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Imagine a future where all food stores have 3 sections: - The Green section (Food) - Natural food our ancestors would have eaten. - The yellow section (Food-derived) - Things made partly from food, bu…

We can, but it's going to be technical. The layman's definition is -- "things we eat that bear little resemblance to the food we have evolved on" but wikipedia says that Nova defin…

Agree 100%. I pretty much discount everything everyone says until we start running hard science experiments. One way to measure scientifically is to ask somebody to picture a room. The the experimente…

Did you read the whole article? Because it turns out the manager just starts giving away the coffee for free, so whatever numbers somebody was pulling from the sales system were obviously incorrect. T…

I guess this is why most places change prices more gradually. If they made it 1.10 for 3 months then 1.20 for 3 months etc I bet people would have dealt (assuming it's still the cheapest coffee a…

I think this is conflating two things: Proof of exertion (work) and proof of impact. An engineer making many commits is just proof of exertion. An engineer closing many tickets is proof of impact. A m…

Powerful stuff. Really helps make it feel more real by drawing comparisons to knowable reference points.

Is wax paper not a viable substitute?

> Additionally, feelings are fine for personal behavior but legislation requires a higher level of evidence. This I can agree with -- but I think it would trivial to get that evidence by asking 10,…

Eh, this feels like a bad-faith argument. I think most of us on this site first-hand feel that obsession to update a feed that seems to control us more than we control it. I don't need the DSM&#x…

To second this theory with some real-world data. A few startups I worked at a NY scala shop that used tons of Akka (event-driven queuing scala thing). Why? Because a manager at his prior job "sav…

Yeah, there will be some incorrect papers. But there are errors in the other direction too. How many deleterious effects will never be proven scientifically because it's incredibly exhausting to …

Wouldn't that be ironic, if after years of doubting and mocking the proliferation of food sensitivities it turned out it was because there was literal plastic in us.

> If that has to be punishable, then job listings with false or misleading information should be too. Currently, it's symmetrical. If either side lies, the other side can exit the contract wit…

Hot take - all these articles (telling employees how to be) are crap for one simple reason: If the management chain wants X, they need to incentivize X. In my experience 9/10 times, then manageme…

Slightly off-topic, but slightly not. I feel like customer support is one of the worst experiences in all of tech or maybe just modern capitalism. Obviously slashing budgets is a huge part of it, but …

Oh, thanks. There was an arcade game called Lunar Lander and I thought that this was the exact same thing, and I guess I didn't pay much attention to the pictures.

So by that reasoning, if I'm frustrated about global warming and I share an article without reading it I'm spreading propaganda? And committing violence? I don't think so.

It's interesting. The naive way to write this would be not use any special formulas, and just recalculate mass and acceleration each frame (based on the new mass). And to calculate intersection w…

One thing this article does that I don't agree with is presume that there are binary safe/unsafe limits that are objectively correct. I don't know the exact numbers, but when I looked i…

What's the word for something that people reshare a bunch without reading it because they are frustrated at the world and want to put it into other people's faces? Not a left-right thing, I …

Going to copy my comment from the original post: This is a bad title. The proper title should be the exact words of the scientists: "in this population of sperm donor applicants, in these four Da…

I have the exact same impression. Imo there's no evidence whatsoever that nailing this task will be true AGI - (e.g. able to write novel math proofs, ask insightful questions that nobody has thou…

I don't know what you're talking about, and that makes two of us. Writing the Nth-permutation is something I've done before as a leetcode challenge, here's example code [1] Maybe p…

This sounds like exactly what I wanted. There have been a number of times I've been in the car and wanting to ask Siri something it couldn't handle has been a lot e.g. "What state am I …

Well I initially thought the same thing (as some rando who put negligible thought or research into it). Then it was pointed out by a science youtuber that mass migration of people is a problem, which …

Yeah. So something like a 50-digit number. I guess your point is this would require a BigInt? From a performance perspective it's negligible. Like when doing RSA for example the primes are usuall…

Kinda interesting. There are N! permutations in a shuffle (no duplicates) and there's an algorithm where you pick one random number between 1->N! and then bring up that permutation (though I d…

It'd be nice if it was that easy. One thing to think about is that I think the scientific understanding is that unhealthy sperm = unhealthy babies. That's the reason sperm have to undergo su…

This is a bad title. The proper title should be the exact words of the scientists: "in this population of sperm donor applicants, in these four Danish cities, sperm concentrations have not change…