Qem

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by Qem 4mo ago
> Also, women's overall fertility drops off a cliff after 30 Men's too, from 40s up. Not as severe, and not cliff-like in the end like menopause. But it compounds, as the typical couple ages are directly correlated.
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by Qem 4mo ago
With companies enrolling AI to help look over the shoulder of their employees, I wonder how hard it would be to do some prompt injection just changing what is displayed in the surveiled screen for it to see. Potential for a new vulnerabilit
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by Qem 4mo ago
At least these are mostly local jobs.
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by Qem 4mo ago
IIRC in other studies where it's controlled for age, a difference still remains.
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by Qem 4mo ago
Just anedoctal evidence, but I have a group of older coworkers, most in late 40s-early 50s, all divorced, and by their reports on their attempts at getting back at dating, success pretty much track how much hair is left. That made me a bit
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by Qem 4mo ago
Think you. I didn't know there was such overlap in the levels between both genders. Do men's levels also take a hit with age?
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by Qem 4mo ago
> Nearly two-thirds of Americans with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are women, but the reasons why women are more vulnerable are still not fully understood. Scientists have long theorized that the loss of estrogen after menopause may reduce t
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by Qem 4mo ago
Next would be taxing airways and using the resources to subsidize the costs of GLP class drugs, as they benefit directly from customer weight loss.
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by Qem 4mo ago
Reminds me of https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-int...
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by Qem 4mo ago
> IMO The missing link is that, as long as humans still have political power, that is the basis of their economic power under the new system. It's because of this Big Tech is busy undermining the basis of democracy, isolating people
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by Qem 4mo ago
I wonder if it helps explain in part why the Publish or Perish culture is wrecking science and stalling scientific progress. The stressful environment it tends to create it's not conductive to learning and thinking in depth.
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by Qem 5mo ago
I wonder how much of the effects of ageing are due to cascading failures downstream of alterations like these. For example, it's common for people to lose teeth in advanced ages. How much of this is due to dry mouths from insufficient
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by Qem 5mo ago
Its aggravated because the "water sensor" appears to fail early with age. Elderly people tend to not get the thisty feeling as often, but get dehydrated anyway.
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by Qem 5mo ago
Most other animals have typical lifespans that don't top two decades.
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by Qem 5mo ago
> The Brazilian government wanted to control the flow of information across borders, while academia championed unfettered access to international research, both of which were hampered by local telecoms that coveted monetization. For cont
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by Qem 5mo ago
> HR has a reputation for claiming that they are here to help employees but actually only prioritizing the desires of the corpos Unions were the institutions that actually helped employees. It's a shame they had their reputations sm
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by Qem 5mo ago
> All positive growth eventually flattens out and becomes sigmoid, but a lot of phenomena experience negative growth and nose dive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_effect
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by Qem 5mo ago
> We didn't. The USSR had 100% employment long ago[0], and all the poverty that goes with it. I don't think USSR poverty rates surpassed those of Tsarist Russia that preceded them. To their credit, I think ideologic competition
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by Qem 5mo ago
It's a shame AI now has a universal basic jobs[1] program, but humans still not. Companies are paying AI to dig holes, so other AI can fill them. [1] https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-full-employment/
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by Qem 5mo ago
Academia already underpays highly skilled people. Worsening long-term prospects for people in the area would just make more bright people quit sciences and go right into finance or other bullshit careers that pay more but are near zero-sum
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by Qem 5mo ago
> I honestly thought they focused on free speech/privacy/open source. Pointing complicity with a regime that killed over 260 journalists[1] has a very strong focus and serves well free speech. [1] https://english.elp
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by Qem 5mo ago
At this point a hostile takeover doesn't make sense. They must just wait a bit[1]. [1] https://m.koreaherald.com/article/10522978
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by Qem 5mo ago
They mistook EpsTein files for ET files.
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by Qem 5mo ago
This is probably the Holy Grail of neoliberalism: Even taxes are privatized!
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by Qem 5mo ago
> Governments aren't competent enough to do tech stuff well and they would never make something that works in a different country as well as credit cards do, but still. There's some counterexamples: Postal systems, GPS and the
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by Qem 5mo ago
Fertility in the migrant source areas is decreasing fast as well. At some point the books won't balance anymore, to provide a reliable flow of workers.
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by Qem 5mo ago
> The elderly are screwed. But, that seems OK? Remember, these elderly will be most of us. IIRC many 20 and 30-somethings today will be still alive by the time shit hits this specific fan. How old are you?
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by Qem 5mo ago
> These days birth-giving mortality is very close to zero, also post-birth care is quite good Also reliable and affordable DNA testing makes much easier collecting pensions from fathers that before would just vanish, or outright deny pat
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by Qem 5mo ago
If you want to reach the ground floor in a tall building, it makes a lot of difference if reaching it by elevator, or jumping from the window. Speed matters! A _very_ slow transition probably could be managed without disruptive impacts on t
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by Qem 5mo ago
It's not better, because by the time people reach old age and understand the dangers of old age destitution and how dire is the lack of support from close family, they can't act on it anymore. Things need to be structured in a way

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