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by xkcd-sucks 10mo ago
Theres a nice and comprehnsive treatment of this topic in https://acoup.blog/2025/10/17/collections-life-work-death-an... > [A] series ... looking at the structures of life for pre-modern peasant farmers a
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by xkcd-sucks 10mo ago
I think the point is people embody or create anxiety, whether or not it is a choice. As an emotion the anxiety is inseparable from the person, a dead person cannot be anxious etc.
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by xkcd-sucks 11mo ago
No - Performance reviews are important legally, it's the only company IP you're entitled to take with you when you leave etc, so this is where you can have evidence of specific projects etc. Also - If you write the PR you want to
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by xkcd-sucks 11mo ago
> 'Anxious' is more common now Or 'having anxiety', which diminishes the subject's agency even more
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by xkcd-sucks 1y ago
Basically these are the effects of a job in software management, minus the plants
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by xkcd-sucks 1y ago
Cheap fun, if you acquired a box of Arduinos from a defunct makerspace or startup in the mid 2010s
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by xkcd-sucks 1y ago
Based on the manufacturer's history, nothing good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSK_plc#2010_Pandemrix_connect...
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by xkcd-sucks 1y ago
New England is seismically active :) If you're not aware of it, the tremors can feel like a large passing truck or something like that https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=40.31872...
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by xkcd-sucks 1y ago
Sometimes you have to make the Pan hot enough so all the food goes "Tssss!" immediately and loudly when it goes in, and doesn't boil in its own moisture. Doing this appropriately is one thing that separates okay cooks from te
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by xkcd-sucks 1y ago
My hot take hopeful guess is that heat shock causes upregulation of protein degradation / chaperone activity, thereby disrupting protein aggregation involved in AD, PD, et all. One can hope
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by xkcd-sucks 1y ago
It is not technically a television, but a good short throw projector has suited my household's needs perfectly; i.e. gaming and streaming from devices
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by xkcd-sucks 1y ago
If "superintelligence" is such a big deal, how is it that e.g. MENSA members haven't taken over the world yet? Is there evidence of the assumed "superintelligence/dominance" equivalence in existing human popula
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by xkcd-sucks 1y ago
It's like kind of challenging to prove this kind of negative, and the supposed proof here comprises no more than pedigreed words on a page, but here consider the section "What constitutes a good model for AD?": https:/&
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by xkcd-sucks 1y ago
Oh also there is the trick where the startup gets sold a little under its strike price and the execs each get signing bonuses > book value of company as sold
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by xkcd-sucks 1y ago
https://erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Cheese_Blue.shtml
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by xkcd-sucks 1y ago
All of whom want to trade on expectations of future labor cost reductions which haven't actually happened yet, so take with a grain of salt
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by xkcd-sucks 1y ago
There's a lot of researchers in a lot of roles and it turns out finding targets is just one of those roles, the rest focus on optimizing therapies against those targets and they like having well defined targets to work on.
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by xkcd-sucks 1y ago
I'm thinking sit down waited upon dinner for two, "second/third tier cities" in Northeast USA mostly - In 2025 you might see $30/head "restaurant week prix fixe" but those places are usually closer to $50&
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by xkcd-sucks 1y ago
It's plausible they started with a typical software consultancy and its crappy in house app builder scripts, and reformed it as an AI thing in order to inflate its value?
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by xkcd-sucks 1y ago
For many of us in the USA $100 is the price of a meal for 2, no alcohol, at a good but not expensive "fine dining" type restaurant. The e-reader seems like a total steal in that context. (which of course doesn't mean that the
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by xkcd-sucks 1y ago
From my somewhat limited understanding it could mean Anthropic could sue you or try to include you as a defendant because they meaningfully relied on your misrepresentation and were damaged by it, and the XML / framing it as a "ja
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by xkcd-sucks 1y ago
Same thing with nips (1oz liquor bottles) which you see everywhere on roadsides in some parts of the US - The product basically exists to make open containers immediately disposable
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by xkcd-sucks 1y ago
Tobacco actually has some value: It produces a craving, which can be satisfied temporarily. Being able to fulfill some kind of desire, even a contrived one, is the value. Or rather, the addiction of smoking created a desire that can defin
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by xkcd-sucks 1y ago
Unfortunate name collision with FASTA the bioinformatic sequence file format
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
> One of my laments is that there is no automatic equivalent force in the government. Agencies grow and grow, projects grow and grow, all totally decoupled from whether they are achieving any progress whatsoever towards the agency's
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
A good place to start is just noticing periodically, "what I'm doing right now, is it really a better use of time / more enjoyable than sitting and doing nothing?". Sometimes it turns out that video games really aren&#x2
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
I realize this is somewhat off topic but Massachusetts State Police is notoriously corrupt. Some recent items off the top of my head which have been covered extensively in mainstream media: * The overtime scandal; TLDR for years there h
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
Just for cultural reasons, a roundworm's brain with 302 neurons (each one always in the same place spatially and topologically I might add) is likely better understood. And we don't have a great idea of how it works. But the OpenW
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
It's all good, the fine print establishes the real culprit as "free software from popular code-sharing site GitHub"
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
The "getting bonked on the head a lot might be killing us" narrative has progressed rapidly in the past 20 years, fwiw, and you'd think we would have noticed it earlier given it is visually evident postmortem and doesn't

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