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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
I must be missing something. The article claims that $1000 of compute (hardware?) was supposed to surpass an insect brain about 23 years ago, and we hasn't achieved that benchmark yet. But $1000 of time on Claude Opus will buy 13 milli
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
Yikes! > Nineteen of those studies were considered to be high quality; of these, 18 reported an inverse association between estimated fluoride exposure and IQ in children. The 18 studies, which include 3 prospective cohort studies and 15
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
I'm still confused. Schools are required to require vaccines by state law. Banning fluoridated water is a weird idea. I will have to look into the costs and benefits.
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
I'm not on X, but this might show it... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ohio-police-dispute-new-allegat...
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
You're being sarcastic but there was a video from Ohio posted a year ago and retweeted by Rufo after the debate. In it, the cameraman in an African American accent was exclaiming that his neighbors were grilling cats. Hard to verify th
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
- Eliminating vaccines is a terrible idea, but public school vaccine requirements are state law in my state. RFK won't be touching them. - Gutting the health care industry? That's not necessarily a bad thing. Wasteful health care
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
Why do you think crime is down? Looking at 12 month running averages from FBI UCR since 2012, crime has been in a generally increasing trend from the last minimum, which was in the 12 months starting Jan 2020, to a maximum in the year start
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
I'm guessing that one is "Boomer", but I don't think it is so taboo that it cannot be uttered yet.
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
Another large client base for paper mills are doctors in countries where English is not a common language, and doctors are ranked based on publications rather than clinical work: they don't have time or training in research, their clin
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
The model of PE in dentistry / veterinary clinics is to buy out all the private clinics in a region, then gradually raise prices. Small businesses would pop up, but the training horizon for new dentists / vets is quite long. It is
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
> Note that Ferguson had to calculate effect sizes for depression and anxiety in order to determine the composite effect size for those studies that contained these outcomes, but he did not include these results in his paper. When reques
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
I think the parent comment was talking about building factories and amortizing their costs over your unit production, whereas you assume the factory is a fixed cost with fixed capacity and looking at the marginal cost to produce a unit, whi
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
> The TMV (Total Market Value) of solving AGI is infinity. And furthermore, if AGI is solved, the TMV of pretty much everything else drops to zero. There's a paradox which appears when AI GDP gets to be greater than say 50% of worl
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
There is a law, and it gives FTC broad authority to regulate unfair and deceptive practices in most "commerce", with carveouts for a few industries like airlines, packers and shippers, and finance/banking.
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
In this case the US Congress has delegated to the FTC the power to regulate competition in interstate trade and markets. The relevant law is as follows: " (1) Unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce, and unfair or decept
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
In another post, he states that the 960 mg/l of calcium was found in his water. That would be enough to cause hypercalcemia if drinking 3 l per day, let alone 6 l.
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
Calcium also explains metallic taste and hypercalcemia, and is toxic at 2500 mg per day. Author states they were drinking 6 l of water daily.
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
In one of the Chinese-language posts, the author says the police found calcium in the water at 9x the max drinking water concentrations (960 mg/l), and posts water test results and receipts for calcium. According to the author, they we
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
Life insurance? Retirement funds? Perhaps she wanted to be able to take their child back to China? As a more general point I would strongly advise against forming a permanent union with someone you cannot trust implicitly, or who does not s
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
I am also a little confused by this. I thought websites were not allowed to collect data from minors under 13 years of age, and that TikTok doesn't allow minors under 13 to create accounts. Why is TikTok not liable for personalizing co
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
I'm not sure about video, but we are no longer in an era when manual moderation is necessary. Certainly for text, moderation for child safety could be as easy as taking the written instructions currently given to human moderators and h
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
I would guess they are referring to the idea that large established companies (usually monopolies) have little motivation to compete of features/technology, especially when that would cannibalize their main offering. Generally, an engi
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
It seems to me like there are two significant factors in this case which likely cross the line: using private information from competitors (inventory, actual current prices) and clients being penalized for not sticking to the recommended pr
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
I was a bit disappointed by this site. By the title, I expected it to be about the importance of apprenticeship and mentor-like relationships, and how to use them to improve our lives. Instead, it starts with the racial implications of cult
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
This is an indirect result of two factors: increased fuel efficiency and improved safety testing. Both were good things, but the implementation needs to be improved. Late 90s / early 2000s fuel efficiency standards (probably following
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
The article mentioned that MIT saved 80%, and that they are paying $300,000 to purchase on a per article basis. So their previous contract with Elsevier was $1.5M annually. Elsevier's net income is £2.02 billion (2022)(Wikipedia). So t
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
That is terrifying. If the elite of the elite can't interact with historical works, how can we trust them to make informed decisions about the present? I really don't want foreign policy on India set by Harvard grads who have neve
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
From a MAD game theoretic perspective that makes a lot of sense. To avoid non-essential use of nukes, only give policymakers the option of launching everything. Then they will only launch in extreme circumstances. Hopefully only circumstanc
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
The number of opioid overdoses between 1999 and 2021 was 645,000, according to CDC. Purdue Pharma brought in $35B in OxyContin revenue from 1995 to 2017. OxyContin was prescribed to 6.2 million people in 2002. I'll edit the number abov
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by hyeonwho4 2y ago
645,000 people died due to opiate abuse while their company was promoting opiates, and their prescriptions peaked at 6.2 million prescription users pee year. Under EPA standards for damages they would be liable for trillions.

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