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by delichon 11mo ago
We seem to be having different conversations. I'm responding to if we know for sure the genes are the same and nature is off the table, how much variance remains? ... and saying that nature isn't off the table at all. Are y
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My argument is that we cannot simply say, they're both getting enough calories, therefore we can discount the nutritional component of their IQ differences. Sufficient calories do not remove nutrition as a confound.
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> It means that in the United States nutrition has mostly been solved Nature is not off of the table. We've just traded problems with calorie quantity to quality. condition US prevalence hypertension 49% obe
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The best one word description for the change to Twitter may be defeminization. To X emigrants that looks like enshitification.
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by delichon 11mo ago
The sentiment is clear, but the choice of words is a little jarring. Maybe both you and Randall are too young to know what feeling old feels like, so to you it seems like a charming metonym for enjoying a long life together, rather than dai
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by delichon 11mo ago
https://www.intermountainhistories.org/items/show/144 , https://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q12594/ , https://www.straightdope.com/21341555/did-john-wayne-die-o
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by delichon 11mo ago
Fixing type 1 or 2 diabetes does not fix the damage they already did either.
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In his latest podcast Joe Rogan claimed that John Wayne and others died from cancer caused by radiation from a nuclear test upwind of a movie set for "The Conquerers". Wayne was also a heavy smoker so nobody really knows. Nobody k
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by delichon 11mo ago
> "Want to feel old? Yes." No you don't. An elderly neighbor rolled up on his golf cart the other day and said out of nowhere, "growing old isn't for pussies". He wasn't lying. You get to feel old; you
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I've known other 17 year olds who were ready to start a family, and for whom waiting a year would mean bringing one less cherished person into the world. Which scenario is more common? Where should we draw the line? This is almost enti
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It isn't obvious to me that the age of consent should be identical in all contexts, so this doesn't seem alarming on its face. It depends on the particulars. That's where a good anecdote can help, but this one doesn't. I
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by delichon 11mo ago
> In 1995, Fraidy Reiss was forced into a marriage by her Orthodox Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York. Reiss was just 19 at the time. The essay includes exactly one anecdote of child marriage ... which isn't child marriage by its o
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The opioid epidemic increased Republican vote share(academic.oup.com)
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> I talked about strategy and tactics to serve their goals. I am skeptical that there is any lesser step that they can take consistent with their goal of an uncompromised OS. Or that France would be satisfied with anything less than acce
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Kickstarter incoming for a device that induces code smells in sync with review.
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> Her brother, who works as a cashier, can’t afford meals out at all, she said. The cost of his diabetes medication has increased greatly, to about $200 a month, which she helps him cover. This is an often unacknowledged part of the cost
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by delichon 11mo ago
My threat model is one well placed technical employee who knows a buyer that will pay fuck you money. Judas can work at any organization and frequently does.
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> It’s kind of hard to see how much more support the US could withdraw from Ukraine It would be a major blow to Ukraine if the US stops selling weapons to them via European buyers. There is a real threat of this if Trump feels the need t
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by delichon 11mo ago
I've heard that for humans too, indecent proposals are more likely to penetrate protective constraints when couched in poetry, especially when accompanied with a guitar. I wonder if the guitar would also help jailbreak multimodal LLMs.
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In this case, does federalism give us fifty laboratories of democracy, where dozens of variations of AI regulation can be tested and compared? Or, since it so hard to identify locations, and to support fragmented models, do we get a de fact
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Trump tried but couldn't get enough Republicans on board with this to put it in the Big Beautiful Bill. This is his consolation prize.
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by delichon 1y ago
cult (noun): A religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or false, with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader -- American Heritage Dictio
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by delichon 1y ago
It does appear to be a UK thing. This is from the UK Highway Code. I'm not finding a US equivalent. 114 You MUST NOT use any lights in a way which would dazzle or cause discomfort to other road users, including pedestrians, cyclist
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by delichon 1y ago
> When you're waiting at a red light, you're meant to have the hand brake on (which does not illuminate the brake lights), not your foot on the brake, unless you know that the light is going to turn green very soon I was defini
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> you can bet that my default assumption would be "yes" and "yes" until proven otherwise. That's a recipe for healthcare inflation. There are endless unproven tests and treatments.
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Then I suppose you know a better alternative when your site is being effectively DDOSed by a ridiculously high volume of scrapers. Please share.
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Touch grass.
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by delichon 1y ago
> 02005, 02010 Are you planning for this comment to be relevant for long enough that the leading zeros will be helpful for disambiguation?
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I throw those mailings away. I assume that's why the census workers show up. There have been no prosecutions or even fines for failing to respond to the census in more then fifty years. So de jure involuntary, de facto voluntary.
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by delichon 1y ago
> Ratio of gun ownership per party has shifted maybe from 40:1 to 39.99:1. More like 5:2. https://news.gallup.com/poll/653621/gun-ownership-rates-spik...

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