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by cupofpython 4y ago
why did you bring your home computer into the mix to begin with? future advice, never do that. For a lot of different reasons. Why do you think it would look bad on you if a slow computer does computer things slowly? This is an opportuni
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by cupofpython 4y ago
Buy a smart bulb for your WFH desk. Pick a color (example: bright white) that you only use when you are working. you might not notice anything at first, but after a while it really helps with shifting your mentality into or out of work mo
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by cupofpython 4y ago
Conditional probability applies to many things
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by cupofpython 4y ago
not entirely tautological. the probability that something bad happens tomorrow if we do X today for the first time is very different than the probability that something bad happens tomorrow if we do X today GIVEN weve been doing X every da
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by cupofpython 4y ago
>Graphing the progress of a sinking ship and pointing out that the downwards gradient has been stable for a while now and we should therefore be okay is generally not a useful extrapolation, I like this analogy. I've had similar th
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by cupofpython 4y ago
Watch Tarantino movies. "The Hateful Eight" in particular was fantastic. It doesnt look like an action movie, but as someone who really enjoys small details of realism it felt like a very good action movie.
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by cupofpython 4y ago
I think low carb diets are easier to mess up without realizing. one - you cant go no carb, so it requires very accurate moderation which is something people tend to be bad at two - the cheaper sources of protein and fat, which you now must
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by cupofpython 4y ago
>The Supreme Court has taken on relevance because Congress is worthless >Ultimately Congress needs to become functional again Yes exactly. I keep seeing rhetoric that we "lost 50 years of progress". we didnt. We band-aide
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by cupofpython 4y ago
> Law is semantics. Right, but that's also the point I was making. People think creating a law based on the beliefs of religious people violates the separation of church and state. It doesnt. the semantic nature of the law is rel
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by cupofpython 4y ago
In my initial post I was obviously aware that I was not going to paint a perfect picture of my opinion in this text forum. but sure, ill bite. One - no shit, pro-choice has considerably less consequences on the people around you than pro l
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by cupofpython 4y ago
The only education in this thread that I would like to distill onto the rural populations is that Freedom of Choice does not take away your ability to have babies on whatever terms you want, nor does it remove your ability form a community
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by cupofpython 4y ago
this feels like semantics? Catholic people will make catholic laws. They wont literally be catholic laws.. but common sense would allow you to see them as such. There's nothing wrong with that either. The state does not need to reco
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by cupofpython 4y ago
well, voting majority - not exactly every citizen. The US is an agreement. It is more comparable to the EU than it is Spain, or France, etc. Each state is meant to have autonomy relatively similar to a country, but are united together for
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by cupofpython 4y ago
speaking quickly with broad strokes that really have a lot more underlying nuance than im implying: there is a greater sharing of ideas in urban locations. more progression happens. they fail to spread the progression to rural locations.
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by cupofpython 4y ago
Some argue the Supreme court has too much power. Whether you agree with the result or not, the Left absolutely abused the power of the Supreme Court in order to make fast progress. There was no reason to involve the Supreme Court in many
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by cupofpython 4y ago
the supreme court did not ban abortion. It removed abortion as a legal right. It means people cannot use the power of the federal government to overrule their own state legislature on the topic of abortion. If you understand how the US Go
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by cupofpython 4y ago
the supreme court did not ban abortion. It removed abortion as a legal right. It means people cannot use the power of the federal government to overrule their own state legislature on the topic of abortion. If you understand how the US Go
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by cupofpython 4y ago
Weed is a tool. it makes you high. that's about it as far as generalizations go. if weed makes someone feel fulfilled, then they can farm a lot more feelings of fulfillment by using it than the old fashioned way of actually accomplis
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by cupofpython 4y ago
"i like historious" as the only review at the bottom gave me a laugh for some reason
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by cupofpython 4y ago
>company’s proprietary e-liquid pods I'm guessing this is why it is Juul specifically. Other companies may be next, or maybe the FDA hopes using this mechanism to take down the biggest player will strike enough fear in the market t
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by cupofpython 4y ago
what school allows for anyone to sit with kids at the school unsupervised? I feel like people keep glossing over that. Juul arranged to be there, but I find ithard to believe they did anything to explicitly prevent other adults from being
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by cupofpython 4y ago
"In particular, some of the company’s study findings raised concerns due to insufficient and conflicting data – including regarding genotoxicity and potentially harmful chemicals leaching from the company’s proprietary e-liquid pods –
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by cupofpython 4y ago
If they come up with it on their own, it shouldnt be an issue. Likewise, swapping the variable names does not absolve you from liability. Copyright really is not only concerned with what exactly is on the page, but also how you got there,
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by cupofpython 4y ago
if you write it yourself, it's fine. if you directly copy it from somewhere you arent allowed to copy from, then it is wrong. There are no rules about the form of the code itself that governs whether or not someone owns it. Common se
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by cupofpython 4y ago
>I'm thinking of the equivalent of github's co-pilot spitting out comments alongside the code yes exactly. I am having trouble articulating my underlying point but this is along the lines of it. A facial recognition algorithm
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by cupofpython 4y ago
Statistics are dehumanizing, you are correct. We do not judge individuals based on the statistics of their categorical groups for this reason. Doing so under the obfuscation of a ML model doesn't change that. Health is very personal.
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by cupofpython 4y ago
My post wasnt clear on this, but I support doing whatever we can to ease chronic pain. I just disagree with the position that Google can do so while preserving privacy. If we are going to trade privacy for cures, let's at least do so
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by cupofpython 4y ago
I am not sure where I argued that privacy is more important than health. I am saying call it what it is. You are arguing privacy is worth trading for health. I actually agree with that. I dont agree with claims that what google is doing
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by cupofpython 4y ago
>total healthcare expenditure is somewhere around double that of most other first world countries >the standard of care in America is probably second to none if you can pay for it How sure are we that these two things are unrelated?
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by cupofpython 4y ago
you dont disappear. you become embedded. they are metaphorically assigning you a number and stripping you of an identity. It is dehumanizing. At the end of the day, it's just you by a different name. Instead of owning it and claimi

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