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There's a terrifying amount of food insecurity and poverty in Russia - https://www.globalhungerindex.org/russia.html - https://databankfiles.worldbank.org/public/ddpext_download/p...
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These export controls seem particularly misguided in light of the role Taiwan's TSMC play in chip design and manufacture. Long term, clearly China is capable of catching up with ASML's tooling - it's an economic necessity tha
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> The Space Industry to date has killed many fewer people than planes, trains, or automobiles. Except as a proportion of passengers. In which case it's killed several of orders of magnitude more.
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Does it? The podcasts created by Notebook LLM are completely convincing, at least in terms of voice generation.
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Hah! Fond memories of getting my first macbook air. At the time cheaper to fly to NYC and pick it up from the Apple Store (with the Edu discount of course) than to buy it in Ireland.
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You've missed the fact that sequencing our genome isn't gathering all the information required. To duplicate a human in computational space - say to create some accelerated AI simulation, you'd need to sequence a complete Tel
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This misses that evolution has been pre-training the human cognitive architecture - brain, limbic system, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, coevolved viral and bacterial ecosystems - for millions of years. We're not a ta
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I find it odd that the article doesn't address the apparent success of training with transformer based models in virtual environments to build models that are then mapped onto the real world. This is being used in everything from build
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Downright shocking that a policy like this would be adopted without the necessary social supports in place. There should be regular visits by care workers, addiction councillors, mental health professionals, access to education and jobs pro
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I think the principle is solid though. Tax should effectively be 100% of the market value of the property after a certain point though - say one year.
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This is why its vital to make unethical corporate malfeasance costly. Meaningful fines and criminal convictions for individual executives responsible for law breaking, wage theft, and intentional violations of regulation, provide meaningful
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That's pretty tame next to the courses and weather conditions in BC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nakoqhu61nI
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I suspect it's enormously different between men and women, and of course inter-culturally. As a straight man living in Ireland, despite having extremely traditional catholic parents, I've faced literally zero pressure from family
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That's not quite what I mean. Being a llc doesn't help you within the Youtube Content ID system. What I'm wondering is could you have a second entity you control make claims against your own videos - or do claims stack. i.e.:
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I meant that the Amazon basin and Amazonia are enormous geographic regions. It's highly unlikely that the rainforest itself is the result of cultivation. It does seem to be proven at this point that wide areas were cultivated multiple
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Hypothetically, would it be possible to create a legal entity to make claims against ones own videos, as a shell protection against bogus claims?
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Agreed. Without negative caveats, such positive statements are meaningless. Customers want cheap goods. Caveat: They don't want (to know that) those goods are produced by slave labour. Customers want a vast selection. Caveat: This shou
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There's now a consensus of evidence that large areas of the Amazon were planted and cultivated. Bear in mind this an enormous area, and multiple civilisations would have been active simultaneously over thousands of years. Two thousand
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Interesting to see no publications or public appearances since 2017, wonder if they landed in legal hot water?
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Could equally be the case that these were coping mechanisms she was using to try to accommodate her early symptoms. The classic addiction story is that at the root of problematic alcohol or drug use there's serious trauma - frequently
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The value of accurate tracking is comparison. As someone who suffers from chronic sleep issues, being able to accurately compare the effect of interventions on my sleep pattern, as well as account for seasonality etc is invaluable. Accurate
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Em... Adblockers still work perfectly? It's an annoyance to keep uBlock Origin updated, but it still blocks all ads on youtube. So it seems they're keeping up just fine.
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Strongly disagree - I've seen and had this argument multiple times on HN. There absolutely are a large cohort of people who do not accept that there are any factors other than 'calorie in, calorie out' that affect weight. Sid
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> Students are required to have an admiration of “Western values,” to believe Bitcoin is the successor to the US Federal Reserve, and to trust AI over human courts and judges. Faith based education alive and well. That final requirement
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It's fascinating to see how much more (and more accurate) data your project comprised, but how much better the interface is for this one. Perhaps they can leverage the data you collected for a best of both worlds approach.
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That's reductive to the point out outright inaccuracy. The calories you consume affect your weight differently depending on your level of metabolic activity. So the key mediator here is how your body processes the calories you consume.
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See my responses to other replies. Metabolic activity != physical activity. Theres a moralistic inclination on HN to view complex descriptions of weight gain as defences of sedentary lifestyles and bad diets. Inarguably both are bad, obesit
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Sure, happy to explain. Here's one example. "The mechanism of antipsychotics-induced weight gain (AIWG) is generally hypothesized by the alteration of glucose metabolism and increasing cholesterol and triglyceride levels."
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Right - we're in agreement. There are numerous factors which influence metabolic activity, all of them can influence weight gain or loss independently diet and exercise.

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