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by hirundo 3y ago
"Are hospitals going to require someone to share a pregnancy test, proof they’re on birth control, get a hysterectomy, to get life-saving health care?” This seems to go beyond advocating for the legality of this care and extend to dema
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by hirundo 3y ago
“This is an avoidable problem,” Ruskin said. “It would be far better for public health if they picked experts with no conflict of interest. They can do that but they don’t.” This is naive. It's saying that politics would work better if
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by hirundo 3y ago
I found it quite difficult to simply get a prognosis. When it's that bad the medical pros seem to get increasingly ambiguous. I had to read the seriousness of the diagnosis between the lines and in their expressions. Asking a straight
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by hirundo 3y ago
These aren't perfect, but to me they are startlingly good. Even after conversing for hours with ChatGPT now I'm still impressed. Its meme decoding appears to be at least on par with my own and maybe better. It's one thing for
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by hirundo 3y ago
I suspect that some of the reviews may not be completely accurate. "I asked for a flux capacitor but received a food processor instead. But it does make good guacamole."
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by hirundo 3y ago
I had a contractor do house repairs before we put it on the market. We didn't ask him to, but he took his orbital sander and sanded the stair railings that lead to the front door. He said "people really notice this." The very
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by hirundo 3y ago
I the think that the body count is an good way to compare the scale of sacrifice, something like 24m:0.4m or around 60 to 1. Mother and father are equally necessary to the zygote, but the scale of the sacrifice is severely assymetrical for
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by hirundo 3y ago
Like looking for interesting rocks by buying a load of gravel.
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by hirundo 3y ago
Say we have a professional psychiatrist, or a whole board of them, evaluating the mental competence of candidates. Occasionally they would designate one as incompetent, who would then be removed from the election. This would seem to be less
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by hirundo 3y ago
If I offer you a sentence for your article, and you accept it and include it, your authorial independence is undiminished. If someone prevented you from including that sentence, your independence is diminished, even if more of the article i
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by hirundo 3y ago
A pacifist friend gave me Island by Aldous Huxley, with a similar scenario, a pacifist island is overrun by a martial island. The pacifist island is drawn as a wonderful, cooperative society, while the warlike island is a tyranny. My friend
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by hirundo 3y ago
Why is it "sub-Plankian unknown " but " forbidden by gravity"? Are things smaller than the Plank unit not forbidden? I thought it was an absolute.
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by hirundo 3y ago
I'm cooking a leg of lamb now from my local Safeway. It costs $7/lb, which is the same as chuck roast. But it's maybe 1/4 more expensive due to that big leg bone (which my dog values highly). Still that feels like the pr
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by hirundo 3y ago
Agree. I could understand if the expense of a DNA analysis sufficient to identify only the victim could be more than the county could afford for a battery case. But not trying to even identify it as blood, let alone human blood, just seems
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by hirundo 3y ago
“Robots can’t replace senior clerics, but they can be a trusted assistant that can help them issue a fatwa in five hours instead of 50 days,” That senior cleric is effectively a judge in relation to those fatwa. AI can certainly make it eas
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by hirundo 3y ago
I was on a jury last month, an assault and battery case in which the identification of the rusty-colored substance on the grip of a handgun could easily make a big difference. We convicted on the assault and acquitted on the battery because
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by hirundo 3y ago
> One can also define concentration as an absence of distractions. This frames distractions as passive. But I think being distracted is an active process, because when I'm not ready to concentrate the absence of distractions leads t
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by hirundo 3y ago
> But when the material is full of defects, a failure cannot easily propagate from one grain boundary to the next. That's also an argument for the strength of a society of independent thinkers rather than a more uniform hive mind. O
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by hirundo 3y ago
If someone who's values I do not share wishes to give me part of their wealth, making them less able to exercise their values while making me more able to exercise mine, I would be glad to accept.
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by hirundo 3y ago
This is exactly opposite to my personal experience, where increasing protein to more than twice 0.8g/kg caused improvement of metabolic syndrome symptoms, including weight loss and remission of diabetes, sustaining after more than thre
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by hirundo 3y ago
Thank you. I just learned about Shannon Entropy and that it grows with information content. The negative sign in the formula is due to the negative log of the normalized population probability. https://math.stackexchange.com&#x2F
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by hirundo 3y ago
> the next generation will see it as the current see the TV - unimportant old boring low-entropy data which is not entertaining anymore. Don't you mean high-entropy data? High entropy data would be less orderly, more compressible, a
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Federal Judge Blocks California Online Age-Checking Law as Unconstitutional(reason.com)
6 points by hirundo 3y ago|0 comments
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by hirundo 3y ago
I found this out the hard way. I was a morbidly obese binge eater until I greatly increased the protein content of my diet. Overnight the binge eating stopped without effort. Over the next few years I became merely overweight. I believe tha
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by hirundo 3y ago
He faked his own death while using his brother's identity, so he was collecting his brother's Social Security while foregoing his own. To me this mitigates the fraud on Social Security while not removing the crime. I hope that is
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by hirundo 3y ago
I oppose making a failure to teach dimensional analysis with the physical sciences a crime, but it fits nicely as a tort of professional negligence, aka malpractice. It might be tricky to get that by the teachers unions though.
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by hirundo 3y ago
Reality includes jet packs and moon walks where such numbers can be relevant. It also includes virtual realities like Fortnite in which such jumps are mundane. And the oddity can add interest to the problem while helping to train the intuit
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by hirundo 3y ago
> Newton saw what was happening ... and somehow intimidated and pushed Neale aside in a bloodless coup, and took over the Great Recoinage himself. Or more charitably, Neale didn't fight too hard for his prerogatives when he saw tha
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Climate dissent muffled by society's top institutions(realclearinvestigations.com)
8 points by hirundo 3y ago|1 comments
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by hirundo 3y ago
> Why have you still not sent me your dissertation? Don’t you know that I am one of the 1.5 fellows who would read it with interest and pleasure, you wretched man? I promise you four papers in return. If this was a fair trade I would rea

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