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by luqtas 1y ago
wanna see one which controls for variables like hobbies and social activity/participation. i don't think "living alone" or "with others" means anything significant regarding the cognitive benefit of socializing
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by luqtas 1y ago
are you those smart geeks who check for images and read a paragraph of the conclusion? because i think the graph makes complete sense by checking the methodology... which i'll save your time: 18 years and ~ 16,000 participants
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by luqtas 1y ago
Mitch Prinstein wrote a book about power and it shows that dark traits aren't the standard in most leaders, nor they are the best way to get into/stay in power author is "board certified in clinical child and adolescent psych
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by luqtas 1y ago
if people actually cared about freedom/privacy, Discord wouldn't be a thing, right? and even harder to leave Discord now when a lot of users invested in Nitro fancy emoticons and profile enchantments
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by luqtas 1y ago
go inform yourself [0] 0: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541/...
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by luqtas 1y ago
that's like driving big personal vehicles and having a bunch of children and eating a bunch of meat and do nothing about because marine and terrestrial ecosystems weren't fully destroyed by global warming
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by luqtas 1y ago
why so? this is probably the direction he wanted to go if i can recall his book (problem child) correctly the more insight into the synthesis of a pro-therapeutic substance, the easier (i guess) is to remove the undesirable effects (what re
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by luqtas 1y ago
+ not considering the amount of copyright violations on the training weights, if it was easy and cheap for the masses to use the judiciary system, maybe this technology would be way behind of what it's "capable"
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by luqtas 1y ago
once i asked mom to buy me the most expensive knife and fork of the store, she looked at me and said: you are so silly and dumb! later that year she gave me a golden spork. since then all my meals are much better
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by luqtas 1y ago
the entire field of K-12 education also is based on a bunch of "non sense" historical stuff, like tests; which came from industrial revolution times where owners wanted to check who would be less likely to break their expensive ma
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by luqtas 1y ago
only Vi, the resource collapse resistant branch /j
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by luqtas 1y ago
sociology has same weird data showing even the weather can change for who people vote [0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09626... and this is only an example of the multiple and m
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by luqtas 1y ago
> You want to learn French or Spanish for fun. Duolingo claims that it can help you. So you join, try for a few days and give up. is that Duolingo fault or users? because that happen in any hobby. heck, take indie gamedev.! hundreds give
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by luqtas 1y ago
i don't know why people are taking Duolinguo and relatives as the definitive course to learn a language... they even cite at their FAQ about the need of going outside the app if you want 'fluency' some people are quite fine l
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by luqtas 1y ago
beyond luck, lots of famous artists have 'non-famous' composers arranging/composing after their demo stuff
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by luqtas 1y ago
> they should donate some headsets profiting 180 billion USD per year should put them in a position to also provide grants for hiring workforce for the necessary amount of years that will take to popularize their current and new AR/
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by luqtas 1y ago
the western part once turned into a huge wetland, after the Andes emerged from the ocean. that was more than 10 Ma ago although. that was also what made the western Amazonia part differ on its biodivesity humans may altered the biodiversity
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by luqtas 1y ago
actually i meant "geocentrism" but it was too late to edit but you are right, middle age didn't thought Earth was flat now if you are defending this absurd commentary that Amazonia was a grassland 10,000 years ago and turned
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by luqtas 1y ago
> We should have strong and durable protections against those megacorps in other ways like what? continue to use (pay) for their products and wait for regulations coming from lobbyist countries? /s
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by luqtas 1y ago
the Wiki citation doesn't even have a source, nor is calling that indigenous people made it your last link is about Llanos de Moxos, which isn't in Amazon. you don't seen to understand even basic geography... even if Llanos
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by luqtas 1y ago
you can also say the Saharan desert played a major role on turning what Amazon is... now, wow, calling it a grassland before humans 10,000 years ago is to smoke too much pot before reading/making papers. 5,000,000 AD then yes, maybe...
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by luqtas 2y ago
HN Startup idea: train a gen. AI on NASA photos and sell custom photos /s
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by luqtas 2y ago
if you are visiting a city and you are exclusively using the bus, in 2 or 3 travels the card pays itself for not dealing with coins and physical money... you can literally buy them in 5 minutes, no need to have a CPF exposed or whatever [th
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by luqtas 2y ago
more than 50% of the rural brazilian population doesn't hav internet access (that's 36 million people) [0] the central bank admin. director says physical money is still the base of brazilian transactions [1] [1] https:/&#x2F
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by luqtas 2y ago
most places i visited (remote rural places like districts of > 300 people up to big cities) have a rechargeable card system where you can buy at any terminal some buses in the surburbs of big cities only accept cards nowadays and you can
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by luqtas 2y ago
they purposefully chose miso... no one is making carbonated drinks on space because nasty stuff like CO2 floating in the stomach, without needing to go upwards) why you need a airlock? just burb regularly by opening the can. you can also pr
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by luqtas 2y ago
> I am convinced that outlawing advertising is the best thing we can do for our world now. More than gun control. More than tackling climate change. i would rather live in a world of public transportation, with less children and vegan or
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by luqtas 2y ago
> it does make me uneasy if OpenAI charges more than at-cost to help people do so though. it's the profiteering off others' work that is gross. i think they shouldn't be able to sell anything at all. violation of copyright
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by luqtas 2y ago
apparently Proton has its source-code open ( https://proton.me/blog/security-audit ), regards Signal and the other search engine i don't know... i bet none of them are the panacea on privacy but it's also quite
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by luqtas 2y ago
so we should remain in silence and just use the most popular because it's a lost game?

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