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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
Yes it is you getting grumpy, not older. My 95-year-old great granddad finds delight regularly, from his great sounding carbon fiber trombone (you try holding a full brass one as an nonogenarian!) to how much self-driving or AI has improved
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
My great-granddad was unconcerned about the deforestation of the Amazon during the 1970s until the little forest on the way out of his small town was cut down for a new subdivision.
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
I don't know where the author lives, but usually it's easy to find a store selling something. They've almost always been staffed by bored teenagers tho.
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
Somewhere people working in Sabre are laughing... 15 years ago people weren't crafting artisanal lines of code to build by dry-stacking. I bet some of the oldest artifacts in code say "TODO" or "Temporary work-around&quo
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
They got in trouble for violating copyright so now they are somewhat spitefully showing the alternative
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
Pretty much lost interest when the author appropriated the opening line of the communist manifesto. AI will, if it pans out, cause far more disruption (including but not limited to finally freeing a lot of workers from work)
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
Or, you've always lived in a sliced bread generation and not before.
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
This reminds me of the 2013 finding that showed an earlier 2010 study praising austerity as a recovery mechanism was flawed because of an Excel calculation error and lack of diligence. https://inthesetimes.com/article/t
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
I agree with your take. There's a lot of things we don't have to have that provide us a lot of value, so we have them anyway. Sliced bread (commercially available after the automobile!) comes to mind, as do antibiotics--which al
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
We demand the truth?
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
I've seen most people compare p/e ratios of companies in the same industry as there is a big difference across industries. Why do you believe the business of Anthropic and MercedesBenz are similar?
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
Jewish, Christian, and Islam have a Sabbath. Not sure what anyone else did.
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
Don't we have fauci's journal notes saying that he thought it was lab made now?
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
You said it's burying the lede but the "stun" is right there in the headline. I'm confused what you think the lede for this story should be?
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
The US government would never fund a Chinese lab to do something like that, right?
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
And no mention of the replication crisis which should be begging us to revisit the research funding process. (Oddly enough, the author did briefly touch on the other replication crisis--young adults don't have the money or hope to supp
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
In small doses, alcohol may have other benefits that outweigh the risk of gastrointestinal cancer. Whether it's as strong as the now Resveratrol scam or not is a matter to study honestly , though that quality seems beyond the reach of
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
They gave him a professorship instead of treatment.
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
It may have been a little bit more interesting than the title would lead you to believe not but haruspicy is not a key affordance of mathematician so it still probably wasn't worth the read
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
Except sometimes the TSA precheck and regular lines are the same and they give you this little placard that sometimes a guy behind the conveyor belt will agree means you don't need to take off your shoes and belt...
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
Unintended but not unforeseeable? I think "acceptable" is a better adjective here, though people like to disassociate by using "collateral", like with the school of girls blown up the first day...
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
Do you believe that current climate predictions are based on the data and models of the time?
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
It did, except for robberies in high unauthorized immigrant neighborhoods. Somehow City crime rates went up though.
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
Did you read anything more than the title of the paper which evaluated statistics through 2018?
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
Right? 1/32" precision would have set the bar way too high!
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
"Find out how a eureka moment during an industry conference triggered a paradigm shift in chip manufacturing." The only discussion I saw of this was I mentioned that the people at the conference honed in on using water to improve
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
"this administration" Except the claims were by the previous administration according to the article. There is no credibility there, either.
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
But the fine article said that it was a surprise! The author was appalled that no one was warned beforehand privately...
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
There's a good Judge Dee novel that incorporates pet crickets as a central plot ploy.
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by readthenotes1 2mo ago
Interesting concept; horrible writing.

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