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by varelse 5y ago
I mentioned sleep, exercise, and a healthy diet and IMO they're all connected. Nowhere did I mention anything about weight. But since we're on the topic now, I disagree with BMI alone as the single indicator of health. Canada seem
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Except we don't have working geoengineering yet. If we did, that would be great, and that should end the bickering back and forth whether this is even happening. But we don't and we don't have a timeline to when we will. So g
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If what you're telling me is that eating healthy, getting enough sleep and exercising can halt or reverse Alzheimer's it's not going to exactly shock me. The real fad is how amazingly stupid Americans are about their own heal
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TBF there are somewhat testable questions to the simulation hypothesis. As for the omnipotent omniscient All-Seeing creator, not so much beyond the arguably anthropic nature of the universe. Not big on either of these being true but happy t
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by varelse 5y ago
1980s, and I make no claim to having invented it - just that it was what I was doing, and that it worked but others hated it when they tried it out. However, I did not hear the term spaced repetition until around 2000 or so and I realized i
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I was a curve breaker in college. These courses are fantastic for filling in the missing details left out to rehash the basics for everyone else and what I've forgotten decades later. Ironically, when people asked to study with me, the
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And so the world ended but at least the pedantics were happy with the semantics of the Apocalypse.
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So this root cause of which you speak? You're not actually going to say what it is you're just going to complain about it and allude to it, am I right? And in doing so how are you anything but more Bread and Circuses? If the West
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Bread and Circuses are exponentially easier to create than innovation. Most innovation is punished or ignored unless it is timed well until it is "rediscovered" when it is desperately needed. Bread and Circuses pairs with anything
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Well if they have to pay more to attract talent then their profits will go down. Wall Street hates that. And if the share price falls, the talent they have will flee for better opportunity. So they're going to go through some things, n
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Caveat Emptor. Probably better odds than PowerBall at least. But yes, avoid, avoid, avoid IMO. You can't stop people from trying to get rich quick.
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Not to mention trustworthiness and integrity as well!
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I did not know that but the real story is even weirder. Having been to China many times, the billboards for plastic surgery would be hilariously off color here so the story seemed plausible, doubly so combined with the culture of "left
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by varelse 5y ago
And why is that happening? "We" certainly have the technology to fight it so I wonder why that hasn't happened already. Hmmmmmm... https://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=18104
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by varelse 5y ago
I'm not slandering beautiful people at all, I'm just slandering people who aspire to little more than being one of them. And that's my story and I'm sticking to it. The only thing worse is people catering to that urge. B
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You're right they will never be satisfied. And I can't wait for the Black Mirror episode about that very subject. Not that Nathaniel Hawthorne didn't cover that nearly two centuries ago. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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We're going to have to rewrite humanity from the ground up if we want to colonize space because these delicate eggshell bodies of ours are just not compatible with hard vacuum. Nor will they fare well in inhospitable planetary environm
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You really don't think a startup that promised to disrupt beauty at the genetic level wouldn't find customers? Are you even paying attention to the things people invest their discretionary time into?
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Have you checked out the plastic surgery fetishization of South Korea lately? Have you seen that guy who sued his wife because she got plastic surgery to become beautiful but then bore him an apparently ugly child? You overestimate humanity
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by varelse 5y ago
I think you have nothing to fear. I'm all in favor of breeding genetic disorders out of the species and there's a whole bunch we can eliminate before we get into murky ethical territory. Religion can bite me on this one. But also,
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It would be nice if Nancy Pelosi were not the classic strawman here. I don't excuse her behavior either but it's totally legal for now and there are so much worse out there. Yet they never come up it's always Nancy Pelosi and
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We found out the hard way that you can have manganese sediment in your drinking water to the point that the water comes out brown and full of sand and it doesn't violate EPA regulations just their recommendations as it clogs all your p
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When you buy anything Amazon, it comes Alexa-enabled with the best engineering fungible staffing can provide.
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Well it's not like there's a shortage of Stanford students and graduates in the tech industry so this seems like a situation that will resolve itself organically as well as provide an additional implicit hiring filter for no addit
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I'm consciously uncoupling from Facebook over time. I'm down to a couple of groups, well one actually, before I disengage entirely in a month or two. You are correct that a lot of organizations make use of Facebook but somebody ha
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There are still plenty of targets to hit with unitasking AI like we have that could each have their imagenet moment. But there is a shortage of domain experts who understand both those targets and AI. That creates opportunity for domain exp
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Local context without a coherent structure as usual.
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Many solutions are possible but not all of them are set to music https://youtu.be/Vzb98tQp53I
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Before they were against an unregulated free market they were certainly for it...
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Au contraire it's trivial. Or are politicians somehow invulnerable to the same things engineers are? https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/comp7lr17243.htm

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