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by delichon 1y ago
It is voluntary. The two times I have been approached by census takers I declined to participate. They had no problem with that, everything stayed friendly, they thanked me and left. There was never a consequence. The last time, during the
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What the hell is wrong with Europe? [video](youtube.com)
6 points by delichon 1y ago|2 comments
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I can only hope I would have done the same in Franco's dictatorship. But I'd have expected prison rather than a convent.
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by delichon 1y ago
If SCOTUS finds the tariffs unconstitutional in Learning Resources v. Trump, they should order refunds.
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by delichon 1y ago
They are planning for him to honor his campaign promises. It does sometimes happen that a politician is honest. I don't think it is so rare that it compromises fiduciary duty to prepare for it.
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by delichon 1y ago
I'm sending IP packets to you from a computer I bought from one billionaire, built by another billionaire, with an operating system made by another billionaire, over satellites built by yet another billionaire, through a web forum writ
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by delichon 1y ago
That's when it collides with the skybox, like the sailboat at the end of The Truman Show.
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Tesla gets 14 times more labor productivity per dollar in China than the U.S.(twitter.com)
11 points by delichon 1y ago|6 comments
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by delichon 1y ago
> This creates a sea of noise and misinformation that people unknowingly consume at scale. The same objections apply to the written word. A culture that succeeded in not succumbing to writing and reading may indeed have been better off i
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An AI model compressed an encyclopedia into an image(readmultiplex.com)
2 points by delichon 1y ago|0 comments
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by delichon 1y ago
“I’m with you, brother. All the way.” I'm a big AI booster, I use it all day long. From my point of view its biggest flaw is its agreeableness, bigger than the hallucinations. I've been misled by that tendency at length ov
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by delichon 1y ago
They're agreeing that climate change is serious but not necessarily civilization ending: Nordhous: "The amount of warming that is conceivable … is not remotely consistent with the sorts of catastrophic outcomes … where tens or
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by delichon 1y ago
This rhymes with https://www.gatesnotes.com/three-tough-truths-about-climate .
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by delichon 1y ago
It's a limitation of all epidemiological studies. These are a great way to target more expensive randomized controlled trials that are also more invasive by definition. Nutrition science has lots of those and needs more. In an N=1 inte
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by delichon 1y ago
The meta-analysis is of epidemiological data, which shows association, but since there is no intervention, cannot show causation and does not claim to. It does not distinguish an effect of fiber from healthy user bias. https://pm
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Thermodynamic Computing Is Here(twitter.com)
3 points by delichon 1y ago|0 comments
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by delichon 1y ago
Widely regarded as the most powerful US vice president, in terms of operational authority and policymaking control. He may be one of the people most responsible for the expansion of executive branch authority in place now. Nobody is more re
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by delichon 1y ago
> You ought not to endeavour to amuse and deceive your adversary, by pretending to have made bad moves, and saying you have now lost the game I've done a variation of this in a rated game. Like pretend I accidentally touched a piece
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by delichon 1y ago
Thanks for that scholarly and thoughtful comment. The intro to The Roads Must Roll is an example of that complexity. It starts with a labor union meeting arguing for the workers to strike, and then a counter argument that could be an unackn
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by delichon 1y ago
The taste difference isn't from muscle size. Predator flesh tends to be darker, coarser and gamey from high nitrogenous waste and lipid oxidation. Carnivore diets include secondary compounds like amines and fatty acid derivatives that
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A company needs to spend €95k to pay someone €39k as net salary in France(twitter.com)
8 points by delichon 1y ago|14 comments
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In 1940 when he wrote this Heinlein was a New Deal Democrat supporter of Franklin Roosevelt. He was an active progressive who had recently worked on Upton Sinclair’s socialist “End Poverty in California” campaign. His libertarian shift was
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by delichon 1y ago
Could you ask him, deadbabe?
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by delichon 1y ago
I'd guess that Heinlein was aware of it and scaled it up in his imagination. The Roads must roll — they are the arteries of the nation. When they stop, everything stops. Factories idle, food rots, men starve. The nation cannot live
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by delichon 1y ago
It's allowed in our CC&Rs, where pigs are not, because it causes very little nuisance (without roosters).
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by delichon 1y ago
You could convict the minions who made the page, but the President and VP are exempt from the Hatch Act's employee restrictions. Seems backwards.
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by delichon 1y ago
If one in three households had enough chickens to eat your kitchen scraps, there would not be an egg industry in the United States. It would be completely non-essential. -- https://x.com/JoelSalatin/status/1984
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by delichon 1y ago
I have both. I've trapped both in the same trap on the same night.
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by delichon 1y ago
> We're nowhere close to AGI and don't have a clue how to get there. You have to have a clue about where it is to know that we are nowhere close. > isn't impressing anyone. I'm very impressed. Gobsmacked even. Bil
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> After all these years and decades, I remain convinced: the most important work isn’t stopping AGI—it’s making sure we raise our AGI mind children well enough. “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” If we

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