valarauko

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by valarauko 3mo ago
"Back in the day" is the key idea here. It's the valuation that doesn't make sense in today's market. What does Cursor offer to be valued at $60 BILLION? Its models are alright but nowhere near SOTA, and pretty much
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by valarauko 5mo ago
Flounder might even work, since my initial complaints that the generated designs obscured the wearer's eyesight were met with solutions that just moved the offending eye to the side of the person's head :)
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by valarauko 5mo ago
That's great, though I wasn't even thinking at the scale of reflection or refraction. My test was if the image generators could come up with a novelty pair of glasses that incorporate the year digits into the shape of the frame it
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by valarauko 5mo ago
That's lovely. My own personal benchmark has been to ask the various models to generate a functional pair of novelty New Year's Eve glasses on a person, that don't just plonk the year onto the top of regular frames.
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by valarauko 5mo ago
I've used their "perfected" xanthan gum which is a separate SKU from their regular xanthan gum. At least for gum arabic they seem to only offer one SKU, so I'm guessing it's not prehydrated.
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by valarauko 5mo ago
Is the Modernist Pantry gum arabic pre hydrated?
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by valarauko 6mo ago
I've sometimes used baking soda to accelerate softening of beans, and I imagine the effect is more appreciable at higher altitudes perhaps? Some of the usage of baking soda could be innocent enough.
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by valarauko 6mo ago
It's largely unfiltered, but it is still treated for disinfection. Chlorination and UV is standard for NYC water, and its fluoridated as well.
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by valarauko 2y ago
Its heavily contested if these were chariots. If anything, I would suggest that the consensus scholarly opinion is that these were ox drawn carts, not chariots. - no horse remains or equestrian objects have been found, anywhere in India for
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by valarauko 2y ago
Fair enough - in which case the Mint just needs to pad the sale price a bit to cover interchange fees, and make a little extra on top, and shipping can be extra. 10% on top of the face value should be more than enough, and would have the si
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by valarauko 2y ago
That seems ... odd. I can pay my apartment rent with a debit card with a fixed transaction fee (eg, $999.99 and up to $1,999.99 the service fee is $4.95), while covering it with a credit card has a different fee structure of a flat 2.95%. T
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by valarauko 2y ago
I don't follow. Why would Manufactured Spend specifically cost the Mint money? It's not great for the credit card company, sure, but why the Mint? If the Mint was previously eating the interchange fees & shipping, ok, but th
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by valarauko 2y ago
> credit card companies aggressively shut down manufactured spending when they notice it. I'm familiar with the concept of manufactured spend, and why credit card companies would try to clamp down on it. What I don't get is why
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by valarauko 2y ago
That seems reasonable, but why would the US Mint care about manufactured spend for credit card companies?
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by valarauko 2y ago
There are a couple of ways to rule out modern contamination. Ancient DNA has certain characteristic damage that changes the sequence slightly, and you can use that to filter out any DNA that doesn't have that signature. Plus, you can m
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by valarauko 2y ago
Yes, and it's a self-perpetuating cycle. If so few people have latent TB, fewer people develop active TB that will go on to infect others. As other comments have mentioned, poverty and its resultant poor health is the biggest correlati
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by valarauko 2y ago
The majority of healthy people develop a latent infection, and won't manifest symptoms in their lifetimes. The bacteria are encapsulated into nodules by the immune system, which weaken if the immune system weakens. The bacteria escape
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by valarauko 2y ago
More like a papaya fruit.
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by valarauko 2y ago
> The timeline looks scary, it looks like it took about a decade to introduce a regulation that would help protect the vultures To be fair, the cause was conclusively identified as diclofenac only as late as 2004-2005. Even in papers pub
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by valarauko 2y ago
To add to this, Chinese (and Japanese) Buddhist scholars' emphasis on retaining the original pronunciation of chants led them to hang on to the phonetically written Siddham script in which their masters had learned the scriptural texts
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by valarauko 2y ago
A pinch of "mineral salts", if you will.
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by valarauko 2y ago
Disagree - Seurat had first mover advantage with single cell but sucked with larger datasets that Scanpy could handle till the big change in Seurat 5. The preference for either Seurat/Scanpy is incredibly lab specific. That said, Seura
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by valarauko 2y ago
What about subway lines in the Bronx? As someone who lives & works in the Bronx, I haven't encountered any harassment in the Bronx lines. Pretty much every negative experience I've had on any subway line has been in Manhattan.
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by valarauko 2y ago
In that case, you should really compare it to the New York Metropolitan Area, which has over 20 million people.
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by valarauko 2y ago
Sure, but I think you have to consider how most people shop: if they see the bottle of maple syrup as 3 times the cost of its competitor, that's the comparison they see, especially if they have no strong emotional connection to maple s
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by valarauko 2y ago
I mean, by your own numbers, maple syrup is more than 3 times the price of its competitor. I would also imagine the type of syrup is not high on the priority list when comparison shopping. For what it's worth, my SO grew up in Texas an
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by valarauko 2y ago
In my Indian family, this sort of skinny phenotype with a voracious appetite had a simple folk explanation - you eat so much that the food doesn't have time to be absorbed.
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by valarauko 2y ago
People stir syrup into coffee? In the US the only context in which I see people consume maple syrup is as a condiment for pancakes/waffles, and even in those situations I see many people deliberately avoid maple syrup and instead reach
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by valarauko 2y ago
It might be true for non-Canadian consumers of syrup. From my brief search, it looks like perhaps 70% of Canadian maple syrup is exported, so the tastes of non-Canadian consumers is quite important in this context.
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by valarauko 2y ago
I think the point here is that 'dads' like to watch stories about competent men they can admire and look up to, who invariably tend to be older/wiser than them. I think the situation isn't helped that there isn't a

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