AMH shows up in the fossil record 40K years ago. The seeds and nuts she discusses don't show up until the late neolithic. Modern hunter gatherers eat what they can catch and make up the rest with plants, but none of them are strict vegetarian at all.
Readit Newspurpleflame1257 commented on The "We Evolved to Eat Meat" Argument Doesn't Hold Up thereader.mitpress.mit.ed... · Posted by u/XzetaU8
There's a lot more to cigarette toxicity than heavy metals. For example, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, one of the main contributors to DNA damage/carcinogenicity in smoking, are orders of magnitude higher in cigs than in vaping. While I support vape regulation, acting as if it can't be mechanistically justified harm reduction is silly.
I think the death penalty should be on the books, but the practical application of it is so unworkable that it should effectively never be administered. The biggest problem, of course, is that there's no way to make a wrongfully sentenced person whole.
purpleflame1257 commented on Gentrification Killed NYC's Vibrant '70s Music Scene jacobin.com/2024/02/gentr... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
The 80s in NYC were still pretty bad although I suppose you could argue they stopped getting worse sometime around then. Yeah, I'd date improvement to the mid to late 90s. Boston probably about the same.
I lived in NYC for a summer in the mid-80s. I never set foot anywhere below about 90th in Manhattan.
You can actually pinpoint the moment in 1994 when the derivative changed. David Schwimmer goes from side character in season 1 of NYPD Blue who ends up dead trying to save an old lady from a mugger to...Ross.
I listen to full albums on spotify all the time. Why would i need to buy anything to do that?
The audio quality from CD (or FLAC rips, no audiophile voodoo here) is better than what Spotify has to offer.
Until they are inherited by a confused youngster who puts dad's weird old trash on the kerb :(
This is how I got an Emmy statuette.
purpleflame1257 commented on What if public housing were for everyone? vox.com/policy/2024/2/10/... · Posted by u/mitchbob
My understanding is that one of the feature's of Singapore's public housing is that there is a range of qualities from basic to luxury. It seems to me that could help make such a program more palatable.
One of the other things about Singapore is that they will bring the hammer down on you for abusing the public housing. If you pee in an elevator, the doors will shut and the police will come. Compare that to public housing in America...
purpleflame1257 commented on I'm an Old Fart and AI Makes Me Sad medium.com/@alex.suzuki/i... · Posted by u/alex_suzuki
Used to just mean 'shows up on time' ;)
I do think the idea of 'prompt engineering' isn't 'programming' in the low-level sense, but it's close enough for some peoples' needs to qualify, and will be a useful skill. But I think it'll be more like "being good at searching google" was a few years back. There was a period where you could be very productive understanding a few things about searching (filtering/keyword stuff, mostly) but that 'skill' isn't as useful today as google continues to put less emphasis on keeping those tools useful.
Similarly, being good with Excel. That's extremely powerful for a lot of people in their day to day jobs. Is it 'programming' in the classical hacker-at-a-desktop sense? No, but allowing people to get value from the computers in a way that's under their control (broad definition, I know) does, imo, fall under a large banner of 'programming'.
I take your point, but when you learn to actually code VBA in Excel, you get a lot more functionality.
It isn't. I financed my phone for free via Klarna. I could easily pay it at once but why would I. In the end I save a bit because of inflation.
Bad at dealing with money isn't necessarily true. Better to say "has outstanding financial obligations."
purpleflame1257 commented on The existence of a new kind of magnet has been confirmed newscientist.com/article/... · Posted by u/revicon
The article's title is misleading: they actually mean a new kind of permanent magnet (that was theoretically predicted but hadn't been observed until now), not a new kind of magnetism (as in, something not predicted or accounted for by our existing theory of electromagnetism).
Yeah, for a minute there I thought they had found the monopole