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by addicted 2y ago
Talking about what “companies” are doing is misleading because it suggests thst the actions taken will be driven by the medium to long term interests of the company. In reality, the decisions are made by individual executives and managers w
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by addicted 2y ago
I think it does calculations when I type the = sign. That’s occasionally been convenient. But that’s more than balanced out by the couple of times it’s rewritten the words I’ve typed to something I absolutely did not intend on saying. And t
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by addicted 2y ago
You still release it?
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by addicted 2y ago
> the mothers that have the most children don't use painkillers during childbirth Maybe because those who have painful births are unlikely to want to go through it again? That seems The obvious guess. It could definitely be wrong b
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by addicted 2y ago
And Foursquare was great. But they shot themselves in the foot by trying to become Yelp and moving Foursquare into “Swarm”. Their problem was they couldn’t come up with a monetization strategy that was working and at the same time Yelp was
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by addicted 2y ago
Why do you think these are not important? Do you think it’s not important to know whether all these apps that people are feeding private medical data into actually have any benefits? Do you think studying why a certain group of children hav
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by addicted 2y ago
The entire reason why the mental illness discussion is complicated is because with mental illness it’s not clear it is a choice. And this isn’t even something made up for the particular case of assisted suicide. The idea that someone with m
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by addicted 2y ago
I don’t follow. How does this apply to capital punishment?
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by addicted 2y ago
You don’t buy politicians to change their views on the circus items. The only reason all those “issues” are issues is because they’re intended to distract the public from the actual stuff politicians are being bought for. Transferring wealt
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by addicted 2y ago
> it is reasonable to expect they have a distributed consciousness. Why would it be reasonable to expect they have any consciousness? What would plants do with such a consciousness that they’re wasting scarce energy on both operating and
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by addicted 2y ago
Yes, there is no evidence to believe they are “conscious” (well, not exactly sure what is meant by conscious here since that word is closely related to religious beliefs in many cases, but assuming it means sentient), they lack all known bi
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by addicted 2y ago
They are not “communicating” stress. There’s no active action by the plants. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/science/plant-sounds-stre... > To be clear, the sounds made by harried plants are not th
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by addicted 2y ago
And also makes complete sense given evolution.
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by addicted 2y ago
RV living is very different from living in an actual home (or even Air Bnb) and moving around. AirBnB’s and homes are located in areas and designed for living like normal social human beings. RVs are parked in areas that are not designed to
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by addicted 2y ago
The beef lobby’s really scraping the bottom of the barrel when they need to promote rat studies. Rat studies from 1989 that haven’t been replicated or substantiated in the many decades since.
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by addicted 2y ago
I’m curious why you would move to Gitlab. Nothing they’ve done since they were created has ever moved them in a more open source friendly direction, and they’ve broken a ton of promises both implicit and explicit along the way. GitHub OTOH
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by addicted 2y ago
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/americans-are-lon... Americans are much lonelier than their European counterparts. In addition, lifespans in the U.S. are declining even post COVID relative to their European
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by addicted 2y ago
What’s even nicer is if kids don’t need their parents to leave them an inheritance just so they can afford a roof over their heads. The U.S. is filled with homeless people. Even Italy, which was doing economically terrible when I visited, d
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by addicted 2y ago
> there's big alpha to be had in starting a hedge fund that simply embraces AI. Maybe hedge funds are completely out of step with the rest of the finance world, but much of finance has been using AI for a long time. AI is old news a
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by addicted 2y ago
Wouldn’t the shadowy all powerful cabal simply have ChatGPT respond with an answer about any of the other 3 David Mayer’s? But I guess anti-semitism is too much fun to not engage in.
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by addicted 2y ago
If you’re in the NorthEast try and get some Macoun (pronounced Ma-cown) apples in the fall. They spoil fast and don’t transport well because the skin is extremely thin, but those same qualities make them excellent apples to eat. Some rating
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by addicted 2y ago
We will ignore the obvious solution. End the dairy industry altogether. There’s very little animal milk offers to humans anyways other than whatever the U.S. govt has drummed up through marketing to sell otherwise unsellable oversupply. It’
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by addicted 2y ago
Our hunter gatherer ancestors didn’t wear clothes, live in housing, use technology, or anything like we do today. This is literally the worst justification for anything. Even the “unprocessed” food we eat today, including plants or dead ani
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by addicted 2y ago
If node saved you 8 seconds per working day over those 4 years, you’d still be ahead spending 2 more hours on that node project every 4 years.
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by addicted 2y ago
Google isn’t “getting targeted”. But to answer your question. 1. Microsoft gets left alone - Really? You may want to ask the closest adult near you about this. 2. Amazon - The government has looked into Amazon multiple times. It’s hard to s
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by addicted 2y ago
Or more simply, don’t kill animals when we don’t need to.
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by addicted 2y ago
I would suggest doing a sleep test. While I believe this can just happen to some people, in my case it was a result of sleep apnea. Getting diagnosed for it and taking remedial steps has been a life changer for me.
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by addicted 2y ago
For the same reason that pointing out the sun rose in the east today would be ridiculous but if it happened to rise in the west, or you perceived it to rise in the west, that would be worth sharing. Being able to livestream a sporting event
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by addicted 2y ago
Vim is a code editor for me and my entire OS is my IDE. The thing though is that I can pipe stuff other applications are doing into my vim terminal and have it effectively behave like an IDE. There’s very little (nothing?) an IDE does that
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by addicted 2y ago
I don’t know much about the bill at all but knowing that Vickie Paladino opposes it is the best endorsement it could have received in my eyes.

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