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by jagraff 3y ago
Gorillas don't sit at a desk 8 hours a day
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by jagraff 3y ago
What’s the difference?
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by jagraff 3y ago
He takes every Friday off
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by jagraff 3y ago
Movement without energy is possible due to diffusion. Imagine you had a room with cellophane separating one side from another. Each side has a different gas, but both gasses are at the same pressure and at room temperature. Then, the cellop
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by jagraff 3y ago
Cyclists who dope with EPO are raising their levels far beyond what is healthy in order to get their red blood cell count to superhuman levels. It has the side effect of massively raising your risk of stroke
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by jagraff 3y ago
If we could create (and safely implant) artificial ligaments that are even close to human ligaments that would be amazing for anyone with ligament injuries. Once you damage a ligament it never regrows, and current artificial ligaments don&#
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by jagraff 3y ago
I think the idea with campaigns like these is not to actually root out spies - it's to get people to self censor because they're afraid that their neighbor is going to report them to the government. If everyone is afraid of saying
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by jagraff 3y ago
Would love to see a video of the laptop booting and running a game
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by jagraff 3y ago
I think what he actually meant was that it should jump 50%, ie that it should be 50% higher than it is now. Still horrible but that would imply an unemployment rate of ~6%, not 50%.
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by jagraff 3y ago
I have visited doctors that have prescribed it. Your anecdote isn't any better than mine, but IMO it's an almost literal life-saver. Maybe you should try it instead of laughing at those who find it effective.
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by jagraff 3y ago
You don't "need" any medication for most colds. But people want (and deserve access to) cold medication that treats the symptoms that they find unpleasant. Also, some people are prone to sinus infections - taking pseudoephedr
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by jagraff 3y ago
So, nobody can tell jokes if any person, no matter how mentally disturbed, might take it seriously?
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by jagraff 3y ago
It is an extremely hard question to answer. Think about how hard it is to debug software, even though software is designed by humans, is intended to be readable by humans, and has tools to help us in analyzing it. Then think about how much
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by jagraff 3y ago
Honestly, that does sound kind of fun. Requires more creativity than building CRUD app after CRUD app
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by jagraff 3y ago
BMI is a pretty decent measure of fat percentage for the vast majority of people, it really only fails for people who have far more muscle mass than most people (body builders). It is highly correlated with health outcomes - people with a B
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by jagraff 3y ago
The thing is, it's so easy to get an HD DRM-free copy of pretty much any movie, tv show, etc that there's no real point - anyone who wants to share a copy of anything can do so very easily without bypassing DRM, because someone el
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by jagraff 3y ago
But you could still use version control for drafting. You don't include version control history in your shipped binary but it's still very useful for coding.
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by jagraff 3y ago
Iirc dry counties tend to have more drunk driving accidents than wet counties. Reason being that people in those counties drive to neighboring counties, get drunk, and then drive home.
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by jagraff 3y ago
Due to the filibuster, most bills require 60 votes (60%) to pass the senate. It hasn’t lead to more cooperation - it’s lead to a paralyzed government that can’t pass good laws.
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by jagraff 3y ago
But congress won’t, because they can’t. So our air and water will become dirtier. Seems like a pretty big issue to me.
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by jagraff 4y ago
They can’t - the statute of limitations will have run out by then (there’s an argument that Trump will make that it has run out already).
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by jagraff 4y ago
I’m glad that worked for you, but for some people with allergies each attack can make the allergy worse, as the immune system sensitizes itself to the allergen in the presence of inflammation. One treatment for allergies is exposure, but th
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by jagraff 4y ago
But if your neighbor’s house is currently burning down, you probably want the fire department to put it out before it spreads to your house…
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by jagraff 4y ago
The most interesting part is that the author can "coerce" GPT into giving a completely opposite answer based on requiring the first token to be Yes or No, and the ways that sometimes it skirts around that without breaking the rule
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by jagraff 4y ago
This kind of concept is explored in the (science fiction) novel Seveneves [0] by Neal Stephenson, specifically the first half. Also explored: reshaping and vaporizing the ice on a comet with a nuclear reactor to create an impromptu propulsi
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by jagraff 4y ago
Is fasting not a type of diet?
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by jagraff 4y ago
There are plenty of vaccines that use attenuated viruses - these also force your cells to produce antigens, and in fact the virus reproduces in your cells and damages them on its own as well. You could think of an mRNA vaccine as kind of li
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by jagraff 4y ago
The thing we don't know is which early cancers actually progress to advanced cancer. It's possible that we detect more things that look like cancer, but that would not have ever progressed into full blown metastatic cancer (at lea
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by jagraff 4y ago
Because the magnitude of the effects isn't the same. The evidence is very clear - obesity _causes_ several negative health conditions. To suggest that crash dieting somehow reduces the relevance of those conditions is to deliberately m
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by jagraff 4y ago
Yes, over the long term (tens of thousands of years?) evolution will probably come up with adaptations to material abundance assuming it lasts. Cold comfort to the people that suffer from it today though. Evolution can't do anything to

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