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by acuozzo 4y ago
> you're technically right, but just nitpicking I was hinting at something bigger than just a nitpick. I'm hypothesizing that gut flora interfere with macronutrient ingestion in a statistically significant way. Microorganisms e
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> This is not a meme but basic physics. The issue is: How are we defining calories IN? Consider the extreme example of having a parasitic worm living in your digestive system. Is IN == [food passing mouth] or is IN == [food not being ing
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> Lots of truth to this. Just start building. Build for yourself and real people, not imagined profiles of people. I've been doing this for years and all it has done is drill me further down into super-niche rabbit holes that the ma
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by acuozzo 4y ago
If you're willing to accept innovations in place of inventions and if you're willing to consider the central message of OP's post i.e. needing a childlike sense of wonder, then... 1. "Mum, when I grow up I am going to in
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Obviously, these individuals are far more intelligent than myself, but wouldn't it have been significantly faster to create an amalgam with mercury? IIRC, it doesn't look golden or valuable at all once complete.
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My fear is that the driver behind this is widespread WFH due to COVID-19. Assessing "worker productivity" is hard for all but the most simple jobs, but the desire to do so, I reckon, is buried deep within each mind of the pointy-h
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> American issues with food always amaze me. Why? It's no mystery. From a very young age American children are trained to associate daily activities with food. Americans have a food for everything and that food is present, in abunda
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> There are many others drugs that lower appetite, and yet we still have an obesity crisis. Which ones are prescribed in the US, on label, to treat obesity?
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> Many drugs - like blood pressure drugs - often have depression as a side effect Any idea if this applies to Amlodipine-Benazepril?
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> a two party system that practically guarantees a constant back and forth Is this not stability?
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> You can not force these things. Why not? Computer Science & programming are my passions. I work as a Software Engineer. I'm not passionate about the projects I work on at my job, but doing so pays the bills. Why can I not make
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> You don't build a startup for income security or to get rich quick. Got it. Two questions: 1. What are some acceptable __extrinsic__ motivations to build one? 2. When this thread eventually crosses the "No True Scotsman"
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1. Scratch your own itch 2. Be in love with the problem 3. Talk to potential customers to find what they need, not what they want What if {{1} ∩ {3}} ∪ {{2} ∩ {3}} = ∅? That is, what if everything you love to do is not marketable and the so
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> This is why it is important that we ensure everyone has collective control of the means of production Why would the owners of the thinking machines allow this to happen?
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No, but I'd bet that it'll improve to the point of being able to determine ambiguous requirements and/or ones with insufficient detail. Given the popularity of "NoCode" I reckon that managers & potential clients
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> Until ChatGPT, Deepmind or whoever else can learn to deal with my client or product manager, my job is safe. Given the rise of "NoCode", perhaps clients & managers are more willing to meet in the middle than one would oth
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> Is the to AI going understand that and conduct meetings to hash out the missing details and corrections? Why not? ChatGPT is nearly there right now.
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You are not alone.
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> Not having to be a wage slave to survive is a good thing for humanity. I mean, sure, that's one of the two paths discussed in "Manna" by Marshall Brain. Within the book it's called "The Australia Project";
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> Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. THX 1138
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OP is not being literal. They're more-or-less stating that any "tools" would need to be set to such an extreme level of annoyance to have impact in the average case that they would undermine flow/"deep work".
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It's SQLite… like a mineral/rock. Graphite, Titanite, Erythrite. Not "SQ Lite".
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How will the AI overcome the halting problem?
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I suffer from severe Thanatophobia, so quiet times with few distractions put me at risk of a panic attack. I'm a side-sleeper and I prefer to go to sleep with the TV on, but my wife requires complete darkness for sleep, so I listen to
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Do you want Old English or Middle English? Old English: Cweþ mē on Ænglisċ tō Middle English: Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote the droghte of March hath perced to the roote
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So you take NJ Transit into Port Authority like everyone else does.
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> Can we just agree that unless the TV is set to "theatre" mode, everything needs to be visible in normal daylight? That would require: 1. agreeing on what a "normal" amount of daylight is 2. agreeing on the distribut
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> How do these people, and I mean the higher-ups who instigate this, get to be so debased? They have nothing else to do. Their lives are painfully empty. Their personalities are painfully empty. Their time is otherwise meaningless. The s
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> There is the idea that anyone that wants to be a leader probably shouldn't be a leader. These are the types of people who crave being in positions of authority over others. Which is why it's helpful to have as many (what I re
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Drink Madeira! It cuts the space down considerably. https://enofylzwineblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Madei...

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