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by graeme 3y ago
I would read it as "My choices have caused me to be here, and I must rely on my choices not to keep me here" That obviously has limits; anything taken literally to an extreme does. For instance, Munger lost a nine year old son to
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Completely agree that an ear loop is less effective than a headstrap. The question is: by how much? This beard length mask study is a good source of data. They actually measured fitted filtration efficacy at different beard lengths, includi
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>the empirical evidence for masking, especially vs. the new strains, is quite weak If you're wearing an N95 or KN95 the filtration efficacy is quite high. Most of the mask studies looked at whether mask policies lowered covid. If
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It kills your native bacteria and can cause long run issues. Some also have severe side effects such as the fluoroquinolone family. Like most medicines if you need them you really ought to have them and if you don’t then you shouldn’t.
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by graeme 3y ago
Really depends on your interest. So my list won't be of general interest. But I've found Twitter good for: * Ukraine War coverage (less since Elon took over, he downranked it) * Coronavirus: you can find a lot of scientists discus
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I tried threads and stopped. It occurs to me though that it’s possible Facebook is building a product not targeted at me. I use Twitter to follow several hyper specialized communities where the info is world class. Threads was kinda enterta
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by graeme 3y ago
Have been using Lunch Money, hadn't heard of Monarch 1. Have you got an import function if we have csv or in other formats? 2. My only issue with Lunchmoney is my connections are often broken. They use Plaid. Is this one of those thing
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by graeme 3y ago
Well let’s say someone just spams a prominent account with bot accounts, such that any and all discussion beneath their posts is ruined. Or fills the mentions with slander, hateful comments etc. twitter is the Wild West right now, full of b
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by graeme 3y ago
I think the question would be better framed as “would I, someone who doesn’t do dumb things while driving, be safer in a driverless car?” Despite the universality of what you cite, driving accidents are likely an 80:20 issue where a small f
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by graeme 3y ago
Not enough. We both cut down trees and burned underground carbon stores. Merely replanting trees goes part of the way but it can’t address the whole issue. The calculations you showed seem to be about blunting annual emissions. But we still
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by graeme 3y ago
One example. I asked ChatGPT to take 7 letters and find all the word combos. There were about 80 possible. It maxed out at 19 or so. Now clearly this is a hard task. Humans can’t do it well and none of the text corpus would offer training o
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by graeme 3y ago
You’d be a fool to burn a fire in your home if your fireplace has no chimney. But that doesn’t mean all the smoke goes upwards. Surprisingly I couldn’t find a single study which measured PM 2.5 from fireplaces with chimneys. However, a st
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by graeme 3y ago
If you can smell it, then is spreading through the room. There’s no rule of airflow which says air only flows upwards. And once you can smell smoke the particulate levels are generally very high
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by graeme 3y ago
Yes. My point was it sounds like we’ll delay it for years for testing. But 59,000 people die of rabies each year and each case is almost certainly fatal. So it seems we should speed up distributing this. If rabies patients start surviving t
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by graeme 3y ago
I might have been unclear: the Milwaukee protocol was not effective. My point was, normal medical ethics seem to go out the window here. With most interventions, you can harm the patient, so you had best not give them anything until you tes
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Given that the symptomatic rabies leads to death in 100% of cases currently, wouldn’t it make sense to try a version of this in those few cases when someone in North America does get rabies? They already tried the experimental Milwaukee pro
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>” "I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war," Stalin said. "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United State
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by graeme 3y ago
Sure, but when we worry about jailbreaks we worry about people doing bad things with the knowledge. The worry is about someone seriously asking the question and getting serious answers. You could do that by jailbreaking an LLM. My content
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by graeme 3y ago
Try it out, see what kind of answers you get. The first question I imagine you’d get an answer and a laugh. It’s if you keep going and keep asking details - then people will start to wonder if you’re serious. Especially if you actually me
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Unless you had a close relationship with the human or had established yourself as actually an author, you pretty quickly would get shut down on that question by most people.
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NYC is the exception in American cities. What other examples in America are comparable to Montreal/NYC? In terms of just having entire swaths of the city be walkable with lots of small shops.
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by graeme 3y ago
Come to Montreal. We have a pedestrian culture, with supermarkets but also tons of small shops. People like both. But when you have enough cars and lose the density you lose the small shops.
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by graeme 3y ago
Did it work for you? How would you sum it up?
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The 2021 deaths began in January, before the vaccine was widely rolled out to young people. Not to minimize vaccine myocarditis, but it is myopic to focus on that and not the extremely contagious disease known to cause heart trouble.
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Are you commenting based on knowledge of Japan? To my knowledge they have laws against secret cameras in public places. From a quick search it is complicated and varied by prefecture and type of place.
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Monopoly is very specific. Anti competitive isn’t monopoly. Amazon simply hasn’t got monopoly market share or even e commerce monopoly market share. And btw all retailers copy products. Surely you’ve bought store brand corn flakes at some p
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by graeme 3y ago
The very existence of Bing is the counter argument to your point. Bing has a roughly 8% desktop market share. PC has a 70% market share. That means about 11.5% of windows computer didn’t switch away from Bing. Assume a similar share on appl
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by graeme 3y ago
Low value comment. This article is talking about the size of the labor force. That has not grown as quickly in recent years due to an aging population and other factors. Tautologically at a certain wage you could convince the elderly and ch
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You need an alternate explanation which started February 2020. That’s when the excess deaths began.
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What I cited are excess deaths rather than Covid deaths. No one labelled them. The baseline death rate went up after Covid arrived. You can argue they weren’t Covid. But you need another explanation. And it needs to be global; this happened

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