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by sollewitt 3y ago
Is the long text purely for SEO or because a longer page gives more opportunities for ad impressions and higher engagement metrics?
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by sollewitt 3y ago
I suspect if you told these 8 graders who “can’t subtract” you were going to give them $100 and ask them for $110 back you’d find they understand both subtraction and negative numbers.
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by sollewitt 3y ago
If you are competitive with a naturally low hematocrit level you have more “headroom” for doping to unnaturally boost your performance, and vice-versa. Lance had a naturally low hematocrit for a road cyclist, which made him respond dispropo
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by sollewitt 3y ago
The point of anti-rollback technology is to make it so security holes are patched permanently: an attacker can't unwind updates back to the point at which the known exploit works.
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by sollewitt 3y ago
A family that took a similar grant elected to stay recently: https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/2023/0531/1386545-aran-isla... It makes an island sound like a start-up - it's a smaller community with
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by sollewitt 3y ago
Just to be clear, The Grayzone has been pushing stories that echo Russian propaganda talking points (The British wanting to bomb the bridge between Ukraine and Crimea Ukrainian leadership are Neo-nazis etc). They're not bastions of the
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by sollewitt 3y ago
Your skepticism is justified. Oura publish their data, and to quote them: >Oura ring was 96% accurate in detecting sleep compared to polysomnography, 48% accurate in detecting wakefulness, 65% agreement in detecting “light sleep,” 51% ag
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by sollewitt 3y ago
Much, fast, maintainable: pick two.
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by sollewitt 4y ago
Motive? You can fire up GPT, not issue a command, and it'll just idle there until the hardware fails. Granted that's also the one thing I hope we don't "solve" for.
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by sollewitt 4y ago
Some cities are the state! (Singapore, Vatican City, Monaco)
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by sollewitt 4y ago
You can't have property simultaneously be affordable and a tax advantaged investment vehicle.
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by sollewitt 4y ago
I understood Skodas are usually _next_ gen Volkswagens. At least when I lived in Europe they always got the new chassis/engine/gearbox to beta before it rolled out to VW, did that change?
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by sollewitt 4y ago
This can also be understood via Gestalt principle of visual processing - we visually group things that are proximal, we like to perceive continuity, we see parallel things as being related etc: https://www.superside.com/blog
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by sollewitt 4y ago
There's the benefit of figuring out mass market car integration. It may be we have to rethink what a car is - competitions like the American Solar Challenge show you can run minimal cars for thousands of miles on solar: https:/&#
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by sollewitt 4y ago
That was, for me, the least interesting of the failure modes mentioned, the most alarming being: > The phenomenon behind this is called creep rupture—the disentanglement of the molecules of plastic over time, at a stress level significan
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by sollewitt 4y ago
Right: nobody, not even billionaires, can afford to do this ever again. Seems like a win condition to me.
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by sollewitt 4y ago
I think they're trying to say if pubic schools worked ideally the demographics of selective high schools would reflect the demographics of the school district.
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by sollewitt 4y ago
Don't have kids.
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With no insurance?
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by sollewitt 4y ago
I think it's a cultural thing - the stories just don't follow the Western narrative arc.
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by sollewitt 4y ago
Does anyone know how they are doing lensing? I know smart phone senses are magic compared to what was possible twenty years ago, is this borrowing tech from there?) (You can't just put a screen on your eyeball, you can't focus tha
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by sollewitt 4y ago
It's spelled g-u-a-r-d-s g-u-a-r-d-s
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by sollewitt 5y ago
> This surge of infections underscores the indisputable fact that schools are and remain essential sites for pediatric infections and community transmission Don't just assert it's indisputable, point to your evidence. We had a
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by sollewitt 5y ago
Indeed, an NIH funded longitudinal study on alcohol kicked off in 2014 and it was shut down for being tainted by industry money: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/health/alcohol-nih-drinki... - you can&
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by sollewitt 5y ago
I might be misunderstanding again, but with DAOs it seems like you go from "one (wo)man one vote" to "one token one vote", which exacerbates the worst of money-in-politics - any entity with sufficient influence can liter
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by sollewitt 5y ago
> "I think open, transparent and permissionless systems replacing trusted central authorities is good for the world and can rebalance and decentralize power. Does this not just shift the power to people who can manipulate the zeitge
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by sollewitt 5y ago
The story is how 1) there are systems in place to stop this happening. 2) there are system in place to investigate if it happens. 3) the systems in 1) are circumvented 4) the systems in 2) are stymied This means the systems have been corrup
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by sollewitt 5y ago
What is this green card prioritization mechanism you allude to?
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Completely agree with your assessment of the problem, but I suspect the US diet is already much too meat and animal products based, and encouraging people to lose weight by eating more meat is both bad for the environment and probably not g
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As an aside, hey San Franciscans, consider supporting Mission Local. The work they are doing covering this kind of bureaucratic stuff is invaluable - this years reporting on the Dept. Building Inspection has been particularly good

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