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by zamfi 4y ago
I think the parent is acknowledging that the stripes have an effect, they're whether the authors considered that some other property of zebras is unattractive and the stripes are a good indicator , leading to an evolved preference a
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by zamfi 4y ago
Those cartons are not only paper.
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by zamfi 4y ago
> discovering fairly high levels PFAs, Bromodichloromethane, and chloroform in my water after a test Out of curiosity, how did you have these tested?
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by zamfi 4y ago
> > he hasn't personally guaranteed them. > Source? I imagine the terms of the loans for the Twitter purchase are not publicly available. We can't know this, I suppose -- but it's quite uncommon from my understanding
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by zamfi 4y ago
You can, in most states a mortgage is a non-recourse loan, meaning that the bank cannot come after your other assets if you default. He owns the company that has loans, but the company has the loans -- not him, he hasn't personally gu
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by zamfi 4y ago
You are correct, I was imprecise. 100g of pasta is close to 100g of glucose, while 100g of table sugar (sucrose) is ~50/50 glucose and fructose, the latter of which has a completely separate metabolism. But both cause a huge glucose sp
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by zamfi 4y ago
I think th e poster you are responding to is making the point that long-chain refined carbs, which is what you get in e.g. pasta, breakfast cereal, oatmeal, rice, etc. (even if “whole grain”, most of which just adds back fiber but has alrea
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by zamfi 4y ago
You’re entitled to your own opinion, of course, but why do you hold this view? And why is “the reach of normal commuting of the ordinary user” a relevant bar — Google search (as an example) requires computation beyond the reach of normal co
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by zamfi 4y ago
I made no claims contrary to anything in your post; your response — none of which I disagree with — makes me worry that you are coming in with a preexisting belief and just looking for reasons it must be true. That said, there are plenty of
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by zamfi 4y ago
That’s only 3 orders of magnitude off from today’s largest models like PaLM (5x10^11 parameters), a gap that’s narrowed by 3 orders of magnitude just since 2019. How far away do you think we are, exactly?
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by zamfi 4y ago
Well, that was far more interesting than I expected!
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by zamfi 4y ago
> If public transit was significantly expanded and given priority over personal transport, it would significantly reduce trip times That’s the theory, but I think the reality is “induced demand” — the same reason expanding freeways from
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by zamfi 4y ago
> thats the way we liked it Absolutely not, nothing in my post suggested anything remotely close to “and it was better then”.
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by zamfi 4y ago
> still sold on the bs american dream of being stuck all day in a metal box instead As opposed to what, being stuck all day in a larger metal box with dozens of others? The quality of life solution is to kill the commute, not to kill car
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by zamfi 4y ago
Sure, so I'll spell it out for you: More than 1% of people wore masks because they thought it would have an effect, not "only wearing them because signal".
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by zamfi 4y ago
"Extreme" for the years since 2000, yes. But folks living in cities in the 1970s-1990s were exposed to this level of particulate pollution almost half the year , not just a couple of weeks here and there. For example, in 1980s Lo
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by zamfi 4y ago
I assume yours is an off-the-cuff take here, but more than 1% of people wearing masks thought they were at least somewhat effective at reducing spread, and not just a shibboleth.
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by zamfi 4y ago
100% agree here -- and you don't necessarily need to "work" such a job! I volunteered at a farmers market for a couple years and it gave me a fantastic view of people outside my bubble.
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by zamfi 4y ago
> my opinions on why car sales is the best sales experience Pretty sure the parent means "best" as in the best way to get experience doing sales for the salesperson .
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by zamfi 4y ago
It absolutely works in B2B. Why would it not? Nothing prevents you from talking to potential customers about an idea you have with a slide deck.
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by zamfi 4y ago
So…when you then own a large successful company you’ll have to deal with 1 additional lawsuit from someone who thinks they have some ownership stake? You should be so lucky.
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by zamfi 4y ago
They can’t pick a price below their marginal cost, though—that’s the problem with copper mines, and it’s a problem with power, too
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by zamfi 4y ago
Often I read long form pieces and the signal/noise ratio is so low it feels like someone was blessed with a short point to get across but burdened with a large word budget. This is one of those rare exceptions; when I reached the end,
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by zamfi 4y ago
Heart rate detection?
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by zamfi 4y ago
Yes, I understand what you mean, and I am disagreeing with you that “most” (as in > 50%) renters who have no active plan to leave a metro area would rather buy, but don’t because they can’t afford to. Some, sure. But doesn’t seem like it
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by zamfi 4y ago
"Senior" the title is different from "senior" the role. The former is close to irrelevant; the latter is what's interesting.
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by zamfi 4y ago
In many of these organizations, PMs serve to insulate the "planning and design" ICs from conversations with customers. Not ideal either, IMO, ICs involved in planning and design should get out there and talk to customers themselve
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by zamfi 4y ago
[citation needed] I have no doubt there are plenty of people who rent permanently in an area but would rather own. But "most"? Half of renters are under 40; according to one analysis, half of renters are young folks just looking f
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by zamfi 4y ago
Oh, I wasn't accusing you of using jargon for jargon's sake, and nor do I believe that you were -- you used the appropriate jargon appropriately and correctly! And certainly representing graphs as matrices and then applying matrix
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by zamfi 4y ago
Thanks!

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