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by jl2718 4y ago
It definitely does in the short game, but in the long run you’ll realize it was a stupid game.
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by jl2718 4y ago
I did a lot of running races in Afghanistan with mostly very young troops. It was such a thrill beating them because it was so obvious that they were physically superior to me, just as my younger self was. But I could defeat them mentally,
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by jl2718 4y ago
I think the worst part of this is the “After reviewing my sources”. Does it actually review sources? The original misinformation is possibly expected of a generative model, but this response is clearly from a model that was explicitly train
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by jl2718 4y ago
Correct. That is the 10th: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
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by jl2718 4y ago
I think this is going to end up being irrelevant. If you're looking for 'beta', basic well-established information on a topic, you don't care whether a human wrote it or not; they are fallible in all the same ways as the
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by jl2718 4y ago
It seems to me that LaTeX is primarily used as academic gatekeeping. This is one step better, but why a new DSL versus a library to build your layout representation from a common language?
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by jl2718 4y ago
I'm just guessing, but I think you'll find an even stronger correlations from Toxoplasmosis to the lack of traditional family obligations, and also the latter to entrepreneurship.
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by jl2718 4y ago
I ran a large, somewhat infamous hacker house, and watched the beginning of a few unicorn founders. My observation is that everybody talks about being an entrepreneur, but the only people that actually do are the people with no other option
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by jl2718 4y ago
I had a significant diabetic-like response from refeeding after only 3 days of fairly extreme fasted exercise. A week later my cholesterol rose above 400 and I was producing about 1 gallon of urine per hour. My PCP freaked out over my blood
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by jl2718 4y ago
Large egg producers create bird flu panic, send regulators after small competitors. Small farms take the USDA insurance payout by torching their farms. Large egg farms profit increases 10x [1]. [1] https://calmainefoods.gcs-web.c
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by jl2718 4y ago
"invert a binary tree" This didn't make any sense to me, so I looked it up, and it seems exactly as senseless as I had thought. Is the 'inversion' not the same topology as the input? my solution: "auto invert(r
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by jl2718 4y ago
I’ve considered a lint rule that requires all functions to be written in Lambda syntax so that closures, side effects, and purity can be explicit. However, I haven’t explored possible effects on compile time, size, and performance. Another
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by jl2718 4y ago
The Soviet people endured 70 years of this. I'm sure they all thought it was just a fad.
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by jl2718 4y ago
Flag on the play: illegal move of the goalposts. Not government-run filing software. Fully-transparent and zero burden.
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by jl2718 4y ago
So... basically you're saying that we should revoke patent and licensing protection for production of narcotics and also revoke the medical license of any doctor that took payment for prescribing them. Is that right?
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by jl2718 4y ago
There's some irony here. The flag and the pledge start off as symbols of obedience to established power, and then become symbols of revolt against shifts in power, but it seems to me that the obedience programming always wins. Right no
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by jl2718 4y ago
Yes. Government-forced speech is the norm across the history of totalitarian regimes.
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by jl2718 4y ago
Modern HVAC and insulation has it all wrong by focusing on air temperature. You want warm floors with high thermal mass.
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by jl2718 4y ago
Different idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voith_Schneider_Propeller
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by jl2718 4y ago
> nobody has ever written to thank me for keeping their data secure Somewhat related, I wonder if responding to lawful access / key disclosure requests is at least a little bit funny for you.
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by jl2718 4y ago
“Instead” of what? Is his true calling house renovations and childcare? If not, then it’s probably a choice that is being made for him. Personally, I love my babies and I consider it worth my time for basic care and teaching them things, bu
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by jl2718 4y ago
Problem: Sounds like you’re getting fixated on things that don’t matter very much. Cause: This is a symptom of micromanagement. Smart people will always come up with ways to improve anything you give them. Solution: Lay out the entire probl
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by jl2718 4y ago
You don’t know that. It was my initial thought too, but further reading suggests possibility of good reasons for changes. OP may be missing something.
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by jl2718 4y ago
An anesthesiologist could tell you. You see, general anesthesia has three basic components. The first immobilizes you. The second blocks your memory. You can imagine what would happen during surgery with either of those two missing. The thi
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by jl2718 4y ago
...toward nuclear weapons testing. https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-01-677r "The facility will allow scientists to evaluate the behavior of nuclear weapons without explosive testing."
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by jl2718 4y ago
It's weapons research. > “Our thermonuclear weapons have fusion ignition that takes place in our weapons, so studying fusion ignition is something we do to support the stockpile stewardship program,” Mark Herrmann, Lawrence Livermor
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by jl2718 4y ago
Yes. If we ever need an extremely expensive isotropic point source of high-flux fast neutrons to do anything useful, then this is a good start. Currently, the only hopeful use is for simulating nuclear weapons.
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by jl2718 4y ago
I have a theory that management can be connected to portfolio theory as a variance-reducing process. Outcomes are random but bounded in expectation by the efficient frontier. When Google started, they hired the smartest people and enforced
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by jl2718 4y ago
They don't work. Creative work is not an assembly line. You can't predict the effort, and you can't control the outcome.
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by jl2718 4y ago
> The study, which took blood-test data from 7,279 road users, also found that more than half of injured pedestrians and just over 43% of injured bicyclists had a drug in their bloodstreams. Conclusion: Half of America is stoned and&#x2F

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