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I'm also confused that it seems that CA OEHHA which sets these limits has separate "No Significant Risk Level" and "Maximum Allowable Dose Level" values for lead, and the NSRLs are 15-58 micrograms/day dependin
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by abeppu 2y ago
Perhaps Alvin Lucifer reading his "I am sitting in a room" text would be ideal.
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So setting aside the details of DEI-specific issues, I find it really ironic that the right really wants to claim that government shouldn't be telling people how to run their businesses through regulation, but businesses trying to impr
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I guess on the animal model research side, the gap in various metrics between artificially "cleaning" the brains of sleep-deprived mice vs mice that get to sleep would be one way of measuring some of the non-cleaning functions of
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... so, perhaps a fool-hardy idea, but could we use an external device to create or amplify the same effect? - if you rhythmically give mice norepinephrine while they're awake, can you create the same movement in cerebrospinal fluid? W
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I wonder if the author is aware of CVX / cvxpy / "disciplined convex programming"? I think this would be easy to express in that, and I wonder how the performance would compare. Basically, there can be DSL-level facili
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Not at all the point, but I love that 3/4 through the article, the author meets with a nutritionist/molecular biologist with the last name Nestle, buys a chocolate cookie to eat in front of them "as a provocation", and N
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We have no idea how many minds were changed. But everything public says that the foreign interference operations that are actually known to be happening are using FB, twitter, reddit, youtube and everything else, are mostly Russian, and w
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> they relate to types of functionalities and applications, not to functionalities not only do I not know what you mean, I'm not convinced you're making a good faith effort to actually communicate what you do mean
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> relying on them to the exclusion of long form essays deprives students of the chance to really sit with their ideas I think the crux of the issue is that professors want students to do the deep thinking you're talking about, but t
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I agree with you that Trump-supporters are both loyal and ruthless. And I think that's mostly a US-internal matter. I agree with you that in 2024 the Democrats lost fair and square in the sense of not convincing people they were worth
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I'm close to someone who teaches at a university, and they're making heavy use of in-room essays written in blue books. This ensures that the work is purely the students, but I think it also has the side-effect that the grader is
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> The real issue is our adversary controlling the content the masses in the US see can sway opinions via propaganda ... but during the 2016 election we saw that Russian-funded interference efforts using FB and Twitter were pretty effecti
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> The chips have biometric info (hence the name) like legal name, sex, nationality, photos, and sometimes fingerprints ... legal names and nationalities aren't "biometric info" though. Is it fair to say that the chip conta
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I think this kind of framing, suggesting that seeking more information is some kind of irrational-yet-understandable emotional response, is kind of disrespectful and presumptuous. The family knows more about the situation that online comm
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> Eerke Boiten, Professor of Cyber Security at De Montfort University Leicester, explains his belief that current AI should not be used for serious applications. > In my mind, all this puts even state-of-the-art current AI systems in
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The responses here are pointing out structural problems in the industry, but I think this potentially misses a larger point: this article shows stats tracking healthcare spending without accounting for healthcare needed . Yes, price discri
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> BND's purpose isn't to be a consumer bank. I think it's trying to also offer consumer services? The article intro says > It is the only government-owned general-service bank in the United States. In the 'Service
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If our attention was based on the shape of magnetic fields, then shouldn't fMRI studies basically not work? Our attention modulation mechanisms would be swamped by a much larger field right? But people have normal attention near powerf
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The "and not be allowed to host content on US servers" is kinda funny as a requirement in context. Prior to the law being passed IIUC TikTok had already put in a bunch of work to make sure American data was stored in the US, with
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> No, the main problems with this are at the language level. Languages like Java can do it because the import is resolved statically. > put imported modules into a single global dictionary, keyed by name. > If the package version i
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> Good dependency management means ... > it is possible to safely evolve and update your environment when new versions of dependencies become available. The post, despite its length, doesn't really spend time on this aspect, and
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and later: >In a Nov. 18 letter filed in federal court, attorneys for The New York Times named Balaji as someone who had “unique and relevant documents” that would support their case against OpenAI. He was among at least 12 people — many
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So, not at all the point of the article, but ... who does Mercury News think is benefited by the embedded map at the bottom of the article with a point just labeled "San Francisco, CA", centered at Market & Van Ness? It's
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People love to talk about ideology, but is what what economics should be about? Every major economy on the planet is a mixed economy. In China, government expenditure and revenue are 33.1% and 25.5% of GDP respectively. In the US, the corre
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> government said it would divert half of the NZ$75 million Marsden Fund, the nation’s sole funding source for fundamental science, to “research with economic benefits.” Moreover, the fund would no longer support any social sciences and
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Note: the title should be updated. The BBC article title now says "Assisted dying" not "euthanasia". Often, the distinction hinges on whether the patient or a medical practitioner administers a substance that brings abou
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> For the last decade, I've requested my pharmacies to not give me any drugs manufactured in India if possible. > The problem now is almost every generic drug is made in India and I'm having a near impossible time avoiding t
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I agree that maintainers shouldn't need to feel committed or obligated to keep working on a project. And yet: - it's also not reasonable to expect that anyone should use your project if it's not clear it's going to mai

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