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  • Which word do you dislike most?

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  • Can't pick just one so here're a couple.

    "Crypto" used in the context of cryptocurrrencies. "AI", referring only to LLMs. "Research", referring to an indeterminate amount of reading up on the topic at hand, such as in the phrase "do your own research" that's being bandied around in some communities.

  • In China, coins and banknotes have all but disappeared

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  • If you live in an authoritarian system, it's not just the government you're worried about.

  • Zohran Mamdani says 'I don't think we should have billionaires'

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  • Why not just have a cap? 90% still means that they can further accumulate wealth, and taxes means they will try to dodge them.

  • In China, coins and banknotes have all but disappeared

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  • This is a bad thing unless the digital currency is also privacy preserving.

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  • VPNs are already illegal in China!

  • Coding chess

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  • This is where you'd normally go "there must be a better way..."

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  • Unfortunately, having so much wealth means they can buy the people who decide who gets charged.

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    Anthropic Warns: Top AI Models Show Willingness to Blackmail

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  • They really are saying anything just to draw attention to their product, aren't they? Gotta feed the hype for the bubble.

  • [Stellar Blade] This game completely broke them

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  • Stellar Blade is a good game.

    Also worth mentioning that I learned from this video that Shift Up removed the Playstation region lock that caused the Helldivers 2 controversy universally, so they get kudos from me.

  • Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11 - Ars Technica

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  • Some anti cheat work better than others, and it depends on how much you'd like to play the game that needs it. Plenty of games without.

    EAC does not hide its process and you can see it running. If it's not, perhaps it has left files behind, but that's a Windows issue more than EAC's.

  • Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11 - Ars Technica

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  • there's no way for users to reliably remove it

    I'm not sure if this is true for the ones backed by the larger companies, like EAC. It's possible to completely remove EAC using their installer.

    Games like valorant are filled with cheaters despite using kernel anticheat

    In my experience, this is untrue. Valorant isn't "filled" with cheaters in the same way Apex Legends is.

  • Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11 - Ars Technica

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  • Lots of other games to play.

  • Mosquito-sized drone is designed for Chinese spy missions — military robotics lab reveals incredibly tiny bionic flying robots

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  • Transmission of energy requires... energy. Furthermore tiny antennas mean a high frequency, which don't transmit a long way. Not sure we're breaking the laws of physics any time soon, even ignoring energy density limits.

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  • LLMs are not Large Medical Expert Systems. They are Large Language Models, and are evaluated on how convincing their output is, instead of how accurate or useful it is.

  • The number of lung cancer cases in people who have never smoked keeps increasing.

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  • Factors besides smoking which have been implicated are

    radon and second-hand smoke exposure to cooking fumes or to stoves burning wood or coal in poorly ventilated rooms outdoor air pollution

  • Washington cherry growers struggle to find pickers

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  • You made a good case for welfare, basic income, and social security. It gives us the slack we need to produce goods that aren't necessarily profitable all year round, but which we would be worse off without.

  • Casino Lights Could Be Warping Your Brain to Take Risks, Scientists Warn

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  • Since I reckon casinos don't have explicitly super evil psychological manipulation r&d departments, was this lighting something that they arrived at by observing the behaviour of the people that visit casinos?

  • ‘RFK Jr is a disaster’: Staff describe chaos in ‘anti-science’ regime

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  • Deep fried food is bad for you in general, but personally if I had to I'd take the beef tallow over PUFA for deep frying, although if the oil is used for a long period of time they are both terrible.

    What are the cardiovascular effects of beef tallow that you're referring to?

  • ‘RFK Jr is a disaster’: Staff describe chaos in ‘anti-science’ regime

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  • Eicosanoids are created when polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as highly refined vegetable and seed oils, are oxidised. They increase oxidative stress on human cells. I'd err on the side of caution and avoid consuming more than necessary.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eicosanoid