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by fsckboy 2mo ago
from Le Guin and then Stanisław Lem's wiki pages: Le Guin refused a Nebula Award for "The Diary of the Rose" by withdrawing the nomination in protest of the Science Fiction Writers of America's revocation of Stanisław L
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
> But that's not a reason to blanket-discourage expression nor was there a reason to blanket discourage treating books as precious and worth preserving. i'm interested in the part where you note what you noted and let the othe
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
are you referring to GP or OP or both?
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
does "mold proof" mean mold won't grow on the surface, or that mold will not affect the silicone?
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
bitcoins are sold at marginal cost, that's how much miners are willing to spend to mine them.
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
the durable goods in question are not produced in advance, they are sold as they are produced, possibly manufactured in limited quantities to create artificial shortages; so there is nothing to discount. The question is, what pricing patter
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
the theory is about the asking prices charged by the producer, not the purchases made by consumers. After the people you are talking about buy, for whatever reason, what does the price do in the following months.
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
I assume there are local people living in the jungle there? did the researchers ask them what they think? perhaps Likweli looks, well, like other monkeys around there, and in the pre-Darwin West people were probably not super clear about ab
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
> rather than the recommended 8 hours of sleep for people getting 7 hours of sleep you're good. Improve your sleep hygiene, ok, but artificial interventions to get 8 may not be worth it for you.
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
"and don't do screens for the last few hours before bed" because that will help you fall asleep more quickly? or because that will help you sleep later in the morning 6 or 7 hours later? People never seem to mention that key
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
supply and demand. there is more demand, prices go up, the market allocates, it's the best way, no other way comes close to making the overall price level to be as cheap as possible.
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
> Just because there's a video of sexual acts doesn't mean Wikimedia exists for the prurient interest. nice goalpost move. just because wikimedia doesn't exist solely for the prurient interest doesn't mean that it sh
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
and if it is a popularity contest, mystifying that wikpedia would qualify, it has many serious flaws (generally of the form that a small number of zealots can control the messaging on topics they are obsessed with where most people just wan
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
"Toll House cookies" (chocolate chip cookies) are named after an inn that was named for a tollhouse on an old Massachusetts toll road.
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
People are having fun with AI coding, and I have no problem with that, but I am sick of hearing about it.
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
> The best part is that flock owns the cameras and the poles so even when the contract expires the cameras keep running and recording data that flock can sell if the cameras continue recording, LA can subpoena those recordings on an as
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
buyer's remorse is not "paid too much"
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
> If something that costs $20 and shouldn’t break for 4 years, breaks in 2 weeks, you effectively paid a high price for a $2 product. not true if all the other knives on the market at that price have the same performance, in which case
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
wikipedia: Reactive arthritis, previously known as Reiter's syndrome,[1] is a form of inflammatory arthritis[2] that develops in response to an infection in another part of the body (cross-reactivity). Coming into contact with bacteria
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
how about a version that shows all the words at once and you can work on them in the order you want, skip and go back. (for a phone show one and a person can click "later" to move a difficult word to the end of the queue) and the
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
> That's not a knock, it's a design philosophy of OpenBSD (which is to do the minimal needed, and no more, in the most simplistic way) you mean the most simple way. "simplistic" would mean they went too far. https:&
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
> That's not a knock, it's a design philosophy of OpenBSD (which is to do the minimal needed, and no more, in the most simplistic way) you mean the most simple way. "simplistic" would mean they went too far.
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
Did you find a word that wasn't accepted you thought should be? EARLS was not accepted, and I had already decided not to try REALS. (is there a rule against plurals?) what it was looking for was LASER which has a more tenuous claim on
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
it annoys me how eager people are to hurl the word stochastic as pejorative. Statistics are a great tool for gleaning information from stochastic processes; statistics don't contribute randomness. Random sampling is necessary in order
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> Human barbarism is not new... to be fair, without humans there would be nobody to declare "barbarism". At one time, all humans were barbarians, it took a certain level of cultural development before the word "barbarism&
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/culture/features/1478/ "Cochran and Harpending also cite studies claiming that Ashkenazim have the highest IQ of any ethnic group for which there’s reliable data,
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> You don't need genetic inheritance to explain Jewish over-performance, cultural inheritance is enough. but it is known, independently of Jewish population studies, that genetic inheritance is a strong factor in IQ performance, an
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
64 Fields Medals have been awarded, 15 went to Jews, just over 23%. Jews are 2.5% of the US but less than 0.2% of Europe (10% of all Jews live in Europe; in 1933, it was 60%)
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
ride defensively, don't travel at high speed when you can see that there are pedestrians ahead who might very well turn and take a step into your lane. slowing down is not going to kill you, speed up when the way is clear.
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
I think—no

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