addisonl

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by addisonl 29d ago
Misleading comment. From https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijc.35463 > Cutaneous melanoma (CM) accounted for around 331,700 cancer cases globally in 2022 > An estimated 267,353 (95% uncertainty int
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by addisonl 29d ago
> This also means that you are likely to get melenoma form something other than the sun. Quantifiably false statement. Incredibly dangerous misinformation to spread—shame on you. From https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi&#
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by addisonl 5mo ago
> Question: A fair die rolling a 6 twice in a row is more likely than rolling 1-2-3-4-5-6 in sequence Two 6s in a row is 1/36 chance (1/6)^2 1-2-3-4-5-6 is a 1/46656 chance (1/6)^6 Website is claiming they are the sam
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by addisonl 8mo ago
Its actually not "pretty clear"—about 25-30% of people are hyper responders who are impacted by dietary cholesterol.
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by addisonl 3y ago
I mean these analogies could be applied to AI image gen too. Open up an image gen tool and press generate. Do you get a great image? No, because you didn’t even enter a prompt.
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by addisonl 3y ago
Cruise has been operating in Phoenix for many years now.
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by addisonl 3y ago
I love and share this view—whenever a website uses dark patterns like this to try and get me to do something I just close the website and thank them for helping me reduce my screen time!
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by addisonl 3y ago
Best way to block people on Twitter after this: delete Twitter.
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by addisonl 3y ago
A temporary outage that only impacted sites that happened to critique or compete with Musk?
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by addisonl 3y ago
> HN discussion did not particlarly have "reasonable skepticism". That’s definitely not true despite your attempts to gaslight us.
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by addisonl 3y ago
> If that claim breaks down whenever the driving conditions are anything other than perfect, then self driving cars lose their only supposed benefit False dilemma: value from self driving cars is a sliding scale, not all or nothing.
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by addisonl 3y ago
> The biggest beneficiary of Webvan’s failure was Amazon.com. Not only did the company learn from the mistakes made by Webvan, but it also hired former Webvan executives to launch its own grocery delivery service: Amazon Fresh. Further,
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by addisonl 3y ago
Strawman: no one said loud guests are the norm.
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by addisonl 3y ago
You have any studies stating the opposite, that heart attacks are falling for folks under 50?
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by addisonl 3y ago
On top of that, my car can remember the MPGs I got for the last tank (and every tank before that) and estimates my range off of that. Apparently that’s “magic” according to the comment you replied to. Tesla apologists always have some excus
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by addisonl 3y ago
Wealthiest religion in the world, they have massive real estate holdings.
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by addisonl 3y ago
This has been asked over and over again in this thread.
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by addisonl 3y ago
> Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead
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by addisonl 3y ago
Well, considering it was trained from content created from how people actually write, yes?
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by addisonl 3y ago
Hasn’t TX had multiple years of grid failures? Not really a “black swan event” if it keeps happening.
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by addisonl 3y ago
“The organization also found that Tesla, which is often lauded for its sophisticated technology, was not a paragon of reliability, ranking dead-last among brands”
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by addisonl 3y ago
Tesla is one of the least reliable brands you can buy: https://www.jdpower.com/business/press-releases/2023-us-vehi... Only Ford/Lincoln, Audi, and Land Rover are worse—all notoriously unreliable brands.
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by addisonl 3y ago
You’re in this thread multiple times saying “5 million years ago…” “3 million years ago…” no one is fooled by your attempts to gaslight us on how serious our situation is today.
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by addisonl 3y ago
And people wonder why companies don’t like remote work…
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by addisonl 3y ago
Definitely don’t agree with this at all. Go sit in a VW then sit in an Audi, or Toyota/Lexus, Hyundai/Genesis and tell me they are of the same quality. They are not.
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by addisonl 3y ago
Oh don’t get me wrong, I test drove the Polestar 2 and liked it—miles better interior than the Model 3—but them being made in China was a deal breaker. I’m trying to buy less things made in China and dropping $60k on a Chinese vehicle doesn
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by addisonl 3y ago
How do you ensure what the LLM generates is legally accurate?
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by addisonl 3y ago
Personally I’d never buy a car made in China. Related, I find it pretty strange Volvo is trying to establish a luxury brand (Polestar) but instead of building Polestars in Sweden they are building them in China.
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by addisonl 3y ago
> probably 90% of people are like this I think you’re overestimating the average person.
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by addisonl 3y ago
This doesn’t prove anything when it comes to battery age, this is just high mileage teslas.

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