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I remember seeing discourse recently saying telomere shortening is a side effect more than a cause of aging as a function and happens as a function of DNA damage. Important to cons…

Imagine what else they are doing: https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/A-Tik-Tok-ing...

I see so many people arguing against the effectiveness of propaganda as if they think an opinion is arrived at deterministically with the same access to facts. Utterly insane.

Your understanding of the situation is incredibly naive. TikTok can selectively suppress or emphasize viewpoints that are geopolitically advantageous to China that are not as overt…

Huh. What are your interests? I'm curious why you think they would come in conflict with those of the US. I'm confused why you think China's interests are irrelevant to you, unless…

Surely you can't think propaganda is just spreading lies... Contextual presentation can change how true information is perceived. Seeing a perspective more will align your own with…

Is this a serious question? China has its best interests in mind, the US government has its best interests in mind. Which one of those two adversaries are more likely to align with…

> who lack critical thinking skills to such an extent that we basically shouldn’t even have the option to make up our own opinions in response to feed recommendations I think it's …

The issue isn't surveillance, it's the ability for China to 'put their thumb on the scale' of the black box algorithm responsible for populating every user's feed to emphasize or d…

Why would this product having a subset of postgresql features make it less portable? If anything, that makes it more portable

...What? There is a spectrum of importance to national security, food and energy are very much on the side of more important, so not sure why you chose those as an example. It's ex…

He was a professional gamer, and switched to biodynamic agriculture after seeing how little hope humanity had playing games against machines

>Truck drivers earn between min wage and 150% of min wage Where are you getting this information? It's absolutely wrong. Long haul truckers (the one's you're saying don't have soci…

The dose that recreational users are being told they're getting is FAR off what they are actually getting. When someone says they're taking 3 tabs of 100 microgram dosages, it's li…

>someone who will not treat their datacenter like a home lab What does this mean? They steal company resources for themselves, or just configure things incompetently?

Because you need SQL. Dynamo can be quite powerful for querying if you use all of its features but it won't be as flexible as just using SQL

Such a big fan of this guy. Found him through his UV protection amulet project: https://mitxela.com/projects/amulet

Interesting - how is it not outcompeted by regular staph? Wouldn't it be over a long enough time period without introducing it to methicillin?

His book The Vital Question does actually address this. He says the RNA world hypothesis doesn't perfectly explain early catalysis, as RNA is a sophisticated polymer. It was most l…

Except as a rhetorical device which the above person is clearly using his request as...

Think of it the other way around - the only real weapon Hamas has against the much stronger Israel is shifting public opinion, so it's in their incentive to bring as much negative …

Isn't this what happened with rap genius around a decade ago[0]? Maybe this was long before their policy of zero human intervention. [0] https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/25/5243716…

What would you like to do with these models that you can't currently do if they are 'crippled'?

Interesting - I saw this article and thought it'd be talking about red #40, which has been linked to ADHD-like symptoms in children [1]. I've been pleased to see more food items re…

With CDK, I can get an ECS service up and running in the same amount of time it'd take to create a lambda function behind API gateway or triggered by SQS/cron. Deploys are easier, …