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@emptyrivers
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Tham gia Aralık 2018
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My children consistently refer to this as "maple syrup."
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@tenobrus @buccocapital and if ur rich then school is more about getting your kids connections with other powerful ppl than about "education" so unless u think ai will overturn the world order it still makes sense to invest in education
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@tenobrus @buccocapital yeah but a 529 is a significant tax shelter and the beneficiary can convert them to a roth ira later in life
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Pretty shocked how confident people are they don’t need to save for their kid’s education….
BuccoCapital Bloke@buccocapital
@0xLuxi You won’t even be able to put two kids through college in 20 years with that
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@shaggysurvives second time you bump into each other going to the coffee machine
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@adam_kranz true, though not as astonishing as it might seem at first blush, a cell tower isn't an omnidirectional antenna but dozens of high gain beam antennas pointed everywhere at the ground. not quite as much competition as you might think for your phone to be heard
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@emptyrivers Sure but the signal out from the phone is the same in both cases. The fact that the tower can receive is the astonishing part right
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It's wild that wifi networks often fail a few rooms away but cellular data connections work over miles
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@adam_kranz also the legal wifi bands are saturated if you're anywhere with a population density higher than 0, but the cellular frequencies are tightly regulated and the fcc really doesn't screw around when it comes to enforcement on unlicensed radio operators
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@aidan_mclau need there be an evolutionary benefit? i think the garden can have fairies at the bottom, as a treat
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i get why i find a lush valley or glimmering lake beautiful. lots of selective survival pressure. but why nebulae? what’s the evolutionary benefit in that ?
Aidan McLaughlin@aidan_mclau
do these count
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@realtimeai one would hope that it's precisely opposite to the like button! every control system needs negative feedback levers
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@goblinodds I assume the algo treats it identically to the like button.
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ok what does the dislike button actually DO idk whether to use it liberally or hardly at all
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@goblinodds it's the same kind of thing as tapping not interested in the 3 dot menu thing. negative feedback for the algorithm
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i actually had no idea the pineapple on pizza thing was still such a sensitive topic. can everybody chill
taoki@justalexoki
pineapple on pizza is really funny because literally everyone who's actually tried it likes it, proving the rest are just cattle attaching to whatever the herd told them to believe
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prime rate is like 6% right now, if they try to highball you at 12.99% then they don't want your business
Casey McDaniel - Pest Control Guy@pestctrlguy
We order a new Ford Maverick. Dealer calls and said they got financing approved but it’s a high rate so they recommend we put more down and in the future get approved for the Ford credit line to make things easier. I ask the rate. 12.99% I say let’s pause on the deal and let me make a few calls. 5 mins later the phone rings. They magically got it down to 8.49%. Don’t let these guys try to screw you over.
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@qualiascript i think it generally relies on humans having some non material component which can exist separate from your life & is fungible or homoiousian with that of other individuals. a soul before birth, if you're religious, or something like andy weir's egg if you're a huge sci fi dork
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the veil of ignorance argument is literally incoherent. in order for it to be wrong, it would need to be a proposition that is able to be false
the idea of having your genetics, environment and individual traits completely swapped while still "being you" is nonsensical
Rob Henderson@robkhenderson
The Warren Buffet test to determine whether you live a blessed life: thefp.com/p/from-slavery…
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@qualiascript & i think most americans at least do believe in a "soul" like that
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@adam_kranz might turn out to be psychology nonreplicationslop but it's at least a testable idea compared to "in our evolutionary past, large breasts serve the purpose of...."
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@adam_kranz you mean superstimuli? it's just the idea tha if stimulus produces a response in the subject, then a magnified version of the stimulus probably produces a magnified response
i think the classic example in humans are those old fertility idols with disproportionately huge breasts
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intelligence is knowing all the evopsych arguments of why this might be the case. wisdom is discarding all of those in favor of "supernormal stimulus got hands."
Aella@Aella_Girl
I'm confused why men like big boobs. Boobs get biggest when breastfeeding, which is also when women have significantly reduced fertility.
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