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by exo-pla-net 4y ago
A pain in the ass? Download file > Add to Calibre > Transfer to Kindle We're talking four clicks.
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by exo-pla-net 4y ago
Somebody here lacks self-awareness, but I'm not sure it's the author. To quote the article: > Another way to redeem passive lurking is by making a clever joke that shows that you are above the whole thing. Twitter’s quote tweet
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by exo-pla-net 4y ago
You have so much vitriol toward and schadenfreude over the pain of a person who... helped vision and motion impaired people use Twitter? Yikes.
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by exo-pla-net 4y ago
Anchoring effect. Read the section in Thinking Fast and Slow on the anchoring effect.
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by exo-pla-net 4y ago
Without getting into snark, your very own article bolsters my point: > The replication crisis in psychology does not extend to every line of inquiry, and just a portion of the work described in Thinking, Fast and Slow has been cast in sh
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by exo-pla-net 4y ago
The need for representative sampling is something understood by first year undergraduates on first exposure to the concept. What you've written is the reddit equivalent of criticizing a study with "correlation does not imply causa
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by exo-pla-net 4y ago
This studied severely isolated people. If you're interacting with other humans at least once a month, you wouldn't qualify. "Socially isolated as defined in this case is a person who lived alone, interacted with other peop
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by exo-pla-net 4y ago
And people donate to get parks built, largely for the plaque with their name on it. At the end of the day, the public still gets a park. Good has been done. Fixating on motivates is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. There aren'
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by exo-pla-net 4y ago
He may or may not have lied. The lady could have been grateful at first and changed her mind in hindsight (e.g. after learning it was just a stunt). Asserting that he's lying without knowing that he's lying is a mild form of libel
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by exo-pla-net 4y ago
The author favors "pictures" and "videos" over the corrupting influence of the written word. Suggesting that we read less and watch more television and YouTube has to be satire. Decrying reading by assaulting readers wit
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by exo-pla-net 4y ago
Yes, birds are feathered theropod dinosaurs.
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by exo-pla-net 4y ago
For those who just want the answer: 70-80 years for a large herbivore, and 20-30 for a large carnivore.
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by exo-pla-net 4y ago
You'd have a big stack of bot-generated 0 or 1 view articles about moths.
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by exo-pla-net 4y ago
Buried in the article, there's an important nuance: if you pursue a type of meditation called "loving kindness", you can shrug off bad feelings without negative effects like becoming more selfish.
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by exo-pla-net 4y ago
Could you add more regarding pronamel, so I can begin my negotiations with The Algorithm?
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by exo-pla-net 4y ago
Irrelevant nitpick: "gender" in linguistics means "category". Objects in grammatically gendered languages are rarely/never categorized as "manly" or "effeminate"; they're, for example, categ
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by exo-pla-net 5y ago
Examples of thin desires: our desire to spectate on petty rivalries + hot takes. >> petty rivalries dominate politics and Hot Take Artists sit in their cages, hungrier than ever while inducing hunger in others. Another thin desire: po
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by exo-pla-net 5y ago
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12092
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by exo-pla-net 5y ago
Their research remains open: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12092 Their code/models are indeed closed, but there is no realistic alternative. If they let the public have unrestricted access, deepfakes + child images w
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by exo-pla-net 5y ago
It's sketchy if you frame it in such an awful, uncharitable way. Behold: Talking about the weather = using strangers as unwitting tools in your compulsive need for social interaction. How about rejection therapy = "Harmlessly inte
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by exo-pla-net 5y ago
Yeah, less than half of sessions yielded "intelligible" output. From that, we learn that there's indeed an element of interpretation, as was seen with Koko the gorilla and the claims that she could talk, when in fact she was
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by exo-pla-net 5y ago
This is Ouija board pseudoscience until proven otherwise. The scientist behind it is already disgraced. If there is any element of "assistance" in interpreting the locked-in patient's brain waves, the wishful thinking of the
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by exo-pla-net 5y ago
https://archive.ph/EM54x
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by exo-pla-net 5y ago
Near-certainty is literally the finding of the linked article. You're confusing your numbers. Heart damage != heart attacks.
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by exo-pla-net 5y ago
False. > We went into it thinking that [the risk] was going to be most pronounced and evident in people who smoked a lot or had diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, or some [other] risk factors. What we found is that even in people w
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by exo-pla-net 5y ago
If you're referring to cases of myocarditis caused by vaccination itself, the cases are negligible: 2.3 per 100,000 [1]. Compare that with the apparent near-certainty of heart damage (and likely brain damage) if you contract COVID whil
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by exo-pla-net 5y ago
I think a modification to the rules would fix this: you don't have to make all your bids sum to $100. You bid what a room is worth to you, in your case capped at $15. If, after rooms are assigned, the grand total is less than total ren
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by exo-pla-net 5y ago
0: Total rent is $10, for ten rooms, to be split among ten people. 1: One person who really wants a certain room bids $10 on it, and he assigns $0 to the nine other rooms. His roommates bid a neutral $1 on all rooms. ... 4: The person gamin
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by exo-pla-net 5y ago
Consider CBD. It knocks me out if I'm restless. You'll likely want pure CBD, which doesn't get you high. Just chilled out. Worrying about your perfect 8 is probably making things worse, so finding place of peace regarding sle
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by exo-pla-net 5y ago
You can count cards to give yourself a winning edge. Making several thousand per day is feasible. You'll eventually get kicked out of a given casino, but it doesn't matter: they have to give you your money.

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