Taubes has been a big diet proponent for a long time. I’m not sold on his methods (yeah a high fat diet will lose you weight but a high sugar diet <TDEE will too, and 3 kcal raw sugar is unpalatable as is of raw fat)
I didn’t find any of the “these maps looked similar” (lots of maps look similar) or “wow these two time trends are correlated” (all time series with trends are correlated) tbh
that same logic works for reversed-compose - a|b|c|d = (a)|(b~c~d). It is inconsistent with the normal kind but I think it’s worth it just for the ability to write list |map| func |filter| predicate |group-by| keyfunc |map| .values() |map| sum, which is so nice because you start with the value and as you read the thing that’s happening is precisely the thing you’re reading, and everything’s in one place - it’s
I do dislike YouTube for this. However, it’s a compromise they made to offer __pretty much all music, copyrighted or not, for free, to everyone, at any time__. That’s valuable!
The arrangement is, essentially, yes, they have agreements with all of those bodies to give them the ad revenue in exchange for leaving the videos up
While I find antivax schoolboard patchy-blond-hairdye rage moms to be boring and dull, I’m quite happy for social media platforms to work like that and show you content you want from actual people posting that content. And I don’t think either the “Facebook and Twitter shows you a pure bubble” or “Facebook intentionally elevates internet rage and arguments to mine engagement” are exactly true, partially as they’re contradictory. If you want to see posts you disagree with, which many absolutely do (a significant number of top Reddit subs are r/screenshotsofpeopleidontlikebeingidiotslmao) you see it, and if you don’t you don’t, and if you just want random unmoderated unfiltered content you can have that too.
this is totally reasonable and arguably necessary for a platform. High profile users are going to be targeted for reporting much more, and the consequences of a false suspension are more visible for them. Think of it like how you might whitelist people who you trust from auto moderation or rate limits on Reddit or some other site if you trust them because the auto mod makes mistakes or you want to give them more options. Obviously FB and Twitters moderation sucks, but that isn’t related to this directly
a bigger problem is what “they support sharia law” actually means. any two supporters of any broad political signifier in the US often mean totally different things
Article has some aesthetic appeal but I don’t think really pulls together a reasonable argument. “Liberty: antidote to death” is ... not quite right - Christ was certainly that, and the “breaking of chains” of Christ does follow, but seems like a false connection in particular.
Also FYI this mag is a project of the “dissident right”, formerly “alt”, broadly construed, (don’t intend any judgement just informing).
“users not reporting issues they have” is annoying. Maybe projects (crypto especially) should offer pizza money level rewards for reporting any valid bug
isn’t the first thing you are being the first thing evaluated just better? we read ltr, so having to see and remember a before c(d) but then having some of a’s arguments at the very end is just annoying vs pipes
I’ve hacked pipes in python many times just because it’s so much better. And no, “a=f(a);\n b=g(a);\n c=h(b);\n a=i(c)” isn’t “more declarative” or “more expressive” than a | f | g | h, and even in python a |pipe| b |pipe(blah)| c |pipe(blah, blah)| d is so much nicer than nesting the parens.
oh. makes much more sense. I don’t see how this helps avoid scandals unless they’re using multiple interchangeable models plus the face? https://www.instagram.com/rozy.gram/ I can’t see the face swap at all tbh
yeah plenty of politicians and political personalities are very accomplished and technical, doesn’t stop them from spewing the total nonsense required to attract attention (this is bipartisan). the far right extremist who got banned at 80k followers recently is a MIT grad and Yale polsci, but still endorsed all the Covid quackery he (probably) knew was nonsense
It’s apparently self funded by him. I don’t know how he doesn’t get shut down but I don’t know how all the DMCA avoiding pirated streaming sites don’t either, or how sci hub isn’t domain blocked in the US, or why millions of copyrighted books aren’t DMCAed from libgen.
whoops. Looks like tardive actually refers to it developing late in the course of treatment, https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tardive and dyskinesia refers to the actual disorder of movement
the point being that IMO the way you understand and come up with and reason about something like “classical mechanics” or “timeless decision theory” or “quantum enlightenment time cube satanic world order simulation” or “risc v architecture” is not about probability, and saying science is about probability totally elides the actual complex information and reasons that go into creating and using those in favor of just saying “they have a probability and we can change them”.
even if one accepts this, which I don’t (what is the probability of mathematics being a quantum ultrafinitist glandular endomorphism of classical electromagnetism? What is the probability that the sun rises tomorrow? What’s the probability the standard model is true? It’s nonsense.) you could totally interpret what he said as “original paper claimed 20-80% confidence, economist article assumed 95%” and that would be a reasonable probabilistic reading
yeah but antipsychotics severely retard every mental process and have a high risk of permanent motor and intellectual disability (it really sucks to have tardive dyskinesia). There’s absolutely no reason that should be prescribed. https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-weight Freddie explains it in this article - he deems it worth it for him to be able to keep a job and friends, but it is in no way called for for random old folks to be disabled like that to make them easier to handle
Benadryl and Haldol arguably don’t belong in the same sentence at all, considering their ridiculously different effects and profile. You’re right that they’re used though. Is there any reason Haldol should be used like that at all, beyond it already being available as a psych drug? And even if Benadryl isn’t as effective (I dunno) surely something that isn’t as bad in side effects could be found? Many instances of said sedation are totally unnecessary, but many are eminently necessary to restrain someone actively violent.