ProjectArcturis

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by ProjectArcturis 1y ago
I'm not trying to convince you that illegal immigrants shouldn't be deported. What I would like to convince you is that any time the government takes action against a person, the government should have to prove their case in open
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by ProjectArcturis 1y ago
Ah, makes sense. I thought it was for delivery to a warehouse in the US, as so many other commodities are.
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
I get why oil would fall - recession, less tourism and trade. But why are tariffs making coffee cheaper? I would have thought it would get more expensive in the US, since it's almost all imported.
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
That's because there's an easy arbitrage. If the prices get out of line with each other, anyone can buy the cheap one, sell the expensive one, and get free money.
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
From a realpolitik perspective, the US would like this war to go on forever. Under Biden, the war was grinding up enemy Russian troops and not-really-an-ally Ukrainian troops, weakening both strategically while costing us no troops and 0.2%
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
Definitely the demographic thing, but also the "Putin approaching death" meme feels like mostly a PsyOp from Ukraine. The unspoken correlary is, Ukraine doesn't have to outlast Russia, it just has to outlast Putin.
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
What's the ratio between xAI and X valuations? Same as the ratio between leprechauns and unicorns.
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
By "so successful", do you mean "failed all pivotal clinical trials"?
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
I agree with your comments about the West. The fact that we continue to expand legal gambling is evidence enough that we don't care about the negative consequences of an industry. But let's not pretend China is perfect. The purge
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
The 25 in LSD-25 refers to prior efforts by Hoffman to combine lysergic acid with various other organic moieties. https://archive.vn/vaKCX The first 24 are not hallucinogenic. As I said in my earlier post, there are analogs
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
There aren't really "varieties" of LSD. There's one chemical structure that is LSD. There are a couple related chemicals that are also hallucinogenic (e.g. LSA), but they have much lower potency. Having even 50% of a sta
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
I would just like an AI that isn't so incompetent that it breaks immersion in the game. In Civ 6, on Deity, if you survive the first 50 turns, when the AI had a massive cheat advantage, it is virtually impossible to lose to the AI mili
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
And the AI was totally incompetent at maneuvering tactically. They had to massively outnumber you to even have a chance at taking your city. And they really haven't learned anything since!
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
I would have preferred they partner with some UI experts.
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
If you sell BRK shares, the money comes from the buyer, not BRK itself. It's a corporation, not a mutual fund.
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
Surely technical competence is strongly correlated across the two beasts.
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
Yeah, it's just tremendously embarrassing. These are supposed to be the tech geniuses who can parse 50 years of accumulated legacy code and find all the government waste? In 3 weeks?
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
Yes! Labs should escrow $10k for a year for each paper they publish. If anyone finds fraud, they get to keep it.
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
There are certainly theoretical reasons why it might help. There is definitely a link between AD and blood sugar. Having diabetes doubles your risk of AD. The brain regions hit first and worst in AD have the highest levels of aerobic glycol
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
You have to understand that CDR-SB is a very sensitive measurement. Yes, it's an 18-point scale, but from 4.5 to 18 it's just measuring how bad the dementia has gotten. The vast, vast majority of healthy people will score 0. Going
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
There is no reward for finding falsified data. If there were, we'd find a lot more.
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
I was once very skeptical of the amyloid hypothesis, but I think the genetic evidence is very convincing. Most (all?) cases of familial early onset AD are caused by mutations that increase amyloid. And there is a rare variant of the amyloid
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
It's also hard to distinguish whether sleep disruptions cause AD or the other way around.
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
Huh! I thought they'd be skinnier.
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
Remember Fedor Emilianenko? He was probably the best MMA fighter in the world around 2010, and he looked like this: https://images.app.goo.gl/JZoqXvSbcnCSahkKA
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
I enjoy the way that the New Yorker's style guide enforces consistency and precision in a way that is often lacking in English. Not just the diareses, but also the way they consistently follow the rule that when you add "ing"
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
Ray tracing, not real-time strategy.
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
Anecdotally, I've been getting a lot more recruiter spam lately.
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
That's awful! I was a postdoc then and the NIH standard was $40k.
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by ProjectArcturis 2y ago
I believe Andrew Left and Citron Research were the first.

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