leereeves

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by leereeves 5mo ago
> Replacing "seed oils" with hamburgers and french fries fried in tallow won't magically help your health. If anything, you would die quicker from the huge amount of saturated fat you're now intaking. I'd like to
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by leereeves 5mo ago
> It's ironic you cite ultra-processed foods, another category which has questionable rigor and applicability, but people nonetheless defend because "Even if ultra processed foods themselves aren't harmful, avoiding them i
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by leereeves 5mo ago
> I don’t see any way to get to this conclusion other than heavily filtering the evidence—ignoring the flaws in everything that supports a predetermined view while scrambling to find flaws in everything that contradicts it. Is that not w
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by leereeves 5mo ago
Among other mechanisms, refining removes nutrients and other beneficial molecules, while purifying taste and reducing volume making it easier to overeat. But the worst part isn't refining the oil itself, but the use of these oils in ul
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by leereeves 5mo ago
Some recent research says that natural trans fats are not as dangerous as the industrial kind. https://www.reading.ac.uk/news/2026/Research-News/Natural-tr... https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nu
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by leereeves 5mo ago
You missed this part: "with the intention of blocking escape". That separates traffic jams from intentional unlawful detention.
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by leereeves 5mo ago
If you're being held against your will, you're certainly allowed to fight against your captors. Why would that be different when a car is involved?
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by leereeves 5mo ago
> They don't think the wealth and lifestyles they enjoy have anything to do with the US' status as a global hegemon. > The people who hold these views are overwhelmingly not members of the working class. They're retiree
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by leereeves 5mo ago
> Some even think the relationship is inverted, believing that as the world de-Americanizes, Americans will somehow benefit from this. That may well be true of the working class, who receive nothing from the foreign income multinational
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by leereeves 5mo ago
> defense is harder for LLMs than offense. They struggle mightily when pulling together too many threads, and some projects are just too big. Defense doesn't have to be part of code gen. Any automated attacker (like LLMs) could be u
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by leereeves 5mo ago
> An Iranian Shahed drone costs about $35,000 If that's right, then 10000 would cost $350 million. That's a lot of money to spend to not sink a carrier.
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by leereeves 5mo ago
I used to have an open mind about this myself, until I saw the other side of healthcare. Even with the lockdowns, Covid nearly overwhelmed the healthcare system in America. It led to a massive nursing shortage as nurses quit. The system cou
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by leereeves 5mo ago
> What I’d like to get answers to is why if everyone says about shortages of nurses, doctors, teachers, plumbers and other handymen, highly qualified engineers capable of making some complex stuff like rockets; I don’t really see any pol
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by leereeves 5mo ago
It's possible for a name to refer to both a country and a continent (or two). Just as "New York" could mean the state or the city.
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by leereeves 5mo ago
It could be written more clearly but I think when it refers to a 4x and a 3x slowdown, it's actually a 4x slowdown and 3x larger code that causes cache misses, and the impact of those cache misses on runtime is surely much larger than
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by leereeves 5mo ago
Where does that article say Reston (or a mutant strain of Reston) is airborne?
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by leereeves 5mo ago
> Rule of law is merely the principle that laws should be applied equally to all. Which sounds good at first, but... "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and
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by leereeves 5mo ago
> China has made huge efforts toward sustainable power. Google it. While also increasing carbon-emissions. China is investing in creating more energy from every source.
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by leereeves 5mo ago
> California and other areas were not developed on their own, they required years of sustained federal investment and interest in the area. In a similar way, Western Europe benefited from a lot of investment after WW2, while Eastern Euro
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by leereeves 5mo ago
What judgement did the leaders of Iran face before the recent attacks that you oppose? Unfortunately the sanctions mostly affected the common people, so I think direct attacks on government leaders are preferable.
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by leereeves 5mo ago
> expel them and they become another person's problem True, but we have institutions dedicated to dealing with people like that. A school isn't that kind of institution and will fail in its mission (to protect and educate) if i
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by leereeves 5mo ago
> The „both sides are a little naughty“ is appropriate for a kindergarten teacher, not historical analysis. "A little naughty"?? Iran sponsored the killing of thousands of Israelis (and attempts to kill many more), even if they
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by leereeves 5mo ago
I'm not Jewish or even a fan of Israel, but I think "you‘d have to engage in very motivated reasoning" to not get that this war started a long time ago. The recent hostilities are just one small part of it. Everyone shares so
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by leereeves 5mo ago
Having access to the images doesn't make them "Iran's satellite images"
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by leereeves 5mo ago
Presumably referring to population density? People like the low density in California.
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by leereeves 5mo ago
Are BYD cars specifically banned or do they just not comply with all the US regulations?
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by leereeves 5mo ago
Is SpaceX/Starlink actually planning to do that?
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by leereeves 5mo ago
Did Mythos find vulnerabilities in programs Anthropic didn't have source for?
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by leereeves 5mo ago
So more like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce, and most big tech companies than either Pizza Hut or Raytheon? Perhaps most like Red Hat (who also sell to the DoD)? I think it would be unusual to call them all military contractors (as y
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by leereeves 5mo ago
Pizza Hut has plenty of locations on military bases, each with a team dedicated to selling their product to the military.

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