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NSF science advisory board fired by Trump administration(nature.com)
8 points by bjourne 6mo ago|0 comments
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by bjourne 6mo ago
Some would argue the same way about the Gaza uprising.
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They didn't even mention Hari Shankar: https://forbetterscience.com/2023/12/20/in-bed-with-hari-and... The field must be rife with fraud and manipulation.
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If it can be rationally argued that the success of the billionaire class is mostly down to luck, size and "quality" of their lineage's social network, exploiting legal loopholes, and immoral conduct, then it follows that we s
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All fungible markets are prediction markets. The idea that only some are is a mirage.
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typst-ts-mode
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100% right. What we (rather 80+ year old corrupt politicians) did to young people during covid was downright criminal. Almost two of their most important years destroyed.
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Yes. They are wasting their abundance on dumb shit. Even poor Americans have more resources than me. But their society is ridiculously inefficient.
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The obvious solution is to reuse the same plastic cup for all customers each morning. Voila, now you save 309 plastic cups/day.
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At the US hotel I stayed at they had a waffle machine so that you could eat waffles for breakfast. To make waffles you took a plastic cup to the "faucet" of the waffle machine, filled it with paste and then poured it into the waff
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That's pure evil.
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Community. SO went in the opposite direction, going so far as to penalize users for writing "thanks a lot for helping me".
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You would think so, but you have to remember that customer profitability is exponentially distributed. I e., one addict gambling away their and their loved ones life savings is worth more than hundreds or thousands of regular players. Thus,
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CS 244: Reproducing Network Research(reproducingnetworkresearch.wordpress.com)
2 points by bjourne 6mo ago|0 comments
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A friend working in the business told me. I don't think it's a strategy the casinos would publicly disclose.
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Fun fact: if you sign up for many online casinos or betting sites they will indeed use Google Streetview to lookup your house to estimate how much money they might extract from you.
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> The CMU researchers recommended GitHub adopt a weighted popularity metric based on network centrality rather than raw star counts. A change that would structurally undermine the fake star economy. GitHub has not implemented it. > As
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If CUDA is C++ then I'd like to know how you throw and catch exceptions in CUDA kernels.
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Apparently, the AI needed to hire humans to carry out the actual work. So AI can replace capitalists but not workers. Maybe the future isn't so dark after all.
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What a dumb question. Got any more?
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AA+
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No as a concept. Assigning ownership to specific bit patterns is absurd.
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Readability and good looks.
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Maybe he does not think he deserves it? The logic is as follows. If he has to pay $10 for 90 minutes of watching football then he must think he deserves that. But if he can get it for free then he does not need to think he deserves it. Simi
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I'm affected by inflation. Salary increases have not kept up. Not at all.
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Yes, but against the angry dormers we have hordes of cheerful coomers who welcome the fruits of the labour of the AI with one open arm.
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My small anecdata of Iranian friends contradict yours. They are against both the US-Israeli bombings and the Islamic regime. How should be decide whose anecdata is the most trustworthy? Maybe we can use common sense instead and agree that
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by bjourne 6mo ago
I think you are being deliberately obtuse here. Or maybe you are just dumb? Most societies have no concept of trading based on private knowledge and certainly no taboo against that activity. Hence, there is no universality. Your poor attemp
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by bjourne 6mo ago
No. What we are saying is that murder is a universal taboo. That the "arbitrary rules" of every social group on earth regulate killing demonstrates exactly that. It is precisely these rules that demonstrate universality. Some soci
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Read carefully. Neither me nor bluegatty claimed humans were inherently biased against killing . We claimed that humans were inherently biased against murder - and the universal taboo proves our point.

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