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> I get people are sad if they get forced out of their homes for this Wow, what a way to dismiss the humanity and worth of millions of people. First of all, in some cases it actual…

If moving millions of people—functionally including entire metro areas like…oh I don’t know…Miami and New Orleans and large swathes of NYC—by forcing them to abandon their homes (w…

Once I started learning more about biology, I realized that everything is just so complex. The body repurposes chemicals a lot, so you have things like serotonin being a key neurot…

> off-patent Well there’s your problem: no one can make money off of it, unless they develop a new delivery mechanism, etc. Patents encourage developing new medicines, but not deve…

If you have termites, you don’t just light the house on fire. So many tech people try to solve all the problems of Gov tech in the executive branch, which is intentionally slow and…

“That today Microsoft is a giant company is irrelevant...” I am not too young to remember the old Microsoft. To say that Microsoft is “irrelevant” is so myopic. Despite Tesla, GM i…

The number of EOs is a poor measure of the extent of executive power. There are many other ways to concentrate executive power; for example OMB (part of the Executive Office of the…

Unless you want to “write a Shakespearean sonnet about Bayes’ rule”. Here’s what Claude sonnet (ahem) came up with: "Bayes's Revelation" What knowledge held before new facts arrive…

This is a study of people in their 70s. The vast majority of people with hearing loss in their 70s lost it late in life; they have no Deaf/HH community, they almost never learn to …

Or you could read the article and use common sense? > At first, AirWayBill’s managing director, Khaled Sehly, declined to discuss whether the app could be breaking any TSA regulati…

But this wouldn’t be in orbit; it would be in what NASA calls “deep space”, which relies on the Deep Space Network [1]. The DSN is severely bandwidth constrained, due primarily to …

It’s very rare in the West , but speakers of tonal languages seem to be much more likely to be able to do it https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519172202.h...

Suppose: 1. An AI model, which works simply by predicting the best next word given a particular context (context which obviously includes whatever prompts it was given), becomes su…

Note that TFA says that the man in question lived in England at some point in his 20s, so not that “far away”, in terms of amount of exposure to various Irish accents. Also, it doe…

“Biological” does not mean “genetic”. I believe parent is musing whether there is a neurodevelopmental basis, which of course there is, by all evidence; if you do not hear certain …

I believe parent is saying that PTSD is precisely a situation where memories act like perceptions; EMDR as a therapeutic modality with at least some evidence for efficacy is premis…

The issue is, can myapp know that it was set that way, vs being set somewhere else? The command line argument uses syntactical constraints to ensure that the value of the argument …

If Random House declines to publish your book because they don’t think it will sell, is that censorship? If I run a sci-fi bookstore, and I choose not to stock your book about poli…