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by cthalupa 5mo ago
You have a minority view on this argument, though. Scientific and structural realism both reject the idea that math is just a map. You've got company with the instrumentalists and antirealists, but the majority consensus is that math i
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by cthalupa 5mo ago
Well, I was thinking more along the lines of, say, multiplication and division - you can handle every single equation humanity has ever come up with without either of them. It might be messy and awful and annoying, but I would say in partic
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by cthalupa 5mo ago
I don't know what you're even trying to argue here. We're not comparing math to reality (though there's a strong argument to be made that reality has a structure that is mathematical in nature - structural realism didn&#
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by cthalupa 5mo ago
So basically you're asking everyone to just trust you, a random commentator that provides no evidence or sourcing, over an article written with extensive sourcing, details, and explanations? You might be the correct person here, but yo
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by cthalupa 5mo ago
Most of the companies behind Valkey were writing significant code for Redis. It was certainly not a case of them paying nothing. Valkey has some of the (formerly) most prolific Redis contributors for the era in which it was forked.
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by cthalupa 6mo ago
Avoidant behavior is defined as specifically attempted to avoid being exposed to things that remind you of your trauma. Avoidant behavior is basically universally agreed to be a maladaptive behavior to ptsd.
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by cthalupa 6mo ago
Facilitating negative behaviors that prevent/increase the difficulty of overcoming trauma is not being kind to someone.
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by cthalupa 6mo ago
> There has been no proper research on the effectiveness of "being given a trigger warning, and then not consuming the content because of it." Well, there has been. From multiple angles. One, avoiding content because it might t
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by cthalupa 6mo ago
https://www.ptsd.va.gov/understand/what/avoidance.asp > A combat Veteran may stop watching the news or using social media because of stories or posts about war or current military events. https://www
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by cthalupa 6mo ago
Generally agree with basically everything you wrote. For me it's not even really political - I certainly am not aligned with the "heterodox" community that has been so actively against them. I think if people want to put trig
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by cthalupa 6mo ago
Everything you wrote sounds really good in theory - it passes the smell test for me, and I believed it for a long time because it seemed perfectly logical. It all just Made Sense to me in an intuitive manner. But there's pretty univers
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by cthalupa 6mo ago
> The article does briefly mention "unhealthy avoidance behaviours", but in the context of one university's opinion and without supporting evidence.) There's not much additional context here because avoidant behavior
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by cthalupa 6mo ago
Except we have some studies that show they lead to and reinforce avoidant behavior, e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00221... Some also showed no evidence of this, but avoidant
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by cthalupa 6mo ago
I think that's a reasonable argument. A whole lot of people do make the argument that they are beneficial from a mental health perspective, though, and that's what isn't backed by the science. You can see discussion of it in-
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by cthalupa 6mo ago
Trigger warnings have been quite heavily researched at this point and at best they seem to have no positive impact to overcoming traumatic events and a some of the studies have shown them to be a negative. Put 'scientific support for t
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by cthalupa 6mo ago
The problem is they are explicitly arguing that all of our best science is that trigger warnings are counter productive for getting better. Just a quick google search of 'scientific support for trigger warnings' will get you all s
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by cthalupa 6mo ago
Today's game can be just as much roll-playing, it highly depends on the group. One of the things that drove me back to B/X and ADD was the sheer number of min-max players and rise(!) of murder hobos in 5e vs. even 3e/3.5&#x2F
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by cthalupa 6mo ago
> Mac Mini M2, Sequoia. It's Tahoe specific https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47670995
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by cthalupa 6mo ago
I'm pretty certain I've run into this a couple of times now since upgrading to Tahoe last year and had been wondering what the deal was. Had never thought to check the uptime and make note of it, but I basically never shut down my
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by cthalupa 6mo ago
> But they are ineffective outside clinical trial setting for treating obesity. This is one of the wildest claims I have ever seen on this website. Would you claim insulin is ineffective outside of clinical trials for treating type 1 di
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by cthalupa 6mo ago
We have no specific reason to believe there are concerns with GLP-1s for cancer or anything else, beyond the mildest signal in rodent studies around thyroids. We do not have robust clinical data for things like BPC-157 but we do have strong
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by cthalupa 6mo ago
It is still wildly popular. But it is wildly less popular than it was and demand is well below what they built out supply to meet. Even without the tariffs the industry was going to have a major contraction and the tariffs have made it even
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by cthalupa 6mo ago
I believe that was the point being made.
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by cthalupa 6mo ago
I generally agree that Americans tend to downplay the impact of Russia in WW2 but there is zero chance Russia would have won the war without the US. Even Lend-Lease going away would have resulted in a loss. Both Stalin and Kruschev agreed t
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
That's the official line. The reality is offeason testing is incredibly rare in general and people always seem to have an uncanny ability to be hopping on a plane to another country right before WADA shows up at their home. Neil Armstr
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
Your body doesn't enter starvation mode until you are in the 4-6% body fat range no matter what your diet is. I linked 3 reviews/analysis of a large group of studies. Your study also doesn't argue what you think it argues. &g
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
Obviously the calories in are greater than the calories out if the diet doesn't work. That's not the point. The point is the vast majority of overweight and obese people try to diet and do not succeed in it.
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
The best part is that Ukraine wanted to sell us their anti-drone tech to us a year ago and Trump and co didn't see fit to pursue it. Did they not know that the Shahed-136 has seen massive fucking use in Ukraine by Russia? Did they not
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
Look, if Gordon Chang and Peter Zeihan continue to predict China will fall for long enough, someday they'll be right. Maybe. Probably.
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
Literal neo-nazis have existed within the administration at relatively high levels (and likely still do, though they've gotten better about not outright bragging about it like some of those dipshits). People at even higher levels talk

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