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run them in a VM that doesn't have git installed. Sandboxing these things is a good idea anyways.

The biggest problem with Electric is the battery weight, so it makes sense. Ships deliberately use cheaper, less energy dense petroleum products (heavy fuel oil), for pretty much t…

This is a problem with the (lack of) environmental laws in many countries. All things considered, landfills are really cheap.

No, people get ill from excessive quantities of alcohol.

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Something assumed to be true without proof . Think of it as one layer of abstraction above the model under discussion. Like a hyperparameter. In later years, students get taught th…

not the OP, but I think they meant to imply that the AU government is grifting. It does look like attaching a $520k bill to the man's freedom. Totally not part of the punishment...…

Yeah, when I visited down there I initially misinterpreted what the "CBD bakery" was selling... xD

In this case, they're vaguely gesturing towards the "money being better spent elsewhere", instead of making a cost-benefit analysis including the time value of money. Do you see ho…

Not defending the overall claim, but there's a plausible reason why being underwater matters: the mammalian diving reflex. Holding your breath on land is not the same.

I have a question on manifold about Boeing's troubles: https://manifold.markets/VitorBosshard/number-of-major-incid... I'm only counting incidents where Boeing is at fault, this on…

> instead of knowing there was bias Why do you automatically assume this? Might be related to why people wanted to hide these numbers.

or still do it, but know that YC's incentives and yours are pointing in different directions. Sometimes taking their advice is good for both of you, sometimes it is only good for t…

That paragraph twists the harm around though. NYT goes out of its way to highlight Gemini depicting PoC as Nazis, while omitting that it almost entirely refused to depict white peo…

> The general "left leaning" mood is also to provide services that help single-family households to mitigate issues for children anyway, so I think it's much more of a nuanced "les…

The OP means that kids raised by married parents have better life outcomes. The policy proposals that would follow from this (e.g. restricting divorce) are right-leaning positions …

I learned about it from a physical therapist. This seems to be old knowledge that was somewhat widespread (in the german-speaking world at least), then discredited in modernity as …

No, I'm saying that they also have a comparable rate of post-viral syndrome, and a comparable rate of severe cases. It is not clear at all at this point if covid will be able to do…

There is no ongoing pandemic. There is now an en demic virus that's part of the regular rotation of pathogens that cause colds and flu, and covid doesn't seem particularly more dan…

Calming the sympathicus is one of the very few things that somewhat works for me. It helps to relax and get good sleep. One technique I'll add to the list: skin massage (literally …

Ahem. The base rate for a healthy person dying in the week or so leading up to their important testimony is tiny . It's reasonably likely (20%+) that this was foul play.

It's a meme. Same as "shot himself in the back of the head"

Same. I'm not much for conspiracy theories, but that is very strange wording.

I can imagine it. You're skipping over the actually hard part, which is the question of where the current AI paradigm will top out. Don't pretend this is not an open question.

> I am broadly anti-Worldcoin but it is reasonably competently executed at a technical level. It would be good to understand what they actually did before declaring it to be imposs…