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by civilian 7y ago
Yep! And more specifically, if we found a planet that had an atmosphere with O2 in it, that would be highly indicative of life. Although it's not the only option, O2 is pretty reactive, and you need a constant O2-producing force to ma
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by civilian 7y ago
Some of the qualities of life is that it needs to: (1) be able to grow, (2) be able to reproduce (3) have hereditary traits. I'll grant that there are probably galactic-scale patterns of light and gravity. My guess is that the amount o
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by civilian 7y ago
You're strawmanning the position. It's not that those skeptical politicians believe what they were taught in school-- it's that they see that the science can change, and that calls of doomsday can turn out to be wrong. Even
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by civilian 7y ago
Just on a tangent, it's amazing how huge the spruce goose is.
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by civilian 7y ago
80000hours has a writeup on the topic: https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/climate-change/ The coolest company I saw on he list was this: https://www.coolearth.org/ A lot of the HN comments ta
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by civilian 7y ago
When I have kids, I think I'm going to direct them to check the "Decline to respond" box for any race/income/parents-education-level questions. I used to believe in the value of collecting these stats to problem sol
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by civilian 7y ago
Yeah. One of the categories was "proper numbers" and I immediately thought: "hmm they probably mean real numbers".
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by civilian 8y ago
I guess then technically IRC servers need a way to have images uploaded and re-serve them. When I share an image on slack I'm usually just uploading it directly to slack, rather than using imgur or another uploader.
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by civilian 8y ago
I'm genuinely curious, can you draw pictures? What about flow diagrams on a white board? And what about coding? My coding process involves a somewhat visual process of imagining how functions connect to eachother. Is it just a logical
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by civilian 8y ago
Can you back that with a citation? I'm reading this form and it seems pretty straightforward who a qualifying employer is. https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/sites/default/files/public-serv... > A Qu
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by civilian 8y ago
It seemed strange that there's a "request for forgiveness" and an "application for forgiveness". But hey, having to fill out two forms seems like pretty typical government work. Here's the form. It pretty strai
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by civilian 8y ago
I was thinking the same-- I wonder if they compensate the more market-desirable engineers by giving them more freedom / spare-time than support people get. The article justifies the higher-than-market wage their support folks get, beca
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by civilian 8y ago
sounds good, fair judgement
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by civilian 8y ago
Right, my comment about "was used" was for heart surgery. The story I heard was that the patients were complaining about the psychedelic effects :D It was really interesting to watch "Combat Medics", a show about med-eva
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by civilian 8y ago
Ketamine is also available for use as an anesthetic. (It used to be used for most heart surgeries.) It's like $10 a shot when used as an anesthetic. Some insightful background: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03&#
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by civilian 8y ago
I mean, he's not making a prediction on revenue. Gwern is making a statement about traffic. Did your traffic increase ~10%? From the Pandora paper, (which showed that as more ads were played during pandora sessions, subscriptions were
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by civilian 8y ago
I think that people suggesting their own variants on cold-treatments is a way for them to show they care. "Drink a lot of water!" "Put on socks before you go to bed!" "Netty pot!" "Drink lots of tea!"
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by civilian 8y ago
Are you sure it's not "this more" and "self more" ?
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by civilian 8y ago
Also a force-multiplier for the plagiarized essays industry!
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by civilian 8y ago
Counter to some of the other posters, I got a lot of value out of doing 50 Project Euler problems when I was learning python. (I don't have a strong math background-- I took Calc in college and majored in biochemistry.) I agree that PE
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by civilian 8y ago
That's fair. I mean, I did link to Jimmy Dore, I know there are some good anti-war progressives out there. (And, despite being a libertarian, I donated $100 to Tulsi's campaign as soon as she announced.) We might disagree with wha
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by civilian 8y ago
That's a fair criticism of the tax foundation-- I do think that a carbon tax would be a good market-driven approach to reducing CO2 emissions. I think we can provide a lot of energy without running into climate change and physics thoug
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by civilian 8y ago
You're projecting real hard. The left has become insanely pro-war. It's really sad what the media is doing to Tulsi Gabbard, who's the only anti-war presidential candidate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlX
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by civilian 8y ago
How does that follow? You're assuming what kind of government services he votes for. He probably also favors less government spending.
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by civilian 8y ago
I mean, I agree with your statement about ideology, but I disagree about everything else. Even if Amazon is not paying taxes on its corporate profits, it's still generating a boatload of tax money through income & payroll tax. And
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by civilian 8y ago
Sweet, I like that J&J is using S-ketamine then. I think the dissociative effects of ketamine are fantastic and beneficial, even though they can be surprising. At a low dose it likely won't be an issue.
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by civilian 8y ago
Is this not a management problem? A manager disrespected an employee so much that the employee didn't even let anyone know they weren't showing up. The ex-employee contains some blame. But what they did was probably rational and _
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by civilian 8y ago
There are a lot more variables that need to be added to for an "AI general". - There needs to be a system for simulating real-world battles. (Since we need to iterate the AI, afterall.) In WW2 the WATU was a good simulation of Ger
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by civilian 8y ago
darkpuma already expressed the general idea but yeah--- if one piece of food has a bacterial/fungal presence, then having anti-microbial properties for the flavor-divider is a not that big of a plus.
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by civilian 8y ago
"traditional health benefits" means "bullshit health benefits", right?

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