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by derektank 2y ago
Calling her a political commentator when she's a member of the AHA and a tenured professor of History at NYU feels a little bit disingenuous. You can just as easily call her a historian, and the Naval Academy employs (and produces) a l
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by derektank 2y ago
Drug development is a pretty critical component of getting a drug to the consumer, unless you don't consider completing human clinical trials and receiving FDA approval to be valuable
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>What is the federal minimum wage? Who benefits from it being $7.25 an hour? Not the common people Really? I imagine that a very large percentage of the voting public, almost certainly a majority, benefits more from cheap services than t
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by derektank 2y ago
As John Maynard Keynes said, "In the long run we're all dead"
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This has not been my experience. Twice in the last week I've had Claude refuse to answer questions about a specific racial separatist group (nothing about their ideology, just their name and facts about their membership) and questions
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by derektank 2y ago
>Go in with enough random people to say you lived at a place and that was more legitimate than a letter with your address on top from a propane company that served half the state. While the propane company's letter should have been
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by derektank 2y ago
Physical exercise is the most potent life extension intervention we have. So it's very unlikely we'll get anyone to 200 if they're stuck in bed with a broken hip.
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by derektank 2y ago
Higher levels of body fat (which is almost always the cause of a high BMI unless you are an active athlete) is pretty directly tied to inflammation and pre-diabetic insulin resistance. This subsequently results in the liver producing more t
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by derektank 2y ago
Which claim? Regarding investments, from the world bank, "The pricing mechanism [a component of a PPA] is the primary mechanism for allocating revenue and market risk in respect of the project between the public and private sectors and
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by derektank 2y ago
If by the size of government you mean the budget, there have been multiple instances of the government shrinking. As a percent of GDP the 90s saw cuts to federal spending, the 2011 sequestration saw a drop in spending even in nominal terms,
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by derektank 2y ago
Siri is a lot more capable at managing calendars with the iOS 18.1 update, at least in the 20 minutes I spent playing around with a friend's iPhone that was in the beta. My understanding is that most of the capability improvement is du
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by derektank 2y ago
I'm not sure how much of it is hype targeted at potential shareholders vs. reality but Moderna claims that they've incorporated ChatGPT into their business processes where they're using it to, among other things, predict opti
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by derektank 2y ago
Transmission losses aren't negligible without investment in costly infrastructure like HVDC connections. It's always more efficient to site electricity generation as close to generation as feasibly possible.
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by derektank 2y ago
>So it seems like the only thing such a bill would achieve is to incentivize AI research to avoid California. Which, incidentally, would be pretty bad from a climate change perspective since many of the alternative locations for datacent
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by derektank 2y ago
It should be illegal for the government to monitor what is, in most cases, public property (airports and border crossings)?
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If you have the option to extract rents by forming a cartel (without legal punishment), you'll do it regardless of the underlying value of the asset you're trying to control because it's free money (assuming you can trust the
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by derektank 2y ago
It mentions this in the article but JD Hillman's team did study the s. mutans bacteria in rats. The results of that research were that the rats dosed with BCS3-L1 did experience fewer dental carries.
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by derektank 2y ago
It seems like FDA restrictions on clinical trials have really shot us all in the foot by depriving us the opportunity to collect data on this bacteria before it was made available as a supplement. There is clearly a demand for this product
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by derektank 2y ago
I suppose it's a question of what you care about. If your only concern is keeping other people from believing "the wrong thing", sure censors can effectively prevent the spread of any single "bad" idea. But bad idea
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by derektank 2y ago
While the article is interesting, I think it fails to defend its own thesis. While animal cruelty is a component of the Macdonald Triad (along with arson and bedwetting) which supposedly indicates sociopathy (the rigor of the triad as a pre
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by derektank 2y ago
The piece sort of contradicts itself on this point though and explicitly conflates employment and finding one's niche with the tragedy of Nicky. Why is it a tragedy that Nicky finds herself employed as a consultant if she has no other
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by derektank 2y ago
It wasn't the independence debt. Haiti was a poor country in the 40s and 50s but not exceptionally poor compared to other peer countries. What set Haiti up to be the basket case it is today was the decades of corruption and malgovernme
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by derektank 2y ago
Accounting for the variability in the recording medium's speed by including a constant frequency from a tuning fork strikes me as genuinely genius, particularly when he wasn't even thinking about playing back the audio
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by derektank 2y ago
Adding regulatory burdens to voluntary transactions doesn't really seem to be in the spirit of expanding freedom to me. There's certainly an argument to be made that the privacy benefits or the inclusionary benefits are worth the
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by derektank 2y ago
As Combatant Commander of USCYBERCOM and previously the Commander of Cyber National Mission Forces, he would have had a lot of experience with DISA policy. OpenAI and Microsoft are currently working to get the Azure OpenAI service a full AT
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by derektank 2y ago
Every retailer I can think of (Kroger, Walmart, Costco, Target) maintains private label branded products that are sold alongside competitors.