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by strken 1y ago
You're misreading it. Reading the speaker's PRs is presented as an alternative to talking to them, in the same way that if Alice and Bob were arguing whether song lyric sites should exist and Alice asked "can't they list
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by strken 1y ago
Has there been any hint that the PRs were not being reviewed? I haven't read any suggestion of that in the direct chain of replies.
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by strken 1y ago
I assume the proposition is that trust between coworkers is important (even if you're autistic) and the best way to build extra trust with someone, on top of what you'd normally build just working with them, is to interact with th
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by strken 1y ago
On the topic of "support your friends", if there's a funeral for someone you weren't super close with but your friend knew well and you're not sure whether to go, I would recommend just going, sitting up the back, o
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by strken 1y ago
Well, no, but I can't understand 99% of Spanish and Chinese using my knowledge of my native English dialect, so I'm not going to lecture Spanish or Chinese speakers on correct grammar. My point was that differences between dialect
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by strken 1y ago
> If native speakers say something, then it's grammatically correct. In their dialect, sure. In any given dialect, who knows? Any speaker of a dialect that isn't West Coast American has likely watched actors who live in Los Ang
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by strken 1y ago
Here's my favourite reading: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nwcP3NOCeiE .
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by strken 1y ago
I agree that losing body fat is the number one priority, but I wish the research would focus on that rather than the number on the scale. Losing a bit of lean muscle mass along the way is important for its own sake, and also because it&#x
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by strken 1y ago
I believe this is a typo for SCADA, which would control the industrial machinery used to fire employees in order to ensure distance and accuracy.
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by strken 1y ago
I'm not sure that a reduction in body weight tells us all the relevant information. One of the possible downsides of fasting is loss of lean body mass, generally meaning muscle. This is a problem for older people in particular because
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by strken 1y ago
That sentence is about other legumes.
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by strken 1y ago
I'm really curious to see a comparison with all the other common self-regenerating legumes, like clover. Maybe it's better adapted to Brazil?
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by strken 1y ago
You're using words like "zero" and "meaningless" in a haphazard way that's obviously wrong if taken literally: there's a non-zero amount of rigour in IQ research, and we know that it correlates (very loose
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by strken 1y ago
By "no free lunch" I meant that any change which evolution could easily have led to, but didn't, has likely not been evolutionarily advantageous for long enough or with great enough selective pressure to happen. Emphasis on &
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by strken 1y ago
I agree with this criticism in the case of sleep apnoea, since the respiratory system is complicated. By intuition, it seems like the evolution of a complicated trait should require significant genetic changes, and thus be more likely to ge
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by strken 1y ago
I would have to check my sources but I'm pretty sure some of them have been prescribed for weight loss at various times. DNP and stimulants I'm more confident of, nicotine and tape worms I'm a bit iffy about.
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by strken 1y ago
"No free lunch" is a reasonable question to ask when evaluating medication, if it would improve the evolutionary fitness of the majority of people. I think this is behind some of the skepticism. If Ozempic is so great then how com
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by strken 1y ago
I don't completely disagree and I prefer it to systems with zero protection. At-will employment from the US seems bad. However, siva7 said it was a "myth" and "total bullcrap" that firing incompetent people is hard,
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by strken 1y ago
I live in Australia and it's an absolute pain in the arse to fire someone for performance issues, assuming they work at a medium or large business (e.g. of more than 20 people) and they've made it through their 3-month trial perio
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by strken 1y ago
You're assuming a linear relationship between civilian casualties and Japanese military leadership's willingness to surrender. Why would e.g. dropping the first bomb on a less-populated shipyard and the second on a city centre hav
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by strken 1y ago
I'm in a union and I still criticise unions for this. You can't make it harder to fire people unfairly without also making it harder to fire them when they're actively harming the business and/or their co-workers.
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by strken 1y ago
It's been very useful for specific things: unified, complicated domain logic that benefits from running faster than it would take to do a round trip to the server and back. I've only rarely needed to do this. The two examples that
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by strken 1y ago
Is this a hypothetical or is it based on real events? My dad has pieces of retired distillation apparatus from a plant that does chemical research and also manufactures codeine. Definitely the condenser, and maybe also the round-bottom flas
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by strken 1y ago
There's a big difference between driving a car around the farm at 20kmph to collect wood and flipping your dad's Volvo into a ditch. We were driving from a relatively young age, maybe 13 or 14, but only in a paddock and with some
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by strken 1y ago
And 13/f/cali was the traditional facetious reply.
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by strken 1y ago
Australia's debt is in the form of HECS/HELP. It's indexed to inflation, and integrated into the tax system such that it's only repaid on income over a minimum threshold. The first threshold is 1% of income above $56k. T
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by strken 1y ago
I'm not a writer, but I do write, and I also read this advice when younger then promptly ignored it. I think it was from Bukowski. It sounded, and still sounds, like "Only run if running bursts from the soles of your feet and you
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by strken 1y ago
Which leftist circles? The one US leftist circle I'm in (a random discord) was calling him "based" last week for writing an NYT article about the generational difference in attitudes towards Zionism within Jewish families, an
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by strken 1y ago
Okay; so what? Go mine one of the POW coins and buy what you actually want on an unregulated exchange. You're still burning fossil fuels to get it. My general point is that you can exchange money for energy and energy for crypto, and n
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by strken 1y ago
At the end of the day, most crypto has a built in way to turn fossil fuels into significantly less money than you paid for them, so it doesn't even apply to the US unless they've started requiring KYC for ASICs and GPUs. I am not

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