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by strken 5d ago
I was under the impression that if you go back far enough to a millennium ago, peasants weren't trading for iron or having a miller grind their grain, and they were definitely spinning their own yarn. I would welcome correction.
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by strken 6d ago
Speech writers and shadow writers in general are writing on behalf of other people, but they're not writing the same thing. They can't! Usually they're writing something better, with the proper voice and authentic to the view
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by strken 7d ago
If horoscopes and homeopathy can generate tests, then call me a Pisces and pass me the singular molecule of deadly nightshade toxin.
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by strken 8d ago
Seems like you're thinking of "extra care" as some sort of life extension, while the GP thinks it means things like help showering and cooking, and the GGP is ambiguous and could believe anything. The inevitability of death i
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by strken 9d ago
Not for out of copyright work, right?
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by strken 9d ago
If you have 100k people who don't smoke cannabis and 100k who do, 1000 of the non-smokers and 1400 of the smokers will have schizophrenia. How do you detect schizophrenia in the 400 people in the non-smoker category? The answer is that
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by strken 9d ago
No, but per my earlier reply, it's one behaviour typical of severe autism, among other forms of self-harm. Pretending that broader society only wants to reduce the severity of autism symptoms for their own convenience is ignoring the v
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by strken 9d ago
That study measured a drop from 83% to 17% in severe autism, and one behaviour typical of severe autism is slamming one's head into the wall, among other things. I think it's overly dismissive to summarise a drop in these behaviou
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by strken 9d ago
Schizophrenia is known to have genetic factors that can increase its likelihood, but is also linked to environmental factors like cannabis use and stress. The group without the environmental factors has a lower incidence of schizophrenia, s
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by strken 12d ago
The Twixxer thread seems to be arguing that an AI can't do research into novel pathogens without people, which is probably true. I haven't met anyone who is worried about that and I think it's either mistaken or a strawman. I
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by strken 12d ago
In Australia I had to get into a genetics program, which happened automatically because I was the only applicant from my school, and take a four hour train ride to one of the local universities. Definitely worth it though! We did gel electr
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by strken 12d ago
I don't know, but I bet it would look neat.
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by strken 12d ago
I'm confused by this. I remember genetically modifying E. coli to glow in the dark in high school. You can apparently buy a kit to do it online for $39.99 USD. I'm not suggesting that making bacteria glow in the dark is the same a
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by strken 12d ago
I'm surprised they don't just run their own Project Gutenberg-style downloads for out of copyright digitised works. Seems like it'd be good PR.
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by strken 15d ago
If university is truly miserable then multiple years of it are going to give you lifelong issues with learning and set you up for failure later in life. I'm not saying it has to be sunshine and rainbows all the time, but if you actuall
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by strken 17d ago
If you're as baffled as I am, FLINTA is apparently a German acronym meaning anyone who's not a born and current man. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLINTA*
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by strken 18d ago
They don't. They want to let people opt out of social media feeds for the same reason they currently let gamblers self-exclude[0]. Politicians do not believe that casinos are popular despite the gambling and they do not believe that so
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by strken 19d ago
I think the literal interpretation is correct here. It's a way of saying "you, dear reader who runs this combination of things, might be very kind, but some of your compatriots will be unusually unkind and will turn up in my issue
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by strken 19d ago
In Australia where lamb is more common than in the US, it'd be pretty easy to keep the fat after roasting a lamb shoulder, or to freeze the fatty offcuts from forequarter chops and render them after I had enough.
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by strken 20d ago
I was going by foreign currency reserves, which feature CAD and AUD in much greater quantities than CHF. Also I swapped in SGD for GBP, whoops. Global reserves continue to hold USD in greater quantities than anything else. A movement away f
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by strken 21d ago
In a way, the bond market tracks international central banks' confidence that this will continue to be true. If they lose some of that confidence, their stock of bonds moves from USD to RMB/EUR/JPY/AUD/CAD/SGD&
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by strken 21d ago
Good thing we all had the ADA to protect us from free educational material distributed for cynical reasons.
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by strken 21d ago
They could have, but they didn't, then they got sued, and now kids in Kenya can't watch world-class lectures. Thanks, disability advocates! Thanks, UC!
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by strken 21d ago
They were archival footage of old lectures. But also, "really cheap" is only cheap when something is done for profit. When it's done as a charitable side gig then pretty much any expense is expensive.
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by strken 21d ago
Why would Berkeley budget for captioning on a series of videos that they're giving to the public for free? Expecting them to accommodate everyone for loss-making global educational philanthropy is a ridiculous overreach. It has made th
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by strken 22d ago
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9058071/ (if "strong affinity" means "bimodal distribution and I ignore the lower pole") https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38497251/
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by strken 22d ago
I know that the poster is talking about something that occurs in deep depression, but I don't think Edgar Allan Poe was and I don't think TFA was either.
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by strken 22d ago
Yes, and I'm saying that is clearly suicidality, but I think TFA is talking about something else.
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by strken 22d ago
This doesn't seem like a problem if you exclusively support 3LDs and don't let anyone register 2LDs.
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by strken 22d ago
I have the impression you could be confusing suicidality with the little voice that says "what if I stuck my finger in the candle wax?" or "what if I forgot to put on clothes before going to work?" and only mentions tall

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