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4y ago
Since it ultimately comes down to policing straight men and telling them they're not allowed to be effeminate, I'd say it's more misandrist than homophobic.
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Some people can't form long term memories due to brain injury. Are they killing themselves every time they forget their short term memories?
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> That's part of the reason biological research was so much more productive per $ input last century. Isn't part of it also just that the long hanging fruit has already been picked?
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4y ago
But are you sure Berkeley was the first place in the world to create a residential only zoning? If not, they don't deserve the inventor label.
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4y ago
If you're worried about the average score being too low, you could just take the maximum of the two scores instead?
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4y ago
> about as unbiased as we're going to get. You can easily force the model to be more unbiased. Just add a filter that flips the gender of words, evaluates the hate score for both the original and flipped version, and averages the re
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4y ago
Venom != poison. Typically venom only acts by being injected straight into you, eating it may have little or no effect.
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4y ago
What's funny that women are already a majority of STEMM undergraduates (in addition to being a majority of undergraduates overall). Which leads to organizations contorting themselves to define STEMM in some way that excludes all the
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4y ago
I assume jetpacks have similar issues
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4y ago
> each person show be saving for their own retirement Saving where, the stock market? I wouldn't be surprised if a shrinking population means a shrinking stock market too.
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4y ago
"Affordable" is often used as marketing speak for "subsidized". In effect, the city is forcing the property owner to select some random poor people and give them monthly "cash" to help pay their rent. Except th
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4y ago
> Marvell Technology: Kree More likely a reference to the recent Captain Marvel movie.
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4y ago
No, the cash cow is ads, search is incidental. Showing a quick answer from AI is no worse for them than showing a quick answer from their knowledge graph (which they already do when available). What matters monetarily is the people searchin
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4y ago
Well it's kind of tautological that if you can * Achieve the mean * Add some kind of noise to that You have a chance of beating the mean. But I think when people say "beat the market", they mean a better than 50% chance due t
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4y ago
In fact don't smokers actually consume less healthcare in total because lung cancer kills faster and more cheaply than old age does? But maybe lung cancer means they end up paying less in taxes, so could still be worse for society over
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4y ago
If you work a stressful job and pay more taxes than the average person, then arguably you are doing more than the "legal minimum". In some more socialist countries, the "legal minimum" is choosing to live off welfare and
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4y ago
> If you gave 10 monkeys darts that pick stocks, roughly 5 will beat the index Yes but you can't pick the winning monkeys in advance, can you? Picking winning monkeys is just as hard as picking winning stocks.
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4y ago
Radiation causes mutations. Exposing yourself to excessive radiation is much more likely to cause cancer than superpowers. (In addition to a bunch of neutral mutations that do neither.)
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Evolutionarily speaking, the dangers of having older parents are definitely dwarfed by the fact that older parents just tend to have fewer kids. Cultures that encourage starting families at 25 will genetically dominate cultures that encoura
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4y ago
If you print your own currency you can issue yourself a credit card in your own currency easy. Consider why people want to buy US-bonds but not cmer-bonds.
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4y ago
Yes expats are split across multiple locations which makes their votes too dilute to matter.
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> Could ireland or italy pass laws giving 3rd generation Immigrants citizenship, and then send them all a tax bill? They could, but it's harder for a small country to enforce such laws compared to the US. Of course if they can get t
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4y ago
It certainly makes it harder for US citizens to do business overseas. Puts them at a competitive disadvantage vs the citizens of pretty much any other country.
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4y ago
The active ingredients in Vicks Vapo Rub are just: Camphor Eucalyptus oil Menthol Perhaps you're thinking of a different Vicks product?
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4y ago
> SF is socially progressive. It is incredibly fiscally conservative Wouldn't "fiscally conservative" mean low taxes and low spending? I believe SF spends about $57,000 annually per homeless person which doesn't sound
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4y ago
Tech hubs grow organically from network effects. It's impossible to move the whole network in one go. Best you can do is make one network gradually shrink and another one gradually grow somewhere else.
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4y ago
I'm sure the open source community can come up with new monsters that are even more fun than those.
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4y ago
Just call it Sword and Sorcery, that's a genre so presumably can't be trademarked?
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> huge volumes of plausible blithering that's factually wrong That describes large parts of the internet, and we trained these models on that, so what did we really expect? ;-)
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4y ago
It's super easy to grant your kids Canadian citizenship, just give birth there.
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