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by nostromo 3y ago
I have mixed feelings about our heat pump system. Yes, it's efficient. But it breaks about once every other year. Last winter the compressor circuit board malfunctioned and cost $5k to fix. Two years ago it was another issue entirel
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by nostromo 3y ago
Salt Lake City isn't representative of the US -- and in particular places in the US with a housing shortage.
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Just browse the website and look at the requests it makes to their API.
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> If they have nothing to hide they have nothing to fear. Ok then. Share with us your email and social media passwords -- and give us access to your Google Photos while you're at it. Otherwise -- what are you hiding?
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by nostromo 3y ago
Yours is a well-meaning, but ultimately insulting view. You argue that women don’t know what they really want, and only make choices due to “social conditioning.” You also center everything back on the decisions of men, claiming that the
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by nostromo 3y ago
Your iPhone is product - what if Apple decided you shouldn't be able to view adult material on it? Or what if Gmail decided you shouldn't be allowed to use certain harsh language in emails you send? Where do you dry the line pers
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I doubt anyone cares if you asked ChatGPT to create a picture of a basketball player and it returned an image of an asian player. People don't like that it's rewriting prompts to force diversity. So if I ask for a black basketb
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by nostromo 3y ago
You don't know that though. And there's evidence to the contrary. If you look at the career choices of women, to pick one contentious social issue at random, they tend to be different than the career choices of men, even in count
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by nostromo 3y ago
The implication in the article (that her healthcare provider sold her data to a data broker) is extremely unlikely. Much more likely is that she has been Googling keywords about chemo, and those websites she clicked on sold her data to a da
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> Overall, the observed damage patterns and absence of contact damage or deformation around holes associated with the vertical movement arrestor bolts and upper guide track bolts in the upper guide fittings, hinge fittings, and recovered
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by nostromo 3y ago
And not just legal either. I uploaded all of my bloodwork tests and my 23andme data to Chat GPT and it was better at analyzing it than my doctor was.
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by nostromo 3y ago
It's very odd to take a common saying and slap a name on it, knowing that it's not unique to them or even really their idea. Doubly so when calling it a "law." I wouldn't be surprised if this author comes out with
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by nostromo 3y ago
The issue is that the catholic church covered up the abuse, and in some cases even moved offending priests to other parishes where they continued to abuse children.
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> They'll change the questions. No chance in hell leetcoding is going away. I'd take that bet. Leetcoding is something that GPT 4 is very good at doing -- and it does it faster than any engineer can type, let alone think.
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by nostromo 3y ago
I'm glad ChatGPT could be the end of leetcode interviews. I worry though that it'll just be the end of online leetcode interviews and employers will bring people back into the office to interview.
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For the US: Moderate: between Republican and Democrat. Progressive: left of Democrat
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While migrants can’t vote in national elections, they are counted in the census (California has an additional four or five seats in congress just from illegal immigration, for example). Secondly, the children of illegal immigrants are citiz
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by nostromo 3y ago
Because the major donors for both parties support illegal immigration. Republican donors enjoy the labor of illegal immigration which is much cheaper than domestic labor. Any crack down on unauthorized workers in agriculture or hospitality
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They're usually more boring than you might realize. For example, if your new business's trademark is similar to an established company's.
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Politicians always say that. Obama himself denied wanting to run for president repeatedly right up until he announced his run for president.
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by nostromo 3y ago
No conspiracy thinking required. Biden has a non-zero chance of dying before the election and Harris is very unpopular. It's not unthinkable that should Biden not be able to run, someone like Obama would step in at the last minute. W
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by nostromo 3y ago
Because you end up with bad science, like (potentially) the study posted here. If you refuse to consider the role of genetics, then everything is going to look like environmental impacts. This has a real impact on policy and investment, be
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by nostromo 3y ago
Most of an individual's intelligence is inherited from their parents, and that's been proven multiple times with large-scale studies of adopted twins. It wouldn't surprise me if reward response was similar. But it's unl
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> I wouldn't recommend borrowing for it. Not necessarily. Just run the numbers. I installed rooftop solar during low interest rates. I could have paid cash but my loan payment is less than the power bill it replaced.
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From an American perspective, “free” or “open” are better translations than is “liberal” here. “Liberal research” will leave people scratching their heads.
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They already have a new one. It’s “people experiencing homelessness” now. My favorite offshoot of this is when I heard a Brit say, “don’t mind that guy, he’s currently experiencing Frenchness.”
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> Harsh consequences don’t actually prevent the offense But they do protect the public.
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by nostromo 3y ago
> Not sure where you're getting this. No, it is (or was) definitely a trend. Google "millennial gray" -- it's so common it became a meme.
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I agree it seems more likely that causation flows from aging to microbiome changes, not the opposite. When your skin ages, the biome changes as your barrier is degraded, as your skin thins, as inflammation increases as your immune system ag
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Literally everyone invested in the S&P 500 (the most commonly touted investment strategy requiring zero effort or insight) has doubled their investment value since the low of March 2020 (the dates used in the article). SPY low in March

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