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The public health community has been offering diet and exercise as a treatment for decades. At a population level, it simply doesn't work.
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That is the "humans go the way of horses" scenerio. That would be massively disruptive; but not civilization ending.
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They never said the helicopter would break down after 5 flights. They said it was designed for 5 flights. Shipping it to Mars is expensive and slow, so they build in a lot of margin to increase the odds that they meet the requirements. Take
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We've had massive realignments of the labor force before. At one point agriculture was the industry that all of society was built around. Nowadays, it is a small part of tge economy, with most people having little more than a surface u
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Single people aren't normally in relationships.
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The analogy to the ISS would be a science base Mars. That does not get you interplanetary trade, or asteroid mining. Tourism is at least conceivable, but the number of people who could plausibly afford a ticket is tiny; and the journey time
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by gizmo686 3y ago
Systemd has to pick something as a default. Distributions are more than capable of changing the default on their builds of Systemd if they want to. Feel free to file a bug with Redhat, or Debian, or whoever maintains your distribution and
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From the servers perspective, external problems typically do get fixed on their own. It is nice when resolving the primary issue is sufficient to fix the entire system; instead of needing to resolve the primary issue; then fix all the secon
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> The key milestone will be moving away from the need to use specific formal / symbolic domains, and to generate a pretrained system that can generalize the skills learned from those domains. You do not need to solve everything at o
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If you count communication signalling, you do not need to go that exotic. Gigabit Ethernet has 5 levels. At the chip level, it is quite common to see tri-state pins, where the states are: high, low, high-impedidence (e.g, let the rest of th
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by gizmo686 3y ago
My energy provider (BGE) used to offer a program where you could get a rebate in exchange for letting them control your hot water heater and/or thermostat. The HVAC portion is still running, but only for people who signed up prior to 2
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Back during the Windows 7 upgrade cycle, my company discovered that the old timecard software they were using no longer worked. Fortunately, the IT department came up with a solution: issue everyone in the commpany an Ubuntu VM, and have th
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The market is not an isolated thing sitting out there in nature. It is a complex system built and run by humans. Index investors are freeloading off of the work that a bunch of active investors are doing. This is good for the index investor
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Price discovery doesn't rely on short selling. An active investor with stock in a company is already motivated to monitor if the company is overvalued and sell their stake. Short selling may improve the efficiency of price discovery bu
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Is the $34k considered taxable income? Reimbursement for bussiness travel is generally not taxed. I'm not sure how this applies to rent when work requires a second residence; but it doesn't seem that crazy for those to be tax dedu
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The energy density of the fuel isn't an apples-to-apples comparison. The chemical energy stored in gas is much harder to use. ICE cars typically get around 20-40% efficiency. Electric motors typically get 80-90%. In some sense, they do
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C compilers are allowed to assume that UB never happens. This means that if there is a code path that results in UB, the compiler can "know" that path will never be taken and simply not compile it (or replace it with code that sum
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Assuming you always have convenient access to the internet. And that you version of the tool you are working with matches whatever result you find online. And even then, often the best results you get from google come from the man or info p
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Looking at this graph of breast cancer mortality, the drop has been significant, steady, and showing no sign of leveling off. https://seer.cancer.gov/statistics-network/explorer/applicat...
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Ironically, the sudo in that command is unnecessary. If you ommit it, systemctl will still send the command to the systemd daemon. The daemon will check the polkit policy. On my system, the policy would cause me to be prompted for a passwor
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In a broad sense, this is the direction that Linux based systems are going. Specifically, replacing usages of setuid with sending commands to a process already running as root to execute on your behalf. For instance, try running "syste
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There is nothing historic about this. State powers have destroyed militarily inferior terrorist groups using overwhelming force before. What would be historic is if this led to a long term reduction of terrorism in the region. However Israe
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The point of buying up small companies is to avoid them growing into competition. If there are fewer startups around, the price of buying your way into maintaining incumbency decreases.
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https://youtu.be/tGqVMbAQhBs?si=FAve6HjtEd9rjbZv Notably, his concern was not that the glass was dirty, but that it was literally breaking. As in, spontaneously spill a beaker full of acid on the table breaking. The experim
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If you are working in a lab that needs that level of cleaning, then odds are that what you do with the glass when you use it is also dangerous. There is a reason that the stereotypical chemist wears gloves, goggles, and a labcoat. Also, lab
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An annualize interest rate of 250% for a 1 month term means a 1.08% actual interest rate. If just 8% of your loans default you lose money. A 70% default rate would mean that you expect lose 68% of your money every month. Sure, you don'
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An anualized interest rate far over 250% is easy to find there. However, these are short term loans. In order to see a 250% return on a 250% anualized rate, you need to have your money lent out for a year. If each loan lasts a month, then y
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I think free-to-play games have ruined this model for everyone. Now people see "in-app purchase" and immediately associate it with "paying for every interaction" instead of "one-time payment to purchase full functio
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Every TV I have has an RJ45 connector. They also have wifi, but the RJ45 is there for anyone who wants it.
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Pretty much any data cable you see in homes can be made to run Ethernet at a decent rate with just an adapter at each end. Coax can easily carry data at Gigabit speed. Cat5e has been the standard for decades, and can run gigabit speeds as w

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