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by lumb63 4y ago
“Can answer” is doing a lot of work, too. I can write you a program that “can answer“ any question you throw at it. I can assure you the answer won’t be correct in most cases. This is a hyperbole for ChatGPT, but my point is that designing
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Independent labs exist that perform testing. I typically use LabDoor. The supplements aren’t perfect by any means, so I suppose there is some “mislabeling”, and maybe the supplements that are tested aren’t representative of what’s shipped t
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Can you elaborate more on what frustrates you about how supplements are bought, the misleading labeling, the lack of regulation, and the incentive structures designed to keep people in the dark? I ask because I consume and browse a lot of s
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I suspect the folks here defending philosophy had a very different experience with philosophy than I did. I took an ethics class in college through the philosophy department and all I remember from the class was the professor telling us tha
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Sports gambling has just been legalized in my state and I’ve been getting bombarded by advertisements non-stop over the last few weeks. I joke now that every commercial is a sports gambling commercial. And the rub is, as the article says, t
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Legalizing mobile gambling (sports is a common form of this) is a terrible idea. I used to be heavily in favor of legalized sports gambling; like the article says, I’m not harming anyone, and it’s my choice. Then one of my close friends wit
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Looking for a phobia to describe AI content aversion is an incorrect approach. It yields no explanation other than that “something must be wrong with those people”. Instead, try looking at it from a rational biological standpoint and it mak
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Ever since I saw a comment on HN about low information density on the internet, I haven’t been able to unsee it. They were commenting on a YouTube video that had an 8-second bit of content but was nearly 2 minutes long. But it’s so much wor
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Been lifting for 15 years and never heard of this website.
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It might be impossible to anticipate which way exactly things will go wrong, but I’d say it’s pretty easy to anticipate the ways things can go wrong. I see this as at least ignorance, probably negligence, and at most, fraud, on the part of
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I mean, yes, that is a problem, but it’s also their only benefit. The entire reason banks came into existence is to multiply the availability of currency (i.e. fractional reserve).
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You should look into the book The Body Electric. The ability of electricity to heal (the doctor in the book even reports some instances of finger regrowth in humans) is remarkable.
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Yeah, once I spent too much time getting to what the “Waluigi Effect” is, I stopped reading. Until someone can show me, in the “code” (or machine learning equivalent), I’m not interested. The reality is, we still have no idea how these work
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“Rich” is highly relative. If someone lives in an area where everything costs on average twice as much as somewhere else, their money is effectively equivalent to half of what it would be somewhere else. The reality is they’re probably look
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This idea is well over one hundred years old (closer to two!) [0]. Back when it was conceived of, solutions were proposed alongside the problem. To use more in-vogue economic terms, the increase in value of housing is typically a result of
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I think part of it is, within software engineering, what is “high performance”? Is high performance making economically valuable contributions? If so, there is huge inherent inequality between the economic value of projects, so the metric i
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Call depression what you want, but I don’t agree that it is not contagious, along with some other mental illnesses (e.g. anxiety). They’re not “contagious” in the sense that you will receive a clinical diagnosis for depression immediately a
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by lumb63 4y ago
What work is this from? I’ve been meaning to read some of Sowell’s, and this sounds fascinating.
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It’s not a mistake, that’s for sure. I’ll be more blunt since a lot of other comments in this thread beat around the bush: higher education institutes are removing objective admissions criteria so that they can admit less qualified minoriti
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My opinion is the motivation behind “BIPOC” is to exclude Asians, who are rarely considered as minorities due to their economic and academic success.
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This is the idea behind TERFs, right? How can women have equal rights if “women” don’t even exist? I’m honestly surprised more feminists don’t have strong anti-transgender sentiment.
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Do you have any examples? Net neutrality comes to mind, but that feels a quite extreme example due to complete regulatory capture of the FCC by big telecoms.
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YES! I often get (unreasonably) upset at bicyclists because, in my experience, one in maybe ten follow the rules of the road. Where I am, it is very common that bicyclists will behave like a car when it is convenient for them, and like a pe
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I recently opened Minecraft for the first time in several years to smack a few blocks. Their “telemetry settings” were my favorite. Options? “All” or “minimal”. Unsurprisingly, the game still ran after I disconnected from the Internet to di
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I don’t understand why there is still the false dichotomy between performance and speed of development/readability. Arguments on HN and in other software circles suggest performant code cannot be well organized, and that well organized
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I’ve got the same problem with socks. It’s quite literally impossible. Even brands that sell “100% cotton” socks have a small amount of polyester or spandex, etc.
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I agree with some other posters complaining that half of the post regards how syntax sucks. I don’t need glorious syntax in my build system. It’s a build system. I want to do the bare minimum work to get my code correct and get back to writ
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A huge barrier to eliminating plastic use is making people aware of their plastic use. Prior to thinking about it and investigating, I was unaware of how many plastics I was using. How many people think their clothing is plastic? They proba
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I didn’t see a link in the article. You can find the report here: https://australiainstitute.org.au/report/profit-price-spiral...
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Not saying I disagree with you, but couldn’t the “economies of scale” argument be used to justify e.g. all cloud providers forming a monopoly, all hardware manufacturers doing the same, etc.? The only reason all tech companies shouldn’t asp

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