roland00

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by roland00 4y ago
Isn't this just Chaos Theory, Calculus, and the problem of Jerks (third derivative of position in regards to time)? When you slice complex reality into smaller pieces, within the smaller piece you have a rough idea of velocity, and cha
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by roland00 6y ago
In sum humans do not always optimize towards one variable like success / fitness. Instead they optimize to many things like money, prestige, power, security, and so on. Much like you can't describe health as a single thing, when
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by roland00 6y ago
How so? The cost of soybeans is a lot cheaper to make an artificial burger (once they get the R&D down) than feeding the same soybeans to a cow and getting roughly 1:10 the calorie weight due to energy pyramids. You can get roughly 200
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by roland00 6y ago
People will often make choices of accepting an inferior product for vastly cheaper price. So yeah it is possible it is about how many choices you have and what are the different costs for each choice.
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by roland00 6y ago
The illusion of control. It is the same reason people doomscroll on twitter hoping more information will somehow how change the result. Our brains, all human brains, are not rational but instead are their own thing.
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by roland00 6y ago
Mental Illness as defined by the DSM as not thriving. You can have the symptoms of a disorder, but if you are thriving then you do not have the disorder. >It can seriously mess someone's life up. Treatment to try fix someone who is
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by roland00 6y ago
There is a good video done by Philosophy Tube about this subject (it also talks about Jordan Peterson.) Some words are inherently subjective, like we can't define what "healthy" is without using so many words that are beyond
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by roland00 6y ago
Yes it is likely trade, for we know these time periods had some great surges of trade compared to times before.
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by roland00 7y ago
Yept the "Middle Way" is both a rejection of pure asceticism and pure hedonoism, but a middle path between extremes. Material things can be used temporary but the goal is "to unfocus" and see beyond material things. Rea
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by roland00 7y ago
Sigh that "Koan" is not literally about killing the Buddha. It is recognizing the divinity is not in an idol or image, including other people. That strand of Buddhism says enlightenment is first found within, and after you find
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by roland00 7y ago
Forking the LibGen to save 20% of file sizes will be counterproductive. Yes you save some storage but the network effects is more important, for people willing to contribute to "the one true thing" actually provides more seeders
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by roland00 7y ago
>the Supreme Court is not particularly fond of the 9th Sorry but this is FUD you see going around. The most overturned court circuits are as follow. 6th Circuit - 87 percent; 11th Circuit - 85 percent; 9th Circuit - 79 percent; 3rd Circ
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by roland00 7y ago
Agreed generally but as my own memory of reading these research papers and what wikipedia points out that lactase persistence is not caused by a single gene but there are several different gene variants that can produce this same effect. An
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by roland00 7y ago
Kroger is the second largest supermarket in the US (after Walmart) that has many subsidiaries grocery chains that they have acquired in its 100+ years of existence. Pretty much Kroger bought up other "family" grocery chains and t
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by roland00 7y ago
How is this different from the Miller-Urey experiments from the 1950s ? I am asking this for someone who is more knowledgeable and technical than me. "To my understanding" ? Those 1952 experiments yielded 20 amino acids, and this
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by roland00 7y ago
This is big news when the Facebook employees we are referring to starting salary is 120k a year and the median employee is 240k a year. [Note many people who work for facebook are some form of contract employees and thus do not make this,
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by roland00 7y ago
The bigger thing is a mismatch between the employees of facebook and the management. These weekly meetings happen all the time, what is different is now the employees are recording them and releasing them to the press. This means at least
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by roland00 7y ago
>The world of medicine will be in trouble without our system, because govetnments are really not that good at innovation. Medicine is not like building a factory, completely different capital model for Medicine is about "discovery&q
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by roland00 7y ago
All of this is true, but it was the SoftBank capital flow that made this all possible until now. The reconinging and reform would have happened sooner with WeWork if SoftBank was not providing "free jet fuel." >Softbank is an
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by roland00 7y ago
It is a public library and they are already putting it out a display open to the public (instead of keeping it in records in the back.) They are also making available other Milton stuff they have on hand such as a 1st edition of Paradise L
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by roland00 7y ago
Purdue knowed about the drug was highly addictive in 2003. The raw components in Oxycontin were known to be highly addictive before the drug hit the market. Oxycontin was supposed to "solve" the addiction problem, thus it got sp
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by roland00 7y ago
The point of this is misdirection sometimes known as cooking the books, where you may have financial documents that say money exist, but they documents are separate from another set of books that says money doesn't exist. You provide t
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by roland00 7y ago
Note this is a first order effect, what I explained above. The 2nd order effect is that by making more money for the same ad, while your competitors would make less money from the same ad...you can either sit on that profit. Or you can use
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by roland00 7y ago
Bingo. It is not exactly better targeting ads. You can sell the same ad (from the same supplier) to the same customer (the person viewing the ad) and the supplier will pay more if they are convinced the ad actually has a higher return rat
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by roland00 7y ago
Agreed with the Zoroastrianism bit, that did occur prior. I was trying to be simple and concise so I did not mention other strands of monotheism that influenced Judaismm and the Middle East such as the Egyptians / Amun (the Hidden One
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by roland00 7y ago
It was Aristotle's Unmoved Mover being incorporated into Christian Thought around AD 50 via Philo of Alexandria that changed Monotheistic religion of God being the Organizer of All Things from Chaos into the Creator of All Things out o
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by roland00 7y ago
Yes, but this research (even though similar research occurred prior) is about "guided therapy" where the therapist is trying to specifically trigger a memory but also help the patient figure out new coping strategies and turning t
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by roland00 8y ago
I do not know if he was on drugs during the twitter thing (most recent 420), but Elon Musk in the last year (only in the last year) has been upfront about his trauma with his parent divorced and his father who was messed up and did not have
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by roland00 8y ago
Screams into the calculus void!