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by dpark 1mo ago
This is an exhausting read. From the diminishing use of the word “rape” to the steam of conscious delivery to the blogspam cliches of hyperbole and exclamation. The malware installed by LG on Microsoft PCs and the spying by smart TVs are bo
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by dpark 1mo ago
See how freeing that is? You can just be honest about your beliefs and others can choose to engage or not based on that instead of playing some silly game of pretending that treating symptoms is a bad thing. It’s ironic that the current sec
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by dpark 1mo ago
MacOS has intentional holes in keyboard support. You have to go into settings and turn on a config for keyboard navigation to reach all elements. Apple intends for most users to navigate with a mouse. It’s in the accessibility settings. ht
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by dpark 1mo ago
Then don’t ask about whether the drugs cure the disease or just “bury it further”. Own your opinion and state clearly that you don’t believe depression is real. Don’t argue silly tangents that serve only to obfuscate your actual point.
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by dpark 1mo ago
Ok, Freud. You’ve successfully diagnosed the cause of Churchill’s chronic depression. Now what? What is your treatment given that you’ve identified the cause as a past childhood experience. You got a time machine? Or do you treat the diseas
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by dpark 1mo ago
I wonder if you feel the same about drug-based treatments for multiple sclerosis or ALS. Or hormone replacement therapy. Or palliative end of life care. Sometimes treating symptoms is what we can do because we don’t have a cure.
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by dpark 1mo ago
Come on. Don’t roll into a conversation playing armchair expert criticizing others’ contributions when you’ve got nothing of substance to say. You’re as capable of typing “causes of chronic depression” into a search bar as anyone else. The
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by dpark 1mo ago
This doesn’t hold up to even a little bit of critical right. This boils down to “models aren’t real because they don’t affect the real world”. By the same rule, thought itself isn’t real. It’s an abstract notion that has no concrete effects
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by dpark 1mo ago
What is the evidence for human thought?
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by dpark 2mo ago
You are doubtless correct that there is bias. (Literally your stated purpose of the movement is to counter this bias.) But with that said, these voices may be outliers, but they are by far the loudest. I’ve seen people claim that “obese” is
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by dpark 2mo ago
Is there any debate? Phenylephrine doesn’t work. This is pretty widely documented at this point. Manufacturers shoved it into formulas because the thing that did work could no longer be left on the shelf for consumers to grab. It’s unfort
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by dpark 2mo ago
I would imagine the sex itself isn’t super relevant in terms of exercise. But people who seek out medical treatment (or enhancement) likely take better care of themselves in general. But I would be surprised if there were not a measurable
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by dpark 2mo ago
That’s a helpful reference. If accurate, the method of action here is simply nasal congestion (a common side effect).
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by dpark 2mo ago
Doctors are probably also less likely to look for other causes of chronic cough in smokers. In general doctors are looking for the most obvious potential causes of a health problem. If someone on high dose anabolic steroids went to the doct
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by dpark 2mo ago
It’s both. There is a very vocal contingent who insist that obesity is not unhealthy.
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by dpark 2mo ago
> If I wanted an LLM's interpretation I'd have just asked a search-enabled LLM in the first place. When you search on Google now that’s exactly what you’ve done.
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by dpark 2mo ago
Security incompetence doesn’t turn basic meeting recording and transcribing into snake oil.
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by dpark 2mo ago
No it’s not. Blaming customers is Volkswagen saying it’s your fault for buying a TDI.
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by dpark 2mo ago
> And these customers absolute lack of technical due diligence, on this nth example, of move fast and break things...makes them deserve what they are getting. That’s a garbage take. These customers didn’t move fast or break things. The
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by dpark 2mo ago
That’s a great question for someone else. I didn’t say anything about phones.
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by dpark 2mo ago
Exactly this. “I want to win the market. I would prefer that it be a regulated market, but if not, so be it. I’m still playing to win.”
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by dpark 2mo ago
The number of children per family has been plunging since 1800. https://populationeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/a...
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by dpark 2mo ago
We’re reaching further into the past than great great grandparents to get to the large families for farming but sure. Calling it a “fine” to have kids is really bizarre framing though.
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by dpark 2mo ago
25 minutes on the toilet means you’re either sitting there doomscrolling or you need to do something about your digestion.
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by dpark 2mo ago
We address the vulnerability by retreating to a private space. The phones come out just to address boredom. Sitting on the toilet is boring. > I will say that playing my Nintendo DS on the toilet many years ago gave me hemorrhoids that
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by dpark 2mo ago
> Your great great grandparents didn't effectively get fined for having each child. It was quite the opposite. What are you talking about?
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by dpark 2mo ago
I could imagine how a potential interviewee might say something like “I’d tattoo myself with your logo for a chance at a job” and a CEO might respond “Hell, yeah! That’s the kind of energy I’m looking for.” What I can’t understand is how i
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by dpark 2mo ago
“You disagree with me about the meaning of this word so clearly you have a poor grasp of the language” is absolutely an insult.
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by dpark 2mo ago
I hope this weird redefinition of bike shedding doesn’t take off. It’s a useful and meaningful term and repurposing it to mean AI slop is negative value. Thankfully until this thread I’d never seen anyone use the term this way. > Can on
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by dpark 2mo ago
I don’t understand how LLMs make more stuff “bike sheddable”. What LLMs do is allow people to contribute low value garbage to all areas, but we have a word for that and it’s not “bike shedding”. It’s “slop”.

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