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valec

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    Comment #47219981

    won't someone think of the property??!?

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    Comment #46888455

    ok. your pipe is full. now what

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    Comment #46012101

    ssris are known to unmask or precipitate manic episodes in people with family history of bipolar or schizophrenia. > I'm speculating here but I'm pretty sure if you did an MRI on m…

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    Comment #45416973

    well, they are. outsourcing is the bigger problem. just like outsourcing decimated manufacturing jobs, now it's decimating white-collar. i well and truly hope you get fired so you …

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    Comment #45416945

    don't be asinine. h1-b is what enables this exploitation

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    Comment #45202911

    it's material conditions that lead to violence, not the tools. sure tools make it easier, but gun control didn't stop the pm of japan from getting assassinated. if people weren't s…

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    Comment #44014601

    in fetuses.

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    Comment #43897078

    > Also taking SSRIs near MDMA administration is one of the worst pieces of what is doubtless intended as harm reduction advice I’ve ever seen. You don’t hand people a recipe for se…

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    Comment #43888389

    dosed reasonably (~125 mg with no redoses), ideally at lower ambient temperatures, and ideally with an SSRI at the end of perceptible effects to stop MDMA to keep circulating throu…

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    Comment #42941131

    keep user profiles maybe with cookies or by encouraging sign-ups and then use NMF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-negative_matrix_factorizat...

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    Comment #42621111

    actually, yes, it is extremely hard to determine who finances the political ads you see on TV. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_money and how is a black box algorithm any worse…

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    Comment #42618707

    should we ban tv too then?

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    Comment #42614867

    it's interesting you bring that up as it turns out the incumbent party was actually the one behind that tiktok campaign, not russia. the campaign they used as evidence of "russian …

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    Comment #42240093

    well, thankfully there are tools [1] 1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06204-3

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    Comment #42240084

    terms like "oversocialized" suggest you spend too much time on imageboards and you would do well to get off those sites. same with "humiliation ritual"

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    Comment #42073054

    lac-phe. https://www.cell.com/trends/endocrinology-metabolism/fulltex...

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    Comment #41794646

    interesting. i have about 1-2 cups most days but 5-6 over a few hours is fine and i still get ok (but poorer quality) sleep

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    Comment #41196557

    now if only neotame was mass produced.. (100x aspartame's potency but requires more synthetic steps to reach)

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    Comment #41073055

    how did you get that from the article? "One of the common solvents, ethyl acetate, comes naturally in many foods and beverages. It’s considered a safe chemical for decaffeination b…

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    Comment #41020457

    it does. that's what the "direct preference" part of DPO means. you just avoid training an explicit reward model on it like in rlhf and instead directly optimize for log probabilit…

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    Comment #40693286

    to fund it? there are plenty of non-profits with for-profit wings. ACS and CAS for example

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    Comment #40541825

    i get the opposite take from this info. the fact that, in just 10,000 years, the gene spread to over 1/3 of the population shows how useful of an adaptation it is.

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    Comment #40506094

    not my problem!

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    Comment #40150433

    are you serious? reddit is perhaps the most astroturfed platform on the planet.

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    Comment #39997581

    i pronounce it in my head (wrongly) like xi/shi