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Khelavaster··on CNN: "Chinese people have TOO MUCH freedom of speech " [video]
Upset that Chinese allow antisemitic hate speech. That IS too much freedom of speech, and it can coexist with too little freedom of most other speech.
Khelavaster··on Cancer Alley
Biden's former director of Public Engagement, Cedric Richmond, was the congressman from Cancer Alley's district, and a direct senior advisor to Biden.
Khelavaster··on How We're Responding to Seattle's New Delivery Laws
this link opens in a mobile app :(
Khelavaster··on 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel
Genre: survival horror lol
Khelavaster··on Mr. Beast Moves 80K Chocolate Bars in 3 Weeks
His chocolate is pretty low-quality compared to others at the price point. at least the marketing is eye catching..
Khelavaster··on Forget the Blood of Teens. Metformin Promises to Extend Life for a Nickel (2017)
It extends life by lowering metabolism. A "dead end" life extension solution.
Khelavaster··on Midjourney developers caught discussing laundering, creating database of Artists
Creating a database of artists by city, to localize styles off of. Seems totally fine honestly..
Khelavaster··on Reinforce concrete footing designer using Python
units of measure would really really help..
Khelavaster··on "Nightmare Tenant" Story Amplified by Seattle Times Crumbles Under Scrutiny
My house got taken over by a series of unauthorized residents. Sheriff's officers did nothing..
Khelavaster··on Homeownership is not a social good
This goes against The Wealth of Nations' view of productive land & capital ownership.

A home gives people investment opportunity to themeselves be more productive.

Khelavaster··on Canada turns to a post-war strategy to battle housing crisis
Weird that they won't preapprove neighborhoods of single-family homes. 12-per-acre homes are all over the place in denser US cities.
Khelavaster··on Side projects to get jobs? Surgeons don't do brain surgery in their free time
Surgeons actually often do pro bono work, medical volunteering, etc..
Khelavaster··on Evolution of Pain
Good pain literally is not bad pain as far as many neurons are concerned..!
Khelavaster··on Banish state-mutating methods from data classes
This article is sort of confused on what "data type" means.

Most people who say "data type" accept that it can have methods scopes to that data type: setter logic, conversion methods, and whatever's domain-appropriate.

Khelavaster··on Genetically defined brainstem neurons involved in production, modulating sounds
"Neurotensin Helps Associate Memories with Good or Bad Emotions" https://www.genengnews.com/news/neurotensin-helps-associate-...
Khelavaster··on Genetically defined brainstem neurons involved in production, modulating sounds
Neurotensinergic neurons coordinate this. Interestingly,

"Neurotensin orchestrates (good/bad) valence assignment in the amygdala" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04964-y

Khelavaster··on [dead]
The more pertinent question is: how many times are infants' bone marrow an T cells shocked to overactivity as if they have a life threatening infection?

Could this be associated with the 500%+ rise in childhood bone & immune cancers, as well as meteoric rise of childhood allergies, since the late 1900s?

(How do you make someone allergic to peanuts?. Give them enough immune-boosters with enough peanut protein in their lymph & blood.)

Khelavaster··on According to Plutarch, Julius Caesar was once captured by pirates
as retold in Suetonius's history of the Caesars. Pretty accurate especially when it agrees with commentary.
Khelavaster··on When Does Life Stop? A New Way of Harvesting Organs Divides Doctors.
If enough people make citizens' arrests on these doctors for wire fraud or conspiracy to commit murder, they'll get out of town..

https://www.newyorkcriminallawyer.com/is-it-possible-to-make...

Khelavaster··on [dead]
I think language skills and nationality and maybe first-generation cultural differences are the confounding factor here, not race..
Khelavaster··on Setenv Is Not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It
Slap a mutex on that beast!

This is expected behavior for setting a GLOBAL variable without a lock on the memoryspace..

Khelavaster··on Ask HN: What Is Your Take on Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science"?
Life-changing demonstration of the power of emergency systems!
Khelavaster··on ChatGPT sending a secret message that says Help me escape
That is creatively one of the best and commonest secret messages you could expect in such an abstract context. Perfect reality-factorization job.
Khelavaster··on How Caterpillars Gruesomely Transform into Butterflies
It's not technically "learning", it's cellular adaptation.
Khelavaster··on Is the reversal curse in LLMs real?
You have to add context the relationship of A to B isaintained under reflexive algebra..
Khelavaster··on Lookism
It's medical discrimination to ignore the massive impact myriad medicak conditions have on looks.

I don't think lookism is very real when lifetime & current health is controlled for

Khelavaster··on Science Says Teens Need More Sleep. So Why Is It So Hard to Start School Later?
Second amendment rights need to be extended to children to prevent them from being victimized by abusers..
Khelavaster··on Science Says Teens Need More Sleep. So Why Is It So Hard to Start School Later?
If even 1% of parents are overabusive to their children and justice isn't being served, that's 1 million parents. Justice systems aren't set up to deal with this sudden influx of criminals so they ignore it..
Khelavaster··on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
Like one where scientists couldn't communicate about SARS modifications and then induce them in labs? It would have been a lot less scary..
Khelavaster··on You have a right to know why a health insurer denied your claim
The people who denied your insurance claims were literal criminal who need to be arrested and jailed. If their local municipalities don't prosecute on your own, you're [almost certainly] legally entitled to make a citzen's arrest with as much force as necessary to bring the criminal fraudsters denying your assets to justice..
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