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by elevatedastalt 3y ago
It is. Because the point GP / OP are making isn't that we are doing inquisitions today, but rather that the human psychology behind confessions has long been wielded as a tool.
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by elevatedastalt 3y ago
And? Human psychology hasn't changed.
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by elevatedastalt 3y ago
The more I read about forensic "science", the more horrified I become. DNA is still a shining beacon of scientificity in that field. The other techniques that guided most crime scene investigation before DNA were a complete crapsh
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by elevatedastalt 3y ago
The alternative is to have only as much confidence in anything as it deserves.
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by elevatedastalt 3y ago
I think it feels serendipitous only if you think of "sweet" taste (or for that matter any taste) as occurring in this giant continuum of tastes where hitting a specific spot on that continuum is probabilistically impossible. Ultim
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by elevatedastalt 3y ago
How are things ever supposed to become historic if people aren't allowed to fight to keep them around when they are only 20 or 30 years old?
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by elevatedastalt 3y ago
It's easy to ensure compliance when the risk of non-compliance is getting expelled.
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by elevatedastalt 3y ago
When anecdotes disagree with data, double check the data.
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by elevatedastalt 3y ago
I read it first as 29 year old M grasshopper has a nest egg, and I was like, fuck a damn grasshopper has beat me to FIRE.
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by elevatedastalt 3y ago
> You have to be bad in order to discover what kind of good you want to be (or are able to be). Sounds like one of those pseudo-profound woo statements. Many people manage being perfect good, well-adjusted humans without going through a
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by elevatedastalt 3y ago
270 word comment about trying to lose weight and you didn't mention anything about diet. I know people hate trite phrases like "You can't outrun a bad diet" or "The best weightloss exercise is a fork-putdown",
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by elevatedastalt 3y ago
CICO looks like dumb advice ONLY if you think it to mean that you should be literally summing the nutritional labels of the foods you consume and whatever calorie estimates your smartwatch shows you and treat it as gospel. Both the CI and C
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by elevatedastalt 3y ago
These things are often not uniformly distributed. Most of the recent layoffs affected teams within Google Assistant, many of which lost more than half of their headcount. So if you were in Google Assistant, your chance of being laid off was
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by elevatedastalt 4y ago
I think OPs summary is a bit inaccurate. Regular working out is not the issue in my understand. When you start working out after a long break, some of the AST ALT stored in your skeletal muscles gets released as the muscles undergo some bre
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by elevatedastalt 4y ago
Yes, my experience was very similar, and I did A/B test it. More details here— https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35432067 Summary: * Test after starting to work out after a long gap—elevated AST ALT, consistent with
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by elevatedastalt 4y ago
Oh, wow, I had the exact same experience (about elevated AST, ALT, not the car accident). It's got nothing to do with protein shakes, it happens when you start working out after a long break. I went for my regular checkups and my AST A