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by hirundo 3y ago
"These were hashtags, posts, or users the service thought I should see – and there was usually something in there that left me feeling worse." I'd gotten into the habit of catching up on social media in bed before getting up
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by hirundo 3y ago
> Even in perfect intentions it's not consensual to burden future generations with debts they had no voice in choosing. Lysander Spooner's classic "No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority" is the application of t
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by hirundo 3y ago
I'm going to give another shot at adding a vim extension to the browser and getting it into muscle memory. I spend too much time there (mickey) mousing around. It looks like the main options on Chrome/Brave are Vimium and cVim. An
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by hirundo 3y ago
Perfect. The context: Wesley’s retort was of, “…but I find that Thibault cancels out Capa Ferro. Don’t you?” This speaks of Gérard (Girard) Thibault d’Anvers (1574-1627), a Dutch fencing master and author of the rapier manual, Academie
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by hirundo 3y ago
> Results for individuals on whom the decoder had not been trained were unintelligible, and if participants on whom the decoder had been trained later put up resistance — for example, by thinking other thoughts — results were similarly u
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by hirundo 3y ago
In the U.S. qualified immunity is a creation of the judicial system, and those decisions could presumably be reversed by statute if the political will comes to exist.
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by hirundo 3y ago
If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in
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My Awkward Inference(overcomingbias.com)
2 points by hirundo 3y ago|0 comments
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The repugnant conclusion: “For any possible population of at least ten billion people, all with a very high quality of life, there must be some much larger imaginable population whose existence, if other things are equal, would be bette
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by hirundo 3y ago
More like 13. Even two meals a day feels like a lot on meat; for me the second meal is often almost a snack. As a raw vegan I grazed all day long, making it hard to count meals.
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by hirundo 3y ago
Even flashlights have recoil. Not that Han would feel it. https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/c206f2/do_laser...
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by hirundo 3y ago
Thank you! On my Android 13 it's in Settings Safety & emergency Wireless emergency alerts And it lets me specifically toggle off AMBER alerts which have been the only problem.
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by hirundo 3y ago
Last night I got woken up by a loud alarm from my phone on my bedside table, after midnight. It was an emergency text from Albuquerque about a child abduction. I have no reason to believe that it was a false alert. But it was not an alert t
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by hirundo 3y ago
Same, for the same reason, for 36 months now, and I've gotten much healthier according to the lab results and my subjective quality of life.
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by hirundo 3y ago
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/105116/the-girl-the-...
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by hirundo 3y ago
I think that this kind of self-hatred is a much greater threat to humanity than a falling birth rate. We properly fear the danger of non-aligned artificial intelligence but the more immediate danger is non-aligned human intelligence. As hum
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by hirundo 3y ago
Mankind does not seem to be at risk from falling birth rates. If you can think of a plausible such scenario I'd like to hear it. Sure, certain cultures are at risk. But anti-natalists tend to edit themselves out of cultures, leaving th
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by hirundo 3y ago
As an engineer I resent that. The causation is reversed. I got into engineering because of my tendency to, uh, think independently, not the other way around. It just took a while for me to think independently about physics, politics, medica
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by hirundo 3y ago
https://chriskresser.com/10-ways-refined-flour-can-damage-yo... IMO flours have been damaging people in many of these ways for centuries. Since the agricultural revolution. That damage came along with a nice perk -- not sta
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by hirundo 3y ago
Children can certainly be abused for labor, but they can also get a lot out of it, and it's at least defensible in that case. I worked in construction for my father at that age. I was well looked after, was able to do actually useful w
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by hirundo 3y ago
Diabetes 2, morbid obesity, gastroparesis, i.e. usual effects of Metabolic Syndrome. These have become shockingly common in children in recent years. Several years ago the gastroparesis got very bad and I was forced onto a low residue, low
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by hirundo 3y ago
> bread ... hot dog buns ... cereal Without regard to this particular policy, those are all foods that your young relative is better off avoiding along with sesame seeds. I have been forced to avoid them for many years now due to differe
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Composable Moderation(blueskyweb.xyz)
4 points by hirundo 3y ago|0 comments
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I envy Sir Wolf but wear the chain for the savoury messes.
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Federal in this case is Canada.
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https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/high-tech-headstones-speak... People already buy headstones that let the dead speak a pre-recorded message from the grave. It's a natural extension to put an AI trained with their
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by hirundo 4y ago
In '84 I had a college class in experimental psychology, and the culmination of that was to perform our own experiment, which had to clear the IRB. Mine involved measuring the student-subject's galvanic skin response and showing t
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by hirundo 4y ago
> The Port of Seattle says it could cost as much as $78 million to fix an apparent design flaw A good detailed simulation that would have caught this would be a small fraction of that cost. Release it as part of flight sim games and let
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by hirundo 4y ago
This may be backwards. When AI can cheaply, quickly and with nuance intact translate between languages, it becomes easier to use a preferred non-dominant language, which would make English less dominant. There's less incentive to spend
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by hirundo 4y ago
I installed a battery disconnect switch on the dashboard of my jeep. There's a spot that seems made for it. It was a $27 solution, but I don't have to pop the hood. And it solved my charge parasite problem instantly.

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