sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
4mo ago
I agree that simply killing every Palestinian would entail eliminating Hamas, but I am not convinced that killing, say, 10% of Palestinians will do that. I am especially doubtful that starving Palestinian babies will bring an army to its knees, on account of babies not being part of the army.
sarker
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4mo ago
But how is starving babies supposed to deal with Hamas?
sarker
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4mo ago
Why would his being Jewish prevent you from being a fan?
sarker
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5mo ago
HRV should give a decent indicator of stress levels.
sarker
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5mo ago
The work of getting a business off the ground doesn't differ that much whether your business becomes a trillion dollar company or goes bust. The labor theory of value is wrong.
Mackenzie was also working at Amazon in the early days, doing accounts, packing orders, etc. So I find it entirely reasonable that this made her rich.
sarker
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5mo ago
Really? Based on the recent ACX alpha school review, I was under the impression that cash for books does work.
As far as I know Fryer has not done any super-long-term studies of the impact of his experiments, but he did look at the mid-term effects. After the “read books for $$s” study ended he followed the test and control group for what happened to their reading habits when they were not getting paid. He found, in contradiction to concerns about loss of internal motivation, that the test group continued to read more than the control group.
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-alpha-school
Which studies do you mean?
sarker
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5mo ago
This tree seems to block much of the road behind the light on the right.
It would be hard to notice a car until you are almost in the intersection.
sarker
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5mo ago
You're right, and I was mistaken about my state too.
sarker
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5mo ago
People in my area run reds all the time, but I never saw people try to beat the green like this except in Puerto Rico.
It's nearly impossible to "make observations" for cross traffic when you're traveling at 55mph and the vegetation blocks line of sight to the traffic in question.
sarker
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5mo ago
It's illegal to be in the intersection when the light is red.
sarker
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5mo ago
246 BC is emphatically not the iron age. Rome as a civilization famously did not require all conquered peoples to become culturally Roman so long as they colored within the lines.
sarker
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5mo ago
The 5.8% figure is from two months ago and was already part of an upward trajectory. The writeup you linked largely confirms that Gazans are starving, though it argues that it's not due to Israel withholding aid.
sarker
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5mo ago
Is there a way to quantify "use value"? If not, this seems to be a rhetorical trick. Why would I care about a notion of value that exists simply to win arguments about communism?
sarker
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5mo ago
sarker
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5mo ago
Yougov: https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/Worst_World_Leaders_poll_results.pdf
68% have an unfavorable view of Stalin, with only 26% undecided (a subset of which presumably have not heard of him).
Edit: stefferi beat me to it.
sarker
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5mo ago
so the liver only has to do about half of the work, comparatively speaking.
HFCS is usually also about half glucose (by dry weight).
The most common forms of HFCS used for food and beverage manufacturing contain fructose in either 42% ("HFCS 42") or 55% ("HFCS 55") by dry weight, as described in the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (21 CFR 184.1866).[5]
sarker
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5mo ago
It would be difficult to do that given that the questions were published this week and the answers weren't published until ~today.
sarker
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5mo ago
How much extra time needs to be spent to work around these tricks when the men's razors are right next to the women's razors?
sarker
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5mo ago
It's also important to note that previous SOTA, DeepMind's AlphaGeometry, a specialized system, had previously achieved a silver-medal level performance and was within spitting distance of gold.
It was actually AlphaProof that was the previous SOTA.
sarker
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5mo ago
what then?
Ho, where is my rifle?
Ho, where is my saber?
In an even field, wide and open,
Beyond the field, a green forest.
In the forest, a tall tree,
Tall and mighty-trunked.
On the tree, a bird—a nightingale,
The little bird sings, it says:
"Who has a beloved so fair,
Let them love, let them cherish,
For turbulent years are coming,
Lest only regret remains."
This data is from the census, which says:
Households (H table series)
These tables look at the number and type of households in the United States. They describe the size of the household as well as the demographic characteristics of the householder. A household consists of all people who occupy a given housing unit.
So the census considers 15 people in an apartment to be a single household.
It's also eminently reasonable for the BLS and the census to use different definitions of 'household' because roommates don't share their income and act economically independently in ways that the BLS wants to measure, while the census is a population survey and the number of people physically in one housing unit is interesting to them.
sarker
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5mo ago
"Damn girl, you live like this?"
I am sure there are such situations in America but they are probably limited to illegal immigrants. Considering this ad was in Portuguese, I'm not sure it reflects the living standards of Irish people.
sarker
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5mo ago
I'm not a doomer by nature and I'm optimistic that America will still be a very good place to live in the medium term. The competition is very thin. Europe is busy ramping up footgun production; Israel is, uh, let's move on; the rest of the Anglosphere is content to give up all notions of freedom and liberty; East Asia is dying countries plus China; perhaps a small country like Switzerland is the only thing that can compete.
But at the same time as I get older I feel less confident that all the problems that, as a youth, I thought would be resolved will ever get resolved. The housing market is screwed. The education system is screwed. Unscrewing these is basically impossible because, as they say, "you'd make a lot of sick people very unhappy." There's too many entrenched interests, there's too many comfortable people whose ongoing comfort depend on nothing ever happening. You'd need a true 'orrible cunt who doesn't care about making friends who manages to get power to do something about this.
Fundamentally, I view these things as a conflict between dynamism and stasis. Outside of a few fields, I don't see dynamism returning to America in the medium term. Over the longer term, if we manage to beat back stasis without a true catastrophe, I think that will be enough for me and my children.
I think the best case scenario here is that Israel is criminally negligent when it comes to avoiding starving babies. Certainly there are starving babies.
Agreed, but again, how is starving babies going to bring an army to its knees?
There's only three options I see here. The first is to kill the Palestinians, which would be a horror that Israel would not recover from. The second is to move them, which is impossible because nobody is foolish enough to take millions of Palestinians.
The third:
What does this look like? I don't know. But directionally, perhaps it's something like the British Raj. A civilizing mission is basically the only way to turn things around.
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