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by progne 1y ago
The fact that the two highest profile examples of starvation in Gaza have confounding conditions makes me suspect otherwise. If it is as widespread as feared, it should be easier to find pictures of starving Gazans than fat Gazans. It is no
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by progne 1y ago
Blown up hospitals can be secondary to firing rockets from the parking lot and using them as ammo dumps and military headquarters. You can take this line of reasoning back to the big bang without addressing the quality of evidence of a seve
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Who is responsible for grade inflation at Yale?(marginalrevolution.com)
44 points by progne 3y ago|59 comments
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by progne 3y ago
“Automakers have been making hybrids long enough that they’ve gotten really good at it. Plus, many hybrids are also made by manufacturers that tend to produce reliable vehicles overall, such as Toyota, Hyundai, and Kia.” It's anti-intu
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by progne 3y ago
I agree that it shouldn't be used for anything complex, even if it reduces to one line. But I do like it for simple things. Maybe it's staring at very similar code all day, but such short statements read fluently for me. And even
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by progne 3y ago
Just 12 years full time with Ruby here, I'm a noob. But when I see that I could replace def initialize(text) @text = text end def inspect "#<#{self.class} #{text}>" end def ==(other) other.is_a
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by progne 3y ago
In other words, to get your mass emails read, mimic personal emails more closely. It's a hack to use our noise filters against us. It's not exactly a dark pattern, even if it does make it a little harder for us to distinguish the
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by progne 3y ago
See also Senator Paul going after the PATRIOT act in particular. https://www.paul.senate.gov/issues/protecting-privacy-civil-...
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by progne 3y ago
SEC v. Jarkesy is a current SCOTUS case recently discussed here that's very much about interpreting the body of the constitution: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38441401
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by progne 3y ago
> Kissinger saw combat with the [84th Infantry Division] and volunteered for hazardous intelligence duties during the Battle of the Bulge. Thank you for your military service Mr. Secretary. Fighting real Nazis earns my gratitude.
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by progne 3y ago
When you hire according to which candidate has worked hardest to fight against oppression, it isn't surprising when their academic work is about gathering evidence for the fight against oppression.
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The Backpage Defendants Never Stood a Chance(reason.com)
1 points by progne 3y ago|0 comments
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by progne 3y ago
> AI is useful and transformative, but it is nowhere close to "general intelligence." Whether the intelligence is general or not, it is sufficient to automate and replace many many jobs now held by intelligent people. That by i
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by progne 3y ago
We talk about the evil wages of hate but seldom about those of love. People love those flat little anthropomorphic faces, often very fiercely. That love creates demand for an unhealthy creature by the millions. This particular love has prov
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by progne 3y ago
Remember "Wilson" from Cast Away? That felt realistic to me. A psuedo-relationship in which the partner can actually reply intelligently is just an optional feature.
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by progne 3y ago
> A low Earth orbit with a separation of approximately 0.1 km may be suitable for experimental purposes. Wouldn't that also suit an Earth surveillance array with unprecedented resolution?
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by progne 3y ago
The simulation points at the possible problem and solution. A big problem seems to be the slosh crashing into the tanks on engine ignition. The solution would seem to be just more time separation between the individual engine ignitions. I w
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SpaceX Starship Booster 9 Tank Slosh simulation [video](youtube.com)
2 points by progne 3y ago|2 comments
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by progne 3y ago
Recurring pain in the upper left abdomen. After seeing two different doctors about it and getting a PET scan, a conversation with GPT-4 convinced me that I have a problem with gas. It might be wrong, maybe I'm dying of something horrib
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by progne 3y ago
I occasionally get large military transport planes that buzz my rural area at very low altitudes, often below my house in a canyon just a 3 iron away. I suppose they're training. The roar is epic. It'd be nice to get a little noti
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by progne 3y ago
Immune function analysis displayed significantly lower phagocytosis of monocytes and granulocytes in an older vegetarian population (vs. older nonvegetarians (P < 0.05, P < 0.001). Similar effect of diet was observed as decreased
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by progne 3y ago
I just finished BG3 with 50k gold and nothing to spend it on. It made me feel dumb for obsessively looking in every container and looting every corpse for the previous 200 hours. If 50k gold was the cost of a new heart for Karlach I would f
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by progne 3y ago
> I don't think any VR headsets are going to offer better experiences than Intellij or VS Code. What I mean to ask is whether tools like this are sufficiently legible on a 2D screen as displayed by MQ3, with a VR desktop? Or to see
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by progne 3y ago
Is it viable as a coding environment?
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by progne 3y ago
This seems like a fine way to steel man a controversy by going directly to the sources. I'd like to be able to, e.g., dial up a debate between Karl Marx and Milton Friedman. Even better if it's possible for Karl to convince Milton
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by progne 3y ago
Are you Little Bobby Tables? https://xkcd.com/327/
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by progne 3y ago
> If you have tried listening to audiobooks before but find it’s hard to pay attention, I recommend you start only with re-reading. It is hard to convince people of this but I am sure it’s true: Re-reading is often much more rewarding th
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by progne 3y ago
Are you the sole support of this app, and if so what's your life expectancy? I'd just like to evaluate this lifetime offer. Age? Do you smoke or vape? Skydive? What's your BMI? Could you post your medical history?
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by progne 3y ago
In a Ruby app we just convert to a high base, like > 1234567890.to_s(36) => "kf12oi" That gets us most of the way there, but Sqid has a Ruby library and lets you set a much higher base, including upper case characte
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Nutrient found in beef and dairy improves immune response to cancer(eurekalert.org)
2 points by progne 3y ago|0 comments

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