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by mo_42 3y ago
Can you explain how it's more compassionate for a dog to be kept leashed? In my experience dogs are less stressed without a leash. The primary reason for using a leash is that I feel compassionate about people who are afraid of dogs or
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by mo_42 3y ago
I showed this text to a friend who works in internal medicine (so not a cardiologist but probably much closer than most commenters). Basic comment was that the person confuses and misunderstands many things. According to my friend, the rang
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by mo_42 3y ago
> Where the wait equation has relevance is the fact that a generation ship, once launched, is likely unable to reconfigure itself to take advantage of new technologies invented while it is underway. Given my experience with complex techn
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Not only can the watermarks be deleted easily. They might also get deleted accidentally by some post-processing like tokenization for grammar and spellchecking. Also, I think 3.1 and the following proof is pseudo-formalism. A simple sentenc
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by mo_42 3y ago
Not sure what's the purpose of this. It goes to an archive of a German quack and mystic. Spent some minutes on these pages and couldn't find anything that satisfies my intellectual curiosity remotely.
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by mo_42 3y ago
Somehow it feels like I'm missing out on something here. When I was in high school I learned some definition of life in biology. Later, I realized that this definition does not quite work. Especially, when I see a couple who cannot hav
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by mo_42 3y ago
Maybe it is. However, there's no direct way from a worker to a C-level. So there needs to be some kind of a selection process. Could be at least partly the reason for the existence of middle management. So, for an individual company, i
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by mo_42 3y ago
I expected something different: whether the product that someone develops should be innovative or not. Rather the author writes about the underlying technology that is innovative or not. Neither of these two need to be innovative IMHO. Tech
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> Everyone accessing someone's uncritically reviewed work is a bittersweet gift. Review work is not always done by senior researcher (e.g., professors). Senior researchers often hand this down to PhDs. Having 3 to 4 reviews by nice
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by mo_42 3y ago
I'm really fascinated by such ideas. However, it's just academic as time is so much baked into physical devices (watches, clocks, ...) so this will most probably never happen. I'd rather start redoing the calendar. It doesn&#
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by mo_42 3y ago
As soon as I observe the behavior or output of an agent or AI, the configuration of my brain changes. This is somewhat tautological as observation is connected to memory and thus brain changes. I guess the more interesting question is wheth
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by mo_42 3y ago
AIs are already acting in the physical world: Any AI (e.g., ChatGPT) changes the configuration of the human brain of those who use it. Sure, it's a rather philosophical argument currently, but this will change. If I would be a maliciou
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by mo_42 3y ago
> Do you guys know of any ways to reduce your risks of getting cancer? I know not smoking tobacco works. Also not drinking alcohol [1]. [1] https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/a...
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by mo_42 3y ago
I guess the simple answer would be: No, first seek to understand. Given this principle, we would mostly realize that even if it was that simple, the business is still years ahead because those people don't just come to work to drink co
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by mo_42 3y ago
I think thre F-Droid store is by far the best app store. I would like this for iOS too. Also, so I could permanently install a little iOS app I once developed. Let's hope that the EU gets this right.
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I think we cannot compare humans with worker bees as these bees cannot reproduce. Basically, only the beehive is an complete organism. For the latter part, I'd argue along the lines of the selfish genes (Dawkins): Not an organism wan
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by mo_42 3y ago
> > Google Search has two masters, users and advertisers > No, it doesn't. It has one master: advertisers. Advertisers are the customer. Users are the product. Search results are the bait. I wouldn't put it that strictly.
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I think the debate reveals how flawed and entitled our thinking is. A bit over-simplistic, we find a couple of bones in a cave and so a few pieces of evidence. From this, we patch up a full picture of the Neanderthals (flawed) and we do it
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by mo_42 3y ago
> This IS a pet project. Contrary to many comments here about not creating another browser, I'd like to encourage you continue! Once, for example Linux was also pet project. In retrospective, it's obvious but we don't know
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I appreciate your work much. I think it would really be a pleasant experience completing not only the Anmeldung but other things you provide on allaboutberlin.com. From a pragmatic perspective this is the right thing to do. But I think peop
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> We're well into the "smartphones are a human right" era My government has to respect free speech but it doesn't mean I have to speak up. Just because something is a human right doesn't mean I have to execute it
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Might be true but I've never heard of any European who was bankrupt because of student loans or doctors invoices. Also, it doesn’t seem like Europeans are much more uneducated or unhealthy than people in the US.
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I do somehow because of my inherent interest in understanding the world. However, this got me intro communication issues with my former boss. Apparently, this person was not interested in what words (or combinations of words) actually mean
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While reading it, I was always thinking about confounding factors. This study is from Japan, but I'm pretty sure there are others too. For the USA or EU, I can imagine many confounding factors. Let's pick one example: income. Weal
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Antarctica World Passport(antarcticaworldpassport.com)
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I very much enjoyed the first one and bought the second one already. Thanks for recommending another one.
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The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
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Because it's exponential decay: population_n = population_0 * 0.55^n (made-up exponent).
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by mo_42 3y ago
Context: I'm roughly half your age. > What can I do? Try to become a CTO of a small, really small or even startup company. If you write your CV in a similar style as here, I'd suggest to rewrite it a bit. Don't focus on li
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> I hate that. I fully understand. This was my initial reaction too. Thinking about this for a while, I have a different view: If rich people pay for this, it means their money goes into the pockets of people who operate (and own) such s

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