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by largbae 2y ago
I always wonder if there is a circular logic flaw in survey studies of recreation and dementia: could it be that the folks who are chasing Viagra or running marathons don't get dementia, because the ones with dementia don't pursue
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by largbae 2y ago
Might cars that stand out more might attract the wrong kind of attention from police as well?
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by largbae 2y ago
Is this theory going to give us a warp drive?
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by largbae 2y ago
I think we are roughly in agreement here. Even a "default filter" can be ok as long as it can be _turned off_ by the user. The problem with deplatforming and censorship is that even the savviest users are unable to discuss what th
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by largbae 2y ago
There is absolutely a middle ground: have multiple choices of user-selectable filters on open platforms. Subreddits are the closest thing to an implementation of what I want today. Let me go to moderated subsets of the content on a platform
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by largbae 2y ago
This is excellent. Like the Dyson sphere, predicting signals for technologies that we can imagine but not yet construct seems like a great way to guide our search for other life. Now we need a team of smart folks to identify tearing or othe
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by largbae 2y ago
"There was a spillover effect," said Kevin M. Esterling, a UCR professor of political science and public policy and a co-author of the study. "It wasn't just a reduction from the de-platformed users themselves, but it re
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by largbae 2y ago
You can feel it when you're doing what gives your life meaning. For me, I am at my best when using my skills and resources to serve my family and friends. It could be as simple as hosting a get-together or helping someone move.
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by largbae 2y ago
The article spends a lot of time painting it as mystery before this seemingly obvious paragraph: "Portegies Zwart favours a different explanation, where Jumbos form in the same way as stars, directly from the collapse of a cloud of gas
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by largbae 2y ago
It is not perfect, but most airlines will try not to swap plane models as it breaks all the seating assignments. I think the older Boeing planes through 737-900 are as safe as ever. 737-MAX+ and 787 seem to be where the design process went
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by largbae 2y ago
That is a separate topic but recent congressional hearings would be a great way to research. The point that I am making is that both of these topics were censored as fake news, and neither is probably false.
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by largbae 2y ago
I agree with your premise here, but both of these topics were censored to the point of removing accounts that discussed them under the assumption that they were fake news. This is the problem with censoring anything.
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by largbae 2y ago
Was the idea that COVID-19 leaked from a lab in Wuhan fake news? Is the idea that the vaccines may have side effects worth understanding fake news? That is what was defined as fake news and actively censored in our very recent past. The pro
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by largbae 2y ago
tl;dr - New emissions standards reduced sulfur dioxide emissions from cargo ships. The emissions were seeding reflective white clouds that were offsetting up to half the temperature increase that would have occurred without them. Now all th
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by largbae 2y ago
The first order problem is how do we compensate those whose performances and art were unique and recognizable before computers could imitate them. However we solve for that will tell us if and how we can motivate people to make all the trad
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by largbae 2y ago
They got more attention with this apology than they would have gotten with any ad, at least from this crew.
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by largbae 2y ago
Please charge something. In order to trust my notes somewhere, I need it to be in someone's best interest to keep my data and not grow bored or overburdened by costs. I desperately want a simple, cross-platform, online or offline, fast
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by largbae 2y ago
Completely disabling JavaScript is a no-go these days. But Firefox+NoScript is both enlightening and refreshing. Did you know that CNN tries to run JavaScript from more than 30 domains on the front page, but is functional and ad-free after
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by largbae 2y ago
What other popular systems might lead to different outcomes based on sort order? Dating site matches? Your own contact list? Interesting category of problems...
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by largbae 2y ago
I got news for ya... We are already there. Interest on the US national debt will become the top expense this year, $1.6T or more than 30% of tax revenue...
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by largbae 3y ago
Does the magic color need to be within the frequency range that the camera and video format can record?
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by largbae 3y ago
We do pretty well with a free-tier Slack instance. They only keep a rolling 10k messages or so, but this seems to be enough for more than 100 friends and colleagues to keep comm lines open. LinkedIn could be a model for making vouch-network
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by largbae 3y ago
I know the Boeing safety reputation is a bit tarnished of late, but how many people are stepping on an aircraft called "Boom"?
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by largbae 3y ago
Elon Musk appears to be a counter-example...
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by largbae 3y ago
"All availability rests on some assumed radius of safety", thank you for that! If this is not a named law could you name it? I have needed this statement in the past but it never came together like that.
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by largbae 3y ago
It certainly seems ironic that the company that beat Intel at its own compatibility game with x86-64 would abandon compatibility with today's market leader.
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by largbae 3y ago
I use GrapheneOS, even that can't protect you from Google unless you are willing to live 15 years in the past. Any app beyond the absolute basics uses the (yes, sandboxed) Google Play store. But almost every Google play store app then
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by largbae 3y ago
A noble dream solution, but even in this case there will be folks who try to collect the UBI of others in addition to their own.
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by largbae 3y ago
Alignment to _what_? Humans aren't aligned without AI, what exactly will AI be aligned to?
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by largbae 3y ago
What other companies out there that seem to behave in a villainous way? Uber under Kalanick? Oracle?

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