TaupeRanger

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by TaupeRanger 11mo ago
15+ years ago, that might have been the case. Now, you might find some friends in the 3-8 year old range, but then the kids just...don't do things anymore. In both suburban neighborhoods I've lived in the past 10 years, there are
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by TaupeRanger 11mo ago
Where I live in the Midwest that is absolutely the case. The homeschool "groups" are almost all religiously oriented in some way.
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by TaupeRanger 11mo ago
It obviously is.
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by TaupeRanger 1y ago
The study doesn't show that donation is a good thing. Showing a miniscule reduction in blood markers is not the relevant variable - what you'd actually care about is: do I liver a longer or better life because of this interven
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by TaupeRanger 1y ago
The post implied that doing a “blood oil change” was potentially a good thing. My point is, we don’t know either way, because a study hasn’t looked at that question for health outcomes. It could be doing more harm than good, the parent comm
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by TaupeRanger 1y ago
“I’ll do something which might be beneficial or harmful to me (I don’t know) and if given evidence of harm (likely never) I’ll stop doing it.” Ok…have fun I guess.
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by TaupeRanger 1y ago
If “for nothing” includes an increase in disease from eradicating an otherwise healthy oral microbiome by over-cleaning/washing, well I don’t think I need to answer that. Since we don’t know either way, best avoid drawing a conclusion.
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by TaupeRanger 1y ago
Because we don’t know either way. There’s also a minuscule chance that doing extra cleaning might lead to the opposite effect, as evidenced by another reply here. We don’t know. This article mentions nothing about halitosis.
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by TaupeRanger 1y ago
The research doesn’t really imply any conclusion. You can’t cherry pick 4 studies that show an association (not causal connection) and use it as a plausible argument.
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by TaupeRanger 1y ago
People are talking about dental hygiene in this thread, but it’s only mentioned once in the article, and only to suggest that a small portion of the microbes associated with cancer were also associated with dental disease. We literally don’
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by TaupeRanger 1y ago
"What do you mean you won't give us trillions of dollars? Don't you want to cure cancer??" The models are getting more efficient - there's something very weird going on here - like the AI bubble is trying to merge w
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by TaupeRanger 1y ago
Please read the article before commenting - your comment is literally what the article is addressing.
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by TaupeRanger 1y ago
Vasectomies are never “absolutely necessary”, but the risk of chronic pain (very small) vs the risk of unintended pregnancy, risk to the partner, or potential financial hardship, can make it a good decision. It’s never black and white in me
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by TaupeRanger 1y ago
Yes, this measure is called "Real Wages" and has been increasing basically since 2013 ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q ). But as you point out, that measure uses CPI, which doesn't weigh
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by TaupeRanger 1y ago
Hot take: aphantasia doesn’t exist, it’s just that individuals have very different understandings of nebulous words like “memory”, “minds eye”, “mental imagery”, etc. The essay here is just one person describing problems that everyone has i
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by TaupeRanger 1y ago
That's a narrow view of the issue described in the blog post. You're coming at this from the perspective of a software engineer, which is understandable given the website we're posting on, but the post is really focusing on s
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by TaupeRanger 1y ago
This is why we never see any alien life. When they reach a sufficient level of technology, they realize the virtual/mental universe is much more compelling and fun than the boring rule-bound physical one.
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by TaupeRanger 1y ago
I agree we don’t have a great way to talk about these vague terms like “minds eye” and “inner monologue”. It’s hard to tell if people are just talking past each other or actually have real differences.
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by TaupeRanger 1y ago
No one "hears things" in their head unless they are experiencing auditory hallucinations. It's just a phrase we use to describe exactly what you just outlined.
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by TaupeRanger 1y ago
Like most pieces of neuroscience writing that frame a "why" question ("Why we sleep", "why we get earworms", "why we like beaches") - the question is literally never answered in the article/book,
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by TaupeRanger 1y ago
Another breathless press release with no demo. Typical DeepMind. Nothing to see here.
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by TaupeRanger 2y ago
Impossible to draw any conclusions from such a convoluted and problematic model. No mention of how they determined patients were unique, or whether multiple scans were counted for a single patient. No mention of patient data - seems that co
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by TaupeRanger 2y ago
Right that’s why I’m wondering why the OP included it in a sentence along with “dropping” that implied the laptop had “been through some stuff”.
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by TaupeRanger 2y ago
Airport scanners? Are those normally dangerous to laptops?
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by TaupeRanger 2y ago
Who are you arguing against? The link I posted literally compares wages with the Consumer Price Index which INCLUDES rent and groceries, and finds that they have been increasing in tandem and the difference is mostly flat. I have no idea wh
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by TaupeRanger 2y ago
Is this an AI response? No, if you just look at the chart it has only gone down by about 1%, so roughly flat as I said. The link of course describes what happens during inflation, but since wages also increase in the real world, they offset
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by TaupeRanger 2y ago
Purchasing Power is a function of inflation and income - so it always "keeps up" with inflation. You might've been trying to say that income hasn't kept up with inflation, but that's not supported by any data. Real
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by TaupeRanger 2y ago
Is this an AI generated response? Spending 60 seconds on Google reveals every argument to be nonsense. A simple Google search for "OpenScore" reveals a MuseScore page with only 14 scores (all of which already exist in IMLSP). So w
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by TaupeRanger 2y ago
Even the cherry picked examples are boring milquetoast? Maybe this is an example of "this is worst version of this technology" but I'm still skeptical of any generative system that isn't publicly available for testing. T
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by TaupeRanger 2y ago
> Breakthrough stroke drug heals the brain to restore movement Fixed: Pre-clinical drug that has never been tested on humans and might be worse than the current standard of care (physical therapy) gets a press release with a hyperbolic t

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