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bitshiftfaced
·il y a 3 jours·discuss
I understand where you're coming from. But on the off chance something unrelated were to go wrong with the blood down the line, it could be shown that a false answer was knowingly given. You have to weigh this risk against keeping "the privilege to give blood". I guess it depends on your values and risk tolerance.
bitshiftfaced
·il y a 3 jours·discuss
"Accidentally"? Implying she should've lied about it even though they probably have some reason (evaluating risk presumably) for asking?
bitshiftfaced
·il y a 4 jours·discuss
I looked into the return on investment of exercise in terms of hours spent exercising and expected hours of waking life you gain. In short, it's a good investment, especially if you do vigorous exercise (both cardio and resistance training). It's an even better time investment if you can do it at home and cut out the commute time to the gym. You don't actually need more than maybe a couple hundred dollars worth of equipment.
bitshiftfaced
·il y a 18 jours·discuss
I don't see where the advisory says what The Guardian's headline says: https://www.cyber.gov.au/sites/default/files/2026-06/Five%20...
bitshiftfaced
·le mois dernier·discuss
I don't know about smartness, but the Mediterranean diet might be one signal. It's comparably low protein and has strong evidence for longevity.
bitshiftfaced
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
It's a fitted Bradley Terry model, scaled to familiar Elo scores, anchored to wins against Mixtral-8x7B at 1114 (at least last time I looked at it). When you fit the model against historical data, and then you add another month of time that contains newer models, the relative strength of a given model might decline even if its absolute ability remained fixed.
bitshiftfaced
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
It's kind of an illusion when you think about it. "Whose turn it is" is an inseparable part of the game state. If any move makes the game state worse this turn, then the game state was already bad before this turn.
bitshiftfaced
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
Prediction markets have realized that they will lose potential customers if they don't prevent insider trading. Kalshi already has a policy banning politicians from trading. Presumably they understand this, so while I'm glad to see the rule, I wouldn't say it's that self-sacrificing.
bitshiftfaced
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
It's not a perfect analogy because of factors that affect individual policies, such as the replacement cost of the home, moving next to a fireworks store, moving into a flood zone, etc. You pay more when your home is more at risk.
bitshiftfaced
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
> smokers die early saving even more money.

I thought cancer care tended to be pretty expensive. Not sure that your math is so clear cut.
bitshiftfaced
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
Oversimplification. Businesses can exist when the the cost of a good is less than the price they can get. There are many possible prices that this might be true, and there is some price that maximizes net profit.

When an item's margin becomes large, the risk/reward equation becomes favorable for new competition to come in. That puts downward pressure on prices.

For a given good, let's say that tariffs increased the business's cost for that good. If that cost goes away and the price stays constant, then the margin increases. That triggers more competition.
bitshiftfaced
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
> we also need to talk about the effects of cannabis use on neurodivergent folks.

"Neurodivergent" lacks a well-defined meaning. What is it about someone for whom you would define as neurodivergent that makes cannabis more harmful than someone someone for whom you wouldn't label as neurodivergent?
bitshiftfaced
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
Parents also tend to gain weight, and higher BMI is associated with a decline in T.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3809034/
bitshiftfaced
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
For a while I thought I really liked sci fi novels and short stories, and maybe that's somewhat true. But I've started wondering if maybe I just liked Asimov's writing in particular. Other writers in the genre are more hit or miss. Can anyone recommend other writers that are on his level?
bitshiftfaced
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
And the liver creates cholesterol. It even senses and reduces cholesterol output when we have too much. Except saturated fats interfere with this process.
bitshiftfaced
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
There are some other transformer based models on the GIFT leaderboard: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Salesforce/GIFT-Eval
bitshiftfaced
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
> It’s also mighty interesting how it’s always the male division that’s open, until you happen to have a sport where women are beating men at it, and then suddenly it’s the women’s division that’s the open one!

Hypothetically you could have three divisions: open, men, and women. In many contexts it's more practical to have two, where one is open. In those cases, if the sex that didn't win more was also the open division, then people would complain because both divisions would be dominated by players of one sex.
bitshiftfaced
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
Quoting this without context, people might think someone from the case said this about the expecting mother. Instead, this quote comes from a law professor (that the author interviewed maybe?), who was, I guess, projecting the thought on to those of the legal system. The author kind of stuck this right in the middle of the story, so I don't blame readers if they confused the quote with someone from the trial saying it.
bitshiftfaced
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
I have no doubt that blackberries will go this direction because it's annoying to get seeds stuck in your teeth. On the other hand, compare the fiber of blackberries (8g in one cup) to modern grapes (1g in one cup).
bitshiftfaced
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
It depends on the season, but they tend to have too much acid at first. Leaving them in the fridge reduces the acid over time improves the flavor profile. But really you should refrigerate all citrus.