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  • Dev says "false DMCA" from Microsoft got their sandbox game removed from Steam over apparent Minecraft copyright, all because of a screenshot of birch trees

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  • 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.

  • With all the awareness and all the money given to curing cancer how come we never hear about scientists making at least incremental steps to cure it?

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  • Every time you hear that they developed a drug that selectively kills cancer cells in vitro, that's an incremental step. When you hear that someone successfully cured a specific type of cancer in rats, that's an incremental step.

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  • I still can't see it. I can recognize that the eyes are actually nostrils, but it's not coming together in my head.

  • Brain train game may help protect against dementia for up to 20 years

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  • 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.

  • Most food animals are smarter than a baby.

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  • I don't think lack of intelligence is the reason most people are fine with eating animal meat and not human babies. It's usually that humans just value animal lives less than that of other humans.

  • Brain train game may help protect against dementia for up to 20 years

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  • 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.

  • What should I NOT do in front of rich people?

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  • Play your cards right and one of them might pay you to pull on it.

  • Sounds kinda cozy

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  • The main problem with X as a platform name is that it creates a lot of ambiguity that takes multiple reads to figure out. Twitter is unambiguous.

  • Triangle rule

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

  • Kid Rock Mocked For Lip Syncing Through MAGA Super Bowl Stunt

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  • Every time I hear her talk about Kirk, I become more convinced that she played a part in his assassination.

  • BASED?

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  • Russian journal banned from writing on same-sex animal behavior without expressing disgust for it

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  • They are icky [1].

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    [1] That LGBT propaganda law

  • Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app?

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  • So much tech support has moved to Discord. That's worth keeping around.

  • It's a good thing we named most of the dinosaurs like a hundred years ago

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

  • BASED?

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  • Why is it any more okay to create conflict with less secure people?

  • linux rule

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  • How many ohms is that?

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  • Monkeys at that time period were primed to pick up the first tool. If not that monkey, then another would've done it shortly afterwards.

  • Start-up idea

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  • Then you'd run into the same problem you have with insurance where they refuse to fix/replace your appliance because of "misuse" or something like that.

  • Start-up idea

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  • Subscriptions are like insurance and gym memberships. They're profitable only if they represent value that is never fully realized by the consumer.

    Think of your monthly spending as a probability distribution. They provide value by reducing variance of that distribution at the cost of increasing the mean.

    Consider at a more concrete example. You're provided with two options:

    1. You get $100 a month guaranteed
    2. Flip a coin each month. On head, you get $200. On tail, you get nothing.

    The expected value for both are the same, but option #1 is predictable. It's the better option of the two unless you're in a situation where getting $0 is effectively equivalent to getting $100. You would need to increase the amount you get in option #2 to make it worthwhile. Similarly, you can decrease the amount you get in option #1 and still have it be the better option.

    By default, life is like option #2. The value proposition of insurance and the like is to give you option #1 with an amount lower than the expected value of #2, and in exchange, they get the difference as profit.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.ca
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    Does it ever make sense to have the window open with AC on?

  • Boost for Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Weird animations when changing screens/pages

  • Artificial Ignorance @lemmy.ca
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    Shel Silverstein - A Light in the Attic (1981)

  • Home Automation @lemmy.world
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    Smart light switch default behaviour

  • Lemmy411 - Don't know where to find what you're looking for? @lemmy.ca
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    General Purpose / Random stuff