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Ironic that even the downfall of a major competitor can't save other exchanges from their own mistakes

Fair enough!

If the model gets as good as they strive for, its outputs would be indistinguishable from those of PHD level students. There would be no point in augmenting its results with human contributions

From what I understand from Dominicans, there is a strong animosity towards Haitians in the DR. A lot of it is racial, but also cultural.

You're strawmanning here. Parent commenter clearly meant healthy as in containing only "healthy" foods. If you eat 4,000 calories of brown rice, chicken and broccoli a day you will get fat. Colloquially, though, their diet would be called healthy because of it's constituent foods.

Edit: you will get fat assuming you are like most people and do not expend greater than 4k calories / day in total

I don't take issue to that. I think using facial recognition paired with a database of naughty / nice individuals is going to pose a plethora of societal issues down the road. It is evocative of China's social credit system somewhat.

It's an accessible interface that has gone viral enough for non-technical students to catch wind of & use it.

AFAIK (not an expert) there are two common problems with nutritional research

1) Mechanistic data we don't fully understand the implications of.

This basically means we observe mechanisms that we believe ought to have some effect on people, and yet when longitudinal studies are done to measure actual long term effects, they are not statistically significant

2) Confounding factors.

In longitudinal studies, it can be very difficult to fully control for confounding factors, as diets are very complex. Take a hypothetical red meat study, where participants are simply instructed to eat "more red meat". Is a McDonalds burger different than a lean, grassfed steak? That's an easy one to control for, not the best example. But basically exemplifying how there can be a lot of variability within the intervention itself when it comes to nutrition

Yeah, the trials were done with ~2 TBS of honey daily or around 128 calories. Could definitely see people going way above that or using low quality honey. YMMV on products like honey and olive oil based on the quality of the manufacturer

This is my recommendation on diet soda to people as well. The literature points to diet soda being a productive replacement for those currently drinking soda and desiring to lose weight.

But the jury is still out on potential effects of diet on the microbiome and insulin sensitivity etc, so I wouldn't go encouraging people to pick it up for no reason.

Yup that would basically be my response lol. Could it be conceivable one or two lone actors in the CIA did it? Maybe? But on an organizational level the risk to "reward" is so high it just seems absurd to consider.

I wasn't aware that the belief he was paid by a powerful organization is regarded as absurd. I don't think that's silly. I do think it's far fetched to believe that the CIA as an organization orchestrated it. That was the main one I've heard.

Have seen this conspiracy theory propounded by several people now. Two things:

1) SBF refused to testify right before he was due to anyways: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/12/former-ftx-ceo-sam-bankman-f...

2) The charges he is looking at are so serious, I have a hard time believing it would matter that much whether he racked up one more charge of lying under oath

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Yes... that is why it is explicitly listed under conflicts of interest. For better or for worse, there isn't unlimited free capital to study things without vested interest.

We should hope that despite influence, good scientists prioritize the scientific method over lying or intentionally misleading for personal gain. Of course, history has shown this is too much to ask of many people :)

Totally understandable :)

The reason this is different is because the fee does not go to Coinbase at all. It goes to the Ethereum network. If cash app could prove they got zero profit from a service fee that could be one thing. In this case, Coinbase can prove exactly how much the gas fee was and that they do not take a cut of this "fee"

I have to agree with this. While I don't like to victim blame usually, the VCs are too much in a position of power to truly be victims here. They absolutely could have pushed for more transparency or a board and likely would have smelled smoke when there was none

There was a Black Mirror episode with a similar concept where footsoldiers were implanted with a chip that made them see enemies as literal monsters

business as usual for SoftBank

I think the main argument is whether to recline on flights, say, less than 5 hours in duration. If everyone is trying to sleep on a long overnight, most everyone would like to recline

Couldn't some goods in the basket be slightly negative while others are positive? For example if rent went down relative to last year's baseline but groceries, gas, etc were all very much up.

the tone here is a little uncalled for.

Some elements of the crypto space may not need to be regulated, but centralized exchanges should be regulated as hard as banks and should regularly undergo liquidity stress tests. If FTX does turn out to be insolvent, execs should be getting more than a slap on the wrist

Wouldn't this apply to many hardware companies? And though I agree that they wouldn't have much hardware to sell in that case, their services business is still doing ~76B on an annual basis which is no joke.

Because most of Amazon's profits come from AWS (74%). So I would say it's more like comparing Google or Oracle to Apple than you think.

Had a coworker who was fired for this, though we found out about the second job after he was let go for performance issues. Especially as an engineer, this is just done out of greed and disregard for coworkers who may be counting on you. Outside of a startup environment, it may matter less. But I still find it reprehensible

this would have fit in perfectly in the white and nerdy music video

Can someone help me understand what it means to develop the sixth sense for north? Does it mean:

a) The user must be wearing the anklet at all times to initially calibrate but their body is able to determine how much rotation / transposition they have undergone in order to point north. b) After training, one could tell which way is north without ever having to put on the anklet again

I think the article is supposed to be fairly sarcastic in nature. At least, that's how I read it

Magnus posted the full statement in this tweet: https://twitter.com/MagnusCarlsen/status/1574482694406565888...