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by geye1234 2y ago
There is undoubtedly correlation between neurological state and thought content. But they are not the same thing. Even if, theoretically, one could map them perfectly (which I doubt is possible but it doesn't affect my point), they wou
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by geye1234 2y ago
It's not a question of discrete vs continuous, or digital vs analog. Everything I've said could also apply if a transistor could have infinite states. Rather, the point is that the state of our brain is not the same as the content
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by geye1234 2y ago
Even if you can't define the exact point that A becomes not-A, it doesn't follow that there is no distinction between the two. Nor does it follow that we can't know the difference. That's a pretty classic fallacy. For ex
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by geye1234 2y ago
Yes. A thermostat involves a change of state from A to B. A computer is the same: its state at t causes its state at t+1, which causes its state at t+2, and so on. Nothing else is going on. An LLM is no different: an LLM is simply a compute
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by geye1234 2y ago
Two words: Jack Welch. Every conversation of this sort should involve his name being shouted from the rooftops.
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by geye1234 2y ago
Great answer. One of the most destructive people of the 20th Century.
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by geye1234 2y ago
A wonderful snapshot of the 90s web. The entirely unaffected tone, the lack of self-consciousness, the random content, the humor, the joke lists, everything. We've lost a lot. The marginalia search engine is very good at finding this k
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by geye1234 2y ago
You are correct. Immigration exploded under Blair, and exploded again (from its previous high) under Johnson. That is the root cause of the housing crisis. Look at how many people in their 20s were able to buy homes in the 1990s, then look
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by geye1234 2y ago
Was this argument staged? Trump & Vance get to look as though they're out for American interests and peace-friendly. Zelensky gets to go home and say "look, my hands are tied, I have to end this war, our biggest ally has betra
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by geye1234 2y ago
It's true. Also, the UK has never repaid its WW1 debt to the US. The US joined WW1 when it became clear that the UK would not be able to repay its debt to JP Morgan and its clients if Germany won. Of course, that was not the only rea
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by geye1234 2y ago
That is amazing, and just what I've been looking for to archive blogs and comments. Thanks so much!
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by geye1234 2y ago
The book "Heal Your Headache" by David Buchholz which, while a bit dated, has some good advice, recommends completely quitting caffeine. It talks a lot about diet, but it has the strongest words for caffeine. It considers it the w
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by geye1234 2y ago
CGRP blockers (specifically Nurtec) were practically a silver bullet for me, but unfortunately not for everyone.
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by geye1234 2y ago
Yep, I was exactly the same. It took me decades to get diagnosed, then several more years before I saw a neurologist. Now I'm on a CGRP blocker, I hardly get them at all. In addition, my anxiety/depression is almost gone and my AD
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by geye1234 2y ago
Is there some sort of Pareto principle that could be applied to reducing plastic intake? Can someone suggest a few easy steps that would cause >50% reduction in plastic intake, for those who don't have time to dig through the resear
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by geye1234 2y ago
That makes sense, and I don't know why you got downvoted. IANAL, and still less an administrative lawyer. I'm just saying that Trump and Vought are going to make hay with the optics of this. It will seem bizarre to many that the c
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by geye1234 2y ago
It's hardly a reframe. Whether the content was there before is irrelevant. A judge is dictating the contents of an agency site, at the behest of a private party. A temporary injunction may well be common, but it doesn't mean it is
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by geye1234 2y ago
If I were Trump or Vought I'd be over the moon about this ruling. A lowly district judge telling the president what to put on a federal agency's website. No idea about the legal side, but the optics are great for Trump.
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by geye1234 2y ago
"War is politics with bloodshed. Politics is war without bloodshed." -- Clausewitz (I think?)
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by geye1234 2y ago
Absolutely, 100% consider migraines. Headaches are far from their only symptom, and headache-free migraines are a thing. Nausea is a common symptom. It's worth a try, and the medication is generally safe with few side effects. Consider
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by geye1234 2y ago
> do you see the difference of "government schools" in contrast to curricula elaborated by democratically elected boards? especially in a country with proportional representation, which reflects into said boards? I don't t
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by geye1234 2y ago
There's also a variety of kids' ages at these events, so the younger can learn from the older (and parents can easily intervene if this isn't going well). And you know who your kids are interacting with: you know something ab
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by geye1234 2y ago
Agree, there are plenty of kids who go to government schools and have enormous gaps in their knowledge, in the west as well. I'm saying that, all things being equal, I'd rather my kids be homeschooled with a few gaps, than go to a
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by geye1234 2y ago
Thanks. Yes, CPTSD would be more accurate -- the result of a state of near-constant low-level fear. I had, and continue to have, massive trust issues, particularly at work. I struggle to think everyone doesn't secretly hate me and that
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by geye1234 2y ago
Two points here: 1. Government schooling won't force you to confront other beliefs: it will deliver you a particular set of beliefs. Example: sex ed (which must, logically, be delivered from one or another moral perspective; there is n
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by geye1234 2y ago
This is a major reason (but far from the only reason) that we homeschool. Knowing what I know about the school system, about my own experience thereof, and about my kids' personalities, it would be grossly immoral for me to put them th
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by geye1234 2y ago
I went to grammar school (UK) in the 1990s, and also absolutely loathed it. I think it set me up horribly for life and (especially) for my career. People use the phrase "PTSD" too lightly, but I think it gave me something like it
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by geye1234 2y ago
You were downvoted, but what you say is essentially true. H1Bs are a huge part of why it's so hard to find a job right now. BigTech games the system to make it virtually impossible for US-based people to apply. https://subst
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by geye1234 2y ago
Amazing. I just don't know what to say, except that anyone who doesn't know how to open a firewall port has no business running Docker, or trying to understand containerization. As someone says in that PR, "there are many beg
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by geye1234 2y ago
I am not a security person at all. Are you really saying that it could potentially cause Iptables to open ports without an admin's knowing? Is that shockingly, mind-bogglingly bad design on Docker's part, or is it just me? Worse,

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