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by busyant 9mo ago
Just to throw my anecdote in ... In the 1980s, I met a handful of white people (on different occasions) who each complained that they needed a near perfect score on the State Police entrance exam whereas "other" people could be ac
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by busyant 9mo ago
I have to say, I'd never heard of Adam Curtis or the HyperNormalisation documentary. I just watched the first ~30 min and I'm not seeing the "bit picture". Hopefully, it won't take me another 10 years to achieve enl
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by busyant 10mo ago
Since we're reminiscing, I remember Sears sold a "Sears-version" of the Atari 2600. I forget what it was called, but it was identical to the 2600. My 9 year old brain was convinced that it was somehow inferior to the Atari-
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by busyant 10mo ago
> seven figures every month on Google ads What are you advertising?
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by busyant 10mo ago
I think you're taking the comment too literally. I took it to mean something like, "I won't understand an abstruse Ph.D.-level explanation of what happened. I need an explanation geared toward the layperson." In fact, I
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by busyant 10mo ago
> the fake Alzheimer's they induce .... I used to work with a guy who had been a scientist at a large pharma company (we were both working at a small biotech start-up at the time). He told me an interesting story... basically, scien
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by busyant 10mo ago
What is your definition of willpower? What is it, mechanistically, that you have and others lack?
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by busyant 10mo ago
I don't know the specifics of efforts to "repair" DNA replication repair (if you get my drift), but I suspect there is some effort in that area. There definitely are efforts to correct enzymes involved in tumor-suppression
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by busyant 10mo ago
This is probably a key sentence: "...the effect of actually receiving the HZ vaccination was a 3.1 (95% CI: 1.0–6.2, p = 0.007) percentage point reduction in new diagnoses of MCI over 9 years." MCI = mild cognitive impairment What
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by busyant 11mo ago
Why do you say "apart from the brain"? Also, as others have noted, your idea is not necessarily wild. Certainly, at the sub-cellular level, there is tremendous evidence that symbiosis played a part in creating "higher level&q
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by busyant 11mo ago
I guess I'll never know. It happened before I was born, but my mother thought it was funny.
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by busyant 11mo ago
> I want to know who is buying ads on fridges and what the roas on a fridge ad is. Who knows, really? But maybe the same people who put ads on the gas station pumps that I use? Those things blare at max volume and I still have no idea wh
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by busyant 11mo ago
> Not only did Obama fail to get RBG to retire when she could be confidently replaced by a liberal, he didn't take judicial placements in the lower courts as seriously as he should have. The courts are substantial part of how we got
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by busyant 11mo ago
Agreed. But it adds complexity. Sometimes you just want simple leverage, which the puts can provide.
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by busyant 11mo ago
That's a great story, and I wish this could be the standard practice. I'm pretty sure the school where my students were enrolled knew that they admitted students with fraudulent TOEFL scores, but they needed the $$$.
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by busyant 11mo ago
> In a private conversation with our professor he said he's basically not allowed to fail them About 10 yrs ago, I had 3 students in my chem class from Saudi Arabia who: - could barely speak English (this is relevant) - would fail m
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by busyant 1y ago
> I also made up a citation in 11th grade to fill out the citation for an essay I had to write. This was back before it was easy to double check things online. I love this comment. I also suspect that even if it were easy for your 11th
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by busyant 1y ago
It's all petty crimes. I've known a handful of low-level "members" and they were all morons (imo) running the most absurd scams. Things like: "Hey I'm organizing a trip to Vegas. $1000 / head. Great hotel,
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by busyant 1y ago
> but I found that LLMs do a pretty good job of generating Typst code. Interestingly, I've had the opposite experience. ChatGPT and Claude repeatedly gave me errors, apologized profusely, and then said, "ah, I had the wrong key
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by busyant 1y ago
0th world problems
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by busyant 1y ago
> I don't, because I'm from the UK... excellent meta-joke.
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by busyant 1y ago
I'm curious if you understand this joke ( https://i.imgur.com/II5W6Pl.png ). I think it's similar to the Cow Tools panel. Specifically, the Far Side panel plays on the idea of the fact that cows would have a cow-cen
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by busyant 1y ago
You should try to incorporate Dennis the Menace in your retrievals. https://www.reddit.com/r/Harmontown/comments/dsfqh7/the_far_...
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by busyant 1y ago
Human trials may eventually be allowed, but I suspect that the results are preliminary and much work still needs to be done to assess the drug's safety before it makes it to humans. Let me tell you a story about a biotech startup tha
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by busyant 1y ago
I get your point. It is possible, however, that it's different people each year having roughly the same conversation. But this is true of many topics.
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by busyant 1y ago
Also Springsteen (at least the opening lines): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boJhWtw-6Gg
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by busyant 1y ago
> You can tell what this dude’s problem is.. You know... my wife and I have repeatedly asked my mother-in-law (who lives with us) to not purchase junk food because--even though she has no problem eating it in moderation--we have a hard t
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by busyant 1y ago
The author does make a compelling argument for using a telephoto to compress planes--the shot of the people on the bench with the mountains in the back gives a good example (even though the bench and rock-wall are tilted :-( ).
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by busyant 1y ago
> but he was enthusiastically supported by a large portion of the German society. I can't tell you what my relatives were like leading up to the war (I certainly wasn't born at that point), but they were illiterate peasants fro
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by busyant 1y ago
> Also, if your grandpa likes telling war stories, it's only because he survived. As someone whose parents, grandparents, and entire family lived in Italy through WWII (and one grandfather who lost an eye in WWI), nobody liked tal

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