robonerd

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by robonerd 4y ago
> And we can thank EU for the extremely annoying cookie pop-up’s on every website. I've never heard anybody who wasn't in or adjacent to the tech surveillance industry complain about this.
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Hmm. Well over the past century, European governments have collectively murdered a lot more people than any of the North American governments have.
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Damn, you're right. I didn't look at the S/N column. Still impressive.
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They now have 13 Falcon 9 first stages that have flown 13 times each: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_first-stage_b... And another 26 that have flown 12 times each. They've really succeeded in ma
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by robonerd 4y ago
Well first off, this is an informal discussion. Secondly: > It is ALL about click bait to drive digital advertising (Emphasis my own.) Science reporting is still crap even when it isn't funded by advertising, so there's ob
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Excluding salt would surely be insane, you piss and sweat out a lot of salt and that needs to be replenished. I don't see any way around that.
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by robonerd 4y ago
There are certainly some Latin loan words in Arabic; that part of the world was well within the Roman sphere of influence for a long time. For instance: the Arabic ṣirāṭ and English street both come from the Latin word strata.
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by robonerd 4y ago
I prefer to sit with my back facing a southern window. Washing out my webcam is my little petty protest against the use of video chat.
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> people who believe they are on calorie restricted diets, but who are actually eating more than they think. Absolutely. For instance only counting the calories of their scheduled meals, but "snacks don't count because its
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It's fertile ground for the formation of modern superstition.
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I regularly chat about obscure music with people who are essentially strangers to me, I don't know their real names, locations, etc, but we share a lot of youtube links to music videos that have a few thousand views, averaging maybe a
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by robonerd 4y ago
Visit a friend who watches Breaking Bad? Advertise breaking bad. Visit a country that speaks German? Advertise in German. Seems consistent to me, not a contradiction.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Even Nature has a sensationalism bias; that's why they're so well known. They like to publish papers with the most punch.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Finding someone qualified to go to for comment is not straightforward. Not straightforward for the university press department? What could be more straightforward? Tell the university press writers to go talk to the university rese
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by robonerd 4y ago
> What's the point in paying for school lunches for kids who have no interest in learning? Because the state requires them to be there anyway, so it's the state's responsibility to ensure they are well fed? Academic perf
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by robonerd 4y ago
> This behavior needs to be called out and there needs to be accountability. However, there is none. Even when the stories are completely fabricated, as happened at USA Today recently. I'd love a browser extension that shows me a
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Exactly this. It is all about click bait to drive digital advertising. It is largely our own fault. We (by and large) don't want to pay good journalism. I'm not buying it. Science reporting from university press departmen
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by robonerd 4y ago
An auto-antibody is any antibody targeting your own proteins. My point is GPCR is not a protein, but a huge family of proteins that are broadly relevant to a huge range of conditions.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> not just drinking the cool-aid but bathing in it too. It's a sticky situation. If they don't pretend they've lost the copyright by losing the NFT, then the NFT is demystified and no longer has value. Since the value
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by robonerd 4y ago
I admit you have me confused, but I'm sure I don't want my car to kill me to spare me from a lawsuit. For that matter, killing me to spare me from a criminal manslaughter conviction is quite a raw deal too!
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by robonerd 4y ago
Maybe this is your browsing history? I did a duckduckgo image search from a private tab, and got 10-to-1 cute animals. Search it on reddit and you'll find that the term is very popular with people who like cute things. The alt-right
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by robonerd 4y ago
> and P(fren and not alt-right) is low But it probably isn't. It's a cutesy term adjacent to pet-speak and baby-speak. Do an image search for "frens" and most of what you'll find is cute animals, 10-to-1 vs f
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by robonerd 4y ago
I have no clue what you mean by "suicide programming" and I don't see the relevance of the death penalty (criminal manslaughter would not get you sentenced to death even in America), so no I can't elaborate on that.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> If you had no chronic illness symptoms you were aware of, and then get covid, and then have chronic illness symptoms - that's long covid. Or a coincidence.. Not an unlikely one either, given the broad and vague set of symptoms.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Very common, no doubt. Targeting GPCRs is a very wide net, GPCRs are a huge superfamily of proteins. > GPCRs are an important drug target and approximately 34%[6] of all Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved drugs target 108 mem
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The relevance is difference between getting sued and getting thrown in prison.
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by robonerd 4y ago
The thought of automotive lidar units being repaired in the same manner as other automotive parts, with dodgy parts ordered off ebay, terrifies me. Advertised power rating and filtering of lasers sold second-hand online only have a loose
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by robonerd 4y ago
> So does the "OK" gesture. P(uses the OK gesture) dwarfs P(is alt-right). Plug it all into Bayes theorem and you'll find that P(is alt-right|gestures OK) must be small. In other words, you're falling for a manufa
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by robonerd 4y ago
I'm afraid you've gone off the rails and forgotten Bayes theorem. P(alt-right|fren) = P(fren|alt-right) P(alt-right) / P(fren) You have tunnel vision for P(fren|alt-right) and are confusing it with P(alt-right|fren).
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by robonerd 4y ago
At the risk of explaining my objection; it's not about the joke but about the premise of history rhyming generally being an artifact of overzealous pattern matching and the implicit exclusion of cases that don't match the target p

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