lumb63

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by lumb63 9mo ago
That’s not what GP is saying. He’s saying that a term like “autism” is a lasso trying to capture a gigantic number of individual traits and symptoms. This is true of any other “psychiatric disorder” as well. There is no “autism”, there is n
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by lumb63 10mo ago
I believe we all intuitively push whatever our advantages are, often without even knowing it. The advantage that the wealthy have are connections, capital, and familial support. These advantages lend themselves to activities such as startin
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by lumb63 10mo ago
Gifts definitely confer obligations on the recipient. You can experience this firsthand: take the next gift a loved one gives you, and then sell it, and let them know. Please report back on how you selling their gift impacts your relationsh
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by lumb63 1y ago
I can’t comment on the nostalgia aspect, because I wasn’t alive back then, but I can say that there are several aspects of the statistic you used that make it not reflective of the experience people have. One issue is median real income doe
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by lumb63 1y ago
I suspect that this is an instance where “the scientific consensus” is wrong because to suggest contrary to that is wrongthink and enough to have one ostracized not only from science, but also society as a whole. I would love to be wrong, s
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by lumb63 1y ago
You and parent comment are not going to see eye to eye because of different definitions of “quality”. They are using the term synonymously with the economic idea of “utility”. To them, a higher-quality item is that which provides them the m
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by lumb63 1y ago
There seems to me to be a false dichotomy present in a lot of the comments here: either Google funds all web browsers, or all the web browsers will crash and burn and the modern web will die. Linux is a project spanning many decades with th
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by lumb63 1y ago
Everyone is quick to deride this move as stupid. I don’t disagree that there are downsides to the approach, but there is a set of very real national problems that this might address. For instance, globalization and offshoring of productio
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by lumb63 2y ago
A lot of folks in child comments are echoing your sentiment that something “cannot be proved safe”. Your argument that proving something is “not unsafe” is proving a negative is fallacious; the same can literally be said about anything (pro
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by lumb63 2y ago
I live near Boston. Part of the housing supply issue here is the mandate for a certain amount of “affordable housing” in all new developments (I forget the percentage, on the order of 10-20% of new units?). This results in either housing no
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by lumb63 2y ago
It has nothing to do with LLMs, but Ghidra is a wonderful tool.
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by lumb63 2y ago
Does this desire to want to know things about people you no longer associate with, not strike you as strange? There is no actual communication here - on one end, there is someone who either has no group of people whom they feel care about t
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by lumb63 2y ago
This is another instance of “privatized profits, socialized losses”. Trillions of dollars of market cap has been created with the AI bubble, mostly using data taken from public sites without permission, at cost to the entity hosting the web
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by lumb63 2y ago
Famously, the last 10% takes 90% of the time (or 20/80 in some approximations). So even if it gets you 80% of the way in 10% of the time, maybe you don’t end up saving any time, because all the time is in the last 20%. I’m not saying t
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by lumb63 2y ago
I’ve not followed this story at all, and have no idea what is true or not, but generally when people use a boatload of adjectives which serve no purpose but to skew opinion, I assume they are not being honest. Using certain words to describ
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by lumb63 2y ago
I’m astounded by how plain and round the visible light images are. Why is the corona only visible in the UV images, if it is, according to the article, visible from earth?
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by lumb63 2y ago
Ha, this reminds me of a very similar practice I used to engage in with a few buddies when we started work. It was always fun to try to figure out how to optimize the PTO to get the “most days per day”. Nowadays, I find that the best time t
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by lumb63 2y ago
How are the authors able to discern between vaccine related events, and non-vaccine related events? There is no oracle one can consult to determine this. That’s the entire point of having a second group which was not treated - to have a ref
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by lumb63 2y ago
I cannot comment on Nina specifically, since I’m not familiar with her work. I’d only like to suggest that being “a joke in nutrition science circles” in the recent past is probably something of a compliment. Mainstream nutrition science le
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by lumb63 2y ago
Do you find that this actually saves you time, and that you get to your desired search result faster? These sound like great features to me, but I haven’t found them translating to less time spent searching.
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by lumb63 2y ago
Kagi has a lot of features that seem “neat”. In fact, their pitch and feature set was enough to convince me to sign up. However, I haven’t been wowed by the service. I do not find there to be a noticeable difference above or below any other
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by lumb63 2y ago
Exercise also bests SSRIs. Having had multiple close family members and friends try various cocktails of SSRIs and other drugs for depression, bipolar disorder, and borderline personality disorder, and having to see the side effects they ex
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by lumb63 2y ago
This (well, not this specifically, but other decisions like this) is one of the major reasons I switched to iOS from Android a few years back. I like the openness the Android ecosystem provides, but at least at the moment, Apple seems to pr
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by lumb63 2y ago
I am a fan of a carbon tax, but one issue I’ve never seen addressed by proponents is the regressive structure of the tax. Oftentimes the poorest areas are using the most carbon-intensive energy sources and thus stand to be hurt the most by
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by lumb63 2y ago
I was a big proponent of legalizing sports gambling before it happened here in the US. After that, one of my best friends lost 5 figures on sports gambling that he really couldn’t afford to lose. I’ve also watched sports talk shows degrade
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by lumb63 2y ago
There are tons of cash-only businesses.
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by lumb63 2y ago
They’ve definitely been overprescribed here (and the drug companies making the opioids pushed them knowing they were addictive, and downplayed the risks). One of my best friends’ cousins died in his 20s of a heroin overdose. He got addicted
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by lumb63 2y ago
If your goal is to reduce the amount of pickup trucks and SUVs on the road, then you’re going to have to convince people who drive those vehicles to stop. Opening by calling that audience “grade A assholes” is probably not winning anyone ov
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by lumb63 2y ago
I don’t mean it as a pejorative - I agree that these folks are (often) experts in the area they’re working in. I mean only that the creation of laws does not belong to the bureaucracy, nor the interpretation of laws. Bureaucrats are also no
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by lumb63 2y ago
The term “unfair” is extremely vague, and now (as it probably should be, IMO), laws are interpreted by the judiciary. If Congress wants a specific practice banned, then they can make a law to do so, rather than allowing unelected career bur

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