular melanoma" any tumor discovered in the eye? Or is it mutated eye tissue that was subsequently discovered in his liver? Which would indeed be pretty definitive. I d
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by CartyBoston 12y ago
It's a beautiful essay, and I don't mean to undermine its gravity but one thing he mentioned has me curious. How does one conclude that two tumors are related? Might it be that the cancer that metastasized in his liver is independ