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Should you take collagen? [Or gelatin? ](economist.com)
2 points by hilux 1y ago|0 comments
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by hilux 1y ago
Apple is behind in AI because they've prioritized keeping private data on your device, rather than in the cloud, but today's best (or even good) inference models still require cloud-scale compute, i.e. they don't fit on a pho
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by hilux 1y ago
Microsoft hasn't been the cool guys since at least 1995, and probably long before that.
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Denmark zoo asks people to donate their small pets as food for captive predators(pbs.org)
5 points by hilux 1y ago|1 comments
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by hilux 1y ago
> The era of the "brand" is over. That's just not true. Look around you right now. If you're American, almost everything you own is branded. Your phone, your laptop, TV, clothes you're wearing, shoes, books, food
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Tom Lehrer, Performer of Lobachevsky, New Math, and Alma, Goes to Valhalla(avclub.com)
7 points by hilux 1y ago|0 comments
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by hilux 1y ago
If you buy and eat whole eggs, whole beef, and whole fruit, that is wonderful, and you are in a small minority of Americans. I still remember staying at a hotel in North Carolina, next to a famous tech company, where the fruit at breakfast
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by hilux 1y ago
Check out shopgoodwill.com. I get everything there. Most clothes are incredible value, and even with a few duds in the mix, it's way better (for my wallet, and the environment) than buying new at retail.
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by hilux 1y ago
I like the idea, but "purely rational citizenry" is a theoretical construct. And even if they/we were purely rational, there's the intractable problem of measuring the cost of future cleanups stretching into forever. Plu
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by hilux 1y ago
My first reaction: beautifully thought through and expressed! Upon reflection: as products become commodities, isn't the brand the most valuable thing, and the most expensive to reproduce?
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by hilux 1y ago
Probably a significant majority of Americans use sugar substitutes. Of course, a significant majority of Americans aren't all that healthy - I guess I'm not sure what your point is.
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by hilux 1y ago
Now the Republicans are switching too? That is confusing.
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by hilux 1y ago
I want to yell at the progressives who helped Kamala Harris lose: "Do you still think there's no difference between the Republicans and the Democrats???" But I think I'll just eat a bonbon instead. Better for my blood pr
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by hilux 1y ago
> So maybe in 2075 we'll all be watching documentaries about LLMs (maybe even on our phones or laptops that look basically the same), and reminiscing about the mid-2020s and wondering why what seemed to be such a promising technolog
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by hilux 1y ago
On my new page, AI/LLM is a very small fraction of the total. Instead, I see everything from "Why the Upper Middle Class Isn’t Special Anymore" to "Boeing fuel switches safe, regulator says after Air India crash"
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by hilux 1y ago
Diabetes is literally defined as "a condition that happens when your blood sugar (glucose) is too high."
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1 in 3 US teens have prediabetes, new CDC data show(abcnews.go.com)
47 points by hilux 1y ago|24 comments
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Inulin (Fiber) Supplement Appears to Boost Brain Function in Older People(sciencealert.com)
1 points by hilux 1y ago|1 comments
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The Undervalued Medical Power of Muscle(medscape.com)
3 points by hilux 1y ago|0 comments
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by hilux 1y ago
> You do it using company equipment (say, company laptop at home) Familiar to fans of HBO's _Silicon Valley_!
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Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” on German lakeshore(archaeologymag.com)
264 points by hilux 1y ago|197 comments
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by hilux 1y ago
I think Google has that. Possibly these are becoming more common because of /r/overemployed. Most companies don't want you working another W-2 job, but realize they can't just ban all consulting.
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Of Course Overeating Makes Us Fat Except When It Doesn't?(uncertaintyprinciples.substack.com)
3 points by hilux 1y ago|0 comments
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Authorship for sale: Nature investigates how paper mills work(nature.com)
3 points by hilux 1y ago|1 comments
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by hilux 1y ago
I guess I'll just have to Wim Hof Breathe all day so they can't catch me!
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by hilux 1y ago
Even "identical" twins' mitochondrial DNA tend to diverge over time, according to recent research.
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The nose knows: Humans' nasal breathing patterns are like fingerprints(timesofisrael.com)
1 points by hilux 1y ago|4 comments
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Exercise Is Great but It's Not a Cancer Drug(sensible-med.com)
2 points by hilux 1y ago|0 comments
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by hilux 1y ago
That's interesting and unexpected. I wonder whether these were restaurants that cater to primarily to locals, or to tourists.
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by hilux 1y ago
I wondered the same - most of them seem to recover. I think they are helped by their narcissism, in other words, their self-confidence is unshaken by the shame that would cripple "normal" people in a similar situation. E.g. Kaavya

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