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by skosch 9y ago
Over the next few decades we will face enormous challenges as a species, and there are lots of resources to inspire you what to dedicate your efforts towards. 80000hours.org is a good start; it has lots of links to other pages. Ambition is
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I am working on automating this process and trying to find similar hits for the remaining redactions. I was thinking that too, but it characterizes Carter Page as a "former campaign foreign policy advisor". The other names may h
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Given your breadth of experience, I actually bet you could get very comfortable with Elixir in a week's time. Especially so if you've worked with Scheme, Ruby, and Haskell. Elixir's syntax is very simple, and 90% of your code
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Weight loss is only one aspect of the nutrition story. That being said, remember that just because Taubes is wrong on a bunch of things, doesn't make sugar any healthier.
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> The US middle class has contracted because more people have moved up and out of the middle class and into the upper classes, than have moved down and out (that's true over 10, 20, 30 years of time) I think this is a super interest
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On the face of it, your reductio ad absurdum is perfectly reasonable. Employees do their job, get their money, end of story. Right? In continental Europe, nobody expects it to work like that. It's a different mindset. If you work in
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... once we enter an age where we are supposed to be rearing offsprings. That's the idea, evolutionarily? Do you have sources for that? Not that it wouldn't make sense, but if our ancestors had kids as soon as they could then th
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Around the middle east, for one. I've seen this relatively frequently in Turkey.
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> The noise that enables remaining stuck is like an anaesthetic. Thanks for this comment. I almost always listen to music while working, or to online noise generators. Your statement hits the nail on the head – it's an addiction to
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Just solar shades, likely – they look exactly like what my high school installed on the classroom windows many years ago, and those were purely for keeping the rooms from heating up too much in the high summer noon sun. Solar panels wouldn&
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Yeah, regressiveness is easily overcome by dividing up the money among the population and giving everyone a constant income tax decrease – that way it's wealth transfer down, not up. In case you haven't heard of it: Citizen's
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Unfortunately, the opposite is true for basic resources such as clean water and air: look up "Earth overshoot day" [1] [1] https://phys.org/news/2017-08-earth-resource-spent-august.ht...
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You misunderstand the raison d'être for pieces like this. AI-powered filter bubbles are a problem with massive consequences, and op-eds like this one are an important part of the broader discourse; not only for casual readers (the word
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You must be an outlier; the consensus seems to be that it counteracts fatigue: https://www.gwern.net/zeo/Vitamin-D
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Max "official" safe daily limit is 4000 IU currently, but the only studies I'm aware of where actual toxicity was reported started at something like 40,000 IU daily for months. Vitamin D is likely pretty safe.
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Neat! Do you have a rough idea how much they cost per kg?
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I really want to disagree and write a scathing rebuke, but I'm afraid you're right on the money. Still it seems that we haven't beaten it into nearly enough peoples' heads that we all live on the same planet, that resour
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Read the article (and, if you are able, the ones in German) – this has nothing at all to do with Excel having more hotkeys. LiMux has been around for a long time, and those wrinkles had been pretty much ironed out. Mayor Reiter openly calls
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Or maybe bring up some heuristics ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diehard_tests ) – but of course proving a negative is always a futile exercise.
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His name is Jim Fisher, and he's from the UK. I do consider it likely he grew up speaking English.
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Thank you for bringing sense into the discussion. I don't know how many times I've been asked "but will our data be encrypted on your server, in case someone hacks it?" and I need to explain this basic concept to otherwi
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That doesn't answer the question. Even if you're still tweaking things today, what do you expect the useful lifetime of a batch of your enzymes to be, say, a year from now?
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You are getting downvoted because pseudomedicine, including the idea that Vitamin C cures diseases, causes real harm. Low-information patients reject proven therapies in favour of quackery and make their ailments worse, ultimately leading t
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Yes! I found https://github.com/oaprograms/lingo-player , but it seems to have a broken dependency. For (1), I have considered using https://cloud.google.com/speech/ because it's so cheap. I a
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That's why the post you just replied to suggested that Node may not be the right tool for those kind of tasks.
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For more details, I recommend this Nature article: https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/effects-of... The short version, if I remember it correctly: Plants open and close their pores ("stoma
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You make a good point. Still, as enthusiastic as I am about the purity of Stallman's pure goals, let's not have the perfect be the enemy of the good. Freedom for developers isn't hurting anyone – if anything, it has resulted
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Clean drinking water for drinking, yes. Clean drinking water for industrial (or even irrigation) purposes, no – because putting a fair price on it would appropriately punish those who use it wastefully.
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I don't think I understand this comment, nor do I think I want to try to understand it.
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How I regret the way I phrased that! Coincidentally I'm a shy person, and probably too afraid of asking other people for help with even the smallest things.

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