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by pas 1y ago
for anyone else wondering: https://cdn.mdedge.com/files/s3fs-public/fedprac/images/fed0... ~0.7% at 49 years, 45.5% at 70 years, looks like a logarithmic growth curve
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by pas 1y ago
usually (at least since Ol' Russel) there's no real need to prove that space is quite rare when it comes to teapots so far there was absolutely no scientifically "woah" thing about SARS-CoV-2, it fits "neatly"
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by pas 1y ago
What did Scott leave out from the post(s)? https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/my-left-kidney https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/highlights-from-the-comment...
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by pas 1y ago
it's not AI (at least I am not aware, but the simulation argument is pretty convincing!)
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by pas 1y ago
ah, sorry, I am not optimistic, I just accepted that it's not a technical, logistical, or "resource constraints" problem it's a coordination problem as you mentioned based on this I moved to a place where I think things
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by pas 1y ago
FYI (and for anyone who wants) to see data on this check out this blog https://www.construction-physics.com/p/what-makes-housing-so... https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-are-homes-in-west..
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by pas 1y ago
there are of course more than enough "natural resources" to sustain such consumption, the problem is paradoxically the opposite, too much easy to extract shit that we then emit into our own environment the fix is also not complica
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by pas 1y ago
people are addicted to features though that's why these pure/fair/libre phones were failing to reach any market share and even sustainability. but things are slowly getting better, projects underway to get smoother better per
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by pas 1y ago
my nothing phone (1) full of very ugly scratches (and one especially ugly testament on a corner to me dropping it one too many time) was stolen a few months ago while I was in a house of worship (I was introducing my favorite girlfriend to
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by pas 1y ago
do the chemo medications not do anything useful at low(er) doses in these precancerous situations?
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by pas 1y ago
is support not even planned (realistically possible?) in these fast transpilers (like esbuild, used by tsx, right?)
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by pas 1y ago
... it depends on how the given server defines PUT of course (also how we define upsert, and does upsert make sense outside a DB setting? well, of course some DBs have a HTTP/ReST API.) that said, usually PUT is meaningful for a URL (o
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by pas 1y ago
FDA approved in 2018 for (treatment-resistant) depression? https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/compass-pathways-re... ?
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by pas 1y ago
update already means overwriting. semantically PUT is exactly upsert. upsert is update + create if not exists, which is exactly PUT any update without overwrite is "append" or "extend" (or something else)
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by pas 1y ago
yes, and it was a correct outrage, and the solution was also nice and easy (remove this modular thing instead of switch to FreeBSD) and importantly it seems that Canonical/Ubuntu is not doing something like that right now, whereas MSFT
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by pas 1y ago
30 grams of pure psilocybin? that requires eating 3 kilograms of mushrooms, right? usually it's 1% (or less) of dried mass. well, actually more "doable" than initially I have assumed, but it would quickly lead to vomiting and
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by pas 1y ago
... where is it easy to do business anyway? sure, there are degrees, levels, grades of this, the size of the barriers to entry matters, there are metrics about how easy it is to start a business for example, but that's just one aspect,
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by pas 1y ago
usually they are very thorough (for a magazine targeting curious well-motivated, but of course still a virtually completely laymen audience), but it seems recently their volume has increased whil quality stayed constant :)
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by pas 1y ago
they were shit all along, but the energy (and productivity) surplus allowed for decades of amazing growth, which created the feeling of prosperity unfortunately most people doesn't understand (and as a consequence doesn't apprecia
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by pas 1y ago
presumably they glance at the other 90 too, and they then do a thorough verification on that random 10 the analogy is not great, but in cryptography something similar is at play (easy to get/check trivial properties and then hard to ac
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by pas 1y ago
the concept is not new in an sense (duh), I mean, send HTML first send the important CSS first so the browser can show something - and with the correct dimensions hopefully to avoid reflows (and flash of white and so on), and therefore JS i
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by pas 1y ago
depends on how you define bright. people who get stuck in finance - especially trading - are not that bright IMHO compared to the hopelessly curious stubborn ones who go into philosophy or hard sciences or other areas of research.
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by pas 1y ago
meh, not like protests work see Tblisi or Belgrade :(
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by pas 1y ago
that's what the comment means we as people went from picking Ada to ReactJS of course we also went from having no Rust and no TypeScript and only a few hundred thousand semi-academic people having some knowledge of programming to hundr
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by pas 1y ago
> resistance to growth at all costs is futile humans want to improve their (material) conditions, it's pretty much the thing we do at this point (that other species don't really) the issue that was a bit of an inconvenience, a
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by pas 1y ago
ah, okay, thanks! so basically reverse notation has the advantage of keeping magnitude of numbers (digits!) relative to each other constant (or at least anchored to the beginning of the number) doesn't attention help with this? (or, it
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by pas 1y ago
how did CAFA (and these other acts) affect class actions? why this led to their elimination?
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by pas 1y ago
... why does reversing the all the digits help? could you please explain it? many thanks!
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by pas 1y ago
so simple recompilation can speed things up? sounds amazing. (but of course, can it?) also, it sounds a bit like restartable sequences (from Google).
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by pas 1y ago
publicly repented? maybe, but what did it worth? please look at the people voting for AfD, also how many of them are people are falling left and right for the siren songs of various magical solutions and for the cults behind them.

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