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addisonl

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    > Question: A fair die rolling a 6 twice in a row is more likely than rolling 1-2-3-4-5-6 in sequence Two 6s in a row is 1/36 chance (1/6)^2 1-2-3-4-5-6 is a 1/46656 chance (1/6)^6…

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    Comment #46533660

    Its actually not "pretty clear"—about 25-30% of people are hyper responders who are impacted by dietary cholesterol.

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    Comment #37190988

    I mean these analogies could be applied to AI image gen too. Open up an image gen tool and press generate. Do you get a great image? No, because you didn’t even enter a prompt.

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    Comment #37190662

    Cruise has been operating in Phoenix for many years now.

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    Comment #37180487

    I love and share this view—whenever a website uses dark patterns like this to try and get me to do something I just close the website and thank them for helping me reduce my screen…

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    Comment #37178284

    Best way to block people on Twitter after this: delete Twitter.

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    Comment #37152059

    A temporary outage that only impacted sites that happened to critique or compete with Musk?

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    Comment #37150271

    > HN discussion did not particlarly have "reasonable skepticism". That’s definitely not true despite your attempts to gaslight us.

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    Comment #37143082

    > If that claim breaks down whenever the driving conditions are anything other than perfect, then self driving cars lose their only supposed benefit False dilemma: value from self …

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    Comment #37129886

    > The biggest beneficiary of Webvan’s failure was Amazon.com. Not only did the company learn from the mistakes made by Webvan, but it also hired former Webvan executives to launch …

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    Comment #37079636

    Strawman: no one said loud guests are the norm.

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    Comment #37065012

    You have any studies stating the opposite, that heart attacks are falling for folks under 50?

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    Comment #36992426

    On top of that, my car can remember the MPGs I got for the last tank (and every tank before that) and estimates my range off of that. Apparently that’s “magic” according to the com…

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    Comment #36963050

    Wealthiest religion in the world, they have massive real estate holdings.

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    Comment #36950052

    This has been asked over and over again in this thread.

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    Comment #36950001

    > Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead

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    Comment #36932487

    Well, considering it was trained from content created from how people actually write, yes?

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    Comment #36931422

    Hasn’t TX had multiple years of grid failures? Not really a “black swan event” if it keeps happening.

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    Comment #36901541

    “The organization also found that Tesla, which is often lauded for its sophisticated technology, was not a paragon of reliability, ranking dead-last among brands”

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    Comment #36898573

    Tesla is one of the least reliable brands you can buy: https://www.jdpower.com/business/press-releases/2023-us-vehi... Only Ford/Lincoln, Audi, and Land Rover are worse—all notorio…

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    Comment #36881626

    You’re in this thread multiple times saying “5 million years ago…” “3 million years ago…” no one is fooled by your attempts to gaslight us on how serious our situation is today.