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by klipt 3y ago
> It's hard to find books, shows, or conversation partners, all the way through that critical awkward stage from beginner to vaguely proficient. Children's books? Children also learn from scratch. I think an adult reading books
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by klipt 3y ago
Maybe it's a stress response. "One of my cells just disappeared! Better duplicate myself just in case"
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by klipt 3y ago
The point is it's a function of many connected brains, not just one brain.
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by klipt 3y ago
Scientific advancement requires both brains and knowledge transfer over generations. "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
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by klipt 3y ago
Yes writing can only augment human intelligence. AI might replace it.
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by klipt 3y ago
This is largely due to increasing access to education in less developed countries. In already developed countries the Flynn effect seems to be reversing, ie IQ is leveling off or even dropping.
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by klipt 3y ago
It's true though, as human (+ tool) gets smarter, human (without tool) tends to get dumber in the domain the tool augments. The question is will we one day have tools so powerful, that the human is vestigial, and tool (without human) i
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by klipt 3y ago
> It's scary to think how this could happen to anyone. Maybe, although I wonder if the guy having the surname "Jaile" contributed to unconscious bias. People do like the idea of nominative determinism...
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by klipt 3y ago
So the secret to longevity really is generous social benefits ... and not checking too carefully if the beneficiary is still alive.
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by klipt 3y ago
Aren't you missing the countless examples where price controls have led to shortages?
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by klipt 3y ago
Because given the choice it seems many people prefer free with ads to paid? I'm just thankful that mobile phone networks haven't switched to a "free with ads interspersed into your texts" model yet. (Of course there are
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by klipt 3y ago
Staying a year often makes your tax resident which is exactly the kind of headache nomads moving around are trying to avoid. For example if you own any stocks and become tax resident, then leave and break tax residency, you may often owe an
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by klipt 3y ago
I've found Anki way better than Duo for learning vocabulary. Clozemaster is a bit like Anki with prepackaged sentences.
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by klipt 3y ago
The way that AI will be laundered into art is by including it into things like Photoshop. There'll still be a human touch just with "smart brushes" and "smart auto fill" that paints 90% of what you want. Art will th
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by klipt 3y ago
Well depends where you live, but in the Bay Area a house big enough for a home gym would be like $3 million and outside most people's budget.
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by klipt 3y ago
Do you have a good guide to DIY flywheels? And how can you know you're doing progressive overload with them? With weights it's easy to tell you're going up in numbers, how can you quantify gains with flywheels?
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by klipt 3y ago
If you paid by credit card just dispute the extra charges. Credit card company will side with you if you have evidence of trying to cancel earlier.
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by klipt 3y ago
But then you're paying for a big house to fit all that.
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by klipt 3y ago
I guess the most economically efficient model would be for gyms to charge per use with surge pricing. 4-5am? $2. 5-6pm? $10!
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by klipt 3y ago
Lower number goes up, or higher number goes down, either can equally be described as "gap narrows". Is it wrong to say the "gender wage gap narrowed" when men's inflation adjusted wages have fallen?
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by klipt 3y ago
"Gender suicide gap narrows"
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by klipt 3y ago
> suicide attempts seem as valid a proxy as suicides. In a sense they're inversely correlated, since if at first you succeed, you'll never attempt again. Unless you're specifically controlling for that by not counting subs
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by klipt 3y ago
But exercise is also supposed to help you age better, and doesn't exercising mean you have to consume more calories?
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by klipt 3y ago
If you want to preserve separate commits you can just make them separate PRs? Small PRs are better since they're easier to review.
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by klipt 3y ago
Maybe employers who offer insurance should be legally required to offer an equivalent value voucher toward buying your own insurance on an exchange.
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by klipt 3y ago
Isn't Canada full of foreign PhDs driving taxis because they qualify for permanent residence on points but then can't get jobs because employers want "Canadian work experience"? Canada also has a major housing crisis due
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by klipt 3y ago
> Nobody while having a heart-attack stops and thinks about shopping around for a lower price. "hmmm, about to die, let me see if I have any coupons". Well in theory that's the point of insurance. You comparison shop insur
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by klipt 3y ago
For markets with lots of competition it's pretty good at optimizing customer satisfaction at reasonable prices too. Consider food and electronics. It fails with monopolies though.
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by klipt 3y ago
Water is a monopoly right? Seems obvious that privatizing a monopoly doesn't help, because there's no competition incentive to keep prices down and service up.
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by klipt 3y ago
C++: Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

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