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by avoutos 7mo ago
Or the roads the Inca built as well.
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by avoutos 7mo ago
It's remarkable to me how many seem to forget there is "morality" apart from "legality". Even if this does violate some treaty somewhere, we need not wring hands over the death of an objective dictator.
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by avoutos 7mo ago
Defend your thesis
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by avoutos 7mo ago
Well, there are other things you can look at. For one, Khamenei was dictator of a regime that abducts women and recently murdered 10s of thousands of protesters in the streets. I'd reckon most, including Iranians, would not judge the k
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by avoutos 7mo ago
Not a skeptic, but I've seen these studies for a while. Do we have any idea what the mechanism could be?
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by avoutos 9mo ago
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12713542/ (without paywall)
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by avoutos 9mo ago
Agreed. I see far too many people rationalizing piracy as a principled thing to do. Instead of finding ways to improve the market such that the control of content isn't siloed in monopolistic corporations, many celebrate Annas Archive
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by avoutos 1y ago
Do you have an injury? Knees over toes exercises can do wonders for rehab. From a form perspective, it also helps to avoid heel-striking.
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by avoutos 1y ago
I think it's more beneficial to think in terms of incentive structures. How we structure societies and industries can incentivize virtue, but it can also disincentivize fradulance and incentivize good clean work more directly.
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by avoutos 1y ago
And even minus the BS, researchers seem more comfortable with making minor incremental improvements in established science rather than taking risks.
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by avoutos 1y ago
Yeah, it's there in every industry, though it seems more prevalent in those that are heavily reliant on taxpayer money.
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by avoutos 1y ago
If the Chixulub asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs hit us today, humans would probably survive. Even if over 99.99% are wiped out, that still leaves a decent number to figure it out. It is estimated that human and human ancestor populati
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by avoutos 1y ago
And the war would have to carry on centuries to maintain the current rate. If there is a subtle insidious plot to erode the population of Gaza over time, it is a huge flop. The first mistake would be Israel's unilateral withdraw from G
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by avoutos 1y ago
Perhaps what most different about this conflict is the dearth of nations willing to accept refugees. Many if not most Gazans do in fact want to leave [1] (wouldn't you?). The unsettling conclusion is that these nations are willing to l
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by avoutos 1y ago
Exactly. From 1950-67 Jordan occupied the West Bank and Egypt occupied the Gaza Strip from 1959-67. At no point during this time was there any desire on part of the Palestinians to establish a Palestinian state. The Palesinians don't w
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by avoutos 1y ago
How is it self-defeating? Hamas is able to continue fighting with the more aid they steal. By stealing aid they also increase the suffering in Gaza thus winning the propaganda war.
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by avoutos 1y ago
The net savings are probably positive. DOGE's stated savings are 199B, so that would leave 177.3B in savings. If DOGE is overstating savings, I doubt they are doing so by 900% which is what it would take for savings to dip into negati
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by avoutos 1y ago
What is more 1930s Germany were the checkpoints and human-chains set up around UCLA to limit the movement of Jews around campus. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-09/are-you-... All UCLA has to
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by avoutos 1y ago
This is only a problem until UCLA makes a deal with the gov't, like Columbia, and gets its grant money restored.
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Unified Time Scaling for Temporal Coordination Frameworks(rfc-editor.org)
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by avoutos 1y ago
Oct 7th was certainly not the start of the conflict, but it was at a level of barbarity that one can not consider it to be provoked. > Without a sense of proportionate response, if Hitler did some false flag attacks, do you expect the wh
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by avoutos 1y ago
The article you link from NPR seems to mostly cite the Haaretz article. The only possible corroboration are the claims from Adil Husain, but I am hesitant to take his words as corroboration. The Haaretz article states it is unclear how man
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by avoutos 1y ago
At the end of the day, the outputs simply reflect the inputs. Initially I was of the "if it looks, walks like duck" view when it comes to LLMs and thinking. But as time progressed and I did more research it became increasingly obv
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by avoutos 1y ago
Even if the technology improves and the economics of scale reduces the cost, I still don't buy the narrative that swarms of tiny kamikaze drones will radically change warfare. Aside from radio jamming, I have not seen an actual defense
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by avoutos 1y ago
As someone who grew up during the heyday of common core, I can attest to this. Standardization is not a bad thing, but the pace and complexity were dumbed down. We were taught arithmatic with block visualisations and "bundles" far
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by avoutos 1y ago
To me the correlation doesn't actually seem that high when I look at the two maps.
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by avoutos 1y ago
Anyone know how this compares to Cloudflare Turnstile?
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by avoutos 1y ago
The PlasticList tests seem to have accounted for matrix effects / contamination. They used several various reactions (w acetonitrile, PSA, MgSO4, C18) to selectively dissolve / isolate the plastic compounds. This is also assisted
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by avoutos 1y ago
Ah you're right, my bad. That could be lead to confusion then.
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by avoutos 1y ago
The last event states Ireland "returns to rugby glory" suggesting it had won the grand slam before, but also there was a decent amount of time since the last win (return suggests a hiatus). This would exclude the original 1948 win

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