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by distant_hat 3y ago
It is as unreal for most people to turn to veganism as it is for cats to become vegetarians. You are asking for genetic changes, it could happen if there is a major genetic bottleneck and all people who cannot subsist on a plant based diet
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by distant_hat 3y ago
Depends on the movie, and it is not always smooth. Also, it leads to higher piracy in countries where cuts are made because people do want the raunchier scenes. Like Oppenheimer had a bunch of cuts in India but it is still doing well, but i
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by distant_hat 3y ago
Knowing many women who had north of 50-100 partners, 'extra special' certainly isn't the case. Usually they are settling down because no one wants to stick with them and you are likely to be the next one who will abandon them
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by distant_hat 3y ago
One thing that is not considered here is that media is far more globalized than before. If you want a big budget movie to do well across markets like China, India, and the middle East, you tone down the raunchy content or run the risk of mo
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by distant_hat 3y ago
To be fair, it isn't always profit from. I've been with some higher body count partners, between the good sides, they also often have negatives, people who have broken their boundaries, triggers formed because someone did somethin
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by distant_hat 3y ago
Often companies with good ESG scores optimize for having good scores. Its like studying to the test and they may have particularly poor results outside of the test that they have studied for. Also, ESG is political and like all things that
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by distant_hat 3y ago
Everything coming out of the battery is a huge thing. In cold temperatures, the heating is just waste heat from the ICE. In EVs, you are using the battery to heat the interior and the battery performance is itself low from the cold, so you
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by distant_hat 3y ago
I remember talking to someone who had done a postdoc in Japan and he said that their labs had computers that had been budgeted as a consumable. At the end of a year some admin guy came with a small hammer and smashed the machines to make su
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by distant_hat 3y ago
I'm sure at some point people will be advocating that kids who do better at math be given shots of whisky until their performance is at par with other kids.
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by distant_hat 3y ago
In the government, and large organizations as well, there is often a large pot of money that is 'use it or lose it'. In fact, overspending can often justify need for larger budgets next year around and underspending can make you l
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by distant_hat 3y ago
Fusion is easy and you can set off a hydrogen bomb whenever you like, it is turning that energy into electricity that's the hard part.
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TCS sacks four employees, investigating malpractice involving staffing firms(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
1 points by distant_hat 3y ago|0 comments
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by distant_hat 3y ago
The real danger of this kind of work is that you'll have a shoddy product that misclassifies student/academic writings and people will get tagged as cheaters when they aren't.
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by distant_hat 3y ago
Reviewers are already overloaded with reviewing all kinds of papers and aren't paid for it. To increase their workload is an absolute worst outcome.
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by distant_hat 3y ago
India actually has a well-funded ministry of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha, and Homeopathy) and its influence has massively grown over the past decade. It is as anti-science as you get.
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by distant_hat 3y ago
If it is a rare condition, reidentifying people from even small amounts of relevant data (age, gender, hospital visited) data is trivial. If it is a common condition, usually there is plenty of data already there.
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by distant_hat 3y ago
It is not a 'law' in the Physics sense. People have done some very interesting things with selective breeding in plants and animals. It will largely work for humans too just that some effects may be dampened (or accelerated) by cu
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by distant_hat 3y ago
A simple answer is that people are fascinated by the grotesque whereas wholesome stuff is just blah. 50 Shades of Grey is an perfectly mediocre novel, but will sell many tens of multiples of critically acclaimed books.
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by distant_hat 3y ago
A lot of people pooh poohing seem to think that the solution is all or nothing. All conditions have a spectrum, and maybe this would be pointless for people deep on the spectrum, it might be enough to push people on the edge to go out and s
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Covid vaccines are not needed for healthy kids and teens, says WHO(foxnews.com)
22 points by distant_hat 4y ago|26 comments
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by distant_hat 4y ago
I don't remember the last time some tech company employees got together to beat someone to death and the companies mounted a defense for those employees.
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by distant_hat 4y ago
As Taleb said on Balaji Srinivasan's comment on Fed not communicating about the rate increases earlier. If crypto people feel that the losses are because of Fed's actions, then they should also agree that the profits are because o
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by distant_hat 4y ago
So what? There is no particular reason why disparities should be reduced.
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by distant_hat 4y ago
There is a scam that I've heard of in India with these kind of dates though not as serious. You get a woman who is eager to meet up. You meet up and she takes you to an expensive place to eat and then a particular 'hotel' for
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by distant_hat 4y ago
Its often surprised me how anti-children many of the people in the West are. Children make noise, children are the future of your society. You make it difficult for families to live and children to be children and then are surprised when de
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by distant_hat 4y ago
Isn't that basically Bumble? All that happens is the woman sends a low effort 'Hi' and then expects the man to pick up the conversation from there.
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by distant_hat 4y ago
I think the distribution of libido between men and women is pretty much even. Most men think women are less interested in sex, but women with the right guys can have quite a high sex drive. In more sexually open subcultures such as swingers
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by distant_hat 4y ago
The issue is not in getting H1Bs, the issue is in conversion to permanent residency.
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by distant_hat 4y ago
The rule limiting the Indians goes way back to the 60s. Also, if the issue is bodyshops act against them. At present this is collective punishment for something only a few Indians are engaged in and it doesn't even seem to be effective
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by distant_hat 4y ago
The fact is this system is rigged against people born in India specifically (not Indians, Indians born outside India are fine). If you had a rule that discriminated against, say, Jews, it would be called out for being anti-semitic. If you h

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