ericmcer

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by ericmcer 3y ago
50% of the Food and drug administrations funding comes from pharmaceutical companies. So yeah big pharma runs our government regulatory agencies.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
With the amount of layoffs tech has had in the last year I imagine attrition is less of an issue. Maybe they factored that in.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Did you account for calories? Beef has ~3-4X the calories per gram of tofu. I would guess plants have more microplastics as they just pull things out of the soil and store them (why many plants have a ton of heavy metals). Animals at least
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by ericmcer 3y ago
What bar would you judge a society by besides other societies? Idealized futuristic utopias? I don't really agree we should be most critical of our own society. We should be critical of the society that deserves the most criticism.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Good luck with finding new books that aren’t practicing the same techniques. Unless it is directly or metaphorically confronting a hot button social issue new books do not get much recognition.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Sounds like a dumb sentiment put eloquently.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
How does it work? I have always wondered how flea and tick medicine works. It makes your blood poisonous?
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by ericmcer 3y ago
I have had multiple companies tell me they are looking to hire female or PoC developers during an interview before, I never knew I could get 90k for it!
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Work is what you make of it, you can definitely prove yourself to be competent and valuable while not becoming critical. Just be respected enough to get your yearly raise/bonus, survive layoffs and get future referrals and recommendati
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by ericmcer 3y ago
If you had a non-traditional computer education (I definitely did) there will be huge holes because your skillset is going to be hyper practical. All of these concepts are just somewhat arbitrary rules nerdy white guys came up with 30+ year
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by ericmcer 3y ago
The AI is just automating something they could hire an army of humans to do though, twitch usually has ~80k streams running, so it would take a few thousand workers but there would be no privacy blockers. They do have your permission to run
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by ericmcer 3y ago
That isn't an extreme example at all, people used to mill grain and make clothing by hand, now we don't. We somehow are not sitting around getting fat even though technology takes care of those tasks. The parents suggestion is tha
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Yeah thats why I mill my own grain and am getting into textiles.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
So you shouldn’t work hard because it benefits the people in power? That mentality seems pretty self-destructive. It’s dumb to not at least try to impress the people who pay you. That doesn’t mean you can’t also take it easy and strike a he
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Did you read the article? The gut "brain" can just perform it's own functionality independent of the brain. If anything the article raises the concept that organs can function without being regulated by the brain, which woul
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Don't creators get paid based on how many ads are shown/clicked? They are probably excited by the idea that their revenue will increase by (% of people who use adblockers). The goals of creators and youtube are more closely aligne
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Kinda feel like you have that backwards, why would an AI that sophisticated care about controlling your mind? Why would the group of people who control that AI care about you as anything other than a liability? What do they get out of manip
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by ericmcer 3y ago
I find they make me "smarter" at coding because of how important the ability to hold multiple contexts in your head is. Being able to focus unwaveringly while drilling through a bunch of nested function calls does make you a bette
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Rice is not a vegetable, the question was if you can live off vegetables. Thats why I said you would struggle to hit your caloric needs without processed grains and oils. You could maybe make it if you ate a couple pounds of beans a day wit
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Can you sustain yourself eating only vegetables? Modern vegan diets work because we have heavily processed oils and grains, and a variety of supplements. I don't think a human could live long just munching vegetables that aren't c
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Growing up we always buried pets when they passed and the ritual was somewhat soothing. Digging the hole yourself was part of the final rite. When my partners cat got euthanized she let the vet just walk away with the body for cremation and
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Can you force them to undergo treatment? Do most drug users want to get clean but they don't have the resources? I watch a lot of youtube interviews with homeless people (so I am an expert lol), but a common occurrence is a persons com
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Having independent countries around your country isn’t a blockade… as far as I can tell things are flowing pretty freely in and out of china
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Yeah just let China takeover the small nations around it. Why do we keep bullying China and Russia.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
it makes sense. One adult can monitor many children. With childcare a single adult can watch 10+ kids. Makes more sense than having each adult watch only their own 1 - 2 children. I don't think there have been many societies in human h
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Hersheys actually has very few heavy metals. They come from cacao so cheap milk chocolate has far fewer than boutique dark ones.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Probably based on peoples lives: Poor? It is awesome, your healthcare might be ~$40/mo Work for a huge company? you're indifferent to it. Self-employed? It is terrible, your rates skyrocketed. Trash bronze plans can cost you >$
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by ericmcer 3y ago
He talks pretty openly about using steroids in "Pumping Iron" which came out in 1977. He was very candid about it, probably because you would have to be a moron to look at professional body builders and think they were natural.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
I never was defending it, they said they were shocked that humans were capable of doing what was done at Guantanamo. I was just saying that there are some other historical events that will really surprise them.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
What Guantanamo is horrible but in a historical context it is pretty tame. How can you know about slavery, the holocaust, etc. and be unable to imagine force feeding prisoners who are hunger striking.

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