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by mherdeg 4y ago
And, btw, in this thought experiment my gut feeling is: > What if the neighbor themself has suddenly developed kidney failure, no transplants are available, and the only thing that will save them is an immediate 30-week stay in the speci
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> It's a thought experiment, isn't the point that it is unencumbered by what is plausible? The reason for setting it up that way is to put responsibility for the sick person's life onto the healthy person through an action
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Yeah ... I'm fortunate that neither I nor my immediate family are immediately affected by this decision, which affords me the luxury of thinking about the ethics in the abstract. > If we reimagine the sick neighbour's predicame
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> I'd argue that where welfare of two beings is affected, you need to consider the rights of both. About 5,000 people die in the US annually while waitlisted for a kidney transplant; they are deemed medically eligible and a donation
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Hard to avoid the appearance that they: * paid $1000+ per "small business" acquired in early 2021 (those were some sweet signup bonuses over on the travel blogs!) * raised $700M+ cash in Apr + Oct 2021, and negotiated a higher pri
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Did Altria write everyone a $1.3 million check for Christmas? Were you around for that?
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This is kind of a sliding scale -- I'd put Jazzpunk or Thirty Flights of Loving in the same category but I think they're traditionally considered "adventure games". Feels like a very different genre from, like, IF where
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Plenty of room in Kazakhstan.
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Dick goes into this in some detail in "The Man in the High Castle". I don't think he understands it either but he gives clear examples of the behavior: > 'All afternoon assorted officials examined the alternatives,&#x
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Cool, thanks for this view. I'm also intrigued by the text in this launch announcement: > Our focus in the early days was build a hyper opinionated product to help them follow what we believe are the best practices. Now our product
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How is Blameless doing?
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Historically it was useful to write a bot that told you when someone's AIM presence info changed because it actually told you they were sitting down in front of their desktop PC in the computer room and maybe interested in having a con
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This is more or less the tone of 2600 magazine though -- people very cheerfully admit to stuff which, yes, is totally unwise to write down that you have done. The weird thing is we have had the CFAA hanging over us as some kind of Sword of
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The story says it was a redwing, and as a fun bonus in ONE place in article they use the word "thrush": > Days later, a redwing did appear just 180 miles southwest in Portland, Maine. It was a much better, safer location for vi
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Here's a smidgen of context: https://web.archive.org/web/20020126184926/http://www.gale.o... https://web.archive.org/web/20011221165350/http://gale.org/e...
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What happened to Gale? That was the other IM system I saw that felt like it had the complexity and internal self-consistency of Zephyr and it feels like it just kind of fell of the face of the earth.
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Yeah, I think home sale practices vary widely by market. A couple of years ago a family friend in Florida says "Oh yes, we never make an offer until the second showing." Ha ha ha.
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I completely misread this as > Greeks love naturalistic explanations of mythological ideas, however far fetched. And wonder whether this is also broadly, historically true?
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Interesting to think about: > Our systems do not, however, attempt to identify Twitter accounts that may be irregularly operated by a human but have some automated behaviors (e.g. a company account with multiple users, like our own @Spar
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Did you consider finding another pediatrician whose view of the data better align with yours? There is a whole bunch of stuff that has changed over time -- for example the fairly recent view that evidence now weakly supports swim lessons at
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> The question is: what are reasonable limits to exposure for babies? For example, what are the EU limits for baby formula? Maybe the question I'd ask is "if you sample milk from 100 different human volunteers, what fraction of
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Wow, this is a fantastic solution to some questions I've had rattling around in my head for years about the optimal bucket choices to minimize error given a particular set of buckets. Do I read right that circllhist has a pretty big nu
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Update: eBay exec customer service called me back today and said (1) They have removed the suspension on my account (2) They erroneously flagged my Airpods as counterfeit because (a) none of the photos in the listing clearly showed the seri
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We're all-in on zinc oxide for sunscreen (90%+ of the time avoiding other chemical alternatives). I don't know if the *-benzones or the other ingredients actually pose any health risks to humans and I doubt the risk is greater tha
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> How is this not just the exact same formula? I think it's actually a much more interesting formula because (1) this stuff was invented out of whole cloth - concepts like MEV bots, hoping normies don't notice the rugpulls in p
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My cell phone carrier sent me a pair of Apple Airpods as a promotion after I signed up for an account. I didn't need them, so I snapped a photo of the box and used the eBay mobile app's "list by scanning this item's barc
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Our 4yo loves doing "experiments": (1) We put on safety glasses (2) We wear latex gloves (3) We write down what we're about to do, what we think is going to happen, and what actually happens There's a whole genre of &quo
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The story about porting OS X to Intel revolves around working from home: https://www.quora.com/How-does-Apple-keep-secrets-so-well/an...
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Whatever happened to the critics who ran a protest site called Wikitruth? Did it go offline? Was there some controversy? I'd check their Wikipedia page but they really don't have one.
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I too clear high hurdles on standardized tests but still make dumb mistakes -- guess AI is in good company :) Watching the success of large language models (plausibly predicting the next word in a conversation) sometimes reminds me of the t

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