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by lovecg 3y ago
If that gives you pause, the very next chapter is literally all about the whale’s penis (and I don’t want to hear any Moby-Dick puns unless they’re exceptionally clever) https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/42/moby-dick&#x2F
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by lovecg 3y ago
Given that NIH doesn’t want to focus on “lengthening life” or indeed reducing disability anymore it seems that only wealthy people will get to live longer. https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2023/09/28/words-matter
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by lovecg 3y ago
No, but selling overpriced olive oil with fake health claims does. It’s never “sleep, nutrition, exercise” with those types. It’s “sleep, nutrition, exercise, and this absolutely unique expensive product that you must take everyday that tot
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by lovecg 3y ago
It’s all a bit silly, any global encyclopedia is almost imperialist by definition. Organizing and categorizing knowledge in a centralized way is at its roots an imperialist project (see the history of science and its development alongside t
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by lovecg 3y ago
Getting strong Mandela Effect vibes now… can’t find anything other than 70%, now or a decade ago. But I’m virtually certain I didn’t make something like this up :)
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by lovecg 3y ago
You’re right, but I’m wondering where my confusion comes from. I’m absolutely positive something required a much higher %. Maybe a different license or regs changed in the last decade or so?
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by lovecg 3y ago
Edit: this is wrong as pointed out below. FAA doesn’t mess around with the maintenance regulations. If I remember correctly the A&P knowledge test requirement was to answer 99% of questions correctly, compared to something like 75% for
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by lovecg 3y ago
Foreign entities? Of course, we should ban that as long as we’re at it. Next you’ll have people using vastly superior foreign products, we better ban that as well. And if people decide to leave the country en masse because they’re too moral
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by lovecg 3y ago
> We should just tax income over $10 million at 90% for both people and corporations. People - maybe. But why corporations? Isn’t that double taxation? The only way money leaves a corporation is through people which will be taxed eventua
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by lovecg 3y ago
I’m going to guess that not many of those social structures achieved things like low infant mortality, not dying from randomly stubbing your toe, the internet, space travel, and the like. If I was presented with a choice, I’d pick a modern
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by lovecg 3y ago
Awesome, another reason to pick Airbnb over traditional hotels which are actually worse! > From January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2018, 905 guests were poisoned in 115 identified incidents, including 22 fatalities. Children represented 16%
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by lovecg 3y ago
> Imagine a scenario where a nation with billions of people under totalitarian regime sends millions of people to another nation. They instruct them to stay there long enough to become citizens of that nation. In the US that would be abo
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by lovecg 3y ago
I feel like this is overblown. If you spend any time on the likes of Telegram or Whatsapp you’ll know that the lack of a feed doesn’t prevent viral content from spreading. It’s just something inherent to people and mass communication.
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by lovecg 3y ago
At least in theory the battery could be used to recover some of the energy on descent (similar to regenerative braking, but with the spinning propeller instead of wheels). No idea if that’s at all efficient or if anyone experimented with th
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by lovecg 3y ago
The energy is not exactly stored in the fossil fuels directly. Indeed you have to put in extra energy to break those bonds - pulling atoms apart is work. The “stored” energy comes from the fact that long time ago various processes split var
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by lovecg 3y ago
That quote tells more about Zinn’s views than anything true about the world. Explains a lot about that propaganda piece of a book that has little to do with actual history.
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by lovecg 3y ago
Depends on what the code is doing! Typically I “see” the underlying concepts or data structures interacting with each other. Imagine those block and arrow diagrams you would have in a textbook explaining how pointers work, except it’s compl
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by lovecg 3y ago
GPT4, I find the difference consistently significant
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by lovecg 3y ago
A lot of this kind of reasoning is very visual to me and involves no inner monologue of any kind - just visualizations flying around in my brain in complete silence. The translation into words happens later as a separate step. I wonder if t
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by lovecg 3y ago
It does just fine for me (I’m impressed): You: Prove that if cos(x) is an integer then so is sin(x) ChatGPT: To prove this statement, let's first establish some basic facts about the sine and cosine functions: 1. *Range of sine and cos
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by lovecg 3y ago
I grew up in a socialist country and saw how democratic it was first hand. No thanks.
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by lovecg 3y ago
That’s fair but I’d like to believe (and I know I’m speaking from emotion here and not any rationality) that the jury is still out on this one, and that improvement is not sustainable over the next few decades (in other words, this was a bu
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by lovecg 3y ago
And yet workers in those societies tend to end up poorer in the absolute sense. Funny how that works.
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by lovecg 3y ago
Hah didn’t even realize my comment could be read that way (yeah I do know who Smaug is)
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by lovecg 3y ago
> suck wealth from the poor and Smaug the money away like What does that even mean? They buy up factories and let them sit idle?
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by lovecg 3y ago
Now I’m wondering if birds didn’t exist how much longer would it take us to catch on that flight is possible at all.
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by lovecg 3y ago
That’s easy. Give NASA 4-5% of the federal budget like it had in the 60s and we’ll go back in no time. This stuff is ridiculously expensive. It’s not the “how”, it’s the political “why” that doesn’t have an answer right now.
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by lovecg 3y ago
On that note, “Moby Dick” is a surprisingly detailed and accurate depiction of whalers’ day to day, I learned a lot.
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by lovecg 3y ago
With VR I feel like it’s a bit different since fidelity is the product - unless the experience is near real life levels of realistic, there’s not much point. We’re probably a couple of generations away from that, VR will seem a disappointme
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by lovecg 3y ago
Nah, people will just buy more A/Cs. But the ecosystem collapse will do us in.

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