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by float4 5y ago
Same happened to me, but I was at a point in my life where I didn't need to do a lot of deep thinking so I continued anyway, and after a few months my body had grown accustomed to it. I can now push myself to my limit and will feel fin
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by float4 5y ago
> and you're cooking on plastic and eating pieces of the coating There are actually ceramic non-stick pans, in which case you'd be eating sand if I understand the concept correctly.
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by float4 5y ago
Distribution symmetry doesn't change the definition of a word.
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by float4 5y ago
> > half of the US is below average intelligence > That is what average means. That is what median means.
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by float4 5y ago
ICYMI: In Case You Missed It
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by float4 5y ago
Is there more info on how your fao source performed the calculations? The Netherlands is actually a very significant meat exporter (78% of poultry and beef, 95% of calves, and 43% of pork is exported [0]). As a matter of fact, meat is the
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by float4 5y ago
I'm not the person you replied to, but it looks very interesting. I will give it a read. Thank you.
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by float4 5y ago
> Having experienced a trauma doesn't imply even remembering it I've even seen the same thing happen in people who beat their depression. A few friends of mine were depressed in the past 5 years and are doing well now. However,
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by float4 5y ago
> [...] it is an entertaining read The exact opposite for me. Their points are interesting, but to me the format just felt like a very poor attempt at creative writing. The first ~10 tweets convey absolutely no useful information. They o
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by float4 5y ago
Cool! How much traffic are you handling at the moment / at peak?
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by float4 5y ago
The dredging for that project was done by a Belgian and a Dutch company, and I don't think they left their ships and equipment there afterwards.
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by float4 5y ago
> Accepted because you conform to a certain societal expectation is not really acceptance. Social acceptance heavily depends on conformity. Groups don't welcome you if you do not conform to group identity. This is why not every grou
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by float4 5y ago
> What makes you assume that they don't exercise, play an instrument, etc? I clearly speak of people I know: "The people I know", "Those aforementioned people". Also, they often did do one, maybe two of these thi
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by float4 5y ago
> Now imagine your entire life was that. No, because you should shape your life differently in that case. The people I know who were both intelligent and depressed dramatically improved their life by doing less thinking. Exercise, play a
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by float4 5y ago
The Dutch Mensa site[0] has the following bullet points in a "high IQ checklist": - [...] - Do you often fit poorly into a group? - Do you sometimes feel desperate due to all those slow people around you? - [...] I think that says
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by float4 5y ago
> researcher Ruth Karpinski and her colleagues emailed a survey with questions about psychological and physiological disorders to members of Mensa. I think at least part of the conclusions can be attributed to selection bias.
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by float4 5y ago
> It's certainly not the case that women think all men are shallow Some women do do. That was the one and only point of my comment: to show that there are both men and women who fall prey to the exact same inductive fallacy.
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by float4 5y ago
You should probably meet more/different women then. Or at the very least you should know that there are many women who are not shallow. The funny thing is that there are both: - communities of men who think women are shallow (they spen
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by float4 5y ago
Once the cache is full the sequential write speed drops to ~1200MB/sec, so your drive should survive till day 5 at least. In all seriousness though: > We need to start expressing write endurance as a multiple of write speed I can&#x
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by float4 6y ago
In the PDF I linked to parents state how they stood in the hallway of the ICU, far away from their 3 year old daughter, because they could not handle her screams any longer. The doctors had advised them to go away. They were not with her wh
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by float4 6y ago
> [...] we do already have palliative care. Why not improve much further on this front Because it simply isn't possible in some cases. That's also what the doctors in the PDF I linked to state, but it's Dutch so I can&#x27
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by float4 6y ago
> the Netherlands wants to allow childhood euthanasia soon Doctors in the Netherlands want this simply as a better alternative to palliative sedation, which is already legal in NL and many other countries in the world. Some children are
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by float4 6y ago
> I picked up some 24 books from it Any books in particular that you'd recommend?
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by float4 6y ago
Article: many of the millionaires invested consistently in their 20s and 30s. Based on r/wallstreetbets I'd say that many broke gambling addicts do the same.
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by float4 6y ago
Most people don't care about their data. They don't even understand what companies do and do not collect. They want convenience. Nonetheless, there are apps that don't collect data or allow you to sync to your own backend (
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by float4 6y ago
"[...] in Second Half of 2021". Last part of title is missing.
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by float4 6y ago
I was going to say that a lot of this sounds like stuff already discussed in the book Sapiens by Harari, but then I noticed that this article is written by Harari. Anways: > The Sapiens advantage probably lay in large-scale cooperation.
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by float4 6y ago
The article discusses whether fairness is a biological trait that primates/humans are born with. It uses a video in which we see a research experiment on primates as ammunition for this hypothesis. But all I see in the video is a monke
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by float4 6y ago
> but in raw multi-core CPU power it simply does not beat a 3900x I agree. > if you want to pick one set of benchmark tests so that you can conclude that the 3900X from two years ago is not better than an M1 The thread was clearly abo
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by float4 6y ago
A passively cooled M1 beats a Ryzen 3900X, an i7, and an i9 in most benchmarks[0]. But if you want to pick this single benchmark so that you can conclude that the M1 is not better than a mobile phone SoC from a year ago, then you do you. [0

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