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by delichon 5mo ago
It's more coherent with moralities that put a relatively low value on property rights and rule of law.
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by delichon 5mo ago
GDP per capita, $1,884. I don't think poverty is a coincidence. Helping them become wealthy is a global health priority.
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by delichon 5mo ago
The promise of AI is in doing things at all that couldn't be automated before, at least economically. And when you find a use case where a bit of automated inference is sufficient and can replace human inference, it can wildly speed up
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Ofcom and the Fantasy of Global Speech Control(reclaimthenet.org)
2 points by delichon 5mo ago|1 comments
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by delichon 5mo ago
1) I had constipation on a very high fiber diet before starting carnivore. That was fixed in literally one day. It was the most dramatic change. Then it gradually came back after about 3.5 years. 2) beef, butter, chicken, pork, lamb, eggs,
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by delichon 5mo ago
Obesity and diabetes. It solved about half of the obesity and all of the diabetes.
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by delichon 5mo ago
I got bad chronic constipation after four years as a strict carnivore. I didn't get relief just by adding back fiber, but I did by adding fermented foods like kimchi. I wonder if ferments are a more natural way than fecal transplants t
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by delichon 5mo ago
Shelve it with the Jurassic Park version where John Hammond builds a safe, profitable theme park, and The Andromeda Strain that gives people the sniffles.
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by delichon 5mo ago
> Ryobi handles DIY at Home Depot. Milwaukee handles pros. The two brands don't eat each other. They serve different people at different price points with different expectations So market fit is driving both worse and better product
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by delichon 5mo ago
The noise part isn't tough to validate. I would consider this intolerable. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/no-one-live-video-shows-...
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by delichon 5mo ago
I resent such spending for the most part, as cheap psyops. A few official beers or pizzas do not have a salient morale effect on a team that works together all day, at least in my experience. Neither do cute Slack callouts or Employees of t
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Whimsical Strategies Break AI Agents(microsoft.com)
2 points by delichon 5mo ago|0 comments
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by delichon 5mo ago
You shouldn't worry too much about it. I have confidence that here in the US the people who operate our political system have the values, vision, and competence to put us back on track with Europe in a single administration.
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Thoughts on the £1M SaSu Fine(prestonbyrne.com)
4 points by delichon 5mo ago|0 comments
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Meta employees protest against mouse tracking tech at US offices(reuters.com)
73 points by delichon 5mo ago|88 comments
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by delichon 5mo ago
Yes, particularly if they are transparent about it.
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by delichon 5mo ago
A good infotech public service project would be to maintain a public list of organizations that have succumbed to ransom demands, so that we can choose to take our business elsewhere. It would also be an act of bravery though in the face of
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In Trump administration battle over AI, U.S. spy agencies seek more power(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by delichon 5mo ago|0 comments
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by delichon 5mo ago
Given that this timeline maximizes irony we will soon find that the demonization of rendered gopher snake fat was an early victory of big medicine, protecting doctors from the competition of a genuine all purpose elixir of health.
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by delichon 5mo ago
> claiming they were broke and talking about about their $150 house cleaner I once spent an hour listening to a drunk woman telling me how broke she was. The gist was that she wanted to build a 50 horse stable but could only afford one b
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by delichon 5mo ago
There was a tweet last week from UN Women: Of all journalists killed in 2021, 11% were women. In 2020, this was 6%. Source: @unesco. On the International Day to #EndImpunity for Crimes against journalists, let us say out loud: STOP TARG
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by delichon 5mo ago
> if you believe left-wing views are correct ... you might believe that a very smart model will inherently be kind of left-wing. How can we educate people to understand that LLMs get their values from their (infinetly maleable) weights r
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A happy 150th birthday to the Otto Cycle internal combustion engine(twitter.com)
1 points by delichon 5mo ago|0 comments
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by delichon 5mo ago
> It's mixed gender and there isn't a masculinity or aggression to it. Bullshit. I would be shocked if it was close to equal across genders. A keen interest in hitting other people with sticks is now and always has been strongl
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The FCC wants your ID before you get a phone number(reclaimthenet.org)
81 points by delichon 5mo ago|105 comments
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It was much better for me. * Your socks don't match anything in the room. * The man you thought you killed in Tuscaloosa woke up and walked home an hour later and is now a chiropractor in Shreveport. * Your daughter is pregnant by the
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by delichon 5mo ago
About as rare as an asteroid typing an ellipsis and clicking the add comment button.
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In the latest Mission Impossible, saving the world depends on recovering the original software of an escaped superhuman AGI from a sunken Russian submarine. Luther writes a "poison pill" that given the original source will instant
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by delichon 5mo ago
"How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually, then suddenly." -- Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
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by delichon 6mo ago
https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest...

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