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by robocat 2mo ago
Tapering down using Caffeine pills (nodōz) has been really effective for me multiple times in the past. I have found it tricky to find a good starting dose, and it gets a bit difficult to break tablets into very small amounts (1/10th p
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by robocat 2mo ago
> love to get rid of at least one of my utility bills Some places don't allow going off-grid. They force everyone in neighbourhood to pay for gas and/or electricity infrastructure even if you're not using it. So many peopl
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by robocat 2mo ago
UEFA isn't really an initialism (well, maybe a backronym). FI is from French and FA is from English. French also has the word Football, but it was taken from English. - Googling.
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by robocat 2mo ago
FIFA Gate corruption was in 2015. The new problem is business. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_FIFA_corruption_case
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> The cost of nails has fallen by 95% over the last century No it hasn't! A century ago, some nails cost 2.5% of disposable income, and now the same nails cost 2.3% - only a little cheaper. The cost of nails has remained remarkably
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by robocat 2mo ago
Are you a “harbinger of failure” Study: Some consumers have an unerring knack for buying unpopular products. https://news.mit.edu/2015/harbinger-failure-consumers-unpopu...
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by robocat 2mo ago
How uninventive. The debased payoff is an interview for the desperate. Selection effects are terrible for both parties. Personally I find this marketing as distasteful as Monster. Text: 7 people left our YC afterparty with permanent tat
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by robocat 2mo ago
> What do you do? The first question when you meet someone is often to measure your status. In New Zealand, different cities had different questions. Auckland: where do you live (using suburb as a proxy for status), Christchurch: what sc
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by robocat 2mo ago
> and made of wood Which works great in earthquakes in my experience in Christchurch. Most homes in New Zealand are made of wood. Christchurch had a 7.1 that was 40km away, that caused some damage (certainly the wooden house I was living
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by robocat 3mo ago
One spider, 8 mouths: what are they pollinating?
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by robocat 3mo ago
To make it safe for the pilot plus anyone in the flight path. Could the hours of maintenance be dropped significantly in wartime: if you don't care about catastrophic failure modes over a foreign country?
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by robocat 3mo ago
> BUT, humans don't risk to take responsibility if they clearly don't know the answer Where do you live? People say the craziest shit about topics they are completely ignorant of. Even important things like medical advice, and
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by robocat 3mo ago
> Please stop relying on word generators for medical advice Ironic that you are giving medical advice. You might as well say don't read books.
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by robocat 3mo ago
Details for why ~40x: The Earth is 3.67 times larger in diameter in the lunar sky than the Moon appears in ours. Earth covers 13.5 times more visual sky area and is also about 3 times more reflective per unit area
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by robocat 3mo ago
> Little Tech Association "Little Tech" in contrast to "Big Tech" monopolies and hyperscalers Awful website: ugly particle systems with text you can't scroll to (on SE): https://littletech.org/mis
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by robocat 3mo ago
I have more than a handful of decades personal experience which intelligently applied has value even if just a single sample of a voter. +/-fortunately voters do matter. I can't vote for much in the US given that I'm in New Z
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by robocat 3mo ago
Perhaps Anthropic is indirectly paying to have their competitors sued... My narritive is that the terms of the settlement would be full and final. It was a class action, with payment going to authors and publishers, and the legal team will
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by robocat 3mo ago
Hell gets Windows.
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by robocat 3mo ago
Don't judge the dog's technique. The miracle is that it's dancing. I would guess most programmers struggle to create SVG icons - I don't find it easy. The average person even more so. Are we best to assume an LLM
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by robocat 3mo ago
You're both reading tea leaves. Settling just says that they expected the internal costs or risks to be more than 1.5 billion cashflow. In the $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation they said their run-rate revenue
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by robocat 3mo ago
Does asking for a dagger help?
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by robocat 3mo ago
> day of the crash It took 17 months for the 2008 crash to reach bottom. For the dotcom, the market peaked in 2000 and reached bottom in 2002. Timing the bottom is hard - plus emotionally nobody is keen to invest so you'd need to be
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by robocat 3mo ago
World Bank said exports in 2024 were about 20% of China's GDP. AI said 30% of China's petrochemical usage is exported as embedded energy. You're right that it is useful to think in terms of marginal generation, where it is m
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by robocat 3mo ago
For context: Currently NZ roads are significantly funded from excise taxes on petrol - about USD1.55 per gallon (making a gallon about USD6.20 including government 15% sales tax). Strangely in NZ currently the taxation per km is more for el
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2 brain cells, have you tried reading below the fold of https://hermit-tech.com/business-owners Soy un loser
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by robocat 3mo ago
The most interesting part of the Dunning-Kruger paper was the "skilled and aware of it" subgroup. Try to be aware that mentioning Dunning-Kruger is recursive.
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Shades of Gattaca: "Society has categorized Vincent Freeman as less than suitable given his genetic make-up and he has become one of the underclass of humans that are only useful for menial jobs." I imagine there are some choice c
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> minority of people ultra sensitive to noise misophonia can be severely disabling. Good overview: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/misophonia-beyond-sensory-s... I've personally had a friend with misophonia
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updoots == upvotes (slang from reddit)
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> Can you create a space people want to come to? Over many years I've tried to work out where a positive vibe comes from (mostly at food and beverage places). My current theory is that a good vibe is an emergent behaviour from the c

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