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(Source) Allies' Book of Checklists(docs.google.com)
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> Yes, we’ve had authors opt out. We anticipated that would happen as well; in fact, we launched with clear instructions on how to opt out because we understand that authors and creators have been impacted by the same global pandemic th
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> A 10x engineer isn’t someone who is 10x better than those around them, but someone who makes those around them 10x better. > 10 Ways to be a Better Teammate - Create an environment of psychological safety - Encourage everyone to p
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> Surveillance Valley is a troubling book, but it is an important book... What it demonstrates in stark relief is that surveillance and unnerving links to the military-industrial complex are not signs that the Internet has gone awry, but
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There were so many technical terms, I'm surprised you could get through even an overview, and then practicals, in just 4 hours. Do you know of any resources which list most of the common alternatives? e.g. what are the alternatives to
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> At their core, both To Explain the World and The Invention of Science seek to reaffirm the significance of the scientific revolution as a force in world history. Summary: The author reviews two books on the history of science and finds
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Summary: In 1299, the locals of Bologna protested against their inquisitor by confessing their disdain for his office (a punishable offense).
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Aubrey de Grey at SENS. IIRC they're trying to clear out age-related damage rather than fully understand the mechanisms of aging first (as more mainstream researchers are doing).
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> Scientists fed fruit flies with a combination of probiotics and an herbal supplement called Triphala that was able to prolong the flies' longevity by 60 percent and protect them against chronic diseases associated with aging. For
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> 3. Rich man in the car paradox. > When you see someone driving a nice car, you rarely think, “Wow, the guy driving that car is cool.” Instead, you think, “Wow, if I had that car people would think I’m cool.” Subconscious or not, thi
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tl;dr: by a few metrics (musical valence, producers of the top-rated songs), hit songs are becoming less diverse.
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Burt Dorman, a researcher, has been trying for the past 30 years to get funding for a killed-virus HIV vaccine (i.e. infect folks with denatured HIV and see if they can get further infected by real HIV). Only recently is this approach being
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> Amarillo College, in Texas, is working hard to accommodate low-income students such as by offering to pay vehicle-repair bills for families with only one car, reimbursing (through federal grants) baby-sitting bills, having 8 week mini-
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> Images from an illustrated version of a 13th-century Arabic treatise by Zakariya al-Qazwini titled ‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt (Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing). The drawings resembl
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> The two books under consideration here bring the paradox home, each in its own way. Adam Becker’s What Is Real? chronicles the tragic side of a crowning achievement of reason, quantum physics. The documentarian Errol Morris gives us Th
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tl;dr: why people who value stable employment are leaving the game industry.
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From the article (fig. 13a) Motivations: - To improve the project because I am using it - To have a volunteer work - I have interest or expertise on the project domain Project characteristics: - Friendly community - Availability of the pro
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> Maintaining many different personas over a long time can be psychologically taxing. Real spies have access to professionals helping to deal with the psychological issues that arise from compartmentalization. > All this begs the ques
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> GOES-17 is the second in a series of next-generation geostationary weather satellites. Like GOES-16, its sister satellite operating as GOES East, GOES-17 is designed to provide advanced imagery and atmospheric measurements of Earth fro
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> It was 1989. Kirk Lougheed of Cisco and Yakov Rekhter of IBM were having lunch in a meeting hall cafeteria at an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) conference. > They wrote a new routing protocol that became RFC (Request for Com
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> The persistence of the neutrino anomaly is extremely exciting, said the physicist Scott Dodelson of Carnegie Mellon University. > The existence of a sterile neutrino would revolutionize physics from the smallest to the largest scale
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Tough article. Sounds like in the early 1900s, Vienna faced the rise of fascism and the fall of the "Liberal" order. The bourgeouise, mostly liberals, began to use art discourse as a means of secretly discussing their discontent w
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> What book or books have had the biggest impact on your life and world view and why? > RayTDalio: > Three great books were: > Lessons from History by Will and Ariel Durant, which is a 104-page distillation of the themes of his
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> Privacy advocates like the American Civil Liberties Union already decry the use of facial-recognition AI in most cases, making the case that widespread adoption of the technology would mean we would live under constant surveillance by
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> Even within the artificial confines of the simulation, there was a lack of leadership. Everyone agreed that the President had the final word on everything in general, but nobody seemed to be responsible for America’s outbreak response
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> He advocates an alternative voting method called approval voting, in which you can vote for as many candidates as you want, not just one. That means that you can always support your honest favorite candidate, even when an election seem
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> Tokyo says the number of crows it has counted in large parks rose to 36,400 in 2001 from 7,000 in the late 1980s, prompting a trapping plan that cut the numbers to 18,200 last year. However, ornithologists say that the actual number in
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I used to feel similarly until I realized that the EA movement isn't a hierarchical organization: it's just a bunch of totally separate orgs who have a common philosophy about how to do good in the world. Sure, OpenPhil funds AI r
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Sounds like Qt Safe Renderer is a graphics library for displaying safety-critical information in cars, planes, medical devices etc. In these domains, safety-critical information has to be displayed by certified hardware/software; QT Sa
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> Ultimate eventual goal: Make Tor Browser obsolete, so Tor Project can focus on research instead of maintaining a fork of Firefox.

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