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by jampekka 2y ago
> As to why people eat more, it's probably due to higher energy density food, advertising (especially to children) and lost norms about eating (e.g. sugary stuff is not "proper food"). Animals, wild and lab, are probably a
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by jampekka 2y ago
People do what's made easy and what makes them feel good. And what is advertised. While it's rather obvious that obesity is caused by excess energy intake, it is not obvious how to change this. I'm getting weight (luckily not
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by jampekka 2y ago
Many do and have a similar view. Maybe restating the obvious just doesn't make the news (or bring in grants)? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1724823/pdf/v03...
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by jampekka 2y ago
They consumed less calories. As to from what diet those come from doesn't matter that much. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-per-capita-caloric-...
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by jampekka 2y ago
E.g. agar-agar is an emulsifying agent. It's ground seaweed. As is chickpea wash. Both used for at least centuries.
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by jampekka 2y ago
Is this really a mystery? People eat more energy wise and move less. As to why people eat more, it's probably due to higher energy density food, advertising (especially to children) and lost norms about eating (e.g. sugary stuff is not
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by jampekka 2y ago
> Even reading the Nova classification, the scientific verbiage describing the ultra processed category could easily describe making egg noodles at home. It can't because per Nova for something to be "ultra-processed" it h
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by jampekka 2y ago
As per this article, even copy-paste hallucinate e.g. because there are no infinite datasets.
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by jampekka 2y ago
LLMs are not fundamentally non-deterministic. It's trivial to do e.g. greedy sampling generation.
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I'm of the opinion that the current architectures are fundamentally ridden with "hallucinations" that will severely limit their practical usage (including very much what the hype thinks they could do). But this article puts a
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The profit motive at work.
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And ignore vast majority of computers? And suffer with Xcode?
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by jampekka 2y ago
> When developers are pressed for time they will revert to what they are used to and know. Is not being able to do this a great selling point for Rust? It's better to have nothing instead of code that may have a bug?
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Major industries are economically critical for trade balance. Even if foreigners don't buy US cars, domestic buying means there's less import. There's a limit to how long USA can print petrodollars to make up for the trade de
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by jampekka 2y ago
> The point is to look at different economic systems and compare the results; not compare how they were implemented. We never got to look at Allende's economic system and how it compares. Politically Allende was freedom minded to a
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Project Cybersyn (2023)(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
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by jampekka 2y ago
There are also many YouTube documentaries/videos about Chile's "Cybersyn", e.g. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ACfgc1o3P6o&pp=ygUIY3liZXJzeW4... And a decent Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wi
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by jampekka 2y ago
And Bush launched the Iraq invasion on the totally false pretexts of WMD and 9/11 involvement. The stated reasons for starting a war are rarely the true reasons. Although Putin did, among other "reasons", say NATO expansion i
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by jampekka 2y ago
Not that Allende government had much choice after USA imposed heavy sanctions "to make the economy scream" after they nationalized some industries.
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by jampekka 2y ago
Chile's economy started really growing only in the late 1980's when Pinochet was ousted and the "monetarist experiment" had ended (in a huge banking crisis in 1982). And the poverty rate increased from 29% to 36% under t
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by jampekka 2y ago
"I am, of course, referring to what in Latin America is often called “the first 9/11”: September 11, 1973, when the United States succeeded in its intensive efforts to overthrow the democratic government of Salvador Allende in Chi
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by jampekka 2y ago
You can add deleteViaX later if you need it in the future. Usually YAGNI though.
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by jampekka 2y ago
> I've never been bitten by an interface that is too simple. I've been bitten by strcpy. And errno. And malloc/free. And many others. In general, simple interfaces are good interfaces, but it takes quite a bit of experienc
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by jampekka 2y ago
Did Apple really break that monopoly? WhatsApp was released 2009 with the explicit pitch that it was "free SMS". iMessage launched 2011, and with the anti-consumer Apple lock-in, and isn't even much used outside US. Also free
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by jampekka 2y ago
GNI is Gross National Income, which is not about inequality. It's essentially GDP corrected with money transfers from and to other countries. You're probably confusing it to the Gini coefficient.
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by jampekka 2y ago
You can also use gmail with a custom domain. Helps with not being locked in to Google, doesn't of course help in them selling your data. E.g. https://juri.dev/notes/email-routing-gmail-cloudflare/
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by jampekka 2y ago
The Happiness Index includes GDP per capita in their metric, IHDI includes GNI per capita.
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And funded by billionaires.
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Especially economics.
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by jampekka 2y ago
Apparently some, but e.g. in USA happiness has been in decline since the 1980's. https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2019/the-sad-state-of-happi...

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