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by dbspin 2y ago
This study is interesting, but it might as well have 'in mice' in the title for all its relevance in the real world. The study is measuring preference - and I'd definitely agree that all else being equal, preference would upl
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This is happening cross nationally - and very few nations gave out covid payments similar to the US. Side node - this is just a strange lens, for most people in Ireland (where we did receive covid payments) they were making up for work whic
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Minecraft was revolutionary in the openness of it's game design... It's a terrible example of 'technically bad'. The technical quality of Minecraft is in design, not graphics. There's no parallel for musicianship. I
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Do I even need to point out that you've committed a tautology. "If's commercially successful, it is "good"." Good musicians are successful != successful musicians are good. Like all tautologies, this isn't
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It's worse over here isn't an argument for anything. Things are terrible in America, you have my sympathy. But they're getting worse everywhere. Part of the deal in the EU is that middle class wages are (often much) lower, in
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Strongly disagree - the price increases were possible because people are strongly resistant to decrease their quality of life. e.g.: they'll pay significantly more of their income to maintain the same level of diet and travel up to the
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There is absolutely zero evidence to support your assertion - "My point is that if a musician is good, they will earn money proportional to their success." In fact it's demonstrably wrong. Take any aspect of musical talent, f
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You were specifically criticising "younger diabetes nurses and doctors". Bear in mind also - part of the reason trainees and nurses have such poor pay (and far more importantly, awful suicide inducing hours and conditions cross na
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I think smoking is bang on as a comparison. Massive lifetime average costs to the health system, spending on which is by definition zero sum. Both smoking and morbid obesity are enormously damaging life paths. I say this as someone who stru
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I feel your pain, but 'threats of criminal punishments for lazy medical professionals' isn't a great idea. There are already laws against medical malpractice, but it's pretty obvious why prosecuting doctors and nurses fo
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Agreed - but as I said with Foundations specifically, that you could change the characters each series and keep your anchor characters (i.e.: those that live on literally by being robots, or through projection). It's also pretty amenab
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I think your description of television much better fits the mould of 90's network TV (24 weekly episodes per year) than prestige era limited series or narrative arc TV. Foundation could absolutely be done as an anthology show in the ve
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Having read all of Azimov - but only the Dark Forrest trilogy by Liu Cixin, I actually think they're more comparable than you suggest. Both are hard science fiction 'ideas men'. Fairly uncomfortable with deep characterisation
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Indeed. One is an all time great science fiction series thats inspired a host of imitators. The other is whatever fluff Apple have bowdlerised its name with. It's genuinely closer to the YA fanfic level screenwriting of the new Star Tr
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Associate justice Sonia Sotomayor is a woman. I think perhaps there's some research warranted on your part.
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I've read Trump vs US, including the dissent. It's frankly terrifying. Americans not caring about these issues seems indicative of the media not being fit for purpose - rather than the issues not being existential. I'd argue
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You're accidentally providing a great counter example to your own argument. Cancer is not one disease but thousands - with complex multi-factorial causes, progress and prognosis. 'Curing' cancer in one patient with a novel tr
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From your lips to God's ears. As a non-American very much staring at tea leaves, I do worry stuffing the supreme court, or removing some of its power is the kind of act that could provoke a complete breakdown in the political system. R
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There's a third possibility. It's just not turnkey enough yet for criminal enterprises to bother. I'm sure cartels and mafia level gangsters sometimes have great tech people, but the level of op sec and technical knowhow exhi
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I'm not a data science / AI person at all, but AFAIK while initial model training is enormously processor intensive, customising a trained model is not. This has been my experience playing with custom training stable diffusion on
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I'm so sorry, that's absolutely awful. Hope your moms OK.
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I'm kind of amazed how slow 'AI phishing' has been to roll out. The technology for customised text based attacks at scale has been available at least since Llama was open sourced. The tech for custom voice and image based att
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I'm not sure precisely what you mean by pretension - since affecting importance makes little sense in the context. I presume you're misusing the word to refer to 'tall poppy syndrome' or similarly to the Irish colloquial
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Unfortunately 'creating capable regulating bodies' is no longer possible, in the binding opinion of the Supreme Court. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-supreme-court...
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This is reductive. Clueless is certainly not "just" a modernised version of Emma. It takes broad strokes inspiration from the plot of Emma, but the charm of the film isn't something that can be reduced to the original novel.
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I'd be curious if there are any statistics to back up that it's in general 'easier to get hired' in the USA. I've always assumed that 'at will employment' would make employees significantly more fearful of
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This is simply a variation of the no true Scotsman argument. In other words a classic fallacy. For someone to dispute the claims of <THEORY> they must be intimately familiar with <THEORY>. Were they familiar with it they would o
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You'll be shocked when you realise that neuroimaging is entirely based on the results of cognitive measurements. i.e.: correlations between whats in the image and the kinds of tests you're traducing.
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I'm surprised to see such woo in a top comment on hacker news. The accuracy or theoretical underpinning of these 'frameworks' aren't contentious, they're non existent. There are solidly researched and evidenced pers
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The guts role in mental health is well established. There are literally hundreds of studies on this. Here's a summary - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10384867/

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