tyjen

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by tyjen 3y ago
Party loyalism requires selective ignorance.
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China thwarts Intel’s $5.4B Israeli chipmaker purchase(ft.com)
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Current leadership is ringing what's left from one of the world's most recognized brands while retreating from Disney's original defining ethos that helped enable them to build and captivate audiences across generations. It&#
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Many people follow celebrities/public figures/politicians who market Threads as the new "Digital Town Square," or themselves like a "curated" space that conforms to their beliefs, and the ability to silence peo
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I imagine the jet stream is pushing it all south.
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Oceans will not die, their biological makeup will change and adapt to new conditions.
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I decided to see if your "death rate" claim was accurate; but, found conflicting evidence that the mortality rates in US prisons are generally lower than the general US population, "The mortality rate of state prisoners in 20
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An author and journal rating services evaluating merits across time. While poor scientists become evident to competing authors in their respective fields, a policymaker or journalist may not take the time to figure out if the results are me
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Sadly, this doesn't even include the studies with authors who produce poor experiments and theories, or go out of their way to prove their results; effectively, generating additional scientific publication waste we have to sift through
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Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common(science.org)
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I think that I'd rather enjoy that aspect.
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The insurance claims representatives interfacing with customers follow a script and will often select car price comparisons lower than your specific cars value. In the US, the insurance company should also pay exactly what the equivalent re
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I would avoid letting your insurance "take care of you" if your car is totaled. Insurance companies push through these transactions fast and loose, of course to their monetary benefit and your detriment. For instance, my insurance
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They've been my go to VPN service for years, since PIA was bought out, so this is a welcomed surprise. Hope it's as good as their service.
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Fight fire with fire, train an LLM to respond on your behalf.
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You probably know this having watched the documentary, but I'm just adding context for others. It's primarily because many American tribes try to maintain religious beliefs in conflict with an immigrant identity. Although, evidenc
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Alcohol's ill effects have been known for awhile, but alcohol companies continuously undermined studies that would conclusively demonstrate it. Basically, unless you're older and have a certain type of heart disease that alcohol m
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Yep, we're the same with steaks and coffee. Buy a terrific cut of meat from the local butcher and cook via reverse searing or sous vide. My family and I went through the coffee experimentation phase while living in Seattle. Prior to th
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Seems like it's higher than it "should" be with GPU mining winding down due to difficulty maintaining profitability. Then again, companies will generally behave with an asymmetric pass-through if they figure it will not impac
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"The whistleblower also says Twitter executives don't have the resources to fully understand the true number of bots on the platform, and were not motivated to." I imagine this hurts Twitter's defense against Musk from p
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I think people who immigrate from countries where they're the majority to countries where they're a minority encounter racism/ethnicism/colorism for the first time and assume their new country is racist. However, they ov
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Malcolm Gladwell is the quintessential professional sophist. I remember attempting to read 'Blink' after it was recommended, and I could not force myself to finish it. His (continued) popularity taught me a deep lesson regarding h
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Yep, I don't believe many would be the quintessential ideal candidate to extract wisdom and most would yield sporadic valuable insights, particularly if they're not adapting well into their advanced years and excessively in discor
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We're living in an era where expert level information is easily accessible on virtually every subject on mobiles devices. The reliance for an elder's traditional wisdom is collapsing, accelerated by the obsoleteness of their info
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America's vieux riche spend exorbitant resources to muddy the waters of classicism and racism to prevent collective action. Look at the parent companies that own large swathes of media assets and look at what they push for information.
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ADHD medication is an excellent example illustrating the potential "wiggle room" differences between generics and brand drugs. The composition is similar enough to meet FDA generic drug standards, but the rate at which the generic
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The New Yorker is in lockstep with their owner ideologues, Advance Publications. If you look at the media assets they own, they push the same types of ideas and messages in each, but catered to different audiences. This degree of media cont
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Yep, dang is amazing.
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Most people don't know how to evaluate a market and are more short-sighted than they want to admit to themselves. It's reflected within entrepreneurship too, with ~50 percent failure within 5 years. Seattle: Severely limited land
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House price fluctuation is still local market dependent. People who purchased overpriced, new mass developer homes in saturated newer markets may suffer a contraction. Areas with supporting high demand, low inventory, and inability to devel

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