stubybubs

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by stubybubs 2y ago
Do you think this is partly every company now trying to get in on grifting? Just pumping stock with "we're going to mars, we'll have AGI, cold fusion is almost here" kind of stuff?
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by stubybubs 2y ago
It's unreal how people think tech leaders are geniuses when they keep doing this stuff. Oops we overhired but I take "100% responsibility" however the staff will take 100% of the punishment by being laid off. All while spendi
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by stubybubs 2y ago
They were called out on this for not living up to their "data driven culture" when they went to 3 days back and the response was basically "Uh well... Eat shit I guess."
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by stubybubs 2y ago
It's now been years and they still haven't said what it hauls. Just that cargo and semi combined are at the limit for gross vehicle weight. Should be very easy to say the semi weighs X and it hauls Y. That they're not saying
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by stubybubs 2y ago
The president is supposed to govern for all Americans. In the past, the Democrats have appointed what many would call centrists. Merrick Garland for example, is not a left winger, and that would have been Obama's choice. The GOP has ma
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by stubybubs 2y ago
> unless you want to blame the judges Trump appointed. I mean, yes. That was the point of Mitch McConnell withholding Obama's SCOTUS seat nomination because it was too close to the end of his term, only to ram through Trump's p
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by stubybubs 3y ago
Like I said, try asking it if various historical figures are worse than Hitler. It is instructed not to judge. BTW, here's ChatGPT on Hitler vs Musk. > Who had a more negative impact, Elon Musk or Adolf Hitler? Comparing Elon Musk
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by stubybubs 3y ago
Everyone is up in arms about the Gemini image generator, forgetting that it is not a search engine. It is generative AI, creating something new and random, every time. It is generally an input to a creative endeavor, not basic research. U
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by stubybubs 3y ago
I gave it the three lightbulbs in a closet riddle. https://puzzles.nigelcoldwell.co.uk/seven.htm The key complication is "once you've opened the door, you may no longer touch a switch." It gets this. There ar
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by stubybubs 3y ago
My point is that we don't have any documented anything for the first couple hundred thousand of years of humanity's existence, and we encountered the most horrific viral and bacterial infections, many of which caused unthinkable m
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by stubybubs 3y ago
"Although the evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 is not a purposefully manipulated virus, it is currently impossible to prove or disprove the other theories of its origin described here. However, since we observed all notable SARS-CoV-2 fe
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by stubybubs 3y ago
>The Democrats are generally pushing for the same policies as the Republicans, except in matters that split their bases; we're still living in Reagan's world. I don't think this is true anymore. See what Lina Khan was appo
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by stubybubs 3y ago
I'm curious how this view works out when trouble comes up. If you have a friend going through a rough time for a few months or years, do you just say I'm not going to get caught up in the sunk cost fallacy and cut ties? Even when
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by stubybubs 3y ago
I took some Spanish and was taught the "se" form. Is it maybe a "traditional" Spanish vs common usage which has picked up on English sentence structure? A question for parents or grandparents I guess.
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by stubybubs 3y ago
https://news.wisc.edu/decades-on-bacteriums-discovery-feted-... Taq polymerase is about my favorite thing discovered through basic research. Just some scientists looking at interesting stuff in a Yellowstone geyser, who hap
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by stubybubs 3y ago
I think there's a transition phase between the two that people miss out on. I recall hearing "let's not let a few bad apples spoil the bunch" which is an acknowledgement of the original phrase, reworked to implore listen
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by stubybubs 3y ago
Okay, I assumed some kind of charitable interpretation, but that isn't happening. There are plenty of criticisms of studies like CONCORD. Survival rates lacking context are not the end-all of comparison studies. A significant portion o
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by stubybubs 3y ago
https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/cancer-survival-rates... It's not cherry picking, I just didn't add a whole chart. It's on par, considering our different populations, climate (most of the country
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by stubybubs 3y ago
For breast cancer, we're talking 88.6% vs 85.8%. It's very much on par. We generally do better with lower socioeconomic status people as well. Another thing to consider is that we treat everyone . You don't have to consider
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by stubybubs 3y ago
Financializers and engineers so often miss the human factor, or try to design around it. At some point in this process involving care for humans, you have to rely on people simply choosing to do the right thing, even if it's hard. This
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by stubybubs 3y ago
I live in Canada, where we have socialized medicine. Our survival rates for major cancers are on par the US and our infant mortality rate is lower, though we spend far less. We certainly have problems related to physician pay and cost of li
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by stubybubs 3y ago
Osmium devs are the new 10x devs.
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by stubybubs 3y ago
I think the article covers that: > So what does today’s counter-hegemonic culture look like? It’s not particularly interested in being seen—at least not in person. It gets no thrill out of wearing leather and a mohawk and walking past ma
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by stubybubs 3y ago
The right wing has absolutely dominated culture for the last 30 years. They have however presented very successfully as counterculture by naysaying literally every attempt at progress in any direction. Every conversation we're having a
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by stubybubs 3y ago
> I thought it was something by Ursula K. Le Guin, but it doesn't sound like it. The Left Hand of Darkness is set on a planet with perpetual winter, though it somewhat warms up at times. Maybe that's what you're thinking
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by stubybubs 3y ago
"Acetaminophen toxicity is the second most common cause of liver transplantation worldwide and the most common cause of liver transplantation in the US. It is responsible for 56,000 emergency department visits, 2,600 hospitalizations,
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by stubybubs 3y ago
You're going with a modern, nuclear family idea that has really only existed for about a hundred years in specific countries. Single marriage existing in its own house is recent, and specific to some cultures. As I've written belo
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by stubybubs 3y ago
Throughout history we've had single marriages, polygamy, second+ marriages, combined families, divorce, matriarchal societies, and patriarchal societies. And there was certainly a time before any kind of marriage at all existed, and it
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by stubybubs 3y ago
Oh you know. Stuff like limiting voting rights to people with children. https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/elon-musk-appea...
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by stubybubs 3y ago
> Double current prices and suddenly most of those jobs wouldn’t look attractive which instantly reduces demand for housing until you’re back to current prices. Sure, but we've already done this several times in our major cities, an

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