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by ramblenode 2y ago
You are going to stockpile years worth of food for an entire country?
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> It is not about the data. It’s about a foreign government controlling the algorithm that decides what millions of people see, and their ability to shape public opinion through that. Well, this is Canada we are talking about. All of t
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> Instead of the laser focus on TikTok as a threat, it would be better for the US and Canada to have real data protection laws that would apply equally to TikTok, Meta, Google, Apple, and X. The law should be against general bad behavior
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> No, I want management to develop a system to determine who is low-performing The system here is going to be something like LoC or tickets answered, things that are objective and easy to measure. We know these don't reflect real pr
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> Even then it’s hard to assess how severe the harms are for microplastics yet. Part of the reason is they’re clearly not overtly dangerous. This is a contradiction.
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by ramblenode 2y ago
I like the idea but I don't like the scoring. There's only two possibilities, so simply making a large number of guesses within the time limit is going to get you a high score. I want to see the ratio of correct to incorrect.
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by ramblenode 2y ago
Unlike many commenters here, I actually read the article, and this quote seems to be the basis for the tenuous link between archeaology and geopolitics suggested by the title: > The extent to which present-day politics hovers over China’
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> The correlation does not mean the microplastics are the thing causing IBD. It probably means they are exasperating it for various reasons. It doesn't even necessarily mean that microplastics are contributing to the harm. It could
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> It seems kind of lazy to observe that anecdotes contradict statistics, and then conclude that it's the statistics are wrong without providing any empirical evidence to the contrary. Anecdotes are empirical evidence. Statistics are
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by ramblenode 2y ago
College admissisons tests were a typical thing at least half a century before the timeline presented in your article [0], [1]. In fact, the demand for standardized tests increased in the pre-war period because colleges wanted to broaden the
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> But megafanua like moose or brown bears are still dangerous, even today. They are dangerous to individual humans but they are a resource to groups of humans.
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> Cognition is such a handwave IMO - what's the biochemistry behind that? Hormones are chemical messengers. They exist to relay messages between different organs and tissues. An organism is constantly sampling its environment and ad
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by ramblenode 2y ago
I don't think law of the excluded middle applies here.
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> Applying this to education, I think that education needs to pivot explicitly to "solving problems" and not education for educations sake. e.g .The student needs to be engaged with a problem and reaches for AI as a tool to sol
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> In most places across the world homeownership is a dream. AFAIK this is more a phenomenon of Western urban areas than the world in general. Even in very poor countries home ownership is normal (and for men it can be a de facto requirem
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by ramblenode 2y ago
Congress can delegate decisions to expert bodies, and often does. But Congress is also quite comfortable simply legislating a solution, which may be ill-informed or with ulterior intent. Speaking of planes, Congress took a direct role in
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by ramblenode 2y ago
Certainly the US has more logistics experience in actual wars, but it's unclear whether it would matter that much in a US-China war. A US-China war would most likely be fought in the South China Sea. Most of China's supply train w
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> The USA will remove that single factory within the first weeks of any conflict. I don't think it's clear that a war would necessarily escalate to attacking industrial targets because there is a kind of MAD at play. From Ameri
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by ramblenode 2y ago
China doesn't need to take a beach in the first phase. If they gain sea superiority, they can blockade the island and eventually exhaust anti-air defenses with drones until they gain air superiority. At that point defenders wouldn&#x27
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> the USA is VERY competent at deploying to and fighting wars. I don't think you can extrapolate fighting in Kosovo, Afghanistan, or Iraq to fighting China. If a war were to break out, both sides would be learning a lot of lessons v
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by ramblenode 2y ago
There is no clear path to a general android. Every physical task that has been automated with robots requires robots engineered specifically for that task. Engineering, building, and maintaining those robots is a massive expense and only ha
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by ramblenode 2y ago
If you think the average American supermarket has every kind of meat, cheese, drink, and vegetable, you are in for a big surprise traveling the world. In many ways American markets have fallen behind relatively poorer countries in variety
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by ramblenode 2y ago
Nicotine use without smoking raises heart rate, constricts blood vessels, raises blood pressure, and remodels the cardiovascular system and individual cells. Those cardiovascular changes are associated with stroke and dementia. It stimulate
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> A RCT does not establish causality. That's essentially my point. A single study/experiment never proofs causality. You need a theory to explain the causality and multiple studies that falsify other possible causality mechanis
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by ramblenode 2y ago
Imagination has been found to activate the same V1 cortex that vision does. The V1 cortex is retinotopic, so individual neurons (or at most small groups) act like pixels. There are approximately 280 million V1 neurons, so the neuroanatomic
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> What is the base level of variance in college applications? Yes, none of the other questions or speculations even matter until this is sorted out. The article even mentions Columbia's applications increased 10% in the same season.
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by ramblenode 2y ago
That's basically how driving was sold to the American public in the 1950s. The reality is that transportation is a network, and driving is only efficient for the individual driver at a relatively low level of density. The bigger the po
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> Why wait until TikTok breaks the law to ban them? Why wait until a homeless guy steals some bread to throw him in jail? The foundation of the rule of law is that the law applies to everyone equally, not arbitrarily. That includes a pre
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> Not sure why you're discounting the potential for foreign influence campaigns from reducing the accountability your government has to you. People often bring up this point, and yet if China poured every resource they had available
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> You can’t hold TikTok legally accountable. Sure you can. You follow the law or you are banned from doing business. This law just skipped the first part because the authors didn't want to write any actual regulations.

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