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by vharuck 2y ago
Yes, it's the usual advice of how artists/authors/scientists make something: 1) Make the thing, 2) Try removing each part, 3) If the work fails without that part, put it back. For example, adverbs are good when readers might
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The armchair psychologist in me says Dr. Weiner is a sociopath who sees himself as a superhero doctor: controlling patients the entire way through the system, dismissing other physicians as incompetent or antagonistic, and diagnosing sympto
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From the announcement: >decisions allowing or increasing humanitarian assistance into Gaza were often conditional. I may be misinterpreting legal jargon, but "conditional" implies Israel often didn't want to allow humanita
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Israel was expected, under international law, to unconditionally allow aid for the civilians. Israel used it as a bargaining chip, effectively holding civilians hostage.
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It might be a "scheme" the school and the state quietly approve. Students living in the community should be more likely to set down roots with employment, social groups, or marriage. Brain theft, instead of brain drain.
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I feel like you forgot the "/sarcasm" at the end.
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For most things, I'd be happy to accept a market's wisdom. But after seeing the meme stock phenomenon, I didn't trust them to fairly judge anything related to Trump.
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Researchers have long known about the positive correlation between how much red meat a person eats and that person's chance of developing colorectal cancer. There are plenty of large behavioral health surveys that show this. So the au
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Terry Pratchett: A visionary on the Discworld invents something vaguely like a modern object or industry. That invention enslaves the visionary and must be stopped by a crotchety old person who hates change.
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This is called the Anthropic Principle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
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Networking, physical and information resources, help with learning things he might have had trouble grokking, and the signal provided by a degree to get into organizations or events that might not have heard of him. If a very smart and alre
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The only time I've bought a train ticket is when the wife and I took a trip to see a musical in New York. We're only a four hour drive from New York, but I hate driving near it, and really hate driving in it. So we booked a hotel
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Before it was legal, most people's experiences with sports betting were small wagers between friends. Maybe a few large bets that they'll still talk about to this day. Gambling with friends or even just coworkers comes with natura
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Nice George Box paraphrasing.
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My wife remembers going to Disney World with her grandparents when she was 6 or so. Her fondest memories were the hotel pool and the lizards that lounged around it. Those poor grandparents. Imagine spending a lot of money and then dealing w
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by vharuck 2y ago
When considering which qualities to favor in people, I'd be happy if you consider this quote from the 1950 movie Harvey: "Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be' - she
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Huh, seems I might be wrong about the benefits of fluoride in public drinking water: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/fluor... Summary of the linked article: (1) We should reevaluate the bene
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>citing American and other officials briefed on the operation. How far should I be reading into the fact that people outside of Israel leaked this info so quickly? Does it mean the US was very unhappy with the attack? I doubt they were
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Depends on where you draw the line for "drug". Of the top of my head, some population-wide (or nearly so) public health efforts that we consider effective: fluoride in the water, iodized salt, and baby aspirin for older people. Th
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TFA covers this (I think, it got real jargony at times): >Declarative processing of configurations generated via AI is a way to ground the AI, this requires a lot of work since you don't just offload requests to an AI but rather you
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>Firstly publishing something on Facebook explicitly gives them the right to "copy" it. It certainly gives them the right to exploit it (it's literally their business model.) This isn't necessarily true for a user con
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I figure that native plants give an edge to native pollinators. The explosion of spotted lantern flies shows how non-native plants can make things worse. Also, I'm ignorant when it comes to ecology. So I won't pretend to know how
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I still have my email after graduating 11 years ago. I was able to sign up with it, selecting "Alum" as the best description of my relationship with the college.
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For some jobs, hours worked isn't a practical measure of productivity or value. I used to pick orders in a warehouse. The more hours I worked, the more orders they shipped, the more orders they could take, the more profit they could r
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The prevalence of obesity has risen dramatically in the United States over the years. I find it hard to believe the average level of self control has fallen that much in so few generations. It's more likely to be a systemic problem, wh
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Extra LLMs make it harder, but not impossible, to use prompt injection. In case anyone hasn't played it yet, you can test this theory against Lakera's Gandalf: https://gandalf.lakera.ai/intro
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I appreciate the effort put into breaking down the barcode's information.
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Fox News only had to pay Dominion because Dominion lost customers. I think the proposed fines are for the societal harm of deceptive "news," not just provable financial harm. >Alex Jones is going through bankruptcy. When it ge
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I spent a whole night worried about electric hazards when the meat smoker killed an outlet outside my basement door. My wife's aunt, an electrician, asked if we checked the GFCI. I had read about it online, but didn't find the swi
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Chevron never tied Congress' hands. They always had the ability to amend the law if the Executive branch did something Congress didn't want. Let's be clear: a lot of these rules are policy decisions. Congress and the Executiv

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