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Tipping point in ice-sheet grounding-zone melting due to ocean water intrusion(nature.com)
4 points by zzzeek 2y ago|0 comments
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by zzzeek 2y ago
when you have a public health crisis like obesity, and you work in public health, it's not OK for your conclusion to be, "well they're all just lazy fucks with no self control, fuck em".
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by zzzeek 2y ago
Study is very dense. Did the study show that SSRI and other antidepressants change brain chemistry? That is, are we finally done with "SSRIs are essentially placebos" ?
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by zzzeek 2y ago
> It is no longer enough for conservative Christians to tolerate same-sex marriage—now they must be legally required to bake cakes and design web pages for the weddings. Isnt it enough that we can no longer lynch gay people with impunit
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Cancer Incidence Trends in Successive Social Generations in the US(jamanetwork.com)
1 points by zzzeek 2y ago|0 comments
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by zzzeek 2y ago
Saw a discussion on threads recently about private equity buying things like Red Lobster and ruining it, and there was some general head scratching over the general theme of, why is "private equity took over XYZ and ruined it!" su
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by zzzeek 2y ago
I modded this up because of the discussion regarding that tinnitus in at least some form might be an actual physically observable phenomenon. As for the article itself I saw a wall of foofy "longread for elite intellectuals" sty
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Top news app caught sharing "false" AI-generated news(arstechnica.com)
3 points by zzzeek 2y ago|1 comments
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by zzzeek 2y ago
perhaps, though I think our understanding of what "consciousness" is low enough that we can't assume "atoms working as logic gates" is really sufficient.
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by zzzeek 2y ago
who really does "Agile" or "waterfall" or anything ? I'm in this job for 30 years. I've never seen any formal methods my whole career. it's like here's the thing we need or what the customer nee
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by zzzeek 2y ago
we have every reason to think there's something special about consciousness since it's the one "thing" in "existence" that we all seem to agree exists, yet is 100% unobservable
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Deception abilities emerged in large language models(pnas.org)
58 points by zzzeek 2y ago|53 comments
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by zzzeek 2y ago
people who consume red meat are likely to be in higher income brackets hence have better access to healthcare and less stressful lives
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by zzzeek 2y ago
Why do all the new cancer drugs coming out end in the letter "B"?
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OpenAI Says Russia and China Used Its A.I. In Covert Campaigns(nytimes.com)
22 points by zzzeek 2y ago|1 comments
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by zzzeek 2y ago
this is nonsense, cPython's development is very public and works on a multi-year schedule. It's not like Python 3.5.0 is released and that's when everyone knows what features it will have, each major version goes through at
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by zzzeek 2y ago
pypy has never kept up with cPython features and releases. it was always well behind the curve and did not provide essential behaviors in a timely fashion. plus it can't run any C extensions or cython code (or has to run them with e
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by zzzeek 2y ago
Pretty sure we can use them for our next trip. They aren't like cheap, we had to buy them for like 30 bucks each or something
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by zzzeek 2y ago
We spent a week in Disney World last month where we used Disney Magic Bands. I thought they were a total blast, they serve as your room key, ride / park passes, then they are lighting up and buzzing all over the park when interactive
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by zzzeek 2y ago
I have 30 years of professional experience and with one off tarballs that I'm not deeply familiar with, this is usually what I do as well (certainly with a tarball that has a /usr like structure inside of it). You're good
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Crooks plant backdoor in software used by courtrooms around the world(arstechnica.com)
46 points by zzzeek 2y ago|3 comments
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What Is Turbulence? A Pilot Explains How It Happens, Even in Clear Skies(wsj.com)
1 points by zzzeek 2y ago|0 comments
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by zzzeek 2y ago
do you walk around outside and hang out under lone trees in thunderstorms?
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by zzzeek 2y ago
hm what IS it worth ? There's some kind of valuable minerals there? Google: "Helium 3". well we do need that
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I Took a Trip to a BYD Dealership to See the Chinese Automaker Tesla Fears Most(theautopian.com)
14 points by zzzeek 2y ago|2 comments
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by zzzeek 2y ago
>but the expectations of many people working in the field is it will arrive in what qualifies as ‘near future’. they think this because it serves their interests of attracting an enormous amount of attention and money to an industry that
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by zzzeek 2y ago
The same way all disease is studied by "doctors" who are deeply anti disease. You can't trust people with such a "set agenda"
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by zzzeek 2y ago
the US govt should not be doing business with Elon period. He's vastly too incompetent and mercurial.
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Tesla's layoffs threaten to slow Biden's program to electrify highways(reuters.com)
4 points by zzzeek 2y ago|1 comments
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From outer space? Farmers baffled after discovering wreckage in field(regina.ctvnews.ca)
9 points by zzzeek 2y ago|2 comments

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