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by yes_man 5y ago
https://thl.fi/en/web/thlfi-en/-/thl-monitoring-myocarditis-... According to Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, an additional 4 cases per 100k men under the age of 30. They also note that having c
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by yes_man 5y ago
> If hundreds of millions of people are spending hours on social media each week, some number of them will see ads related to some conversation they had recently by pure random chance Another, probably more common reason that people oft
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by yes_man 5y ago
Key is early on in the video with the ”mathematics isn’t ripe enough yet”. Since brute forcing the problem seems unlikely, could be that a solution to this problem takes mathematics a step to a new direction. Many useful things like modern
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by yes_man 5y ago
One clearly established specific reason for harmfulness of processed food is that it is more likely to contain microplastics and forever-chemicals, because the more you process food the more it is in contact with plastics and chemicals. See
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by yes_man 6y ago
From evolutionary point of view it is semantical why genome changed. Also I’ve never heard of any biology textbook or journal claiming mutations would only happen during reproduction or birth. Mutations happen all the time, that’s one reaso
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by yes_man 6y ago
We have devices that register electromagnetic radiation spectrum emitted (by ”atoms”) which can be visualized as an image. But this is at the heart of the parent comment: does the atom exist, or is it just a concept that describes the end r
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by yes_man 6y ago
> We should consider ourselves lucky that it was “only” a moderately-deadly disease, and not something worse. A lot of people think that the governmental reactions are slow and lame because covid isn’t a disease morbid enough to threaten
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by yes_man 6y ago
Generally it is easy to agree with the sentiment that machine learning is being used to solve problems where it isn't really needed. But on the other hand, the same argument could have been used when computers initially came along: &qu
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by yes_man 6y ago
The tragedy here is that likely the retrospective on this at Apple internally will not be "why do we even need our customers MacBooks to send all this data to us", but "how can we keep on doing this without something similar
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by yes_man 6y ago
Tangential, but related to the surprise of finding out how shitty humans are to other species: We slaughter 80 billion animals each year for food. On a planet of 7 billion humans, each year. Those animals only purpose is to be born, get fat
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by yes_man 6y ago
Conway's game of life shows how small building blocks randomly create giant crazy complicated formations that have the capability to do astonishing things, like replicate themselves in an organized way. Kind of implying that logically
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by yes_man 6y ago
I am just another armchair physicist but saying there is no detection of dark matter sounds a bit like circular reasoning. You detect matter like your phone in your hand through electromagnetic interaction. We have detected that there is so
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by yes_man 6y ago
You are 33 years old. Consider how long your whole life has lasted since you were born. If you retire at 66, you still have another 33 years of career left. If you enjoy computers you don't need to stop at retirement age either. Plenty
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by yes_man 6y ago
Can you back that up with some research or are you just basing that assumption on your emotions? What even is "emotional charge"? I bet that emotional capability of people isn't tied to their interest in startups and tech
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by yes_man 6y ago
Being interested in tech and startups probably doesn't mean you are less emotional than people who aren't
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by yes_man 6y ago
The problem will increasingly be "whose algorithm do we believe". Internet has revealed that people believe mostly what they want to. We have seen that a large subset of people are believing Bill Gates is behind the pandemic. Why
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by yes_man 7y ago
Teaching/academia being a job has nothing to do with the comment you replied to, and even if it were, I'm curious how would you replace academical research "with the internet"?
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by yes_man 7y ago
If anyone is interested in a framework that tries to put rigor into this otherwise very open-ended problem of defining consciousness, the integrated information theory ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_informa
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by yes_man 7y ago
Well this is off-topic but Soviet Union was an expansionist superpower whose elite ultimately seized control of production and capital. Whatever you mean by "pure socialism", it at least should aim for ownership of production capi
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by yes_man 7y ago
Although we all get what you mean and respect your experience, let us not confuse corrupted, oppressive, authoritarian single-party regimes with "socialism" just because they call themselves "socialist" or "communis
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by yes_man 7y ago
I don't want advocate one way or another (micro vs. monoliths) because tomato tomato. However here are a few arguments in defense of microservices regarding these three signs you commented: 1. Microservices do not have some inherent pr
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by yes_man 7y ago
I think the original comment meant that a 9% interest for a loan is quite steep and might be signaling Buffett's lack of confidence in media as an industry and its ability to generate value in the long term. However in a deal like this
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by yes_man 7y ago
The animals eat a lot more plants for a pound of meat they gain than humans would need if we only ate the plants. We are in the first day of this year and already over 120 million animals have been killed in the US for food. Approximations
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by yes_man 7y ago
There are indeed people who have medical conditions that make their life dangerous with a plant-based diet. For people without such conditions (the majority of people), science on negative effects of plant-based diet seems to focus on certa
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by yes_man 7y ago
Big social media companies could offer an API that offers a list of IPs that serve the app and any data it needs from an unblocked source. Then if you're under oppression by a malevolent leadership that blocks a social media, it could
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by yes_man 7y ago
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/uber-fires-400-people-market... At least they seem to have had a lot of marketing folk that were laid off shortly after the IPO
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by yes_man 7y ago
A thing being alive (collection of cells being "not dead") and sentient are two different things. If we assume sentience is some kind of concentration of information, then I would assume regular plants' synapses are not compl
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by yes_man 7y ago
Mining, refining and delivering uranium rests on fossil fuel powered operations. Building new nuclear plants is not carbon free either. Nuclear energy industry probably nets less carbon emissions per unit of energy than coal or natural gas
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by yes_man 7y ago
A monopoly regulates supply to extract more money from the consumer than a competitive market could. What's the good parts?
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by yes_man 7y ago
Is centralization of open source a good thing for the world or not? This thread seems to be overwhelmingly positive. And in the end we all will be critisizing it if all package repositories will be handled by a single entity. And that entit

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