stuckonempty

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by stuckonempty 7mo ago
Those glasses state that they are the only pair that “blocked 100% of harmful blue light in the 400-450 range” But melanopsin contained in the cells that regulate circadian rhythms have an absorption spectrum extends to slightly beyond 540
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by stuckonempty 7mo ago
You can and should! Just don’t go justifying that your choices are rooted in science when they aren’t.
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by stuckonempty 7mo ago
This is great it works for you but hopefully you realize the weakness of anecdotal evidence when it comes to declaring something is universally effective. Your n of 1 argument is the equivalent of “my grandpa smoked until he was 95 so smoki
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by stuckonempty 7mo ago
Did you read the article? He points out “It’s possible that Night Shift does something, but the biggest study I could find of Night Shift mode (still a pretty small study) found little effect on sleep, so if there’s an effect, it must be ti
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by stuckonempty 1y ago
How did you get to equity packages being “routinely” worth millions when tech startups fail somewhere between 75% and >99% of the time (depending on estimates)? Seems far more likely that startup equity will be worth zero to typical indi
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by stuckonempty 2y ago
A piercing that takes months to heal and has its own potential side effects (infection for one) does not seem worth weeks of relief after which pain returns. The authors of this study therefore do not recommend this piercing for migraines d
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by stuckonempty 3y ago
With the value of website karma and account age being so high, you must be ruined
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by stuckonempty 4y ago
Team cohesion is important as far as being able to work collaboratively to finish a project, but it’s not clear that requires being in an office every day for 8+ hrs
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by stuckonempty 4y ago
Yeah but with less regret that your life was wasted on social media and helping twitter and Meta make money
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by stuckonempty 4y ago
I can relate to the privacy-focused goal of getting away from google however Google Voice is free. Sadly I think having a competing free Google product that accomplishes most of the same things is going to hurt adoption of the Firefox relay
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by stuckonempty 4y ago
What are the benefits of Firefox phone relay then versus a free google voice number I use just for spam (“untrustworthy partners”)?
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by stuckonempty 4y ago
You also can’t tell if what you’re saying is factual because you’ve provided no source
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by stuckonempty 4y ago
What’s the time delay on data refreshes compared to the market?
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by stuckonempty 5y ago
> patient histories are often garbage This is a little like programmers calling the programming language they invented and write in every day garbage. Separate from patient-reported histories, you medical doctors are the ones documenting
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by stuckonempty 5y ago
This is a fallacy. At any point in history you can say “if X field was so good, we’d have Y by now”. In 1925 you could’ve said, “if biology’s understanding of bacteria is so good, we’d have antibiotics by now”. Within 5 years, they did. The
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by stuckonempty 5y ago
How many intelligent entities (say humans) that have been exposed to the same level of knowledge as GPT-3 would call this a trick question? None. The author’s assertion that GPT-3 has no knowledge of the real world despite being exposed to
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by stuckonempty 5y ago
> They have also indicated that getting vaccinated does not reduce your ability to spread the virus That is not correct. Vaccination does reduce, but does not eliminate, transmission of the virus “ We found that both the BNT162b2 and ChA
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by stuckonempty 5y ago
Probably annoying as a hiring manager, but one of the best ways for workers wages to rise is by using competing, “leaked” offers against each other. This is in effect how you gauge what your talents are worth in the labor market. I’m glad o
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by stuckonempty 5y ago
Persistently messaging you to get you to apply but ghosting you and being unable to provide any status updates after you do. Will add to the OP’s list by saying they often also leave out even the hiring company’s name and if it’s a defined