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by squillion 8mo ago
The Iranian government is responsible of all sorts of human rights violations, and also for the drought (at least partly), but the economic collapse was triggered by the US. Bessent said so at Davos: "President Trump ordered our Treasu
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40% of Kids Can't Read and Teachers Are Quitting [video](youtube.com)
42 points by squillion 8mo ago|37 comments
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by squillion 9mo ago
I think we’re talking about bank reserves , which is a fraction (in the order of 1%) of the total amount of money held in the customers’ transaction accounts. Reserves are convertible into cash. Not that any bank would suddenly want to do
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by squillion 10mo ago
I'd only entertain the possibility that it was tongue-in-cheek if it came from someone critical of the World Bank and laissez-faire economics in general, for instance Joseph Stiglitz, who has also been chief economist at the World Bank
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by squillion 10mo ago
Let's not forget that time he advocated for dumping toxic waste in poor countries. "I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that." htt
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by squillion 10mo ago
I lost him when he rounded the orders of magnitude.
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by squillion 11mo ago
I think your assumption that Dutch politicians defend the interests of Dutch citizens, if only for winning votes, is wrong. European politician respond first (or only?) to the US. As a EU citizen, I take no pleasure in saying this.
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by squillion 1y ago
Well, I simplified. I said "no calorie counting", not "eat as much as you please". And by "right proportions" in those books they mean something specific: roughly 50% fat, 25% proteins, 25% carbs, plus a balanc
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by squillion 1y ago
Take a look at these books: - David Ludwig, Always Hungry? - Mark Hyman, The Blood Sugar Solution The first one is very accessible, the second one very posh. But the underlying approach is the same: no calorie counting, just good food i
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by squillion 1y ago
I also read that counting calories is so inaccurate that you may die of starvation or become obese, on the same diet. That is, if you exclusively ate what you measured, and all of it. Counting calories presumably works (when it does) becaus
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by squillion 1y ago
Exactly! > this assumes models can achieve strict prompt adherence What does strict adherence to an ambiguous prompt even mean? It’s like those people asking Babbage if his machine would give the right answer when given the wrong figures
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by squillion 1y ago
I’m not a native English speaker, can someone point me to a definition of “commiserate” that matches the usage in this article? It seems to have a different meaning according to the dictionaries.
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by squillion 1y ago
I can’t even.
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by squillion 1y ago
Sources for the charts, via reverse image search: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-working-hours-ac... https://www.epi.org/publication/as-union-membership-has-fall... https:/&#x2F
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Capitalists Only Respond to Threats(ianwelsh.net)
15 points by squillion 1y ago|4 comments
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by squillion 1y ago
Warning: abuse of this technique may cause the model to go blind.
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by squillion 1y ago
Have you tried an air filter? A friend of mine has a bad hay fever but since he's put an air filter in his bedroom he can sleep soundly again.
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by squillion 2y ago
Gatsby never made sense to me. Weird design decisions I couldn’t find any plausible reason for. As soon as Next.js became capable of doing SSG I convinced my team to abandon Gatsby. Definitely a minus, sorry.
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by squillion 2y ago
What you say is true, and I agree on self-determination in the abstract . But I simply can't believe the U.S. is in Taiwan to defend its people, rather than contain and weaken mainland China. The U.S. has demonstrated time and again i
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by squillion 2y ago
> Taiwan is not China Taiwan might be considered a de facto independent country, but according to most institutions it's officially part of China. 1. Taiwan's official name is Republic of China (ROC): it regards itself as par
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by squillion 2y ago
This is all very good advice. Frankly, it’s common sense, but it’s good to have some data to support it. I have several issues with the framing, though. (I understand the authors might be intentionally gloss over the problematic aspects). -
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by squillion 2y ago
Very cool! That’s hypnosis , if we want to insist with the psychological metaphors. > If you run on the conversation the right way, you can become their internal monologue. That’s what hypnosis in people is about, according to some: tak
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by squillion 2y ago
I think you misunderstood my point... There are so many things in programming that are hard to grasp at a deep level, but don't look scary to beginners (who misuse them without realizing). Monads look scary so they take all the blame.
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by squillion 2y ago
If they were called "flatmappable" (which is essentially what they are), people wouldn't complain so much about monads. But in Haskell you have to bend over backwards just to set a variable you think should be in scope, or to
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by squillion 2y ago
> You need someone in the system to say that treatment is too expensive, you cant have it. That'd be triage, and I don't think it's the insurers' business – or even the doctors', unless they're in a field ho
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by squillion 2y ago
I was never convinced by the argument that patients and doctors can't be trusted to request the care they need, and would overconsume healthcare unless strictly constrained. I mean, it will definitely happen (I know some hypochondriaqu
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It's Time to Break Up Big Medicine(thebignewsletter.com)
4 points by squillion 2y ago|4 comments
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How Russian hypersonic missiles work [pdf](jp-petit.org)
23 points by squillion 2y ago|1 comments
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by squillion 2y ago
It's funny that his recommendations - organize code in modules etc. - are nothing AI-specific, it's what you'd do if you had to handover your project to an external team, or simply make it maintainable in the long term. So th
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by squillion 2y ago
COVID is airborne, it doesn’t spread via droplets. It’s not clear whether this spray can also block airborne viruses or it only works on droplets.

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