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by sorethescore 1mo ago
BMI is an objectively terrible individual health metric, it's is literally just weight / height². It measures neither body fat nor visceral fat, cannot distinguish muscle from adipose tissue, says nothing about fat distribution, f
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by sorethescore 1mo ago
As usual Zuckerberg is talking out of both sides of his mouth. On one hand he's releasing open-weight, commodity grade models while gating their frontier models behind facebook apps. You'll be able to have your cake, but won'
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by sorethescore 4y ago
That’s nice, but what are they shooting? Peas? Water? I’m curious.
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by sorethescore 4y ago
Nonsense, if you tolerate disinformation you get more disinformation. Countries that fail to address it will fall and the world will be worse off because of it. The right to free speech does not include the right to a free platform or free
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by sorethescore 4y ago
Not all jobs require hiring smart people, in fact for some jobs, hiring a smart person is a liability, law enforcement for instance.
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by sorethescore 4y ago
This helps explain why Cannabidiol may help with excessive sleepiness in hypocretindeficient rats. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31642794/
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by sorethescore 4y ago
Compared to the aircraft it replaced, it's actually safer and much more capable.
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by sorethescore 4y ago
What do you mean by "pretend ecological issues?" Climate control isn't an ideology it's a necessity created by failed policies. Climate change doesn't care about your political or economic ideology.
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by sorethescore 4y ago
Workers should be entitled to a minimum wage, business expense reimbursements, employee benefits, rest breaks, and all the other benefits afforded to employees under California state law. AB5 is a good law and should be implemented Federall
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by sorethescore 4y ago
A recent poll suggests that seventy percent of Americans think enacting new gun control laws should take precedence over protecting ownership rights. So a larger portion of the country does agree with this.
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by sorethescore 4y ago
It seems pretty likely that a vasculatory inflammatory virus that also infects the immune system will have lasting, long-term damaging effects on your organs and cardiovascular system.
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by sorethescore 4y ago
Considering the amount of fraud and theft in the crypto community, a little regulation could be a good thing. Normal people want good regulations to protect them from bad actors. That's the point of good governance.
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by sorethescore 4y ago
"Totally justified" given the costs and consequences of the alternative.
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by sorethescore 4y ago
Communism works great, it just doesn't scale. Finland guarantees every adult citizen free education, housing, heating, electricity, water, Internet, healthcare, and food. They also provide extra funding for hobbies and irregular needs
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by sorethescore 4y ago
Cheaper but deadlier doesn't sound like a very good tradeoff when talking about infants.
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by sorethescore 4y ago
Definitely not an ownership stake, but perhaps a royalty on equity. For every dollar in equity sold or transacted the government receives a royalty payment of some percentage.
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by sorethescore 4y ago
I think you're confusing science with supply-side economics.
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by sorethescore 4y ago
You're understanding of biology is rather outdated. There are several X & Y chromosomal variations that are rather common but frequently undiagnosed. The X & Y Variations include 47, XXY OR Klinefelter Syndrome, 47, XYY (Jacob’
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by sorethescore 5y ago
Refineries are the bottleneck in the US, not oil supplies. The world doesn't need Alberta's dirty-ass oil sands oil.
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by sorethescore 5y ago
Not providing a platform for or promoting scientific misinformation is not the same thing as censoring scientific misinformation. The problems of science will not be solved by promoting pseudoscience or scientific information. That's j
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by sorethescore 5y ago
I hear what you're saying, but bait is the best way to catch fish. If you want to go fishing for racists, it's best to use race bait.
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by sorethescore 5y ago
Who do you think taught them how to do that?
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by sorethescore 5y ago
This is why antidepressants should only be used during periods of crisis when a person is at risk; in my opinion, for no longer than 3-6 months at most, after which they should be tapered off and transitioned to a more sustainable long term
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by sorethescore 5y ago
I think that eventually, anything that can be run by a DAO will be run by a DAO, just like with automation, any process that can be automated will, eventually, be automated.
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by sorethescore 5y ago
Privacy, in a legal sense, only exists within a very narrow domain. Whenever you are in public, whether you are there to be seen or not, you are seen and therefore have no right to privacy in that domain.
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by sorethescore 5y ago
High levels of estrogens have a regulatory and inhibiting effect on many immune response components, while low levels can be stimulating. It's similar to other T cell-mediated autoimmune diseases, such as MS and RA; estrogen protects
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by sorethescore 5y ago
Not likely, cutting global greenhouse gas emissions back when it would have made a difference might have.
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by sorethescore 5y ago
Poor governance might be making the matter worse, but climate change is ultimately driving the problem.
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by sorethescore 5y ago
The 10/80/10 rule. 10% of the things are harmful 80% of the things are agnostic 10% of the things are helpful.

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