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by rland 6y ago
There are a few issues. One thing that I don't see mentioned very often is that a police officer is actually very rarely necessary. But they are called in anyway. There is a kind of litigiousness to American culture. Two people mad a
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Reaction time and the physical operation of the body are things that seem obvious to me. Try to design a control system for a machine that could replicate a gymnast, for example.
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Well, yes, the concept is not new. What seems new to me is an increased focus on massive expansion in sectors that traditionally didn't operate that way. Of course railroads, oil, and steel were the first groups who naturally thought,
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I mean, what industry is not consolidating at this point? It feels like just about every conceivable area is served by a handful of gigantic players, with the rest competing for scraps. It's now at the point where new entrants don&#x27
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Well, the effect of the protests is tempered somewhat by the fact that they are all outdoors. So the risk of Covid + Protests is significantly lower than that of Covid + No Lockdown.
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Overeating does contribute, of course. I do think there are, again, many other confounding factors. Environment and diabetes are closely linked. Incidence of Type 1 Diabetes, for example, has increased five-fold in the past 50 years or so.
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First degree does require prior intent, but it can be in a very short period of time (minutes, or even seconds). Basically, if you can stop and think about what you're doing at any point and prevent the murder, you can be convicted of
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The evidence from clinicians and people who study this is pretty clear: genetics is a massive factor. There are monogenic forms: if you have the gene, you will get diabetes, often in your 20s or 30s, and there is nothing you can do about it
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This is another good chart: https://xkcd.com/radiation/
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What other ways are you referring to?
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I've read that Siri collects/sends home significantly less information about the user than its counterparts. It might just be that "getting it right" requires a complete violation of user privacy. I actually am perfectly
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Well, I'm not sure exactly what everyone uses OF for. I'm making the assumption that there is "something more" than just the pictures and videos, because I can search big boob on Google right now and get 2 billion hits.
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Well, this is why I don’t have a blog. I have a lot of strong opinions that might be interesting to some people, but I don’t want to miss opportunities because some HR person googled my name and found a post they disagreed with. Or, in the
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I watched this video recently about OnlyFans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djMojvschs0 It's more than just the content itself. "Becoming a fan" is a simulacra of a relationship, commodified. This already e
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I have a sister opinion to this take, which is that artstyle is far more important than graphics, and there is a very important difference between the two that is often ignored by large game studios. \* Your graphical capability can push a
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I play a game that has hacks publicly available with no real enforcement. 95% of people go the obvious route. If you got rid of the obvious hackers I would see a couple cheaters per year instead of multiple per day.
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You're almost certainly right. Although: I don't see the tweets as a sort of sociopathic "if I use my bullhorn to influence public behavior there is a .24% chance that this will increase my net worth therefore it's the o
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Well you have overpaid for the mattress . They’re identical or even inferior to the no-name foam brands that are half the price. So in a sense, the ad may have cost you hundreds of dollars. I don’t know if this is true, but it seems just
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by rland 7y ago
My main method of exercise (surfing) was cut off due to rules & fines. Honestly after 2 months of this I feel like I am withering away. I feel like if I get sick, the disease is going to take me out. And yeah, it's absolutely ridic
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Do you have an idea of why dials and buttons are so expensive? That surprises me. The components aren't particularly high tech.
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by rland 7y ago
I have a question for those more knowledgeable about physics: Everything we know so far points to time invariance * , right? What would happen if we discovered that some things truly aren't time invariant? Would it crucially change the
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I’m not really sure if we’re overreacting. But it sure seems like we are entering this endeavor completely without a plan. We’re not going to be able to stockpile food and furlough half the economy forever, and as soon as we start coming ou
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And why should they do otherwise? They're bailed out every time things go south.
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This exchange triggered me: I'm so sick of the "market" paradigm. It's seeped so deeply into every cultural value we have blinded us to many parts of life. Everything is a market now. Every waking moment your time is on
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It takes time (several months) for islet cells to get destroyed by the body. That's the origin of the "Honeymoon phase" experienced by some t1ds after diagnosis. So successful islet cell transplants last for a few months; at
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HNCS (Hacker News Comment Section) is turning into AWZ (A WarZone) with these acronyms. Here are some definitions of acronyms: B2B: Business to business. SME: Small and Medium Enterprise? Subject Matter Expert? CRUD: Create Read Update Dele
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Please come over to my house and cook me dinner. It will take only 20 minutes! I won't pay you.
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This exchange reads to me like one commenter saying "not a true communist!" and one commenter saying "not a true capitalist." I won't call it either way, because I've seen this argument play out many many times
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Well the other route presumably has a significant throughput. If 1000 car/min are in traffic, and the side-road has a 200 car/min capacity, the first 20% of people to leave the main road will experience no additional traffic. Now,
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by rland 7y ago
Well, often times human beings miss metaphors, slang, and topical references, especially if they are speaking in another cultural group. The gulf between even the most disparate human tribes is nothing compared to the gulf between an AI cha

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