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by hirundo 4y ago
There's a lot of evidence that PUFAs are obesogenic and diabetogenic. Their consumption increase broadly tracks the epidemics of both. E.g. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Soybean-Oil-Is-More-Ob... If the ef
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by hirundo 4y ago
So that's a limit on power per cubic planck, and you can do it again if you shift one planck over?
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by hirundo 4y ago
In this house we obey the law of general relativity and forces over c⁵/4G will not be tolerated. But could someone please explain a little? If I have a widget that does c⁵/4G watts of work when I turn it on, what happens when I tu
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by hirundo 4y ago
> Democracy is not a system of determining truth, it is a system of aggregating preferences. I agree, but the definition of the fallacy goes: ...claiming a truth *or affirming something is good* because the majority thinks so... &
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by hirundo 4y ago
"In argumentation theory, an argumentum ad populum (Latin for "appeal to the people") is a fallacious argument which is based on claiming a truth or affirming something is good because the majority thinks so." Isn't
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by hirundo 4y ago
It exists, and is known as "compound interest".
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by hirundo 4y ago
Standard first amendment exceptions: * Incitement to imminent lawless action * True threats * Solicitations to commit crimes While this tweet doesn't quite meet those exceptions IMHO, it isn't an unreasonable position t
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by hirundo 4y ago
If not the branch mentioned in the Constitution, SCOTUS would have to pick some other branch as senior for gerrymandering purposes. By what logic would they select a different branch? Discretion in the choice of branch is room for a judicia
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by hirundo 4y ago
If friction becomes negative we'll explode from Brownian motion before an autopilot bug can get us.
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by hirundo 4y ago
I'd really like to watch steelman debates. For instance a Marxist and a Hayekian debate from each other's point of view. Judges vote according to the quality of the steelmanning rather than the conclusion. So a partisan that makes
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by hirundo 4y ago
As a Starlink customer I received the above in an email. The embedded links are these: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/21/spacex-fcc-battle-with-dish-... https://www.votervoice.net/SpaceX/Ca
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The Case for Drinking(reason.com)
4 points by hirundo 4y ago|1 comments
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by hirundo 4y ago
Large economically disruptive policy changes should come from the legislative rather than the executive or judicial branches, as they are more democratically accountable, at a finer level of detail. To the extend that the consitution codifi
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by hirundo 4y ago
This seems to be a step toward eliminating our dependence on the Y chromosome in people. We may become able to limit its expression to testes cells on microchips. It carries higher risks than the alternative chromosomes on many dimensions.
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by hirundo 4y ago
Tolkien answered this question quite well to an interviewer, although in a somewhat different form. "People would run into me at the pub and ask me why I didn't just have the eagles carry the hobbits to mordor, it would have been
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by hirundo 4y ago
In my degoogling journey Google Sheets is one of the last remainders. Does anyone know a good online alternative? Paid is fine.
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Teslas Are Safer and Here Is Proof(nextbigfuture.com)
8 points by hirundo 4y ago|8 comments
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I fight this with the pomodoro app on my smartphone. Starting a "tomato" gives my subsconscious the permission it needs to ignore distractions for a small window. I can't say that this completely offsets the distraction, but
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by hirundo 4y ago
I think the leak worked against a strong unified reaction. At the time of the leak it was unconfirmed, which limited the response strength. Now it has been confirmed, but the shock value has dissipated. The setback has been largely anticipa
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by hirundo 4y ago
After ~15 years with it, starting back in the GrandCentral days, I recently moved from Google Voice to voip.ms, on my path to degoogling. The new service is paid, in a competitive domain, and so needs and has excellent customer service, and
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by hirundo 4y ago
Unpaid labor is worth what you're paid for it if other people will do it for free. Reddit no more owes a debt to these moderators than you owe the guy who cleans your windshield without permission.
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by hirundo 4y ago
From the whitepaper: This paper proposes an open and collaborative system by whicha community, or a single user, can create sets of rules and filters, called Goggles, to define the space which a search engine can pull results from. Inst
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Will Your “Smart” Devices and AI Apps Have a Legal Duty to Report on You?(reason.com)
12 points by hirundo 4y ago|0 comments
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by hirundo 4y ago
This is an extreme level of productivity from an advanced not-doing-much perspective. Consider my Dad's old cat. Dad used to complain about how lazy the cat was. It would curl up on Dad's lap, on the recliner in front of the TV, r
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by hirundo 4y ago
I don't quite get the logistics. The photo in the article is of the kind of trays that substitute for a plate, with compartments for different foods. I haven't been to that kind of cafeteria in many years. But the buffet restauran
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by hirundo 4y ago
When language is inflated you sometimes have to resort to understatement for emphasis, e.g. “Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped.” -- British Airways Pilot Eric Moody’s
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by hirundo 4y ago
> Newborns do feel pain. Presumably it doesn't switch on from nothing at birth, and pre-borns feel pain too. I'm pro-choice on abortion, but perhaps we should at least anaesthetise the fetus before late term abortions. Is that
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by hirundo 4y ago
Powerless nerds like Musk, Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos and Schmidt?
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by hirundo 4y ago
Imagine the claim is justified, and pools of quantum fluids can transition into a phase that is decoupled from electromagnetic fields, and become dark matter. It would still be baryonic and would become ordinary matter just by heat. We don&
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by hirundo 4y ago
Deus ex machina is usually a literary hack but Asimov gets away with it by taking it seriously.

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