progne

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by progne 3y ago
If these are such bad writing why are they so entertaining?
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by progne 3y ago
So there's effectively a bidding war between the union and the company, and in this case the company won? To the extent that the union is about helping the employees the union just won too.
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by progne 3y ago
Doctors frequently monetize suffering quite directly. Farmers monetize hunger. Carpenters monetize exposure to the elements. Priests monetize existential suffering. YouTube informs the wider world about it while monetizing suffering. Would
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by progne 3y ago
PSA: when you renegotiate the most important issue is, mutton or wool.
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by progne 3y ago
sheep: we love our freedom, we'll never come baaack farmer: no problem, i'll just be over here by the food if you change your mind
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by progne 3y ago
LLMs could be great tools for measuring the impact of an author on the culture. They have the data to recognize when new concepts and motifs are introduced by a piece of literature and disperse forward in time through the culture. They can
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by progne 3y ago
That's a glib dismissal of perhaps the central finding of the discipline of economics: incentives matter.
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by progne 3y ago
Money-as-knots-in-a-rope sounds closer to the modern money-as-bits-on-a-plate than does money-as-metal-disks.
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by progne 3y ago
oranges, wood stoves, bungee cords, magnets, stretch wrap
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by progne 3y ago
If you're expecting computer assistance at building a long term relationship, rather than just an assist in meeting people, it's probably not going to work out.
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by progne 3y ago
"Luckily for Jake, the FDA and IRB will protect him from being one of the 2 in 10,000 patients who died from a fecal transplant by denying him this potentially life-saving therapy so that he could have a 99%+ chance of dying from his c
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by progne 3y ago
"In fact, and horrifyingly, it’s likely that, as a result of environmental disaster, rural life in many parts of the world will collapse before urban life does, as suggested by a highly disturbing recent paper in Nature, showing how an
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by progne 3y ago
Probably territoriality started with early multicellular organisms around 500 million years ago.
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by progne 3y ago
If he can withhold assent then he is somewhat responsible for the result. What would happen if he tried?
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by progne 3y ago
"The second part of this is: if the things you want but have been excluded from are not good for you (another bottle of wine, the admission into the bathroom stall to partake in a line of cocaine) then you should be glad that you are m
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by progne 3y ago
I wish the article explained why redesigning the monitor to use ambient light is better than turning down the "brightness" setting. Anyone know?
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by progne 3y ago
Inquiring minds want to know, how do they taste? I guess it's not that bad if it was a going business before the raid. As a cat fancier, I still can't come up with a reason why eating one is worse than eating a cow. Which doesn&#x
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by progne 3y ago
I used to drive a taxi. Now I write code. I paid for my own training. I'd expect to find that self-help is the most usual way to transition into other jobs.
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by progne 3y ago
Waymo claims to already have a better record than human drivers. How long before we read a similar case where a driver is accused of creating unsafe conditions by taking control of the car?
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by progne 3y ago
Plus extensive musculature at the new shoulder joint and reinforced bones for the new muscle attachments. I won't be first in line.
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by progne 3y ago
This technology doesn't seem to be limited to existing limbs and organs. After replacing a missing arm you could add a third arm. A man could grow a uterus since he has the X chromosomes and with a transplant that includes Y chromosome
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by progne 3y ago
X > Youtube on this. Demonetizing on suspicion makes slander overpowered. This is an example of the quality of the signal being improved by politically diverse media ownership. Having media moguls who are ideologically disaligned with on
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by progne 3y ago
Cannabis use is associated with reduced rates of obesity. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6340377/
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by progne 3y ago
Whether cannabis is a stimulant or sedative is highly idiosyncratic, and I suspect is a function of much more than THC concentration. "Probably Isn't" is probably the firmest justifiable statement to be made given the variabi
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by progne 3y ago
> (If nothing else, they don't have to wade through their side's propaganda and lies.) I don't get it, I have to wade through my own country's propaganda and lies to get to the truth. Why would that be different for a
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by progne 3y ago
”what can we learn from this? i don't know. capitalism will destroy everything it touches.” Microwaves are better in countries with less capitalism?
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by progne 3y ago
For a rock to extinguish all life on and in Earth from an orbital drop it would have to be quite large. I suppose Jupiter would be big enough.
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by progne 3y ago
Fact check by a remote employee: true
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by progne 3y ago
I know a rancher in Catron county who primarily lives off of elk hunting parties on his ranch. He's been a cowboy all his life, but tells me that the elk hunting is far more profitable, so he only runs cattle to improve the forage for
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by progne 3y ago
That lifestyle led to severe lower back pain. The only cure for that was getting my body in motion. I've kept in motion because of a deep mewling fear of returning to that pain. You could say I'm driven by the lash.

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