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I'm sorry, but this just sounds like the "Forbidden Knowledge" Trick (think of it as a cousin to Galileo's Gambit)

(1) In your most authoritative tone, state something as fact without citation.

(2) Say major testing-based orgs are never going to give you the real truth.

We have a system for knowledge. I think it is an absurd mess, but I trust it way more than anything presented in the format you’ve just used.

Maybe this is just a formatting issue and you have credible information to back your claim, but as it is currently presented it does not pass the sniff test.

So, as politely as possible, pass.

You're 100% right. In the back of my head I had egg at 200+ calories

Then demonstrate?

In 2015, the U.S. Dietary Guidelines shifted from implying that one egg a day is “probably a bit much” to saying “one egg a day is fine if you don’t fry it.” This coincided with the removal of the quantitative cap of 300 mg/day on dietary cholesterol (a single egg basically maxes that out).

EDIT: The calorie count used to compute the portion of the comment below were incorrect. I'm leaving it unchanged for posterity, but want to clarify that an egg has about 80 cals.

Four eggs a day is almost 1,000 calories of egg, roughly half of many people’s total daily calorie intake.

3 or 4 eggs a day? 90g beef liver? Sign me up for those pills, Bill.

Like 120 eggs a month, 1400 eggs a years. That is what you envision as the healthier alternative?

Says who? Your tone vs. your actual authority on the subject are wildly incongruous.

There are many modes and methods for interacting. I, personally, am not fond of the dragonwriter method. I'm sure it has its place, but it's just not for me.

Also, you're holding it wrong.

The guy who runs scirate is a fellow quantum computing researcher (and all around friendly... fellow, lol). I can't speak for them, but I'm pretty sure they'd, at least, hear you out. The problem is more getting through the signal-to-noise of an academic's email:

https://kunalmarwaha.com/about

Integrate with scirate for that good good:

  https://scirate.com/

But seriously, I don't of another place that centers academics up-voting papers without... well... actually citing them.

Honestly, from what I understand, most men’s relationship to “lovemaking” isn’t exactly winning awards. Plus, if the tables were turned, I’m sure some SV types would just call it “rational” or “logical” and magically develop nuanced yet expansive understandings of consent, autonomy, and ownership (“your wife”) overnight.

Assuming the Everdrive is M and the SNES cartridge port is F, I can understand why the Everclan men are particularly attuned to this topic. Many better-quality, more feature-rich, and cheaper SNES multicarts have hit the market; the Everdrive is looking dated.

It’s not just whataboutism when the comparison points to a broader systemic process of eroding rights and worsening conditions. It is also an observation of this next stage in that process and how it departs from the last.

Ultimately, I think it’s self-serving/pointless Daily Show “gotcha” finger-waving trying to face down a steamroller of hate, but it’s more than whataboutism.

notebookcheck is a wonderful mid-sized news outlet and one of the best laptop review sites post anandtech's downfall...

Being low key snarky about something that is clear in context isn't going to ingratiate you, at least not with me.

Thanks for unilaterally deciding what I should read, Hunter! So nice of you.

Sometimes people deserve to be hit. Say something bad about my kids, get hit (by me physically for being dumb)... Call someone the antichrist, get hit (by the news, metaphorically, for sounding like you've lost the plot)

I'm sorry, that is not fair to ChatGPT.

I use Copilot every day (it is the only assistant that does not need Google Play Services), and it is a complete buffoon in voice. Like, actually painful to use.

I know it is supposed based on the 4o family, but it must be based on 4o-mini or something. Plus, its context window for voice is goldfish bad, on the order of low minutes (~2). And worse, you cannot write a system-level prompt for it. I am shocked at the 1.81%; I would have expected it to be much lower.

ChatGPT is better on every front. It passes the “if you tweak it, you can mostly get it to do what you want” test. Copilot, not so much.

Links? Maybe just paper titles?

Sorry, no. To make clear your subtext: Morgan Freeman being Black does not somehow immunize him from having a really bad take.

Racism is also facilitated by people pointing to the crack pots and saying, we swear we're not like them... oh, also wear this band for your safety... so we know how to easily identify you.

Open racists do not scare me. Plus, I am 100% sure we have very different definitions of what is an open racist. Worse, having that discussion is tiring and ultimately pointless semantics that slows down the actual discussion of important issues.

What scares me is this milquetoast won't everyone just calm down and we really need to turn the temp down and agree to talk...

This while the mid-tier of Side-A is re-posting gas chamber memes, playing the victim card, and calling everything they don't like porn. And Side-B, ever the dutiful neo-liberal centrists, lean into the characterization that they are the resistant or some s-star-star-t because it gives them the tingles.

It is the same everything is normal cosplay over and over again. I am tired of having to, again, entertain the rational suggestion that "racism is a crutch" of the next person in costume that fancies themselves an iconoclast because they are brave enough to say they don't like seeing the homeless in SF.

Sigh, this is boring...

Don't forget facemash (2003)!

  > The kind of person...

That's on me, I came in hot and you came back hotter. Apologies.

Let me take the temp down and ask it a different way. You don't feel weird saying there is an epidemic happening to our kids (again, something I’m at least partially convinced of), but we can't really put together a narrative one-tenth as cohesive as what we have for the efficacy of gray-market/off-label Ozempic?

I think you’re right. I’ve eaten vegan most of my life and take creatine to make up for the lack of it in my diet with no downsides. It gives me a little more energy for workouts and runs. I don’t look bigger or bulkier, just feel a bit sharper.

I also understand the discomfort with the culture of “optimize everything” and constant self-experimentation. Supplements like creatine get framed as steps toward some perfect, engineered version of ourselves, and that framing feels like a hangover of eugenics thinking. It causes an acute, if subconscious, aversion that can manifest in the cool dismal of your parent's comment.

That unease matters. Maybe if we were more objective we would say it should not matter, but it does. And, while I often just ignore it, I am not sure I want to fully let go of it yet.

Oh yes, I remember reading the am17an report about that! It was incredibly detailed and definitely not just a single-sentence declarative summary of Haidt's "The Anxious Generation."

It is not even like I disagree with the gist. Sadly, my feelings don't decide fact... or so the lesswrong weirdos keep telling me. If it was incredibly damaging, it would be incredibly easy to show. Instead, it's some poorly picked cherries by someone (Haidt) who should know better. Worse still, the best you can get from the data is a "maybe. I mean it is not immediately dis-proven... which is a start."

Not in the original statement, but as it referenced here, the word 'information' is doing absolutely ludicrous amounts of lifting. Hopefully it bent at the knees, because it my book it broke.

You can't call the phrase "the sky is mint chocolate chip pink with pulsate alien clouds" information.

By that definition, every iPhone is subsidized. Google pays to be the default search engine and subsidizes iPhone.

I meant a contracted subsidy where the user sticks with att or whatever for $n$ years.

Nope. At least in the USA, they were carrier locked not subsidized[1]. The 3G was 199$ when subsidized[2].

According to www.usinflationcalculator.com, 500$ would be ~780$ in modern money. Close to the price of the base iPhone 17 and 300+ dollars difference when compared to the smaller of the pro models. So I suppose its price stability is based on the target you pick. If it were me, I'd target against the 1000$ iPhone Air.

1:My personal iPhone 1 never saw an att sim. It was purchased at an apple store.

2:https://techcrunch.com/2008/06/09/3g-iphone-comes-with-2-yea...

If only; he is not.

Huq is a U Chicago professor of con law and understands what is happening [1]. He is just having a really bad lawyer brain moment as the eroading rule of law crosses the line he probably uses in class as an example of "too far."

1: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/aziz-huq-writes-about-libe...

This is a false statement; nothing communicated is remotely accurate. Just your classic false equivocation + whataboutism two-step used to enable the machinery that chews all that is good about the united states.

I can't speak for anyone but myself, but in my book, you are forgive for your lack of sympathy. But not the spreading of this sort of false information. You may only use it as an excuse for apathy, but you are not a power broker. What the Brenden Carrs of the gov't do with it (ex. "even apathetic folks like oxy are saying... we can push it harder") does matter.

  > ...something is wrong with you.

Are ad hominems back in vogue? (that is partially snide and partially serious. I feel like I've also/unconsciously been doing more of them recently.)

Regardless, your argument surrounding the insult was well worn 20 years ago. And so was the first response; why would I pay into some nebulous system where I don't know how much is really going to whom?

One of the nicer things about the hellscape that is the modern internet is the low-friction ability to pay creators directly.

...oh, I know why! Because if I pay Google, then Sundar pinky swears not to mercilessly track and monetize everything I do on youtube. \s

I hate Python more than anyone I know. My nightmares are filled with people repeatedly chanting "programming is done by consenting adults." Hearing someone say "Pythonic" as a synonym for clever/good, or having someone explain their latest "genius" GIL workaround... boils me.

So it gives me no pleasure to say this, but one would have to be a complete fool to believe Python wasn't absolutely instrumental in the AI revolution. I'd go as far as to say Python is the reason data science is not just more software engineering. NumPy/Pandas/SciPy/TF/Torch/etc core could be written in $SPACE_ALIEN_WAY_BETTER_3000 for all it matters. If they were not built for Python ingestion, they wouldn't have been used by most of the world.

There is some special sauce in Python that clicks with people. Something in the looseness and metaphorical play between the joints, I think. Pretending otherwise is that willful ignorance some software folks have when their toy is no longer the shiniest.

(Also, sure Maven sucked, but saying Java had bad IDEs? IntelliJ or death! Or, you know, death until something better comes along)

Governments don't have rights. They didn't spring fully formed from the wombs of other governments without a say in the matter.

They have privileges. Provisional privileges derived from the people (or at least that is what some very drunk men in wigs seemed to imply). I don't like it when my government uses dressed-up faux authority (DHS just issues itself administrative "warrants") as the basis for assaulting people. Seems pretty cut-and-dry wrong. And as responses go, really lopsided.

So here I am... making a fuss about it.

"Why are you making me punch you" is a stand-in for the kind of broken logic a child uses on a playground. It isn't about actually punching people (although many have been assualted by ICE). Instead, it is about deploying maliciously faulty logic in defense of bad action.

Think of it as a cousin to the "he's no angel" style defense of bad acts.

NO we shouldn't.

You are defending playground rules "why are you making me punch you" with people's lives.

Define anti-democratic.

I would describe a 'police force' that can forcibly and summarily deport people to gray market gulags run by a self-proclaimed "what-if-4chan-had-a-meat-world-avator" dictator as pretty darn anti-democratic. Especially when most Americans find that the current immigration policy has gone too far[1,2]. But I mistakenly think democratic means responding to the will of the people.

[1]: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/many-americans-say-tru...

[2]: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5425558-trump-ad...

(I included The Hill article not b/c I think it is a real news source, but to get ahead of the whole "pbs is lib fake news" angle)

I'd like to think the rebrand was just someone having the foresight to get ahead of its sad eventual move to the west.

Thanks Steve!