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by password11 4y ago
> The fact that he is putting that the ideas are lame and amplifying the idea that they might be political loyalty tests is a wildly supportive position for him given his usual approach to politics. Sorry I deleted the original comment
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by password11 4y ago
> This represents a bit of a move in how I've seen Bret approaches culture war topics. He's supporting the view instead of denigrating it. He must be quite worried about the issue to take this position I agree that even ackn
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by password11 4y ago
> it's that America's adversaries know they can do it without consequences There was a consequence -- we shot it down. > That is the irreversible change it signifies, imo. It's not irreversible. Additional consequen
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by password11 4y ago
> even Bret is willing to support the idea that "others will argue that this actually protects academic freedom since diversity statements can be little more than political litmus tests thinly disguised." No, you're wron
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by password11 4y ago
> The reason the founder isn't doing that now is likely exactly the same reason Uber or other VC startups consistently lose money; they are optimizing for growth, not profit/salary. Optimizing for growth is very risky and mak
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by password11 4y ago
> because diffing the Virtual DOM adds heavily to computation costs if you aren't being extra careful or as the application grows to real-world size, especially in mobile. Is there some recent study showing evidence or analysis o
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by password11 4y ago
> AI? What was the training data? Would seem a bit thin on the ground. It's in the article. To train the AI system, Ma inserted simulated signals into actual data, allowing the autoencoder to learn what to look for. Then the resear
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by password11 4y ago
> I had an idea... coffee vending machine with good but not over the top coffee They have these in big tech company kitchenettes. They're great. I'm sure whoever made them made a killing from all that big tech b2b money.
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by password11 4y ago
Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots)
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by password11 4y ago
I wrote a long post but deleted it. > Help me out. I don't see the problem. This is the problem: https://xkcd.com/1102/
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by password11 4y ago
girls 15-19 that self harmed: 0.45% -> 0.7%. A 47% increase! boys 15-19 that died by suicide: 0.01% -> 0.016%. A 34% increase! Relative increase percentages (i.e. exponentials) are misleading when they are measuring linear phenome
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by password11 4y ago
> If you are a US-based employee who is impacted, you will receive an email to your Zoom and personal inboxes in the next 30 minutes that reads [IMPACTED] Departing Zoom: What You Need to Know. This is the way to notify people of a lay
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by password11 4y ago
2.3% of the population have a visual impairment ( https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/57340/percentage-of-s... ). But because conversion rates are typically low and because of how the math works out for a funnel
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by password11 4y ago
> the vast majority of whom agreed to supplementation with either 5000 or 10,000 IUs/day. A few agreed to larger amounts, ranging from 20,000 to 50,000 IUs/day. This study is mostly about << 20,000 IU/day. Also, ab
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by password11 4y ago
> "In the interim, all other methods of buying and selling crypto remain unaffected, including bank transfer using one of the other fiat currencies supported by Binance (including euros), buying and selling crypto via credit card,
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by password11 4y ago
According to the top quality evidence provided here at https://vers.substack.com/p/doctors-are-idiots-vitamin-d-meg... > Doctors Are Idiots: Vitamin D Megadose. This Is Not Medical Advice, But I'm Correct &gt
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by password11 4y ago
> There are many cases where the advice from an MD minimizes their liability and risk but doesn't optimize health for the most number of people. That may be true in general, but is there any evidence that regularly taking 20,000 I
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by password11 4y ago
20,000 IU/day is a lot of vitamin D, about 20x the RDA for both the U.S. and the UK [1]. Is this safe, and if so would a doctor ever recommend to do this every day? [1]: https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/vitamind-h
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by password11 4y ago
I think it's more of the author having a misguided opinion of what teaching is. I've had a lot of good teachers in my upbringing but not one of them has ever thought that a vague/condescending question like " I’m not sur
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by password11 4y ago
^ just want to clarify, alleged position.
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by password11 4y ago
Completely agree.
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by password11 4y ago
This is why I'm so grateful to work in SWE where skills and progress are somewhat objective. If such a situation occured with my boss I could just resign and have a new job in a couple weeks. Their loss. But in management you've s
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by password11 4y ago
I don't think funny names hinder tool adoption. Photoshop is the standard because it's a better tool than Gimp, although it's non-free. Companies adopted Git. They'll adopt Gimp if it's better than Photoshop.
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by password11 4y ago
We've all seen enough post-Soviet cities to make an educated guess.
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by password11 4y ago
> utilitarian [brutalist] architecture that has great appeal to me. I think in part because it is rare now. I find them far more pleasing to the eye than the giant glass clad high rises that was the fashion for a long time. Reminds me of
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by password11 4y ago
Fair enough, I think what I said was a bit haughty in retrospect. However, this is a very serious matter. If found guilty, this person will have a criminal record. Doing something illegal in the United States is very dangerous, and you shou
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by password11 4y ago
I don't think it's what they deserved. There are many things that are illegal but probably shouldn't be: weed for example. What I'm saying is, the article was actually about the fact that police are exploiting known in
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by password11 4y ago
> That sounds like something someone really depressed would say What does?
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by password11 4y ago
> Police had made the discovery after obtaining a warrant that required Meta to hand over their conversations on Facebook Messenger. The messages, which were not encrypted, showed the two had discussed obtaining and using abortion pills
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by password11 4y ago
>Google seemingly losing the narrative war I think we’re seeing here. Google doesn't care about the narrative war. They care about getting sued by the EU. They can put out a similar model whenever they want. The just don't want

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