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The Iranian government is responsible of all sorts of human rights violations, and also for the drought (at least partly), but the economic collapse was triggered by the US. Bessen…

I think we’re talking about bank reserves , which is a fraction (in the order of 1%) of the total amount of money held in the customers’ transaction accounts. Reserves are converti…

I'd only entertain the possibility that it was tongue-in-cheek if it came from someone critical of the World Bank and laissez-faire economics in general, for instance Joseph Stigli…

Let's not forget that time he advocated for dumping toxic waste in poor countries. "I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is im…

I lost him when he rounded the orders of magnitude.

I think your assumption that Dutch politicians defend the interests of Dutch citizens, if only for winning votes, is wrong. European politician respond first (or only?) to the US. …

Well, I simplified. I said "no calorie counting", not "eat as much as you please". And by "right proportions" in those books they mean something specific: roughly 50% fat, 25% prot…

Take a look at these books: - David Ludwig, Always Hungry? - Mark Hyman, The Blood Sugar Solution The first one is very accessible, the second one very posh. But the underlying app…

I also read that counting calories is so inaccurate that you may die of starvation or become obese, on the same diet. That is, if you exclusively ate what you measured, and all of …

Exactly! > this assumes models can achieve strict prompt adherence What does strict adherence to an ambiguous prompt even mean? It’s like those people asking Babbage if his machine…

I’m not a native English speaker, can someone point me to a definition of “commiserate” that matches the usage in this article? It seems to have a different meaning according to th…

I can’t even.

Sources for the charts, via reverse image search: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-working-hours-ac... https://www.epi.org/publication/as-union-membership-has-fall... ht…

Warning: abuse of this technique may cause the model to go blind.

Have you tried an air filter? A friend of mine has a bad hay fever but since he's put an air filter in his bedroom he can sleep soundly again.

Gatsby never made sense to me. Weird design decisions I couldn’t find any plausible reason for. As soon as Next.js became capable of doing SSG I convinced my team to abandon Gatsby…

What you say is true, and I agree on self-determination in the abstract . But I simply can't believe the U.S. is in Taiwan to defend its people, rather than contain and weaken main…

> Taiwan is not China Taiwan might be considered a de facto independent country, but according to most institutions it's officially part of China. 1. Taiwan's official name is Repu…

This is all very good advice. Frankly, it’s common sense, but it’s good to have some data to support it. I have several issues with the framing, though. (I understand the authors m…

Very cool! That’s hypnosis , if we want to insist with the psychological metaphors. > If you run on the conversation the right way, you can become their internal monologue. That’s …

I think you misunderstood my point... There are so many things in programming that are hard to grasp at a deep level, but don't look scary to beginners (who misuse them without rea…

If they were called "flatmappable" (which is essentially what they are), people wouldn't complain so much about monads. But in Haskell you have to bend over backwards just to set a…