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8,986karma·2,607submissions·July 23, 2020
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Both URLs blocked by corporate firewall because of bad SSL.
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I think for some forms of treatment-resistant depression, no "rapid" treatment can work because the depression has caused physical atrophy, mostly in the hippocampus, over many years. Variou…
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You have chosen, or been chosen...
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Could this be formulated to cause temporary blindness?
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NYTimes wrote about this: > Rather than de-Baathifaction, Trump and Musk are giving us de-wokeification. Expect the same ruinous results. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/0…
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"/soc/" Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A long time...
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Lowering your standards will find guys who aren't just interested in sex. The problem is that most women want the same (small proportion of) men. He said that the more matches a man gets, the mor…
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Thanks. These are really good points.
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He ends with a very interesting proposition to "fix" dating apps: > To me, the next revolution is really concepts that will make you meet other people without having much information abou…
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Definitely points to some rounding error, aliasing in the data. It would be fixed by making the buckets larger. No reason for the buckets to be that small.
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This one is classic: > Girls would say, red flag if a guy has shirtless pictures and then liking profiles where guys were shirtless. This is surprising: > In our case we had even acquisition in …
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oooo lawdy
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Elite rock climbers look like this: https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2018/06/07/ap_1815766716269... …
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Ozempic has been a nasty surprise for Savile Row.
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lil baby
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Echoes of Boeing moving its HQ from Seattle to Chicago to DC area.
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Speak for yourself.
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There were rumors in the early 2000s of a QSP jet being shopped around by LM SkunkWorks to Wall Street. Also really strong rumors that Cessna was working on a similar jet. These projects probably died…
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Germans and British were on friendly terms even right before war. When the Germans completed a test flight of a new aircraft (forget which), British engineers sent a "congrats!" message to t…
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Just like YC and a cruise missile company: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41305736
3 pts
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I wish I was that sunfish.
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Meanwhile the Garmin UX is godawful with watch faces that crash and a deep forest of menus that requires you to push through mountains of youtube videos to understand. There are 2-4 ways to perform an…
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How would they build guardrails for this? In CFD, physical simulation with ML, they talk about using physics-informed models instead of purely statistical. How would they make language models that are…