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   by fwipsy 3y ago

   What makes this story interesting is that he built a more valuable identity than the real William Woods did. This court case destroyed that value, as the hospital likely won't employ either of them, even though presumably Keirans was d
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   by fwipsy 3y ago

   This is covered in the article. As I understand it, the liver grows in response to chemicals in the blood which it also filters. So it will stop growing when it's large enough to filter all the markers.
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   by fwipsy 3y ago

   Guessing based on years old physics knowledge: Without the fluid, the surface of the stone appears foggy because it's diffusing light (like frosted glass.) The fluid creates a smooth surface on top of that which doesn't diffuse li
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   by fwipsy 3y ago

   Do you have statistics to back up the relative safety of those activities? Lots of people get in trouble with car accidents because lots of people drive cars. But I would think that if you both drive and skydive, the latter is far more like
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   by fwipsy 3y ago

   On mobile so no links, but I enjoy the following YouTube channels: Primitive technology: researching/developing e.g. metalworking, agriculture, building techniques without using any premade tools. No voice but closed caption explanatio
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   by fwipsy 3y ago

   I'm not sure I would refer to this as "thinking errors." My model is that incels are members of an extremist ideology. They have their own core dissatisfaction, but the ideas are shared and reinforced in the community. Like o
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   by fwipsy 3y ago

   I think the connotations are a little different. Self-confidence can include a sort of complacency (confidence in what you're currently doing), whereas agency seems to be more a will to figure things out, whatever it takes.
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   by fwipsy 3y ago

   Dell has one (I haven't verified that it meets your requirements:) https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/inspiron-14/spd...
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   by fwipsy 3y ago

   The news articles I saw about lk-99 were all fairly skeptical. https://www.google.com/search?q=lk-99&sca_esv=557962971&biw=...
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    by fwipsy 3y ago

    There were lots of skeptical viewpoints in mainstream news, even early on: https://www.google.com/search?q=lk-99&sca_esv=557962971&biw=...
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    by fwipsy 3y ago

    It was originally discovered in 1999 but was shelved for over a decade due to insufficient funding. As I understand it, they only received funding in 2018 and became more confident in their discovery after that. Here is some (speculative?)
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    by fwipsy 4y ago

    Digital entertainment has already replaced the healthy lifestyle the author recommends. Things like exercise and socializing help, but they're not sufficient to completely prevent excessive use in my experience. Something else is neede
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    by fwipsy 4y ago

    I grew up with compulsively playing online shooters. I still can't play them in moderation. I always end up playing to the point where it impacts my work, my social life, and my mood over the long term. Most of my friends acknowledge t
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    by fwipsy 4y ago

    Does anyone else find the phrasing of this article confusing? It seems disingenuous to state "FTX discovers $7.3b in assets" when most of those assets were never lost. As I understand it, they've discovered an additional $0.8
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    by fwipsy 4y ago

    I actually ran some tests when I upgraded to a 1tb WD SN530 SSD and found the power draw/WiFi degradation to be acceptable. Here are my results: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/xgse2o/1tb
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    by fwipsy 4y ago

    I took it as meaning "It's a good thing that it's possible to 'ruin your life' more than once because it means you survived the first time and have some experience for the second time." Not meaning "It&#x2
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    by fwipsy 4y ago

    Notice one of the charities is building affordable housing in their "hometown communities." I wonder how much of that housing will go to underpaid Amazon laborers?
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    by fwipsy 4y ago

    You're right. It doesn't seem like a hard problem to solve. Surely the designers of those solar mirror arrays in the desert in California have software for this. If he knew it was going to happen but failed to analyze it properly,
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    by fwipsy 4y ago

    I got a used Precision 5540 (equivalent to XPS 15) after someone recommended it here on Hacker News and I've been pretty pleased with it. Newer versions (Precision 5560/70 etc) should be good as well.
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    by fwipsy 4y ago

    That's fair. Sounds like your friend really hung you out to dry. Sorry to read about your experience these holidays, and hope you find a way to turn it around. Merry Christmas!
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    by fwipsy 4y ago

    I don't know anything about boats, but some boats can be rowed by a single person, which I guess would typically be much less than 600w. It fits with the car battery part too.
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    by fwipsy 4y ago

    Please don't conflate effective altruism with SBF/FTX. Although SBF was a major donor to EA organizations, they were not party to his fraud and EAs do not generally approve of doing unethical things "for the greater good.&quo
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    by fwipsy 4y ago

    I wonder how much of this has to do with The Peripheral doing so well? (Both books are by William Gibson. Highly recommend.)
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    by fwipsy 4y ago

    I don't think you're using the same definition of public accountability as the parent comment. I think parent comment just means that they are able to be identified and held accountable by law enforcement.
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    by fwipsy 4y ago

    This interpretation is a little better, but I think my objections still apply.
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    by fwipsy 4y ago

    I don't think they were suggesting that OP move to West Norway, but saying that they did.
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    by fwipsy 4y ago

    Let's not make generalizations about a country of 1b+ people based on one aspect of their space program. You could easily draw an equally unflattering image of the US or any other nation if you're willing to extrapolate from a sin
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    by fwipsy 4y ago

    I recommend disregarding the terms ("sociopath", "clueless", "loser") used in the article, they're unnecessarily cynical and iirc originally used as a joke. This article takes a basic idea about corporate
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    by fwipsy 4y ago

    Anyone else seeing massive memory usage (multiple gigabytes) in Firefox under Ubuntu on opening this page?
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    by fwipsy 4y ago

    I'm not convinced either of you have read enough of either encyclopedia to have anything like a representative sample.