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klipt
4y ago
But do you know how many tried and failed? The chance of failure at 40 is definitely higher than 30 (unless you froze eggs when younger). > The percentage of IVF cycle starts that resulted in live births was 41.5% in women younger than 3
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klipt
4y ago
The style is very inconsistent between pictures. I wonder how difficult it is to modify the architecture to remedy this - force it to generate pictures from a group of prompts in similar style?
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4y ago
> One example was the mint at one point was selling some coin online with free shipping, after receiving the coins you'd just deposit them into your account for zero loss. It looked like a normal purchase to the CC so you got the fu
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klipt
4y ago
Although part of that is he also portrays a young non-bald Xavier, before Xavier loses his hair.
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4y ago
Better source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8190229/
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4y ago
That's part of the logic (basically overriding the definition of statutory rape to be "not rape" if the underage child enjoyed it) But there are a bunch of similar decisions here: https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu&
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klipt
4y ago
Pretty much every state already has Safe Haven laws that allow women to legally abandon their babies at hospitals, fire stations etc. Where they will be looked after and likely adopted out.
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4y ago
"What's best for the child" is often the argument used there - since the child did not commit the rape, the argument goes, it shouldn't be punished for it. Notably the same argument has been used to set the precedent tha
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4y ago
Dating apps don't want you to have a successful relationship because then they lose you as a customer. They want you to at most have a short fling and come back. But having no success and scrolling endlessly is also fine by them.
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4y ago
Thanks, Prop 13!
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klipt
4y ago
> If you want cheaper housing, build it more densely. NIMBYs hate this one weird trick for cheaper housing!
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klipt
4y ago
> "Protein?" Where? Cheese is very high in protein. It's basically concentrated milk. Obviously not lactose free though.
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klipt
4y ago
Conversely highly paid Bay Area engineers would probably just move somewhere cheaper (maybe Europe?) if salaries drop. No point in paying ridiculously high rent if you're not getting ridiculously high compensation.
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klipt
4y ago
Remote work seems like it would naturally lead to outsourcing. Why pay Bay Area salaries to people in low cost areas who are willing to work for much less?
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klipt
4y ago
You seem to be assuming government means federal, but local government is also government and there are many towns with municipal fiber their residents are happy with.
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4y ago
I thought the plastic mostly leeches out with heat. So cans with plastic lining: bad, the canning process uses heat. Raw vegetables in a plastic bag? Not so bad, you can wash them and then cook them yourself (but avoid non stick cookware wh
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4y ago
And as soon as BPA was discouraged companies switched to the close analog BPS which hadn't been proven harmful yet .
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4y ago
> What can possibly be done to make the system more equitable? There was a man who had to take his dead wife's urn into school because they repeatedly insisted on talking to "the child's mother". My kid's medical
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4y ago
Our school had a woodworking teacher who was missing part of a finger. Unforgiving indeed, especially with power tools.
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4y ago
But do both you and your wife have to be at BigCo? Maybe you could take a more flexible, fulfilling job that lets you have more time with the kids while she focuses on money. Break those gender stereotypes?
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4y ago
The most diverse group possible consists 100% of black disabled trans lesbians, of course.
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4y ago
Is rural Germany friendly towards foreigners, especially non white ones? I've heard in Germany (and Europe in general) you'll forever be a stranger, while America is more of a melting pot and immigrants are allowed to become Ameri
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4y ago
https://youtu.be/5KO2IjWI9fA
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4y ago
> concedes that the game is broken Duh? Why do you think immigrants to Anglo countries named Giovanni or Juan or Janek, have, since forever, changed their names to John? > While women may get (barely) more callbacks, I think we have f
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4y ago
> That is, if you're black, you start as a disadvantage and you benefit less from efforts to improve your employability. Or, that the best thing to improve your employability is adopting a typically white female name?
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4y ago
If you submit identical software engineer resumes, one with a typically white male name and one with a typically white female name, do you think one will get more interview opportunities? That seems like something that could be experimental
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4y ago
> "GNC Storefront" goes in to the same bin as the rando person who put a label on some melamine powder If toxic products are getting into consumer food I would hope the FDA or some other regulatory agency would sue Amazon to ob
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4y ago
Interesting. Another approach might be to apply mnemonic techniques (like method of loci) to leeches to make them memorable so they're no longer leeches.
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4y ago
Seems that would put a lot of power in the hands of whoever controls the automation.
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4y ago
Why do people jump from "meat" to bugs (which are still meat btw) instead of vegetable proteins like tofu? I'd much rather eat tofu, tempeh, Quorn, etc than bugs.
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