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by jl6 2y ago
Teenage mental health crisis is web scale!
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by jl6 2y ago
It’s called out that Google pays Mozilla to have Google be the default search engine in Firefox. I worry this ruling will lead to Google ceasing those payments, effectively killing Mozilla as a going concern.
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by jl6 2y ago
Your description of American TV certainly holds up today.
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by jl6 2y ago
Reading is widely, massively promoted in schools, for all the right intentions (it really is a very important and enriching foundational skill), but to such an overwhelming extent that we sometimes forget that reading is a form of consumpt
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by jl6 2y ago
I hope this kind of “do a simple procedure in a complex environment” robotics leads to automation of high-toil jobs like fruit picking.
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by jl6 2y ago
Broken civilization theory > broken windows theory.
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by jl6 2y ago
Whole pumpkins floating over the sea, or just the seeds? What makes them suitable for or likely to be transported across the ocean?
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by jl6 2y ago
Enormous quantities of archaeological finds remain out there. Humans have been behaviorally modern for 50,000-200,000 years. Most of the evidence of their lives is probably buried in soft mud seabed within a couple of kilometers of the curr
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by jl6 2y ago
Yes, there are many senior professionals who have minimal digital footprint. Some possible reasons are: * Working in one company for 20+ years and not needing to market themselves externally. * Working in a regulated industry (banking, fina
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by jl6 2y ago
Or shat-beryllium?
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by jl6 2y ago
> To test the ability of the hormone to assist in bone healing, the researchers created a hydrogel patch that could be applied directly to the site of a bone fracture, where it would slowly release CCN3 for two weeks. In elderly mice, bo
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by jl6 2y ago
Degrees as well as jobs? Are Bangladeshi universities diploma mills?
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by jl6 2y ago
It is a thing of beauty. There’s nothing quite like seeing an aggressive blowhard bullshitter get a proper telling off.
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by jl6 2y ago
MOHH OMLOMOHLMOHLOMUHUHUHO
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by jl6 2y ago
Thank you for removing all doubt.
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by jl6 2y ago
Without trying to be judgmental, describing STIs as a mere inconvenience seems incredibly cavalier, eliding a whole world of bad outcomes. Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhoea is on the rise, which is only going to get worse if we adopt a “just
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by jl6 2y ago
HIV is just one of many STDs - are you not worried about all the others too? We have a resurgence of gonorrhoea and syphilis in developed countries. If the answer is “just get tested first”, then why wasn’t that the answer for HIV too?
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by jl6 2y ago
> It interferes with the HIV capsid, a protein shell that protects HIV’s genetic material and enzymes needed for replication. Do I understand correctly that this means an individual HIV virus cannot replicate in the presence of the drug?
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by jl6 2y ago
> non square shapes Perhaps something akin to a Hilbert curve that snakes around the whole country encompassing every individual person’s footprints but otherwise covers almost-zero area.
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by jl6 2y ago
I think it’s consistent to find AI overhyped while still believing it to have some value.
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by jl6 2y ago
The Apple upgrade treadmill is an immense transfer of wealth if you trade your old device in so it can be sold on the second-hand market. Used iPhones are a great way for nonrich people to get a decent phone at a low fraction of the price
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by jl6 2y ago
> the traditional feminine roles does not generate revenue This is not the whole story according to the divorce courts, with women often being awarded compensation for their contribution to their husband’s career, recognizing that they a
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by jl6 2y ago
Ambiguously rude numeronyms can make you look like a big s2t.
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by jl6 2y ago
We are all defacto ISO adherents by virtue of our lives being so highly computer-mediated and standardized. I’m fully on board with stating that there absolutely was a year zero, and translating from legacy calendars where necessary.
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by jl6 2y ago
I must admit, I tend to act in a way somewhat compatible with ethical panpsychism, insofar as I think it is wrong to be cruel to animals, but also varying degrees of wrong to damage plants gratuitously, and even to damage inanimate objects
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by jl6 2y ago
It’s not a technical term. The dictionary definition of safety is what they mean. They don’t want to create an AI that causes dangerous outcomes. Whether this concept is actionable is another matter.
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by jl6 2y ago
True. I guess the “Death Star” aspect came to me in the sense of dense construction in all directions around; a place where flat maps may fail you.
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by jl6 2y ago
It’s the sci-fi death star cyberpunk dystopia aesthetic. The place was demolished before most of us ever heard about it, and yet we feel like we’ve been there, crawling through its air ducts, picking up a health boost at its meat markets, b
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by jl6 2y ago
BB(0) = 0 BB(1) = 1 BB(2) = 4 BB(3) = 6 BB(4) = 13 They just proved that BB(5) = 47,176,870. It is known that BB(6) must be at least 10^10^...^10 (a tower of exponents fifteen levels high). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by jl6 2y ago
“US citizen/political activist” is a pretty charitable description of this person. Testing the legality of “president issues order to kill terrorist” wouldn’t test much.

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