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by ajross 1y ago
There's nothing unique to Wikipedia there though, that kind of thing has always happened. Anyone with a printing press is tempted to control the narrative. History is written by the victors, as it were. Wikipedia rules are provably su
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We all were screaming that Trump was going to start a trade war and how that was going to be bad for everyone. Even the most cynical of us didn't think he'd lose .
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> kick you out of ketosis FWIW, that notion of "ketosis" as a magical metabolic state is very much a part of the voodoo I'm talking about. The medical community does not recognize that kind of thing. Ketosis is understoo
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tl;dr: The firewall on the plane allows any traffic to pass on port 53 (to allow for DNS queries) but doesn't do any state inspection or rate limiting so you can do whatever you want on it. > My roommate spent about an hour setting
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> The idea that paleo/keto is all buttered meat is strange and fairly recent To be clear: the dietary theories here (such as they are) are surely rigorously defined and subsume all sorts of choices for how to get fats and avoid carb
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Well, thanks. That's certainly better than what made it into wikipedia. But honestly: no? Only 41% of papers answering "yes" to an engaging and evocative hypothesis, in the era of the replication crisis, and especially
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> Alzheimer's patients often respond positively to exogenous ketone esthers, and a ketogenic diet. I went looking for a cite here and came up almost empty (wikipedia has one link to an 11 year old paper that doesn't really say
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> Sysco has become the comfort food of the masses Well, exactly. But to my point, that's true in what is basically a specious sense: it's cheap. People didn't invent "comfort food" for comfort! Comfort food i
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I don't think this is correctly capturing the issue. It's just price. Sysco is maximally scaled and cheap. Local weird stuff isn't. It's that simple. Like, there actually isn't a "shortage" of the kind
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> Newton - predicts that most advances are made by standing on the shoulders of giants Giants can be wrong, though; so there's a "giants were standing on our shoulders" problem to be solved. The amyloid-beta hypothesis he
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> massive sovereign debt burden Cost to service the debt is about 60% of what it was in the 1980's. All those bonds are long since paid off. This is a meme. Should we adjust to something more sustainable? Yes. Is the "burd
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> grid robustness - a problem solved in nearly all states Shouldn't that drive the question of why Texas is so bad, though? This argument seems to amount to "Everyone else is better than us, so we must be the experts in fixing
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> I believe the operators are paid for storage. Which is to say, you don't know either. What I'm saying is that this huge boom in gold value has not been matched by an equivalent change in gold storage paradigms. And that..
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> They were laughed at and shouted down, as doomsayers That's a fallacy. With billions of humans, given any doom, someone was there to sling it. Because there is always someone slinging doom. You can't listen to all the do
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The answer to this question is wrong: > Why don't we just make IP networks without Ethernet? The article implies that we need MACs, and of course we don't , and lots of protocols exist that don't use ethernet framing. SL
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Other hyperbole notwithstanding, Google has pretty clearly done an extremely bad job of driving competing platforms out of the smartphone market.
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What's the cite for solar requiring "massive amounts of land and taxes"? That doesn't square with the back of my envelope but I'd be willing to look at numbers.
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Define "real base power"? You think the grid can only operate if every generator is always-on? How do you square that with the fact that the grid is operating just fine with this stuff already? This is a fallacy, basically. Not
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What's the mechanism for getting that premium into the hands of the person operating the gold fortress, though? I get that there's a loss in the market, I don't see the closed part of the loop. Derivative markets are only e
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The cynical question then becomes: what part of the market is bearing the security costs of all that gold being shipped around as collateral? That's a transaction friction that doesn't show up in a commodities trade balance she
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> give me LeBron James-level basketball skills in 3 years That doesn't seem like a good faith analog for "I got a 3.2% mortgage with 5% down and payments less than my last rental". You keep pretending that the idea that th
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Let's just say this point needs further exposition. Your argument appears to be that the stock market won't drop because stocks are held by members of the public whose opinions are controlled by technology? Or... that robots are
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> Everyone who took an adjustable loan, interest only loan, etc., who didn’t have an exit strategy already in place in case of inability to refinance, had themselves to blame Come on. Median homeowners (even median HN commenters) are ha
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BTC has popped in the past, the last crash was to ~1/3 of peak. A 70% drop in the stock market would be historically disastrous (even the dotcom crash was only 50% in the broader market).
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Uh... neither. The former is wrong, because as you point out the housing supply isn't a matter of finance. People have homes. But your respin is kind of a whopper too. While there were absolutely people cynically leveraging real est
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FWIW, that "blackout tracker" link is garbage. First, because it's five years old: if the data showed that growth someone would have updated it. But also because it's wrong! There's one outlier bad data point, i
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Once more, the claim to which I responded was that kids today are consensus-bound/risk-averse because of the threat of surveillance. Saying that they "love" the party doing the surveillance isn't responsive (if anything
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> Are they limiting their raids to be within 'blue' states / districts to minimise the collateral damage their reputation may receive from those sympathetic to this cause? As of right now, it's pure agitation. They&#
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> These companies are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into building AI infrastructure without any good idea of how they're going to recover the cost. Well... to be fair it's only really Anthropic (and the also-ran set l
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It's just absolutely mind-boggling how the "But Nuclear!" refrain persists as a mind worm in this community. Every story on renewables, every single one, has a giant sub thread up near the top of the discussion screaming, ag

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