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by tomweingarten 1y ago
This is extremely important. Most people have a very skewed perspective on what it means to be in the global 10% or 1%. I think this paper would be much more impactful if the authors listed the calculations used for defining these groups in
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by tomweingarten 2y ago
https://alearningaday.blog/2019/06/04/joseph-heller-and-enou... The late novelist Kurt Vonnegut informed his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than
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by tomweingarten 3y ago
Glad to see this finally getting the attention it deserves. With a major election coming up in the US next year, I'm frankly terrified.
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by tomweingarten 3y ago
Can you provide some additional citations on this?
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by tomweingarten 4y ago
The negative health effects of red meat are one of the few things in nutrition that we have consistent, overwhelming evidence for. See for instance the studies linked here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_meat#:~:text
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by tomweingarten 4y ago
Even if this is true (and I've never been able to find credible evidence it is), what we're seeing now is just the upper bound of sustainable plant-based food production. As they scale it up and take advantage of technologies like
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by tomweingarten 4y ago
If you did a blind taste test between Impossible and Beyond (or the McPlant), I suspect people would pick Impossible nine times out of ten. Writing off all plant-based meat at this point feels a bit like saying the Internet is a failure in
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by tomweingarten 4y ago
The seaweed diet is just the result from a single study that has yet to be widely replicated. I'd caution against putting the fate of the planet into the hands of miracle cures until the scientific process can do its thing. Even if the
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by tomweingarten 4y ago
You can get them from the same place the fish get them from, algae! Like many micronutrients, fish don't actually produce them, they just accumulate them from non-animal sources. Unfortunately they also accumulate heavy metals, so they
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by tomweingarten 4y ago
I was a high schooler developing a web-based multiplayer RPG game around this time and remember being so impressed and intimidated by Graal.
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by tomweingarten 5y ago
+1, lucidrains is practically a one-person ML start-up
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by tomweingarten 5y ago
Do you have examples of false articles he published? I can't find any examples of work he's done that comes close to comparing to Roger Stone's crimes.
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by tomweingarten 5y ago
Hi! I'm not a veterinary nutritionist, but I did used to teach metabolic biochemistry, and I spoke to a few veterinary nutritionists before putting my own dog on a vegan diet. Dogs are omnivores, so there are many vegan diet options do
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by tomweingarten 5y ago
When I was in middle school I was sure I had cracked the meaning behind 42. I sent Douglas Adams a letter telling him how much I appreciated the books and laying out in detail how the alphanumeric values of each major character's name
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by tomweingarten 6y ago
This is meant to be satire, right? The percentage of revenues of the two examples you gave are nearly identical.
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by tomweingarten 6y ago
That's correct but your article says "which charges an added hefty fee to the restaurant for each order", which is simply not true.
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by tomweingarten 6y ago
One of the more obvious pieces of misinformation here: ChowNow does not charge any per-order commission fee, it's right on their pricing page -- https://get.chownow.com/pricing . ChowNow is also not the only provider Go
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by tomweingarten 6y ago
"On average, 8% of revenues are federal, 47% from the state, and 45% locally sourced" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_funding_in_the_U...
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by tomweingarten 6y ago
Even if we take at face value the idea that the products have barely changed, which I completely disagree with, this explanation vastly underestimates how many engineers it takes to scale the infrastructure it takes to run Google Search, Go
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Service Directory: Manage all your services in one place at scale(cloud.google.com)
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by tomweingarten 6y ago
Do you have any evidence to back up this "both sides" argument? The responses executed by each party are starkly different, and the results are in some cases are already measurable. To give just one exapmle: https://www
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by tomweingarten 7y ago
There's a great short story that makes use of this in its setup. Lostronaut, published in the New Yorker in 2008: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/11/17/lostronaut
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by tomweingarten 7y ago
B12 is largely misunderstood. B12 isn't produced by any animals, it's only produced by certain bacteria. It used to be available in plant based diets, but modern hygenic practices have more or less stopped that. In modern industri
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by tomweingarten 7y ago
Take with a grain of salt as this is an opinion piece (not a news article) written in a publication owned by Rupert Murdoch, who has substantial oil interests.
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by tomweingarten 7y ago
NYC is probably not a good example to use here. Its median property prices are negative this year and flat for two years before that. It's likely (IMHO) that the post-recession building boom is a factor. https://streeteasy.c
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by tomweingarten 7y ago
Most of this comes from a single type of ship waste: "Half of the great Pacific garbage patch is made up of fishing nets, by weight, according to a report published last year in Scientific Reports."
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by tomweingarten 7y ago
Did anyone else read that whole article waiting for the reveal that it was generated by GPT-2? Ok fine... I skimmed it
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by tomweingarten 7y ago
The comments he made are not just questionable, they're outright wrong (and a great example of the problem with cherry-picking data): https://www.vox.com/2016/6/10/11903028/hillary-clinton-googl...
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by tomweingarten 7y ago
Can you elaborate? I'm reading your argument as "This is not such a big deal because there are other horrifying things that are an even bigger deal", but I'm guessing that's not what you mean. Are you saying this wi
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by tomweingarten 7y ago
My favorite use is in a photo booth I set up. It controls two cameras (webcam for preview, DSLR for the actual photo -- hopefully the RPi 4 will be me enough bandwidth to drop to just the DSLR), outputs to a printer, and drives a monitor. A

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