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by eapressoandcats 25d ago
My biggest fear with AI is that it basically devalues the production of knowledge. They’re a continued march away from actually showing people the original information, and the people doing that writing get less and less credit. The compani
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by eapressoandcats 27d ago
This comment is just truly bleak and I hope you find something artistic that you can enjoy the depth of. The fact that some things are considered classics is not a mercenary logistical concern. Some movies are considered classics and this h
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by eapressoandcats 27d ago
The point isn’t so much that the writing is definitely correct as that the writing is interesting and compelling.
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by eapressoandcats 1mo ago
Re point a, cheap calories have been around in abundance for 5 decades. The trend has actually been toward more fresh food being available, not more junk (most candies, sodas, and white bread brands are ancient). lol at point e. This is so
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by eapressoandcats 1mo ago
It’s not clear to me that they slow down metabolism consistently, although that does seem to be the effect in some people. I rather think the opposite is true, that by increasing signals that the body is satiated in many cases it is avoidin
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by eapressoandcats 1mo ago
That’s very nice for you, but it is a phenomenon that is well documented by research: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4989512/
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by eapressoandcats 1mo ago
I know people for whom GLP-1s made them lose weight, have a better relationship with food, and reduce their intrusive thoughts, and left them far more able to be active. I feel like we’ll eventually find out that how well GLPs work is going
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by eapressoandcats 1mo ago
There was a fringe that said being overweight was not unhealthy, but the more salient points were the following: 1. BMI was basically just pulled out of a hat, and it turns out that for many health concerns, the overweight class does better
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by eapressoandcats 1mo ago
They also clearly have some impacts on metabolism. It’s well known that a challenge with dieting isn’t just eating less, it’s metabolic changes that make weight loss harder. GLP-1’s avoid that.
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by eapressoandcats 3mo ago
It seems to start with the fact that the founder doesn’t understand the business domain at all: How do people actually buy ovens? What actually matters for customers, not what do they say matters? Who are the competitors and why do you thin
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by eapressoandcats 3mo ago
Democracy is a tricky thing. It’s not as simple as “whatever the majority of people wants, goes”, and has always been recognized as such. Classical liberalism requires certain rights and protections to every member of society in ways they c
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by eapressoandcats 3mo ago
I think the implication is that the architecture of the internet inevitably leads to social media companies driving for maximum engagement. It’s definitely not explicitly stated though.
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by eapressoandcats 3mo ago
The thing about mass media is that there were gatekeepers due to constraints on the amount of content. This didn’t necessarily mean the content was good or neutral, but it generally limited how “out there” stuff could be especially since yo
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by eapressoandcats 6mo ago
Then spear Phishing is almost certainly more economical. Or just plugging a device into your laptop while you’re not looking and stealing all your session state for browsers.
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by eapressoandcats 6mo ago
I think it is both a partial contributor but also overstated for the reason you mentioned. The main culprits IMO are over hiring during the zero interest rate period as well as the never ending increases in the supply of CS graduates.
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by eapressoandcats 6mo ago
It really isn’t. The threat model is someone who can watch you type a sudo command, and has physical access to your computer to try to brute force combinations, or a way to access a backup of your hard drive or passwords file. Knowing the l
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by eapressoandcats 6mo ago
Even weak passwords is almost a nonissue. No one gets even millions of tries against most passwords due to lockouts, whereas credential stuffing is a perpetual security nightmare. Uniqueness is the number one thing that matters. The modal a
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by eapressoandcats 6mo ago
As a general rule, if you have an adversary that cares that much you’re probably doomed. Presumably they’re capable of buying a $5 wrench to physically use against you.
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by eapressoandcats 6mo ago
They’d still need to have access to the device, so it shouldn’t be a problem unless other passwords are the same as your device password. Also what demos are you doing that require sudo access to your local machine? That’s already pretty ni
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by eapressoandcats 6mo ago
One thing to note is that pretty much every other password field shows length, and the fact that sudo is so much more paranoid reminds me of this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1200/ Seriously, what does sudo even protect anym
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by eapressoandcats 8mo ago
The funny thing about this is that pre modern cities featured in modern media are always surrounded by unformed grassland because it makes the shot more dramatic and it’s easier to do than showing lots of little farms growing in density up
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by eapressoandcats 8mo ago
Bret Deveraux linked to estimates that 70% of producing clothes is spinning, 20% is weaving, and 10% is sewing. We tend to think of weaving as the time consuming thing but that’s because the spinning wheel had been around for a while by the
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by eapressoandcats 9mo ago
Unfortunately, it’s not as strong a case as you’d think. One of three cases has to be true: either she was disabled and unable to work, disabled but able to fulfill job duties, or not disabled at all. In the first case Mongo can likely fir
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by eapressoandcats 1y ago
I don’t think Israel believes that there is anyone that could “surrender” on behalf of the Palestinians. Also, given the nature of the conflict, surrender would inevitably lead back to the same problems that started it, which is that Israel
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by eapressoandcats 1y ago
I fully agree that America was very willing to commit atrocities, especially using atomic bombs (obviously) and firebombing civilian centers. The key difference is that the US recognized that Japan could surrender, accepted that surrender,
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by eapressoandcats 1y ago
Israel doesn’t have a plan to clean up the mess. What is the end goal here? Seriously. They’ve invaded and now what? Options are: 1. Regime change, which I have seen no effort to attempt to effectuate 2. Withdrawal, which seems unlikely at
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by eapressoandcats 1y ago
I’m not sure there is a government that can surrender at this point. Israel may very well have taken out any “leadership” that they view as being able to legitimately speak for a Palestinian state, if they ever thought there was one. There
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by eapressoandcats 1y ago
I think it’s reasonable to conclude that Israel is more willing to continue to commit atrocities against the Palestinians than the US was against the Japanese. Like, I genuinely think Netanyahu is perusing a “ Lebensraum” strategy with Pale
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by eapressoandcats 1y ago
This was less true before Trump’s return. It’s frustrating that people said they wouldn’t support Biden/Harris over this and now instead we get essentially full-throated endorsement of genocide instead. Like there were always practical
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by eapressoandcats 1y ago
What they are actually doing is deliberately entrenching an authoritarian ethno-nationalist regime. I don’t think one can say that any of their decisions are rationally made for the benefit of anyone but themselves and their supporters. The

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