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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
It might depend on how literally you mean "have lots of sugar". If the dominant component really is physicalist/biological then things that actually contain sugar but don't look like they contain sugar will cause sugar r
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
Priming effects are out of fashion now, but I can see how a bright-colored food could make a child more excited than a plain-colored food.
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
People in South America have never seen sugar rushes in real life, and every single child is given sugar every day. A common breakfast and afternoon snack includes coffee(!) with lots of milk and sugar. If genes were involved we would expec
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
Same here in South America. We even give children coffee and it causes no apparent issues. Admittedly this coffee is taken with lots of milk, but even that is only because children don't like the bitter taste. Over-stimulation was neve
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
> "If only I had a chat bot that could act as a TA when students have questions about my lectures" is so far down the list of things they'd like to have to solve problems I care about their problems a little bit, but I nat
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
Not every cheap product has to be low quality. In particular, lots of products are used by poor and rich alike. Everyone uses the same smartphones (the poor people use phones about as good as rich people used less than a decade ago), everyo
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
It should be, but if the teacher is teaching you multiplication and you are struggling because you haven't reviewed addition in a while, the teacher will probably just yell at you. Only the most dedicated of teachers will review additi
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
Human babies can swim, kinda. But the instinctive version of swimming that comes preinstalled in our brains is not like riding a bike. It's something that we forget how to do if we don't practice, and then we have to re-learn it.
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
That sounds like the opposite from the quote. The art transformation model you propose WOULD emit memorized art in benign situations, so in that judge's opinion it WOULD count as plagiarism.
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
Remind me again which side is the antisemitic one nowadays? Was it the far left or the far right?
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
Congress can still delegate the known unknowns. They can say "because we are not experts in this subject, we delegate to agency X the power to decide whether this should be done in X or Y way" What they cannot do anymore is delega
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
The obvious example is pro-choice people who wish that Congress would pass a law that favors their position, and have been forced to rely on weird Supreme Court rulings by activist judges instead. You can argue that the pro-choice people sh
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
> Society can't operates if laws change every day Funny you should mention that. Gorsuch wrote the exact same thing while arguing in favor of overruling Chevron. You can find it by Ctrl+F-ing the string "though the laws do not&
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
> forcing Congress to do its job > Why are they dreading this? You answered your own question there. Congress should do its job, but as a matter of fact it is not doing its job and it is not going to do its job anytime soon. The Court
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
Objectively, opioids are prescribed much less often outside the US. Subjectively, I got four wisdom teeth extracted in two sessions of two extractions each. Both times I only needed generic acetaminophen to manage the pain. Perhaps an US su
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
Right, they must have accumulated the money beforehand. But what they are doing right now with it is the opposite of accumulating it. They are taking the money that they previously accumulated and spending it on lots of random bullshit. Sup
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
But the whole point is that in this case the money is not accumulated. Lots of different companies are each spending a lot of money in the hopes that they will be the last standing, at which point they will get to accumulate the money. It&#
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
He ceased being the CEO for a while, and then he was CEO again. They had no choice the first time (he was the founder), but the second time they must have thought the risk and annoyance of having an asshole CEO were worth it.
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
But the reason you mentioned murder in the first place is that, unlike general violent crime, it always gets reported. So it turns out that both measures are kind of hard to use, for different reasons. Personally, that's no reason to b
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
Make sure to also add up attempted murders, assaults with deadly weapon and things like that. If you don't, every time medicine improves, it will look like people are less murderous. In reality the victims might just have access to bet
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
> I stated that there are correlations The funny part, the reason it's called a paradox, is that the correlation can be fake or can even be reversed. We cannot know either way just from our personal experiences, the selection effect
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
When it comes to smart/clean, maybe you can hang out with enough people to get an accurate sample. But then you would find other paradoxes, like maybe you'd find that the smart/clean programmers you meet have a worse personal
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
I didn't intend to make a statistically rigorous statement or anything, I just thought your anecdote was a funny application of Berkson's paradox. The fun part is that I don't need to know how smart or clean you are, or how c
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
There are smart programmers and dumb programmers, clean programmers and messy programmers. From your perspective, it looks like there is an inverse correlation but that is only because of Berkson's paradox. The programmers who are both
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
Isn't there an aftermarket solution you can buy that would make the kia you bought three years ago more secure? Sure, it sucks that you have to unexpectedly spend money on it, but when you bought a cheap car you knew you were taking th
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
I'd bite that bullet. The FDA should be less strict with their cybersecurity stuff. The amount of lives lost to the increased cost of care is not worth the increase in cybersecurity. If medical devices have just enough security to stop
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
Maybe it doesn't deactivate it you change the components one at a time over a long period, Ship of Theseus style
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
> there are no secure modern car options I don't think there can be such a thing as a secure remote start option. The only way they can make it more secure than traditional keys is if they also make it less convenient to use than tr
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
Apple and Google don't sell insecure cheap phones, but lots of other manufacturers do. I suppose organized crime doesn't systematically take advantage of that because cheap phones are cheap, and the people who own them are poor. Y
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
My bad, I was thinking in terms of the expensive remote start lock vs an even more expensive and safer remote start lock. But if the fancy insecure lock is more expensive, the problem should fix itself eventually, right? Consumers will swit

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