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by mapt 5mo ago
It's actually very difficult to implement a change in our timeline on such a complex issue without causing a mix of positive and negative effects relative to your desired goal. It's very hard to impute whether anyone in the White
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by mapt 5mo ago
We needed a stamp. Regulated "Emails cost 1 penny" would have worked fine. All you need to do to meaningfully fight spam is have a cost that isn't completely negligible; Spammers started out at a rate where they spend less t
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by mapt 5mo ago
The lead generation was automated ten years ago ("Hello?"), but the actual scam conversation was not. Until recently, you still had to pay somebody in South Asia better than the prevailing wage of ~$1/hr to have these conve
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by mapt 5mo ago
Anyone wanna do a quick offline MVP on a general vision assistant for the blind? We've had things like Google Lens for a while, but it's a bit vision and touchscreen-centric.
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by mapt 5mo ago
Chrome on Windows is running with thousands of tabs "open" over dozens of windows, but it does practically max out on a certain number of tabs per window (not just the GUI, but something in the memory architecture), and it does st
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by mapt 5mo ago
Data quality on Scoville is unfortunately garbage; Testing is expensive and both individual plants and individual growers/fields are highly variable, so nearly everyone is playing 'telephone' making subjective claims in relat
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by mapt 5mo ago
Some of these are a moving target. https://www.seriouseats.com/how-honeycrisp-apples-went-from-...
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by mapt 5mo ago
It's always gone on, and probably always will on some level. It's only when it becomes the primary concern that capitalism eats itself.
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by mapt 5mo ago
These things aren't "Internet Access", they're an easy way to get service that is bandwidth-equivalent to SMS, MMS, IRC or walkie talkie, over complex and distant terrain, without any central coordinating authority. Pot
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by mapt 5mo ago
Long skirts (or other loose clothing) around big, spinning mechanical load transmission elements are an easy way for the rest of your life to become a cautionary Youtube video on workplace safety.
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by mapt 5mo ago
It's because there are multiple levels of misconceptions as well as "violent agreements". retsibsi is correct. You can't draw (meaningful) conclusions about IQ before 1950, because extrapolating from the data after 1950
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by mapt 5mo ago
While this seems like the perfect synergy with a company that has too many branches and not enough business, those branches are also tiny. I'd bet employees are not enthusiastic about becoming UPS. Becoming Radio Shack / Microcen
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by mapt 5mo ago
On a given set of 1000 questions, over time the trend has been to answer slightly more of them correct every year, progressively raising unstandardized scores, over the set of all IQ testees, since IQ testing was formalized in the 1950s. Ex
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by mapt 5mo ago
As far as I can tell, that's such an insane take I can't even recognize it as propaganda. The Highland Clearances had nothing to do with rewilding and everything to do with committing to better economies of scale in agriculture ba
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by mapt 5mo ago
Potato chips (and all other carbs that have been fried/baked/roasted/toasted at Maillard-browning temperatures) have an appreciable amount of acrylamide in them. Acrylamide is a probable human carcinogen and a neurotoxin.
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by mapt 5mo ago
N=2.
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by mapt 5mo ago
Genome analysis is also a lossy process that chops the data up into tiny bits, like a newspaper sent through a shredder. We then piece together matching sequences in a sort of puzzle. It's often a relatively inaccurate solution. The
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by mapt 5mo ago
There are multiple types of sovereign wealth fund associated with taxes on resource extraction. The type you see in Norway is used to shelter the economic diversity, currency, and labor force from the steamrolling impact of the extractive
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by mapt 5mo ago
You are inferring from our crude understanding of processes in general. Evidence is more specific. Do you have an exclusion trial comparing glyphosate vs non-glyphosate diets? This is amenable to natural experiments where one country bans
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by mapt 5mo ago
Arguably we need half a dozen operating on adjacent principles, to fight against engine-specific SEO exploits. "SEO is a $100 billion industry" = your opponents have a 12 figure war budget.
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by mapt 5mo ago
At this stage rewilding is a matter of establishing lifeboats for what little remains before it completely disappears, not wiping the landscape clean. You can't put the full measure of ecological complexity into a small cage in a zoo.
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by mapt 5mo ago
I think it's a warranted attitude to take a failure to implement plaintext search as part of your text search algorithm as enemy action. Yesterday I ended up at Bing for some reason and typed in the unique name of the site I was looki
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by mapt 6mo ago
This sounds a lot like the object of the seminal science fiction work "Don't Build The Torment Nexus".
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by mapt 6mo ago
A rise in meat (esp red & cured meats) consumption and a drop in vegetable consumption would also do it, particularly if it were disproportionately occurring in certain cohorts. 12% of Americans eat half the nation's supply of beef
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by mapt 6mo ago
Nothing else explains the observed cultural confidence in putative harm than this "puritan streak", combined with sugar industry lobbying. It's gotten other sweeteners like cyclamate and saccharine banned (or voluntarily wit
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by mapt 6mo ago
Sharks are an ancient division of life, roughly 440 million years old, which has survived far warmer oceans. There are ~500 living species of shark and likely tens of thousands extinct in their lineage. We are perpetrating a mass extincti
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by mapt 6mo ago
That bridge is A) incredibly expensive and something a postwar Ukraine would prefer to exist for economic reasons, B) extremely overbuilt in certain ways, and C) not strictly required if Russia can keep rail going on the landbridge. It migh
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by mapt 6mo ago
Ukraine dramatically reduced Russian fuel export revenue, and the sanctions did so even more. It was really coming to the point of urgent existential threat to the Putin regime this spring, before Trump and Netanyahu bailed him out, first b
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by mapt 6mo ago
I'm not sure you're replying to the right person. I didn't make that claim. I tried to provide meaningful numerical context of mass incarceration. You state that I have errors - could you point them out?
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by mapt 6mo ago
My crude understanding is that in the 90's, the US controlled basically all the world's large-scale financial clearing network, and after 9/11 declared a holy war against anything that didn't provide visibility to US int

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