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by mullingitover 3mo ago
From your own link: > Main ingredients: Durum wheat flour, water/ eggs May be going out on a limb here but I think it might be the eggs?
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> Many of these services, which use simple tools like drills and dental probes to disable the recording light, have been advertised on Meta's own platforms. There are also dozens of videos on YouTube offering DIY tutorials. This rig
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> Another is that the vaccination gives the immune system a firm kick up its B-cells, activating it against other bugs that might contribute to dementia. It's weird that they kinda gloss over the very real and open questions here,
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(Also worth noting: these people were adamantly opposed to religious freedom as a principle. Just ask any of the dead Maryland Catholics who had the audacity to live near them. The Constitution was in no small part a rebuke of these peo
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They had religious freedom in the Netherlands. The idea that they were persecuted is a very stubborn myth. They went to the Americas in search of the same thing as most immigrants: money[1]. [1] https://www.history.com/artic
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I had a hilarious interaction with a Spectrum technician when I was dealing with an oversubscribed node with my home service (same issue you're describing here). He was a line tech and was fully aware that my slowness wasn't relat
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Crazy, I didn't realize starlink is in the gigabit range for bandwidth? And how are they getting past the speed of light wall on their latency?
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You don’t even need to mention the long-term sustainability benefits of renewable energy. It is simply the dominant option economically. Dollars in, watts produced, fossil energy can’t touch it. Politics is merely a downstream effect of the
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Of all the hills to die on, this is one of them I guess. You and I have access to the same LLMs which have been trained on the corpus of scientific research, and they'll tell you the same thing I am. Take it up with [ gestures broadly
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> Forecasting models predicted that the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14 051 750 (uncertainty interval 8 475 990–19 662 191) additional all-age deaths, including 4 537 157 (3 124 796–5 910 791) in children younger
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There's no universal human instinct to commit human sacrifice, and while it may have happened in scattered groups it wasn't "commonplace." On the other hand there is absolutely universal human sense of fairness.
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This goes against the firm stance of every major religion, and well documented studies showing that humans universally have innate sense of fairness upon which ethical systems are founded. There may be some difficult ethical questions, but
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Models are tuned to give ethical responses and right-leaning responses are judged by RLHF process to be unethical. That's your problem. It's not 'left' or 'right' to be ethical, but if one side is inherently an
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You make a great case for state capitalism, comrade!
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> They just like gambling. So why to people suffering from poverty like gambling so much more than everyone else?
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> There is a market for the gamblification of everything because there is no other widely accessible path for young people to build a future. Gambling is the closest we've come to figuring out how to directly tax hope.
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Having agents is like going from walking to having a bicycle. Business executives look at this and think "at this rate of progress we'll have self-driving cars in a few years!" and start making serious plans for that world. I
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Adventists are okay with meat as long as it’s kosher generally. I think the bigger factor is that they’re teetotalers. My data points, though: two of my vegetarian teetotaling Adventist family members died of Alzheimer’s. The lifestyle is c
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I don't think my point got through: purchasing vegetables and fruits, essential staple foods, involves some amount of discernment. It's not like grabbing a USB cable out of the box of identical USB cables. Passing this task off to
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I've tried Amazon for groceries on this line of thinking. Verdict: it's terrible. Their groceries are priced uncompetitively and after a few times having some stranger pick my produce (and doing an offensively bad job of it) I don
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Amazon largely being a dumb marketplace, a faster-shipping AliExpress/Temu, really makes them easy to drop if you find that shipping speed isn’t super important for those types of products. You can just go straight to the source and cu
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I don’t blame Israel for that one, evangelicals have a mile-wide apocalyptic streak and there are plenty of homegrown grifters ready to hustle them.
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It's incredible how badly the US has been dog-walked by both its 'ally' as well as Iran. "America First" brought to you by "The Peace President"[1]. [1] https://xcancel.com/WhiteHouse/
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The Venn diagram of people who distrust big pharma and the people who uncritically trust the far larger “wellness” industry is a circle.
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Dismissing people who dismiss the antivax movement like this is part of what fuels the anti-anti-vax movement.
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The obvious answer to this mess is probably a simple engagement tax. Companies like Facebook and Tiktok are incentivized to behaviorally modify their users in a way that's harmful to society: they make more money the longer everyone in
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> I don't like it but don't know what to do, Anthropic models especially increasingly ignore instructions whether in memory or agents files. I've taken to instructing the agent to manage the subagent, and the principal age
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It’s not a new idea. I’d put it at around ninety years old.
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This is like the US with AI bubble companies. Something tells me China is going to have a softer landing.
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Obvious answer: build all your open source LLMs into firearms, get the SC to grant 2A protections.

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