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by brainwad 6mo ago
It often happens when people take the max dose of straight paracetamol, and then also take another drug that has paracetamol in it without knowing that (e.g. a codeine/paracetamol or ibuprofen/paracetamol combination).
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by brainwad 6mo ago
You can still buy 100 packs, they are just behind the counter at chemists. TBH it's a rather stupid restriction - do they think people only ever own 1 packet of paracetamol at a time? In my household we have at least half a dozen, incl
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by brainwad 6mo ago
A phone is not unusable because some banking apps don't work on it. It didn't even ship with said apps installed.
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by brainwad 6mo ago
Lots of people enjoy working on high skill, fulfilling jobs like inventing things. Few people love working menial labour jobs. AI will probably take the former jobs but leave the latter, which will still need to be done. If everyone gets a
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by brainwad 6mo ago
All those studies are flawed because they are always a few years of sub-subsistence income. Of course most people rationally don't drastically change their employment in response to that - as expected per the permanent income hypothesi
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by brainwad 6mo ago
Just slap a pigouvian tax on it.
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by brainwad 6mo ago
Is it just me, or is the lower-case s too tall? It sticks out like a sore thumb in the paragraphs, clearly taller than other x-height letters like e, o or r.
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by brainwad 6mo ago
You assume the worst case: every character that could ever have been entered is in use.
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by brainwad 6mo ago
> He hasn't kept ahead of the destruction of the dollar very well. That hasn't been his goal. For the last two decades he's been running a huge charitable foundation...
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by brainwad 6mo ago
Because even though it's not representative of the actual thought process, chain of thought improves model performance.
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by brainwad 6mo ago
It is the same with human chain of thought, though. Both of them are post-hoc rationalisations justifying "gut feelings" that come from thought processes the human/agent doesn't have introspection into. And yet asking hu
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by brainwad 6mo ago
I mean, obviously, it's not going to be a faithful representation of the actual thinking. The model isn't aware of how it thinks any more than you are aware how your neurons fire. But it does quantitatively improve performance on
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by brainwad 7mo ago
The single-track mode where the wheels are in line like a bike seems useful for navigating floors strewn with obstacles.
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by brainwad 7mo ago
Almost every gold medal winner in the past games would not have been affected by this new rule, so that's a biiit hyperbolic. Those athletes are still far outside the normal performance of women (or men, for that matter).
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by brainwad 7mo ago
If you're a cosmologist ;) usually they talk of 3 elements though - H, He and "metal".
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by brainwad 7mo ago
Multiple digraphs, a _trigraph_ and then accents too? Ugh. The real best alphabet is something like Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, IMO.
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by brainwad 7mo ago
Blog posts like this have been full of genAI images for years, even if the text is actually written by a human. So just because the images are obviously generated doesn't really tell you much about the text.
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by brainwad 7mo ago
The second such attempt - there's also Societas Europaea.
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by brainwad 7mo ago
To be clear, I'm against age verification. Teenagers should just have access to all of the internet, like we did when we were teenagers. > Isis did manage to recruit young men in the UK via telegram Not sure why this is an age probl
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by brainwad 7mo ago
I have a different solution to your other repliers: do nothing, your kid will be fine in all likelihood. If you must satisfy the politician's syllogism, set some time limits and make them touch grass. But a thirteen year old oughtn&#x2
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by brainwad 7mo ago
This trial is mostly for voters outside Switzerland. It would be prohibitive for each municipal government to go to every city that an expat from there now lives...
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by brainwad 7mo ago
It's 10% of the electorate - seems more than just an edge case.
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by brainwad 7mo ago
Switzerland is fully postal voting and has been for ages; it's fine and there is no social distrust despite the theoretical risk of vote selling.
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by brainwad 7mo ago
> It's not like polling locations don't have cameras. Given they are usually random primary schools and churches... do they have cameras? I think the bigger deterrent is just the risk of claiming to be someone who already got
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by brainwad 7mo ago
Because hand-counting of paper ballots, as done in Switzerland (and many other places) is the bare minimum. Any more complicated system that still takes longer is adding complication unnecessarily. An electronic election system should be ab
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by brainwad 7mo ago
No, they count them by hand. Each issue/office has a separate ballot paper, so it can be done in parallel with sufficient number of counting personnel. It takes a couple of hours, sometimes more in big districts in cities but usually t
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by brainwad 7mo ago
The rules for deciding the winners in proportional parliamentary elections are quite a bit more complex than that...
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by brainwad 7mo ago
FWIW Swiss elections are counted in at most 6 hours, usually quicker except for big cities. If your system takes longer than that, it's a bad system. Also it's not just elections to offices, but also votes on yes/no propositi
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by brainwad 7mo ago
You can solve that simply by putting all such votes inside signed envelopes, and waiting to count the contents until all the envelopes can be checked for duplicate voter details. In Australia this can be forced on you if you are caught doub
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by brainwad 7mo ago
It's not necessarily easy. The timing of Australian elections from issuance of writs is limited by the constitution, and since they can occur at the discretion of the prime minister, you can't prepare for them in advance. Swiss vo

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