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by derbOac 1y ago
Yeah I think the phenomenon is interesting and important to be aware of, but the berating political take isn't really that helpful or productive in my opinion — even though it ostensibly attempts to be unbiased in its criticisms. It wo
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Lots of interesting and potentially useful things. Their Harbor project seems relevant to Signal's identity verification challenges? I wonder if they've discussed it and what those discussions led to.
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I was just wondering about this the other day with a Dell printer I love that's getting harder to setup via wifi.
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by derbOac 1y ago
Based on what I read earlier, I wouldn't be surprised if it was based on AI that Musk recently purchased. I sincerely hope I'm wrong though. I also hope whatever it is, it doesn't make the ATC system dependent on some proprie
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by derbOac 1y ago
> Surely the key skill here is calm under pressure and stress? ... which is personality. Not trying to defend or not defend what actually happened, but there's growing use of personality measures in various vocations for this very r
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by derbOac 1y ago
I guess my reactions are: 1. I guess I think mechanisms for regulating goods entering the country should be based on specific articulated harms, and targeted through law enforcement or tariffs with a specific harm reduction goal. It's
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I'm generally in favor of more diversification, but I really don't think tariffs are the way to go about it. Especially not general tariffs with no conditions for their reduction or removal. There are other ways to diversify sourc
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by derbOac 1y ago
I think what you're referring to is insidious and not getting anywhere near enough attention. There's constant clamoring about increasing STEM engagement and then they go and kill off accessibility of tech. Tech access is importan
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by derbOac 1y ago
I (American) kind of learned accidentally how much longer clothes last air drying, from drying work clothes and some of my child's clothes, and then expanding from there. I kind of grew up with line drying, and then stopped, and then s
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by derbOac 1y ago
> Sure that's good for consumers, but its bad for competition. So we want competition that's bad for consumers? I have to admit I get the logic of the remedy being proposed, but something seems off to me and I can't put my
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by derbOac 1y ago
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003335062... The best research I've seen on this, from NZ, suggests the neurocognitive effect in typical fluoridation programs is about as close to zero
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“NIH has implemented a research pause—referred to as a safety stand-down—at the Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick. This decision follows identification and documentation of personnel issues involving contract staff that compromis
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by derbOac 1y ago
I don't think that's exactly right. I think it's more like some of them were telling us they were going to do exactly this, and the rest vehemently denied it.
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by derbOac 1y ago
Following the monetary focus — the last exception has some parallel in contract law, the idea of specific performance and that some things can't be replaced by any monetary value because of their uniqueness. So in the relationship exam
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by derbOac 1y ago
Yeah I've been wondering why this seems so centralized. I'd think power would be more decentralized.
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by derbOac 1y ago
Even some kind of wake or something would help.
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Geographic and age variations in mutational processes in colorectal cancer(nature.com)
1 points by derbOac 1y ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 2y ago
These dishwasher discussions to me always are a bit frustrating because so much of it depends. Even the article has this little caveat that's not so little: you don't need to prerinse unless it involves protein , which is actuall
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by derbOac 2y ago
There are many problems going on right now, but in terms of cuts this is one of the most problematic: everything is secret, with no oversight or deliberation. It's indistinguishable from corrupt malice because it's not done with o
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by derbOac 2y ago
I think there's been a number of studies showing that overall political identification among physicians and providers is pretty balanced in the US, but it varies a lot by specialty area, so that some areas tend to have providers that a
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by derbOac 2y ago
This struck me as a strawman argument against the "stochastic parrot" interpretation. I really disagree with this premise in particular: "if a language model was just a stochastic parrot, when we looked inside to see what was
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Trump is dismantling election security networks(cnn.com)
24 points by derbOac 2y ago|4 comments
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by derbOac 2y ago
This pretty much sums up my impression of that literature, not just the meta analysis. The Broadbent et al paper is probably the best one I've found on the topic, and they didn't find any effect: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm
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by derbOac 2y ago
I had to wonder, with a call to eliminate the essay along with standardized tests, what's left? Grades and random selection? Having said that I often felt like it is a better use of everyone's time to have specific questions for a
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by derbOac 2y ago
Not trying to be hostile but while everywhere has corruption, and the US definitely has a history of things to be shameful of, it's been nowhere near the scope of what we're seeing now, at least in recent history. I see arguments
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by derbOac 2y ago
I agree completely but the thing I also find puzzling sometimes is how the public discourse seems to have forgotten about the rampant misinformation that's been going on for the last several years. Basically huge numbers of people have
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by derbOac 2y ago
Sort of interesting that the Clock of the Long Now and Cage’s ORGAN2/ASLSP were conceived around the same time — 1989 and 1987, respectively. Also worth noting the clock's name is from Brian Eno, who has expressed interest in deve
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Coffea stenophylla: A forgotten bean that could save coffee from extinction(smithsonianmag.com)
170 points by derbOac 2y ago|138 comments
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by derbOac 2y ago
Modern physics gets into some weird territory, as does some sensory biology, so I don't blame anyone on this one.
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Fragments of a rare Merlin manuscript from c. 1300(cam.ac.uk)
136 points by derbOac 2y ago|37 comments

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