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by klipt 2y ago
> In Italy, researchers followed 312 patients who had fatty deposits, or plaques, removed from their carotid artery. Almost six in 10 had microplastics, and these people fared worse than those who did not: Over the next 34 months, they w
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by klipt 2y ago
Maybe we should subsidize plastic-free fibers instead. Cotton, hemp, wool...
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People prefer to argue endlessly about private vs state funded healthcare without realizing that issue is completely orthogonal to the massive doctor shortage. Same thing with the housing debate really. People prefer to argue snot rent cont
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by klipt 2y ago
There are two main types of data for training intelligences (natural or artificial): 1. Self play 2. Data left behind by other intelligences' self play. The Internet is 2, but is generated by the self play of humans - who were themselv
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by klipt 2y ago
Most of the value created by public transit goes into the land near the stations. Employers want offices near stations and employees want homes near stations. You can recover as lot more money from taxing the land than from fares.
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by klipt 2y ago
In 2021, USA federal government spent $113.3 billion in Tennessee according to https://www.usaspending.gov/state/tennessee/2021 Including $72.6 billion in direct payments.
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by klipt 2y ago
The EU and USA both have free movement between states. But the USA has massive federal tax revenue and spending which redistributes wealth from rich states to poor states. Federal taxes are much higher than state taxes. By comparison the EU
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by klipt 2y ago
> no questions asked So what happens if one parent drops off the baby without the other parent's consent (which is technically child abduction)?
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Egg laying animals already grow their babies externally, yet mammals dominate. Why?
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by klipt 2y ago
As LLMs have become more realistic, Dead Internet Theory is actually coming true. (Maybe not the government controlled part, but the bot generated content part is still concerning)
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The only people who changed minds reliably were Age of Empires priests. Wololo, wololo!
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Data labeling is important when training your model ;-)
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Better to eat than rub in, supposedly that helps the immune system recognize it as food rather than invader. Data labeling is important ;-)
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by klipt 2y ago
Which is why it's better to invest in total market ETFs. Those are harder to game (they still have to invest in IPOs, but those are a much smaller part of the total than the bottom of S&P 500)
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It even works on animals: https://6ammc3n5zzf5ljnz.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/inf2...
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Although I assume he didn't say it in British English ;-)
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Would be great if we could use antitrust law to force Tesla to let other EVs use the supercharger network too. Would open up a lot of competition and help reduce pollution.
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by klipt 2y ago
If societal roles and expectations make one gender less successful, is that something wrong with "men"/"women" or rather something wrong with the roles and expectations?
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by klipt 2y ago
Sorry the one I'm thinking of is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Gender_Gap_Report#Criti... I misremembered World Economic Forum as a part of the UN but it's a separate agency. But many reports have that
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by klipt 2y ago
The teaching profession also happens to be female dominated and there are studies showing girls get graded higher for the same work as boys, so probably the bias starts at a young age.
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by klipt 2y ago
Sorry the one I'm thinking of is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Gender_Gap_Report#Criti... I misremembered World Economic Forum as a part of the UN but it's a separate agency. But many reports have that
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by klipt 2y ago
Have humans fundamentally changed since 50 years ago? Was there something fundamentally wrong with women 50 years ago that we "fixed"?
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The overall gender imbalance in American higher education is now just as bad as when Title IX was first implemented, only in the opposite direction. What's interesting is this is deliberately excluded from many metrics of gender inequa
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by klipt 2y ago
This is called the Hispanic Paradox, there's even a wiki page on it. Hispanic people have better health outcomes despite being poorer, probably due to better diet, exercise, community structure etc.
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by klipt 2y ago
I think it depends on your skin tone. Black people can get a lot of sun without burning. White people evolved in a cloudy climate and need less sun for the same health benefit (and also burn very quickly in midday sun in not cloudy climates
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I think many systems can work with a plateau (but it will be less pleasant than the growth phase). Shrinking populations are much more unpleasant though, at least for the old people getting insufficient care. Maybe AI caregivers will help a
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But some people think that just popping a vitamin D pill gives you all the benefits of sun exposure without the downsides. Research on all cause mortality disagrees. Some sun exposure reduces all cause mortality even if you already take vit
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> It used to be that companies paid pensions. Yes, and what happens when the company paying your pension goes bankrupt? You're up sht creek. At least 401ks let you diversify across the entire stock market, much less risk of every co
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Two parties is the mathematical equilibrium of every first-past-the-post system. Only way to have more parties is to adopt something like a proportional parliamentary system. Which will never happen because you'd have to change the con
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You can't say nobody voted for the vice president, they are part of the presidential ticket. If the president can't serve, they literally become president. Hypothetical scenarios: 1. Biden/Harris wins presidency. Biden steps

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