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by Quinner 2y ago
Internal monologue (or dialogue, as it can play out as imagined conversations) is an apt name for it. Imagine reading a play. Everything is expressed as language, and ideas and concepts are expressed through that language.
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by Quinner 2y ago
Adds historical context as to a duration of an extremely long-lasting problem?
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by Quinner 2y ago
Not sure about this case specifically, but its possible to sell shares in a private company (with some restrictions), and for companies like Stripe that have very high valuations its not that hard to get liquidity.
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by Quinner 2y ago
- Also in NYC (Roosevelt Island) have every building hooked up to pneumatic tubes and suck it all into a central collection location. https://www.npr.org/2017/07/26/539304811/how-new-york-s-roos...
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by Quinner 3y ago
A tab is roughly a standard dosage. One problem is that LSD is such an extremely potent chemical (the effective dose is measured in micrograms) that it is difficult to be confident in your dosage when it hasn't been produced in a rigor
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by Quinner 3y ago
That's really not what the article is about, it focuses heavily on the evolutionary history and adaptation of the orchid and talks very little about its resonance with the human experience.
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by Quinner 3y ago
Statistically, factually, there is no recession. If anything a big chunk of the media likes to pick out anecdotes like this and say there is a recession when there isn't.
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by Quinner 3y ago
The vast majority of US weather data and forecasting comes from the National Weather Service, and you can access it directly at www.weather.gov
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by Quinner 3y ago
It's not profit earning. Unity lost almost a billion dollars last year. This is a move of desperation.
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by Quinner 3y ago
Are you thinking of lacrosse or squash? Searching for High School sports pages on this turns up very little.
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by Quinner 3y ago
The authors are supposing that dark matter at this stage of the universe has its own particles and antiparticles and they are annihilating each other, the energy released by that annihilation is generating the heat.
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by Quinner 3y ago
This was illustrated by comparing his written argument, which was compelling, to the ChatGPT transcripts, which were insipid and bland, even when given the germ of an interesting point. Maybe in a year ChatGPT will be retrained on a million
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by Quinner 4y ago
Humane by who's standards? Should the government be mandating how to raise children? Maybe the government would think compelling church attendance is a humane policy to protect children. Or we could let parents decide how to raise thei
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by Quinner 4y ago
This is America, we follow through on our threats of violent aggression, no matter how far away other countries are. And when we ban speech, it's not authoritarianism, it's Freedom.
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by Quinner 4y ago
Before Uber (around 2010) LA County mandated that Taxis accept credit cards. I don't think I ever managed to get in a cab where the credit card reader wasn't mysteriously "broken."
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by Quinner 4y ago
The goal of the police is to have secure jobs with a decent salary and benefits, and ideally be meaningful in some way (could be promoting public safety... could be exerting power over others). Often enforcing the law helps secure budgets (
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by Quinner 4y ago
Bah, humbug.
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by Quinner 4y ago
His lawyers fired him because he wouldn't shut up. https://futurism.com/the-byte/sam-bankman-fried-lawyers-quit...
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by Quinner 4y ago
I'm not sure how you'd read this as a puff piece. The reporter described his reaction to the interview as "appalled".
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by Quinner 4y ago
The "increasing demand" lever also reduces affordability over longer timescales as prices rise faster than wages, so people without a home are priced out of ever buying one.
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by Quinner 4y ago
They would definitely not be publishing results of the power increase on the same day of the increase. These experiments take a lot more time than a day to perform and analyse.
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by Quinner 4y ago
Have you tried not paying taxes?
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by Quinner 4y ago
Our entire dev team switched from MacBooks to laptops running linux.
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by Quinner 4y ago
30 years ago in order to navigate somewhere you had to ask someone for directions and write down notes. If you missed a turn, god help you. We fundamentally move through the world vastly differently thanks to digital maps. Many people (and
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by Quinner 4y ago
In the US, the required reserve ratio has been 0% since March 2020. I personally wouldn't view the traditional financial system as about as trustworthy as things get.
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by Quinner 4y ago
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by Quinner 5y ago
Search being broken for local files is infuriating. I've tried to do registry modifications to fix it and remove Cortana and it STILL won't find a file searched for by name in the root C: directory! But it'll give you random
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by Quinner 5y ago
Much like US Defense spending subsidizes the rest of the globe, US for-profit healthcare spending spurs massive investment in pharma and biotech research that benefits the rest of the world. Are there inefficiencies and waste? Yes. But out
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by Quinner 5y ago
The Navy isn't dumb, and that's why they build submarines. Carrier Groups still have an important role to play in lower-intensity conflicts, but in a Pacific war with China they'll be about as useful as Battleships were in WW
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by Quinner 5y ago
Our criminal justice system is designed to incarcerate black people. A third of black people will be incarcerated at some point in their lives. You're six times as likely to be incarcerated if you're black than if you're whi

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