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Roger Penrose knows, imo
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How are James Webb or Hubble jokes? Genuinely curious
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What do you need that for? It’s not really cheating when it’s going into a product, if it works it works. In a hypothetical ideal corporate environment wouldn’t it be preferred if one could save company time by copy and pasting?
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I agree, it doesn’t. And the law should not be passed.
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You could say the same about smoking half a century ago.
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You don’t need to see their screens, there are plenty of other signs such as the craned neck, periodic scrolling motion, or more obviously the cascade of grating music and voiceovers as many kids have lost the idea of decency in public. Sou
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Is this a potential sign of the fault shifting or whatever the correct terminology is? A warning shot before a massive earthquake? Or just a geyser-like phenomenon?
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I am not well versed but my impression is it’s essentially a bunch of tin foil and the main impediment are geopolitical reasons and cost to orbit, which SpaceX has been and continues to improve.
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It can decrease the solar exposure of the earth and potentially decrease temperature, doesn’t address fossil fuel pollution but it does mitigate the impacts of fossil fuel CO2.
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They don’t even offset themselves, but SpaceX rockets would likely be a key part in deploying solar shades if necessary
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In short, no. I don’t know about their effects on brain connectivity or other imaging characteristics, but the subjective effects are significantly different and the (mental) therapeutic effects come from neuroplasticity being induced, whic
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I don’t know if this counts as “openly”, and he was naturalized, not native born, but Alexander Litvinenko was a British citizen poisoned in London. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko
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Drinks and towels for first class?
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My extremely naive understanding is that the more useful ones, which also tend to be structures of language like gender or color, get their own dimensions, and other embedding are represented with combinations. A weak illustration of this i
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They weren’t saying what they think, they were saying what they think the law is.
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Could it be that the leviathan is the cause of the dead zone?
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The show itself sure, but Graham Hancock just happens to be the loudest proponent of this theory, there is solid evidence to support it, from Randall Carlson and a few other people I’m not remembering atm. https://en.m.wikipedia.
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I’m bullish on hemp as a replacement for plastics, it can be used for many of the same purposes (textiles, packaging), as paper, is easy to grow, inert, and stable yet biodegradable. Hemp had a shot at becoming mainstream before Henry Ansli
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I can’t speak to real motivations but there are a lot of legitimate reasons to restrict and discourage kids’ social media access, especially TikTok. The TikTok ban had some baloney in the fine print, but the idea is a pretty good one. Filli
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That’s essentially the problem. Everything is plastic because plastic is cheap and versatile, but surprise, it’s also bad for you! Maybe in a century after a bunch of bickering on whether or not it’s really bad, if it’s worth solving, and l
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That’s a factor for sure, especially with the finding (that was posted last week on HN) that there are tire compounds in leafy greens. But it’s almost certainly also due to the use of various plastics in everything; even if you’re drinking
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I don’t think your comments are in conflict, being engaged with an interest does not necessarily mean being directly engaged with a project/task related to that interest. I definitely empathize with the scattershot approach being frust
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It’s definitely not a superpower, but that doesn’t mean it’s not an adaptation that is well suited for certain niches. For example, it appears that individuals with ADHD are particularly adept at foraging. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm
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They had an issue with a leaky valve, in a backup system, on a cargo mission. https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/valves-are-a-regular-c...
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I don’t think anyone’s disagreeing with that. My interpretation of your initial comment was that you were saying it’s not an important issue because it can’t be effectively policed. I don’t think that’s what you meant, but that’s what I got
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I think you’re missing the point, the issue is important because they have no reason to act against themselves, but a healthy system would have someone opposing them, and that’s not happening at the moment.
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Don’t be so pessimistic, once everyone has their mandatory neuralink it should be trivial to punish or prevent any unapproved thoughts and actions. Or before that, AI and constant location, audio and possibly biometric monitoring should be
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> “Genetic predisposition for inactive aldehyde dehydrogenase enzyme and subsequent inefficient alcohol metabolism, may also play a role. In our patient, we suspect her recurrent antibiotics for UTI and dexlansoprazole use led to gut dys
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I would imagine the expectation comes from them being very well compensated, and supposedly very well educated and trained experts that people entrust their current and future wellbeing to, and who try very hard (often successfully) to mini
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He’s barely able to read a teleprompter, not too confident that Biden himself enacted those changes.

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