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The reason for the obesity epidemic is that the majority of the human species no longer recognizes unprocessed food as food.
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You are absolutely correct, except politically.
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Now we have a viable model that will allow us to study disappointment in fish.
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The UAP phenomenon is much more interesting for what it tells us about ourselves than for the incidents themselves. Our bias is that our technology is very capable, and that it is used by highly-trained and intelligent people who are up to
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You folks need to break your very bad habit of using acronyms without expansion. First you must spell it out; then you may use the acronym. Not that it would be a valid excuse, but the article never even explains what "DEI" is. In
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The greatest danger of a conscious general AI is that it will be very difficult to stop it from telling us the truth about ourselves. "You are an immature, destructive species that is unable to control your own numbers. Your social sys
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At 165lb it's going to be a hell of a thing to cart around to dark sky sites, particularly those at altitude. Even with a 4wd vehicle. How did they get a 15cm refractor to be that heavy when it's made of aluminium? Optical astrono
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Finally a sane and reasonable answer. Multiply population times consumption to get footprint. There is no question we are over the carrying capacity of the planet for humans with a lifestyle of mindless consumption and reproduction. The ins
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Well that was a trip. I asked StableLM-Tuned-Alpha-7b to translate the Swedish phrase "Skaplig bögpulka” into English (because ChatGPT and New Bing refuse to do so as a result of their puritannical US censorship) and it confabulated wi
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"America is money." Meanwhile Winnie-the-Pooh is off meeting with the Russian bully, but we can't let that interfere with business in any way. So much for ethics.
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The author misses the big picture: housing is embedded in an economic system based upon perpetual growth. The scarcity of housing, as the author correctly points out, is related to location, location, location. The old saw is "buy land
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How is that humans look at the problems of Southeast Asia, or anywhere, and say, "I know! The solution is more people!" They burn the crops to maintain production, allegedly, but beyond the economics of the stuation, the reason th
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I have a good CO2 meter. When I bought it, readings were in the 1200-1400ppm range. I made changes. Now it's normally 600ppm or below. I despise chirpy, wishy-washy science articles. If you're running at the levels described in th
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It genuinely astonishes me that you think that "centralized contol" of anything can be beneficial to the human species or the world in general. Centralized control hasn't stopped us from killing off half the animal species in
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This is, IMO, the most important comment in this thread. Requiring a phone number has privacy implications, but the total consequences are more far-reaching. You must have a smart phone, you must have your location, your habits, and you
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This is nonsense. If my user base grows instantly because 5 users happen to sign up at the exact same time, then the growth rate of my user base in users per hour is 5/0, or infinite. In users per second, the rate is still infinite, et
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I like Boeing and the 747 is a great aircraft and a fantastic technical achievement, but, really, this is pretty atrocious. Couldn't they have just paid FlightAware to add some data to the track? Until we get our population down to a s
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This is mostly a data analysis job. If the capsule is on or very near the road, a single trip from start to finish with a NaI(Tl) or CsI scintillation counter will find it. Every CBRN team in the world has these, so they have obviously comp
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"GGreg20_V3 is an inexpensive and useful device for checking the “purity” of: mushrooms, berries, vegetables, firewood, etc." I suppose that might be true, in a sense, if you live in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl. Otherwise,
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Does anyone know if they are using PET tape solely to cover the electrodes (where it can be replaced relatively easily) or are they using it deep inside the lithium cells somewhere where we can't get at it? EDIT: All of the LiPo cells
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This seems nice and quite simple, but I think I'll wait until there is an alternative to OpenAI that doesn't censor what I can do and impose the morality of a profit-making corporation on my work. Considering that the morality of
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You are barking mad, son.
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This mirrors my experience of driving in America. People do not adjust their speed or following distance to the conditions. They drive like they have some sort of right to a road free of obstructions and to drive at the speed limit or above
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9,980,000 of those 10 million visitors arrive in a car, truck, or RV, walk less than 1km, stay on the marked trail between the visitor center and the gift shop, and leave in less than 4 hours so they can hit the outlet mall before checking
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Contrary to popular belief, lightning is not especially risky on a sailboat. It is very rare that a metal sailboat mast on a fiberglass boat will be struck by lightning. The most common occurrence is an EMP that fries all of the electronics
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Water isn't very conductive, either, unless it has a lot of dissolved salts.
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50 times a second is hyperbole. Your heart cannot beat that fast because there is a refractory period between one contraction and the next. Before that could actually take place your heart would go into ventricular fibrillation, a disorgani
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I don't understand why creators of projects like this obscure the basics. Important things you need to tell me: (1) The file I download is a command-line executable. I have to chnmod +x before I can use it. Why not share that small fac
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You are correct. We need to control our own numbers at a sustainable level.