mmooss

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by mmooss 8mo ago
> Because it's just not the world we live in. I don't care to enumerate this here. Whether or not you enumerate it is irrelevant. Individual liberty is the foundation of the modern world. Of course there are exceptions, complic
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by mmooss 8mo ago
Thanks for responding! Have you ever tried to get access to for-pay reference sources such as JSTOR? I haven't found a way other than going in-person to libraries, which is not practical.
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by mmooss 8mo ago
Everyone claims to have bigger problems, but greenhouse gas emissions are the biggest problem. Arguably, they are a particularly big problem to Moldovans because Russia's military is funded by greenhouse gas emissions.
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by mmooss 8mo ago
The GGP comment talks about how all these non-hetero people are somehow more dangerous. It's hard to escape the implications or the responsbility for implying what is a long-time trope of hate - constructing a reality where non-hetero
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by mmooss 8mo ago
One reason might be how off-putting the Neovim community is, hijacking Vim discussions to denigrate an all-time-great, beloved work of technology and its creator (who did decades of work for free, gave it to the world, and gave any money to
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by mmooss 8mo ago
Everything any one person does is a 'drop in the ocean'. Thankfully, we organize and do things collectively very well - it's in our fundamental nature going back to non-human ancestors, and there is a long, rich history of ho
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by mmooss 8mo ago
I think it's much simpler: People who have power can blithely ignore the problems of others and then say those people are 'overreacting'. Also the powerful react very strongly to any threat to the status quo that gives them p
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by mmooss 8mo ago
You seem afraid of non-hetero sexuality at every turn. Even if lesbians are just as likely to be dangerous creeps - which I doubt because it seems like relative physical strength is a major factor - the number of lesbians relative to the nu
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by mmooss 8mo ago
So could a car accident, but you still drive. There are lots of risks in the world; they need to be assessed by their likelihood x damage.
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by mmooss 8mo ago
You could disconnect from it. That's much easier said than done and probably very complicated by the occupation, but I would guess that disconnecting would reduce coal consumption and greenhouse gas emissions proportionally to power us
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by mmooss 8mo ago
My very amatuer understanding is that modern combat for the US is based on a 'combat network', which creates a massive situational advantage by connecting all sensors - on satellites, planes, drones, ground radars, from intelligen
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by mmooss 8mo ago
I feel almost ill. How sad. They even discarded the cubist element of the Finder icon, which would have been interesting in 3-D. The idea that the Mac community has lost its artistic sense and enjoys it says a lot. Maybe I'm making too
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by mmooss 8mo ago
> the marketing is radically different. Apple’s advertising materials for the Neo are a radical departure from their typical work. It’s drawing exactly the kind of attention that they need to. It’s fun, it’s different, and it’s most impo
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by mmooss 8mo ago
[2025] J.R.R. Tolkien, both the leading practitioner of fantasy and a leading scholar of Old English (Anglo-Saxon) and related languages and, at least adjacently, their 'fantasy' myths and stories, argued that the focus of fantasy
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by mmooss 8mo ago
The Economist tries hard to normalize GMO food, without ever raising the issues and addressing them. Whatever one thinks of that issue, this technique is deception: It decieves people into thinking that it's normal, that there are no i
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by mmooss 8mo ago
Markdown is a text markup language, of course. The output does not look like the input (unless you want to read raw text Markdown, in which case LibreOffice works fine). How would that look in a single-pane, edit-in-place, wysiwyg editor? W
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by mmooss 8mo ago
> social darwinism There is none of that in my comment. > I think you're missing why milk is useful though. ? I was saying it is useful, and therefore I expect Homo sapiens would adapt to it. After writing the GP I was told that
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by mmooss 8mo ago
That makes some sense. Given the historic sometime scarcity of food and pressure of starvation, and the widespread availability of milk, I would think people would adapt to it. I guess that lactose-intolerent people today would drink milk r
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by mmooss 8mo ago
Is there research showing if and under what conditions LLM output is detected accurately. What are the false positive and false negative rates?
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by mmooss 8mo ago
What can you tell us about it? What worked and what didn't? What was hard?
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by mmooss 8mo ago
> no dairy They couldn't find one mammal from which to obtain milk? It's a pretty obvious thing to try, for obvious reasons.
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by mmooss 8mo ago
From the referenced research paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... > The combined application of microscopy techniques and lipid residue analysis to the study of foodcrusts from
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by mmooss 8mo ago
The paper on which the article is based: González Carretero L, Lucquin A, Robson HK, McLaughlin TR, Dolbunova E, Lundy J, et al. (2026) Selective culinary uses of plant foods by Northern and Eastern European hunter-gatherer-fishers. PLoS On
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by mmooss 8mo ago
If you respect and consider ideas that conflict with your own, that's how you can learn new things. Many factors influence economics; climate change is one part of the equation. There are many examples of climate change's direct i
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The False Flag of Viewpoint Diversity(chronicle.com)
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by mmooss 8mo ago
> de-growth Associating action to prevent with 'de-growth' is disinformation from the deniers. Climate change itself is massively de-growth. The question is how to best prevent it.
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by mmooss 8mo ago
> Theres a mistrust of government and the establishment. Not saying fringe is better but the behavior of govts, corruption and influence by rich donors doesn't help These are scientists, not the government, and the US government, at
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by mmooss 8mo ago
> The world view gets more accurate over time Is that true? I can imagine it's true at first, going from zero bits of information to 1, etc. But information rots over time, and eventually a collection of old information may rot fast
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by mmooss 8mo ago
> Change is difficult. I agree, though notice that the GOP/MAGA have and continue to make enormous changes. The difference is that they believe they can do it while others sit around talking about hopelessness and powerlessness. The
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by mmooss 8mo ago
> Voting changes the name of the department. You're conceding that the name has already changed, without voting. > It doesn't change if the government wants mass surveillance. That can be prevented by Congress with enough po

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