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by vsef 6y ago
No, it's not a US thing. Cheddar melts fine, but the harder and more mature the cheese, the more the solids and oils will tend to separate and not be as super smoothly emulsified if you melt it onto noodles on its own. The point of a r
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by vsef 6y ago
This is not true for all people, sensitivity to dietary cholesterol intake is individually variable. My cholesterol responds very strongly to dietary cholesterol intake, when I do not eat eggs yolk, shrimp etc, my cholesterol is close to id
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by vsef 6y ago
The side effects are of the type where a small group of users will experience changes in kidney function, and you have to check for it, but the vast majority won't. The side effect profile for most people is very low.
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by vsef 6y ago
Biktarvy doesn't make any sense for PrEP, Descovy is emtricitabine and tenofovir alafenamide, Biktarvy is emtricitabine and tenofovir alafenamide plus an integrase inhibitor which just adds possible additional side effects and isn&#x27
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by vsef 6y ago
Intel employs 5,900 people in Santa Clara county and that is their corporate headquarters so obviously they think they gain something from a large Bay Area footprint. The idea that Bay Area hiring is primarily "little startups that nee
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by vsef 6y ago
Vesting is monthly (for the FAANGs I'm familiar with), you can even set it on auto sale to automatically sell your shares as they vest and just take the cash every month if you never want to see stocks. I feel like I shouldn't hav
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by vsef 6y ago
How exactly does RSU comp at a public company not help buy food at the supermarket or anything else? These are not options or illiquid shares, it really is the same thing as having a much higher salary. The only real difference is that your
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by vsef 6y ago
As someone who lives in a small rural town I highly doubt that. The percent has been consistently going down over time, not up and covid housing movement is nowhere near enough for that large a shift in one year. Suburbs are significantly
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by vsef 6y ago
Small towns and rural make up only 21% of the US population. http://www.ruralhome.org/storage/documents/ts2010/ts-report/...
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by vsef 6y ago
Cooking at home is dramatically more time/cost effective for two people compared to eating out. Anyone this isn't true for just has very inefficient shopping, prep, cooking and cleaning habits. They probably also don't unders
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by vsef 6y ago
It still wouldn't make any sense including sales tax. The effect of sales tax on total tax burden scales even less linearly than the steeply progressive CA income tax rates! The more you earn, the smaller % of your income goes to thing
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by vsef 6y ago
Where are you getting 16% state income tax from? In your median income example of 108k, the top rate for single filer is 9.3%, but that payers effective rate is only 6.6% (summed over all bracket). This is not much higher than Utah's f
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by vsef 6y ago
You put lentils in salted water and simmer for ~30 minutes, is the basic recipe. Unclear how this could be lower effort, its similar to boiling dried pasta. Even seasoning doesn't have to require chopping, smash a piece of garlic, don&
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by vsef 6y ago
I moved from making AAA games to other parts of the software industry in 2005. It is not "just like any other industry". The working conditions were bad/abusive, very open sexism, lots of young inexperienced employees (like
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by vsef 6y ago
I love WFH and work for a large company which shifted to WFH early and in which in theory remote work should be very doable. My hope for this experience was that people would realize how productive WFH is and this would be great because it
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by vsef 6y ago
If it's just density, why does SF have so few deaths (20), fewer than cities much less dense than SF? eg Seattle is much less dense but has 15x as many deaths as SF. There is clearly an element of chance/which sub-population was i
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by vsef 7y ago
High prevalence of hcv isn't just due to lifestyle factors. Baby boomer age group for example have a very high prevalence primarily due to spread by unsafe medical practices before the medical community knew about hcv: https:/&#x
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by vsef 7y ago
The parallelism in a transformer doesn't necessarily translate to less or faster compute. Each layer has to be computed in serial after the previous layer, and the computation of each attention head is quadratic in the size of of the i
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by vsef 7y ago
LA and San Diego have both had ongoing major news stories involving hepatitis outbreaks due to unsanitary homeless conditions, I think you are just noticing SF stories.
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by vsef 7y ago
An explanation in comic form with text by quantum computing researcher Scott Aaronson: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3 QC is about setting up interference patterns between the qbits, it is fundamentally un
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by vsef 7y ago
I live in a redwood forest and it is noticeably quieter of insect and bird sounds compared to nearby down out of the forest a bit, but not as silent as in an old growth grove. The redwood canopy blocks out a lot of light, the thicker it is,
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by vsef 7y ago
Almost every country in the Americas works this way, Colombia is the only big exception. It is certainly not "one of the few".
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by vsef 7y ago
Well, to be more clear on the #what: These are strains resistant specifically to efavirenz and nevirapine. Both drugs are members of the same class of anti-retrovirals, NNRTIs, which aren't prescribed together, they are two alternative
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by vsef 7y ago
There are two different usages here: queer as umbrella term inclusive of LGBT etc, and queer as a specific identity. The usage as identity of its own is intentionally ambiguous/expansive but frequently implies some form of gender fluid
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by vsef 7y ago
Crossfit is from Santa Cruz and is a combination of a lot of different stuff, the mix of which has changed over time. It's different depending where you go because there has never really been a standardized specific thing that it is an
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by vsef 7y ago
Work in speech recognition, from this list use lots of advanced automata algorithms, bloomier filters, interesting types of hashing, fancy priority queues.
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by vsef 7y ago
Also not mentioned: He was a gay man, which he never seemingly really came to terms with after coming out to his father at 18 and then being unwillingly outed to his mother who declared him an "abomination", and it clearly fucked
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by vsef 7y ago
The core argument of the article is not that Buddhism was either a unique spur to warfare or the specific source of obedience. The article is about how Zen has at various historical moments, despite core anti-violence Buddhist beliefs, been
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by vsef 7y ago
California's water situation is not a "complete lack of irrigation sources", this is a big misperception. There are big issues around distribution, water rights, allocation for farming vs urban areas, which crops to grow, and
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by vsef 8y ago
Well for example, some comparisons to the CNN paper you pointed to: - No comparison is given of number of model parameters. If optimizing strictly for model size, RNNs tend to be nice and compact. - The computational advantage of the CNN at

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