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by vharuck 1y ago
I once asked myself, "What did people with ADHD as severe as mine do before there was medication?" The obvious answer was: drugs. People like me used to do a lot of drugs.
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by vharuck 1y ago
It is amazing what Euclid was able to prove and, frankly, even imagine using just geometric figures. Nowadays, we have symbolic notation. The only research articles I read are for epidemiology, so I don't know how much notation is used
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by vharuck 1y ago
People who donate money or time to charity. Volunteer firefighters. There's a massive list, really. Overall, kindness is a very common trait. Why else would we have so many countries with welfare programs, even for classes of citizens
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by vharuck 1y ago
>We’ll measure and learn if it actually worked. I don't believe that will happen, and I base that belief on all my decades of watching American politics. Bureaucrats may do this (I personally work with ones who do), but politicians
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by vharuck 1y ago
I haven't looked into it for some time, but there were school districts that would hire math and science teachers with just a bachelor's as long as they agreed to earn the teaching certification while teaching. They'd even p
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However, if pre-cancerous polyps are found during a colonoscopy, they can be removed right then. Of course, the best prevention is one that people actually do.
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Not all harmful effects are caused by direct chemical reactions. For instance, asbestos causes health problems through the physical process of friction and piercing. Small particles that aren't removed by the body can do a lot of harm.
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by vharuck 1y ago
As an R user, I get what you mean. If you need to do things that don't fit well in the "tidyverse" model, you have three options: 1. Wrap the complicated bits in functions, then force it into the tidyverse model by abusing s
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by vharuck 1y ago
My favorite, plucked from Terry Pratchett: "I'm a homosexual necrophiliac," said Tom in dead earnest.
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This isn't a new concept in law. It's similar to buying goods that were stolen or procured through illegal means. Here's the US law that applies when it happens across state lines: https://www.law.cornell.edu/
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Right, the dialogue between the user and the LLM closely resembles documents used in training the LLM. People argue with, lie to, and misunderstand others on the internet. Here's a totally plausible hypothetical forum discussion: Perso
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>I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different. - Kurt Vonnegut
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Yup. A lot of people blame environmental hazards for perceived clusters of cancer patients in neighborhoods. But behaviors are much bigger contributors to cancer risk these days. The best ways by far to avoid cancer these days are (1) don
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>Only way I can see it working is if the government pays for social spaces. The government effectively does financially support social clubs by exempting them from taxes: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/oth
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I don't live in the area, so I plead ignorance on how the nuances may play out with these specific schools. I read through the article[0] from The Voice of San Francisco from which the submitted article draws. It's got a negative
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Are Manufacturing Jobs Special?(npr.org)
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by vharuck 1y ago
>We need the housing though, so it’s good we have that. I’m not sure we need more housing in the form of townhomes that cost $700,000+ each but at least it’s higher density than single family residences, which are killing the housing mar
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by vharuck 1y ago
They could argue it is an arbitrary or capricious action by the agency: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/706 If Harvard has maintained approval for international students, and Harvard's policies
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by vharuck 1y ago
I imagine that any dump of government communications will contain sensitive information about citizens or government employees who didn't directly engage in the chats. Soldiers, contractors, patients in a database. Especially if Congr
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by vharuck 1y ago
You need to account for the risk of blackmail, persecution, and embarrassment (e.g., evidence of infidelity, refugee status, medical condition). Most of the time, citizens have the right to keep secrets or lie.
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by vharuck 1y ago
School districts in Pennsylvania are their own government systems under the state, similar to municipalities. They get money from the state, but a lot of their budget comes from real estate taxes. The subsidies are a way to guarantee the m
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by vharuck 1y ago
There was the Homestead Strike in 1892, during which 9 people died. The Pinkerton Detective Agency, which "handled" the strike for Carnegie, is notorious for violently busting strikes in the 19th century US. https://en.
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by vharuck 1y ago
When I first read the headline, I thought it was a boneheaded mistake of forgetting to disable tracking on certain web pages. But no: >The Markup found that Covered California had more than 60 trackers on its site. Out of more than 200 o
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by vharuck 1y ago
If I understand the parent commenter, here's a common example from population-level statistics like public health: "State X saw a mortality rate last year that was statistically significantly higher than the national rate. We shou
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by vharuck 1y ago
Personally, I'd support an alternative to copyright for letting creators earn living expenses while working or in reward for good works. But it's a terrible thing to offer them the copyright system and then ignore it to use the w
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Even if an insurance policy covered war, the chance of collecting the full amount would be almost zero. War levels extremely large areas, most buildings aren't bomb-resistant bunkers, and fighting drags on. There's no insurer who
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If a school lunch is served for free, then parents who would have bought that lunch now get to keep the money. If we would raise taxes to fund these programs, it's possible the majority of people could actually save money.
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Silver lining: future work conferences I go to will mean visiting cool cities in Canada and Mexico, the new North American hubs of medical research. Just kidding! According to the White House's proposed budget, there won't be any
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>now have actually no idea what to do now that this kind of situation has happened They know what they would do, if this were under any other president: make phone calls, write editorials in major newspapers, start donating to future pol
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by vharuck 1y ago
Bills also require the president to sign them, though a supermajority of Congress could override the veto.

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