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
1d ago
There's also government regulations that require houses to look ugly so that people don't fall out the window.
sarker
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2d ago
Surely this proves the existence of at least one desire/aspiration?
It's more like the path of least resistance for these people. They are simply acting out the script that their parents laid out.
I’ve never known any of them to go seriously off the rails (pun very much intended) with hard drugs, alcohol, partying, casual sex, etc.
I have known multiple such Cupertino alumni.
sarker
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2d ago
Have you met anyone who went to Cupertino high school? I have met several, and while it's true they aren't smoking crack in the back of the bus, they are some of the most maladjusted individuals I've met who still function in society.
Absolutely no desires or aspirations, a dead look in the eyes, mania, depression, depravity, etc etc. Yeah, they make fat stacks of cash writing CRUD apps for big tech - but at what cost?
sarker
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3d ago
But we're getting it both ways. They're pushing for "discouraging" activities they oppose while forcing us to subsidize the health risks of activities they support.
This doesn't sound like you're getting it both ways. It sounds like it's just one way - that you can engage in just about any activity (except smoking I guess, although I have never revealed my smoking status to my insurer) without insurers taking action.
The hypotheticals are closer to a persecution fantasy than reality.
sarker
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3d ago
wait so I'm paying $20,000 a year just so a gay guy can have unprotected sex for free, but the same people who mandated that are talking about using insurance costs to make driving unaffordable for me?
To what extent is the health insurance company allowed to tell you what you can and can't do?
Let's assume, arguendo, that eating red meat and animal fat really does cause disease and increase costs. Does the insurance company have a right to drop you for eating red meat or are they obligated to pay for your quadruple bypass?
sarker
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4d ago
Perhaps waymo's biggest strength so far has been an extremely cautious and slow rollout which I suspect allows them to detect issues like this before they cause accidents (on the theory that for every accident there are ten near misses).
sarker
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4d ago
San Francisco has plenty of narrow streets and pedestrians. Various parts of the service areas have streets that are not on a grid. There's obviously no snow in San Francisco, but the waymos seem to work fine in the rain.
I personally know of an experimental model spazzing out because it saw a pedestrian holding an umbrella.
A waymo model?
sarker
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5d ago
the fact that LLNs prove and disprove a large number of longstanding theories in linguistics about how intelligence and language work
They really do nothing of the sort. That LLMs can generate language via statistics and matmuls tells us nothing about how the human brain does it.
My TI-84 has superhuman performance on a large set of mathematical tasks. Does it follow that there's a little TI-84 in my brain?
sarker
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5d ago
The human brain is a large language model
What is the evidence for this besides that they both contain something called "neurons"?
sarker
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6d ago
They are, after all, self-identifying as non-essential.
This is perhaps the furthest thing possible from "self identification" - it's your boss telling you you're not important enough to be paid.
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7d ago
They really can't be extracting much since they are legally obligated to pay out 80% of premiums. They could pay out perhaps 15% more if the entire company did it for free.
sarker
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8d ago
At least on this metric, all of the countries listed are rather lower trust than Switzerland itself, which has been gaining in trust over the past 30 years despite immigration from lower trust societies.
Italy, France, and the DR are similar trust societies. Same for Portugal and India, and El Salvador and Turkey. Albania is lower trust than any other country mentioned.
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9d ago
IME it's practically a perfect egg white substitute in everything short of, uh, egg white omelettes. Good for baking, cocktails, etc.
sarker
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10d ago
And the Assyrians. And the HRH. And the Ethiopian empire. And the Carthaginian empire. And...
sarker
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10d ago
Does New Zealand have a comparative advantage in such questions? Or is it better off trying to materially improve the lives of its citizens and leave those questions for others?
sarker
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10d ago
Canola oil has similar amounts of linoleic acid to chicken fat, and rather less linoleic acid than almonds or sesame oil.
sarker
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10d ago
Linoleic acid is an essential fatty acid that humans require in their diet.
sarker
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11d ago
Not the stupid hat thing again. Replaced.
sarker
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11d ago
sarker
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11d ago
Yes I agree, e.g. in Python I use pd.DatetimeIndex.tz_localize
Well, that's your mistake - I'm talking about the standard library, not pandas. No dependency, no bitrot. No need to localize any datetimes until you're displaying them, so as long as you aren't working with naive datetimes it's pretty low overhead.
Also SQL doesn't play nicely with timezones at all, so the problem still very much exists for SQL scripts unless you only want to use SQL to pull the data and will do all your analysis with the pulled data in a different language.
As SQL is fundamentally not a serious language, it indeed does not support zoneinfo.
Haven't heard that. Pretty sure fire regulations require that people can egress out of windows (at least in bedrooms), so maybe it applies only to some windows.
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