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by twofornone 4y ago
Speaking about backing up...if one were interested in long term archiving, do magnetic platters offer longer lasting data integrity than SSDs in cold storage?
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by twofornone 4y ago
It's a numbers game. 83% of gay men report having more than 50 partners, majority of whom are strangers. 23% report more than 1000 partners. That last stat is hard to believe but this link [0] has many damning publications. You cannot
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by twofornone 4y ago
...imagine the millions of dead people? What are you implying exactly, that if behavior from a protected class is the source of a major social issue/catastrophe, that we need to avoid making that link, and allow this class to continue
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by twofornone 4y ago
I don't have space to respond to your whole commend but upon skimming these two points stood out: >Big tech hiring focus on diversity is much the same - the bar is NOT lowered for women or anyone from a minority race. When employers
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by twofornone 4y ago
I think its absolutely certain that thousands of generations of specialization for local geographies post africa lead to disparate dietary needs. Yeah, humans can pretty much eat anything, but regularly consuming the same diet may may be i
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by twofornone 4y ago
>These are dark days for supplements. Although they are a $30-plus billion market in the United States alone, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium, beta-carotene, glucosamine, chondroitin, and fish oil have now flopped in study afte
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by twofornone 4y ago
I strongly disagree. These accusatory virtue signals are everywhere , deliberate, and most importantly antithetical to reason. Ignoring this stuff is how we ended up with diversity quotas. We should all be pushing back at this point, merit
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by twofornone 4y ago
I mean, there's a name for it, I don't think its a new phenomenon: autogynephilia. If it becomes so severe as to interfere with daily life then I don't think indulgence is an appropriate treatment, any more than I would expec
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by twofornone 4y ago
>I hated that people around me would put me in a category that was convenient for them. Because race is a pervasive concept in the U.S., it was easiest for people to label me as Black because I look Black. But I’m not only Black. This wo
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by twofornone 4y ago
The magnitude and duration of exposure is probably lower, since plastic is a western and relatively recent invention. Moreover, it is precisely because transgenderism is primarily a cultural (rather than biological) phenomenon, that rates b
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by twofornone 4y ago
>bisphenol A mimics the hormone estrogen and can lead to damage in sperm development.19 Further research has shown that microplastics, and not just those with bisphenol A, can cause damage to the testes and lead to the production of defo
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by twofornone 4y ago
What I don't understand is that the verbatim option still exists, it just doesn't seem to do anything. And quotes don't seem to work anymore either. It's all very insulting.
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by twofornone 4y ago
>Dr. Grace Lordan, Associate Professor and Founding director of The Inclusion Initiative at LSE: "There is evidence that current hiring processes are plagued by cronyism and bias. It is time that humans hand over the hiring process
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by twofornone 4y ago
>Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is currently trying to buy Twitter, has expressed concerns about the number of fake accounts and a potential crack down could see users such as Biden lose a huge number of followers. What if Musk was simply on a
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by twofornone 4y ago
Would they evoke these same reactions if the people weren't aware that they were looking at picassos? Modern Art is a cultural placebo for the vast majority of admirers. If it has the right signature or is hanging in a museum people wi
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by twofornone 4y ago
I wish they would release a modernized phone with a decent processor and camera in the form factor of a pixel 2. How much compute does the average person even need from their phone these days? Aren't most people just browsing the inter
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by twofornone 4y ago
Do you have a source for that? Happiness I can believe, especially because of the correlation between intelligence and neuroticism, but if IQ is a valid proxy for intelligence then I think the consensus is that intelligence strongly correla
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by twofornone 4y ago
It's a shame, a couple years ago BTC was anticorrelated with markets. Then institutional investors started playing and since then crypto largely just tracks the markets. I wonder, where do these investors park their cash when they sell
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by twofornone 4y ago
>You have a belief unsupported by scientific literature I have repeatedly explained to you that the belief is indeed supported by a wealth of indirect scientific literature. >You have a belief unsupported by scientific literature. If
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by twofornone 4y ago
Broad averages of what? Difference in muscle characteristics and bone structure between males and females? Multiple consistent studies showing wide variance in average IQ among various demographics? The strong correlation between IQ and all
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by twofornone 4y ago
>There is no scientific literature which confirms that any specific demographic quality determine's an individuals capability at any job or task There absolutely is a mountain of research which unambiguously implies that different d
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by twofornone 4y ago
>If there's a disparate impact, what do you imagine causes that if not discrimination? 20+ years of environmental differences, especially culture? The disabilities themselves? Genes? Nothing about human nature suggests that all demo
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by twofornone 4y ago
How would you make sure that the supplied version has the same weights as the production version? And wouldn't the weights and architecture be refined over time anyway?
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by twofornone 4y ago
>did not think it was relevant to even ask me, or she knew it and actively avoided my opinion. Both situations are alarming. You're right to be concerned, but maybe a little enthusiastic about influencing her decisions. I would gent
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by twofornone 4y ago
I haven't read the paper yet but it looks like the breakthrough is that it uses the "same weights" for tasks in completely different domains. Which implies that it can draw from any of the domains it has been trained on for o
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by twofornone 4y ago
I agree and I think part of it is nostalgia for a time when educational channels actually broadcast informative content, not semi-scripted, over edited, over dramatized reality tv. Did anyone else notice the slow boil of channels like Histo
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by twofornone 4y ago
Nothing in the realm of socioeconomics is settled science. It very much is up for debate. Look at where our current economic framework has taken our present economy. >Keep in mind that not all brown people are the same. Especially consid
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by twofornone 4y ago
When did overt racism become socially acceptable?
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by twofornone 4y ago
>To correct historic injustice we are obligated to immediately dismiss any grievances from white people, bonus for snark and sarcasm. When minorities complain, all claims are immediately valid, but if whites (and sometimes Asians, when p
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by twofornone 4y ago
>Immigration is what is propping this country's economy up. That's debatable. >It is a tremendous gift, not a punishment- unless you are alluding to some wierd racial monoculture thing. Immigration is not free. There are soc

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