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by marchenko 2y ago
I wonder if the researchers considered directly inoculating the colorectal area. Is it necessary for this to pass through the upper gut?
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by marchenko 3y ago
This seems like a pretty grass roots effort to me: mothers horrified that nude pictures of their 12yo daughters are being created with generative AI. These young girls (not yet women) are indeed victims, no narrative construction required,
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by marchenko 3y ago
Imputation is a fairly common technique that would be familiar to most molecular or computational geneticists, especially those used to working with poor samples. There are software packages to assist in the calculation.
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by marchenko 4y ago
The Substack is called “mostly Python”. I assumed the author is a programming educator or enthusiast of some sort.
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by marchenko 4y ago
The claim that the real value in art is in the idea rather than the execution seems to be as true as the claim that the real value in a startup is in the idea. Artists are constantly in dialogue with their tools to produce and define their
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by marchenko 4y ago
A game whose popularity & longevity has become a cliché, Skyrim, is usually played in 1st person. Myst & Doom were both known for their ability to engage players in a flow state in their heyday. I take your point about narrative,
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by marchenko 5y ago
Joel Spolsky used the dilemma of being ambushed on a minefield (to make a different and almost orthogonal point) in a way that illustrates how norms that are not individually useful -- or even rational -- can be essential for group survival
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by marchenko 6y ago
Right now we're in a transitional phase where DNA data is integrated with traditional police work, where there may be a priori reasons to suspect someone before invoking DNA data to strengthen the case. Even this raises serious quest
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by marchenko 6y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but why do game servers ban Linux players in pvp games? Fear of some sort of modding only available on Linux?
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by marchenko 6y ago
I think the removal of agency and oversight from the public that is often coupled with "solutionism" - not lack of faith in technology - is a primary reason solutionism has met public resistance. People are willing to sacrifice e
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by marchenko 6y ago
Women have tended to be over-represented in "support" rather than "line" positions within firms. Maybe it's more historically accurate to say that they are more likely to be tasked with this work. But they do not ap
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by marchenko 6y ago
If this were true, and significant, wouldn't we expect to see more successful women in the startup scene? Women appear to be disproportionately willing to do low-status/non public-facing/schlep work, but I don't notice
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by marchenko 6y ago
The Titanic is actually notable for being an exception to the rule of every man for himself, largely attributed to the action's of the Titanic's captain: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-his
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by marchenko 6y ago
I can see what he's getting at, at least if he's focusing on the SSC subreddits and comments. It's easier to be a brave truth-teller when it's not your ox being gored, and I think the demographics of the SSC commentaria
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by marchenko 6y ago
What convinced me to give Obsidian a twirl is that there's essentially no danger of sunk costs: I already store my notes as markdown files in a local folder synced via cloud service between browsers and mobile, and accessed via IDEs&#x
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by marchenko 6y ago
I've been using Obsidian for about a week, and it may be the first time I've ever felt compelled to comment in an app's user forum. I even installed Discord so that I could subscribe to the Obsidian channel and watch its (ra
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by marchenko 6y ago
I think the poster has a good point. It's not just the one submariner study he's referencing that's relevant, it's the decades of experience navies of various nations have operating submarine fleets - the armed forces ar
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A World Without Privacy Will Revive the Masquerade(theatlantic.com)
4 points by marchenko 7y ago|1 comments
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by marchenko 7y ago
'Late-stage' slavery, if it has a meaningful referent at all, refers to chattel slavery in the United States, which is commonly regarded as one of the worst forms of slavery ever devised, much worse than the forms of bondage recor
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by marchenko 7y ago
These kinds of professions are often referred to as "tournaments", a term I think captures their essence nicely. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournament_theory )
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by marchenko 7y ago
Iceland has reduced the incidence of Down's syndrome by screening and terminating Down's pregnancies, not by medically resolving the underlying chromosomal nondisjunction. The role that social pressure plays in this process in unc
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by marchenko 7y ago
In fairness, it's not a crazy question - mushrooms contain a lot of undigestable and fermentable carbs (raffinose, chitin) that can affect ...passage...in some people, and cause flatulence in others. Westerners outside of central Europ
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by marchenko 7y ago
It's not as formidable as it seems, once you question the premise that perfect enforcement of the laws is a desirable goal. Where, for instance, would the pressure to overturn anti-sodomy statutes come from if it were possible to moni
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by marchenko 7y ago
The other side of this coin is the Preference Cascade, a concept from economics [0] wherein people formerly in a Spiral of Silence discover that their supposedly unpopular opinions actually have a reservoir of public support. After publicly
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by marchenko 7y ago
I think you are discovering that women, on average, have different expectations from a sexual relationship than men. In fact, it is not weird at all to find that men are much more interested in one night stands than women. Even women who
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by marchenko 7y ago
Evopsych explanations can often be used to argue both sides of any issue. For example, T is implicated in male aggression, which is useful when fending off predators both animal and human, but dangerous when you have a helpless, often extr
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by marchenko 7y ago
They are beautiful, grow absolutely huge at maturity, and produce lovely (enormous) bluish-purple flowers. The leaves are comically huge, and the seed casings form a sort of organic baby rattle. It's wild.
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by marchenko 7y ago
It was quite aggravating when my shared Dropbox folder on a dual-boot Windows/Linux System lost support. It was the main reason I switched from GDrive to Dropbox (besides trying to gradually de-Google). Now I have 2 Dropbox folders on
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by marchenko 7y ago
1. Genetic nondiscrimination laws are under constant attack (GINA, the most comprehensive, faced significant weakening this Congressional session - fortunately, it appears to be on the back burner for now). That's in the US. Canada has
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by marchenko 7y ago
Perhaps housing availability is sufficient but not necessary in drawing people to a desirable region, in a manner akin to the idea of induced demand in traffic engineering.

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