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by civilian 5y ago
"Limiting advertisements" seems awfully different than "limiting minor's access to gaming servers to 3 specific hours in a week".
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by civilian 5y ago
MSNBC robbed me of an uncle :(
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by civilian 5y ago
Who's ready to rage to some Grimes while waiting for their healthcare?? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimes_(musician)#Early_life
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by civilian 5y ago
So, elaborate on your model of the world. Shouldn't the logistic employees already be leaving in droves since they're not getting stock? Why aren't they?
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by civilian 5y ago
Wouldn't Ford then have assets, to cancel out of the debt? I imagine that "120B in debt" means net debt, but I'm not sure. [follow-up] yes, that's $120B net debt. They have a total $160B of debt, and ~$23B of that i
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by civilian 6y ago
Official paper link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-021-01426-y
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by civilian 6y ago
edit: nevermind
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by civilian 6y ago
citation?
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by civilian 6y ago
Does anyone have access to the paper? The article really doesn't do enough for me. What are the 15 behaviors the biologist was tracking? Here's the paper page: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6
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by civilian 6y ago
I'm sad that there isn't an explanation of Godel's proof! But, given that we can amend the constitution, it does seems fairly straightforward that a dictator could come to power, if there was approval of a super majority of t
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by civilian 6y ago
Here's a video of a fuel dispenser, opened up, with an engineer explaining it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3phjAQZdGg Really helped me understand what was going on.
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by civilian 6y ago
> drink less coffee Is this a good thing?
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by civilian 6y ago
He's not being defensive, you're being a zealot. It is important to recognize that crimes have different levels. Society understands that, and it's encoded in our laws in the way we define scaling punishments, and have a diff
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by civilian 6y ago
What gets demo'd on the developer's laptop: [Idris Elba] What gets shipped to production: [Toonified Idris Elba] https://assets.justinpinkney.com/toonify/images/vllkyt5r43p1...
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by civilian 6y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. All those languages are proto-indo-european, voters! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language
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by civilian 6y ago
mea culpa! That's fascinating, thanks for the link.
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by civilian 6y ago
Hasn't GiveWell known this for awhile? More study is always good, of course! Evidence Action "Deworm the World Initiative" is one of GiveWell's top charities https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-c
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by civilian 6y ago
"Somehow we afford paving streets in cities" There's two explanations: 1. Previously, the streets were simply pavement and a ditch. Now they're being upgraded to pavement-sidewalk-internaldrainage-internet-power. It&#x27
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by civilian 6y ago
I really liked the candid tone, and I think it was appropriate given the highly theoretical topic of the paper. And of course they're saying "some World Government", they don't want to make predictions about whether it&#
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by civilian 6y ago
How do you communicate with your wife? Did you ever consider learning sign language?
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by civilian 6y ago
Do you have an example of the configuration you use with mypy? (If you could post it in a gist I should would appreciate it! I've done a couple mypy tutorials but I haven't pulled the trigger on adding it to my projects.)
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by civilian 6y ago
lol, can you elaborate?
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by civilian 7y ago
This has already been addressed by Zenst, but this is a forum with a lot of engineers. Of course zenst was thinking about whether it's viable to use drones as a locust prevention measure, but you first have to start with whether drones
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by civilian 7y ago
I mean, I'm pretty interesting in doing embryo selection on my future children. Eugenics on my own family, if you will. I agree that it's wrong to apply eugenics to others without their consent!
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by civilian 7y ago
Cynical take: I'm pretty sure we've all agreed to ToSes that has allowed our faces to end up online. Clearview AI is just doing what a detective with an eye for faces and unlimited time is doing. I agree that I'm really conce
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by civilian 7y ago
I've got bad news for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boko_Haram
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by civilian 7y ago
seems like quackery https://www.quora.com/Has-anyone-considered-the-primer-field...
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by civilian 7y ago
We've proven that the air filter can remove particulates from the air. We haven't proven that it's improvement on your sleep is any more than a placebo.
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by civilian 7y ago
A treatment being a placebo implies nothing about the effect size!
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by civilian 7y ago
So, just because politifact rated the "Henry Ford created the 40-hr workweek" false, doesn't mean that unions were the ones to create it. As a society, employers were trending towards 40-hr workweeks and weekends. That was al

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