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by tsoukase 1y ago
Gambling, especially low cost continuous play, can be a symptom of latent mental disease, especially depression or simply low intelligence to conceive the fraud (the company always wins). These people need protection by banning ads for any
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by tsoukase 1y ago
Moderna's covid vaccine was a state-of-the-art, low side effect one that I was jealous of. I had taken the almost same one of Prizer without problem. They made a miracle in just months while the regular vaccines have a decade long pipe
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by tsoukase 1y ago
As the auditory associative cortex in parietal lobe discriminates frequencies, there must be some time-frequency transform between the ear and the brain. This must be discrete (as neurons fire in bursts and there is a finite frequency resol
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by tsoukase 1y ago
The open source UIs initially seem alien, complicated or obscure related to similar to closed-source Windows' ones. The reason is OSS projects are built by developers primarily FOR developers and not for regular users. The design princ
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by tsoukase 1y ago
By some napkin calc, Google has some billions of customers globally and about low hundred billions annual net income, so makes about 15-20$ per user. With Google I enjoy free full web service coverage (search, mail and the other popular pro
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by tsoukase 1y ago
I am sure any statement "Some people can't X", for X a mental trait, capacity, capability or measure is valid. The thing is how often such happens and how the spectrum severity distributes between normal and total absence. Ex
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by tsoukase 1y ago
Life in the US is turning like one of its sci-fi movies. Now it's playing the first half where the bad suppress the good, before the reverse will happen for a happy ending. By saying such I might come up as part of The Resistance in th
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by tsoukase 1y ago
I know by saying the following I am burning my chance to visit my cousins in the US, but are these people stupid or comedians?
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by tsoukase 1y ago
Health care is an extremely sensitive, personal, diverse and vital part of our life. It cannot be exploited in the USA like you are in a casino, because health is a roulette. It makes us Europeans our jaw to drop. It plays no role how much
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by tsoukase 1y ago
For the most part of Europe and USA the day is either "quite" long (summer) or quite short (winter) due to the curve of the duration. Having light for long summer evenings and dark for long winter mornings is bad for many reasons,
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by tsoukase 1y ago
In 800 million custemers, only 1, which can be doubled as it is weekly, is a low number. A dozen list of causes and factors can lead to suicidality, not necessary attempts, just ideas and questions that need discussion.
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by tsoukase 1y ago
My takes as a neuroscientist: 1) defining intelligence is very difficult, almost impossible. Much more the artificial one 2) there are many types of human intelligence. Verbal is one of them and the closest to comparing with LLMs 3) machine
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by tsoukase 1y ago
Government and law enforcement, not only in the USA, increasingly use AI to control, suppress and punish the people. In this regard AI is not a liberating invention but a harming one, like weapons. This might explain why tech CEOs became pa
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by tsoukase 1y ago
Make a successful career plan for the next 10-15 years. By then you should be financially very well, not now. Women, marriage, jobs, money will come some time until then. But NOW you should plan the career. Note: for a woman except of the a
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by tsoukase 1y ago
It seems only patients with advanced renal disease are effected. So, my suggestion, no Gad in patients with increased Creatine (even Stage I renal disease).
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by tsoukase 1y ago
A former Prime Minister of a first world country in jail is insane. He must have made a crime without the help of others because in political scandals usually a whole gang of public people is liable. Then you have to convict the monkey with
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by tsoukase 1y ago
It is mathematicaly sure that OpenAI is burning investor money. Even if the whole world paid a 20$ monthly subscription, it would need 3 years to collect 400 billions. In reality it needs decades.
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by tsoukase 1y ago
Until recently every technological advancement replaced manual work, like in agriculture, transportation, industry. Even the tiniest car amenity, like electric windows, hydraulic breaks or touch screen entertainment is aiming to replace a l
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by tsoukase 1y ago
The intellectual level achieved in HN is unparalleled in the history of internet. The bad parts, except those mentioned other where: 1) very fast aging of threads, after a couple of days comments and discussion stop 2) relative lower qualit
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by tsoukase 1y ago
The elephant in the room in adopting LOS is the diminishing phone brands that allow custom firmware. If this obstacle is not reversed for usual brands (Samsung, Xiaomi) then you are better off get Ala Huawei which is degoogled by default.
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by tsoukase 1y ago
I have no problem with closed source firmware as long as I can install Linux, with proprietary junk apps as long as I can side load open source ones, with ads as long as I have Ublock. Currently, especial Google is passing over my red lines
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by tsoukase 1y ago
The vague, general and ill specified argument of "national security" can mean anything, from "we are totally screwed" up to "our fighter's LCD screen has 10% less contrast than it should". Only an insider
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by tsoukase 1y ago
It's another thing to not give palliative treatment to prolong life for a little more and another to provide poison to accelerate death. My opinion is to continue palliative care when the benefit outweighs the harm in the QUALITY of li
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by tsoukase 1y ago
In the unknown chemical factory of the brain it is very difficult to dealinate the begin and consequent steps of all degenerative diseases: Alzheimer's - Parkinson's, chronic fatigue syndrome - post-Covid, schizophrenia- autism et
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by tsoukase 1y ago
This. I do not know how many people are disappointed at their initial contact with Unix/Linux because they hit a complicated man page while trying to use a command
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by tsoukase 1y ago
At every chronological estimation they should append 'at least as old as' while they present their results. You never know if something older comes up later.
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by tsoukase 1y ago
I cannot fathom why a SW developer ever needs to use Windows at least the last ten years. Do you work for MS? Use Linux and spin up a pass-through VM in your favourite supervisor. The decline of Windows will cause a huge power vacuum that L
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by tsoukase 1y ago
Finasteride messes with the testosterone hormonal balance. As testo affects mood, no surprise it can cause depression (although relatively rare) and hence suicidality.
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by tsoukase 1y ago
Welfare state, social safety nets, socialism, you name it, kill innovation through a cascade of psychosocial mechanisms. This is a law that is written on the two sides of north Atlantic.
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by tsoukase 1y ago
Because of the interplay between dozens of unknown regulating genes that effect in an obscure way the final decision to trigger the cell mitosis (division). Even if we ever uncover the whole cascade mechanism, how can we stop this monstrous

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