The way it seems to work in Canada is that the government decides on a set of topics they want to fund that are fairly high level, and as long as your work falls in one of those categories, the grant gets approved. So the government doesn’t choose the specific drug to study. They choose which medical condition we want to try to treat, then they let the PIs tell them what they want to do and how it relates to those priorities.

The other potential explanation is that it’s because the speed task increases in difficulty as you get better at it. I’m hoping that’s the real reason.

How does this compare to other types of cognitive work? There are much more interesting things I’d rather spend my time on. It’d be nice to know if they have similar benefits.

Part of a proof. We’d also need to know that the three sides form a polygon.

1. Learning something new is winning.
2. Your perspective is irrelevant when it comes to facts. It only matters when it’s about your personal experience, and there are no sources you can cite to contradict those experiences.

Why use more syllables when few syllables do trick? It’s not like T-Rex is ever ambiguous.

How many ohms is that?

With no additional context, if you said that “the balls in this glass are generally blue”, I would interpret that meaning every ball falls within the range of hues that can still be called blue by most people but may be questioned by a few. So 100% of the balls have to be “I can see why someone would call that blue”.

Obviously, only that tiny percentage of the population “care”. Not sure what they care about, but they care.

Who’s to say what it means to present as or behave like a certain gender? To what extent does one need to conform in order to be considered conforming? Why is anything gendered at all? Does the rejection of gender as a whole not fall under the same umbrella as non-binary?

Financing is available for your $1 candy bars now.

That majority of people that are worse than AI slop are also not producing anything, so we’re not flooded with human slop. And when they do, we’re supportive because you need to practice producing bad stuff before you can start producing good stuff.

If humans produced slop at the same rate as AI, I guarantee you that everyone will be complaining about it just the same.

Rebates on used cars can come with the stipulation that the current owner has owned it for a certain number of years, and the amount can also be smaller.

Right, so that’s total investments that we want to reduce, not net.

It’s true. We don’t wear pants while on house husband duty.

Couldn’t you also theoretically hit net 0 while having 100% of our trades going through the US? I don’t know what the “lender” part of “net lender” means, so I could be wrong here, but it seems like this isn’t the right metric to look at if what you care about is trade diversification.

Of those who regularly donate (or think of donating) to FOSS projects, how many of them would’ve even had sudo cross their mind as a potential recipient for those donations?

we can just

Implying it’s simple to get everyone to stop buying anything tied to the US, and everyone in the US to do the same with Canada.

7 Minutes

Average time Americans aged 15 and older spend reading per day, compared to over 7 hours spent on screens daily.

That’s kind of insane. What do people spend those 7h on if not reading? Is it all video content?

A number is either positive or negative, no? Unless you manage to hit exactly 0, but I don’t think that’s possible in this scenario.