DoingIsLearning

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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
Am I interpreting this correctly that Brita actually works as a limiter for plasticizers in tap water? Specially since tap water plasticizer content can vary by a lot?
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
Am I interpreting the data correctly in that, whatever protective effect was found on Taxi drivers and Ambulance drivers, was actually aggravated on Ship Captains and Airline Pilots? My immediate thought went to the negative effect of sleep
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
Personal no. But professional, yes. Whenever I change jobs I always take a copy of all my emails and keep it in offline storage. Arguably not always legal/compliant. But both for CYA, learned history, relevant contacts etc. it has had
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
If you are a Spotify user please make an active effort to seek and listen to artists _albums_. Playlist are a worse experience (unless you make them) and only play into Spotify's pocket. A few key points with albums: - You are listenin
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> There's been centuries of legal disputes, in both civil and criminal cases, and judges have over time through their rulings have influenced what is the acceptable wording ... When judges render a verdict, it becomes case law, and
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
Crazy how much Walt Disney's lobbying so many years ago had such an impact and irreparable damage to digital content access, as well as, all the TPM nonsense that came after. We simply normalized users not owning content because of him
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> Completly useless. Not enterely useless, since you payed a lower retail price on it based on manufacturers projected revenue from ads. The best way to kill the business model is to buy them for the high end display tech but then keep t
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> Why dumb TV's won't make a comeback --- price. I'm cool with it provided I can use it as a very high quality HDMI display. Then I just got a nicely discounted product. My worry is if they demand connectivity in order to
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
You can write 'fuck', tik tok is not policing the whole internet. No point in self-censoring, just make the discussion constructive. [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html edit: shit, fuck, shit.
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> and a floppy in front of an old webcam I think you meant to write 'an artisanal and bespoke infra-red bandpass filter in front of an old webcam'.
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
It definitely helps to visualize what the experience of using it is like, thanks a lot!
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> It's really no wonder far-right candidates promising to fix everything are doing well lately. Many OECD countries would have had a large chunk of the population now +50 yrs old who where born in a time where they physically didn&#
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> You don’t get structural change by extreme singular events. The word _singular_ is doing a lot of work there. Historically 'propagande par le fait' has had a massive effect on policy. The implication that you have to not only
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> Apparently his other social media doesn't link to this YT account. But according to another comment in the thread YT confirms they removed the fake account AND _three_ real accounts associated with the guy. Begs the question of wh
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
Fine, confirmed as fake but he also had three real ones, "YouTube on Monday removed three channels belonging to Luigi Mangione ..." What was the content in those channels and why were they removed? All other online footprint of th
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> The username on an account can be set or even changed at any time and would not affect the created date. Didn't know this (not a YT user as such) but I won't delete the comment for thread history sake. It does appear it may b
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
Arguably the police was tipped so not like they found him as a product of their 'smarter' investigation.
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
The account uses the same handle as his twitter account and was created on Jan 2024. So arguably not someone else riding the popularity wave of the recent developments.
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> Portable headset-based displays like the Viture XR pro I'm really not familiar with the physics of this. But when using your glass, the image is put in a parallax between left and right eye to 'appear' at a distance. But
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
In the study linked it seems that factors like: - Financial difficulties - Being a single parent - Having children with a disability All seem to vastly influence the result.
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
Well, there are Persian texts talking about c-sections more than 3 millenia old. So I guess if you adjust your timeline you can argue C-sections are also "how it has always happened" for some of us.
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
No fly zones, RF jammers, Police forces themselves are equipped with counter offense drones. I am sure there are even more counter measures not known to the public or disclosed. After 9/11 all major wealth epicentres really started tak
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> How will this change events like G20, Copenhagen, or Davos? Nothing will change, have you seen the security apparatus of G20? They literally turn any place into a fortress. Visit Canary Wharf or City of London and most of the infrastru
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
Sounds like a great market opportunity for consulting gigs to clean up the aftermath at medium size companies.
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> If most of the return from your risky venture is going to be taken from you by the government, why take the risk? Again, not true. High taxation is mostly (unfairly so) on payroll salaries not profits or capital gains. Most investors a
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
Pointing to EU law/regilations is just platitudes people keep repeating online. Biggest barriers to business in the EU is risk averse Investors and Banking sector, lack of significant VC funding players, and Government spending strangl
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
There is EU law, which is enacted across all EU members. But there is no such thing as a EU legal framework, neither is there a fiscal one if we are focusing on business. A debt dispute could be resolved in less than 4 months or dragged for
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
I tried asking an Electrostatics problem which I assume is not very interesting training data for such CS/Maths biased LLM. It's still going.... I like the tentativeness, I see a lot of : wait, But, perhaps, maybe, This is getting
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
Arguably what I think is actually happening is the focus distance has increased considerably. The muscles that contract or relax to change your lens shape (to focus your vision at different lengths) don't work linearly. Most of the wor
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by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
Russia does not need to win to still wreak havoc. Their hybrid warfare has created massive social rifts and political instability across all major Western Democracies. Unfortunately you do not need a lot of money to do evil, when the devil&

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