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by vba616 2y ago
Is the size of the effect in any of these studies stated in your comments? I skimmed them but didn't see what I was looking for. Or via non-paywalled links? Thanks.
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by vba616 2y ago
"Sledge designed the humanoids to help humanity and be invulnerable to human exploitation. However, he eventually realized that they had instead taken control of humanity, in the name of their Prime Directive, to make humans happy ...
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by vba616 2y ago
I assumed it's more or less what they call a "thrift store" in the US.
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by vba616 2y ago
Presumably it was meant literally, but the term "charity shop collector" seems to have some other meanings as well which are interesting to me as a non-UKian speaker: - A provider of "a charity shop back-end as a service
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by vba616 2y ago
They seem to be losing money. On the one hand, if they are incinerating millions of dollars every month, that's an argument that they could easily afford a few more - after all, they are getting cash from somewhere. On the other hand,
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by vba616 2y ago
I don't understand what you mean, or why you wrote it.
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by vba616 2y ago
>Their revenue was $804 million. It's not a huge amount for them. They made $804M after all expenses? Or before?
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by vba616 2y ago
Decades before I had to deal with my mom dying, I read "Grave Angels" by Richard Kearns, and I don't know what more you can say on the topic of accepting death.
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by vba616 2y ago
The "right now" whereof I spoke is basically any crisis during a quickly progressing terminal cancer after the oxycontin starts and before the morphine. When a person can speak, and change their mind, and everyone involved in care
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by vba616 2y ago
>Plenty of people recognize when it's time. Thank you for being relatively polite. All of the replies to my original comment have veered off from what I tried to express with the phrase "right now". I was alluding to a sit
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by vba616 2y ago
>It was a much better death than having a lot of futile last-minute interventions. It's easy to say that sort of thing, so everyone does. It makes plenty of sense. People don't want to die in the hospital or go through hell in
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by vba616 2y ago
"Overtake" doesn't imply "becomes superior to in intelligence"...Maybe he does mean it that way, but still. Was the Terminator superior to all humans in intelligence? Either in the original or the first sequel? It d
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by vba616 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badger_game I am now learning that: "A famous person known to have fallen victim of the scheme was the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton" https:&
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by vba616 2y ago
>that requires capital - more than the average owner really has access too It sounds odd to my ear to matter-of-factly state that the US is deprived due to being capital-poor. I mean, I'm not disputing anything specific, but where d
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by vba616 2y ago
That sounds very nice. What would a competitive rent for your house be? Is it near London? For Americans who don't know anything about housing in the UK, there is an interesting article at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by vba616 2y ago
It was stated that aftershocks are a concern. I guess the idea is if you didn't notice the initial quake then you should be warned there might be a follow up.
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by vba616 2y ago
Does Tesla have a dealer system like Toyota and Ford?
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by vba616 2y ago
"when examining only those who passed the exam (i.e. licensed or license-pending attorneys), GPT-4’s performance is estimated to drop to 48th percentile overall, and 15th percentile on essays." What do they call a lawyer who passe
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by vba616 2y ago
The article never really compares the MiG-31 with the F-16 - it has almost nothing to say about the missiles and electronics of the latter. It reminds me of a time I went to a Honda dealer and started listing the reasons why Toyotas had bet
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by vba616 2y ago
Comments are always wrong...but some of them are useful.
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by vba616 2y ago
How about a third eye? "The parietal eye is found in the tuatara, most lizards, frogs, salamanders, certain bony fish, sharks, and lampreys...It is absent in mammals, but was present in their closest extinct relatives, the therapsids&q
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by vba616 3y ago
"Elon Musk says Tesla is ‘worth basically zero’ if it cannot make its cars self-driving" https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-says-tesla-worth-14...
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by vba616 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cardboard
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by vba616 3y ago
You misunderstood my comment, if you think I was asking for a reference for 1 euro/km. The question is whether 20 euros per liter is obviously looney tunes to any HN passers-by. Or if "everyone" knows it is in fact what gasol
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by vba616 3y ago
Thank you for all those links. I trust you that they support the "€1 / km" figure.
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Une première région Google Cloud en Afrique(lebigdata.fr)
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by vba616 3y ago
Could it be the training data contained a large trove of generic essays used by college students to cheat on writing assignments? I mean, maybe it's already been suggested, but I haven't seen anyone come right out and say it.
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by vba616 3y ago
>the cost to society of trips by car is close to one euro per kilometre I would like to understand what this means. I don't have any idea if it's accurate or not but the implications make me think it requires some explanation.
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by vba616 3y ago
I think "higher education is broken" means something different to some people than it does to you. Specifically, someone in Mulvey's position may, I speculate, be interpreting it as "not worth saving or reforming",
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by vba616 3y ago
There seems to be good reason to think that most aliens inhabit eternal darkness in a ocean underneath a global ice cap. "New research by scientists from NASA and Japan’s Osaka University suggests that rogue planets – worlds that drift

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