Assuming he only had one shoulder operated on, where was the control shoulder?
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I stopped biting my nails (coating them in a bitter substance to remind myself not to bite them if I tried) and I did not make any replacement habit. I don’t have a “habit of not biting my nails” any more than I have a habit of breathing. It happens automatically without conscious effort, so calling “not biting nails” a habit is misusing the word.
Probably because rich people have most to lose if they’re expected to be charitable, and rich people controlled what got published in the Bible. If giving is supposed to be secret then who can prove they’re giving nothing?
Flavoring is optional, but the vast majority of e-cigarette users use strong smelling flavored liquids. Some of them smell worse than tobacco IMO.
That study is testing the effect of tobacco use, not pure nicotine.
EDIT—why is this downvoted? The linked study does not test your claim. Tobacco smoking is a CYP1A2 inducer so it will increase caffeine metabolism, but I am not aware of any studies demonstrating that the nicotine is responsible for this. Tobacco smoke contains PAHs and PAHs are known CYP1A2 inducers: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25911656
This rule is incomplete. Most two-syllable adjectives ending in “y” can be converted to comparative form with “er”. Some of these may be uncommon, but not all, and my spell checker agrees they are real words, in both British and American English.
Eg. Angrier, heavier, cleverer, friendlier, happier, lazier, tidier, etc. And even three syllable words can take “er”: bubblier, foolhardier, jitterier, slipperier, many words starting with “un”.
Dessert is tasty even when you’re already full, so if you’re going to eat some eat it first to avoid obesity. This might not work if you have a strong habit of clearing your plate even if you don’t need more food.
Less than £2 on eBay. I bought mine for 99p including postage, but I can’t find any for that price now.
Butter is meant to be kept at room temperature only if you’re going to use it as a spread. If you mostly use it as an ingredient, or for flavoring vegetables, it’s better to keep it refridgerated.
I do not know if emigration can be attributed to climate change or not, but I do that that Israel produces very large quanties of fresh water by desalination:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination#Israel
Neighboring countries may not be able to afford this.
Cooking by weight is common in the UK, and it’s superior for two reasons: One, it’s more accurate, because it’s unaffected by packing density. Two, it’s quicker, because you can pour all the ingredients directly into one container, zeroing the scales between each one. Cooking by weight is standard for professional baking even in the US.
Additional assumptions you are making:
The only cost of suicide is physical pain
Humans mature into rational adults immediately after birth
It’s true that most projects don’t need or use the advanced features of git, but this isn’t a good reason to use svn, because git can also be used in a simple manner: http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html You’re at no disadvantage compared to if you used svn.
But when you want to contribute to one of the big projects that does require the full power of git, you are at an advantage, because you don’t have to learn a complete new version control system, only the extra git features you hadn’t learned yet.
My 5 second judgement, which is about as much attention as a totally unknown channel can expect to get, is that these videos are stand-up comedy by somebody without the confidence to perform live in front of an audience. This immediately signals that it’s not worth my time.
Pushing the fat man is the wrong choice because it forces fat men everywhere to constantly be on the lookout for consequentialists, and causes moral hazard by encouraging lax safety around railroads. Consequentialism is only indisputably the correct morality when everybody is perfectly rational and everybody has the same goals. In reality people have differing terminal goals and perfect rationality is impossible because of limited computational ability. Deontology is superior because it is far more predictable. Nobody has to waste brain cycles on avoiding being a convenient victim for some dubious “greater good”.
Further evidence for this: people often become good friends with sparring partners in combat sports.
The chance of an AI torturing humans as a means to some other goal does seem low, but what about the AI torturing humans as a end in itself? I think CEV could result in this with non-negligible probability (>0.000001). I wouldn’t be surprised if the typical LessWrong poster has very different morality than the majority of the population, so our intuition of the results of CEV could be very wrong.
I went to school. That’s a clear example of “repeated stressful challenges”, and it did not produce any satisfaction or happiness.
You can program to solve your own problems. It’s very likely that other people have similar or identical problems, so your code can benefit them even if you didn’t plan for that.
I thought Worm had a very bad ending. Vg cebzvaragyl srngherf Pbagrffn, jub vf gur jbefg punenpgre naq unezf gur fgbel fvzcyl ol rkvfgvat. Gnlybe ybfrf ure cbjref. Gur Fvzhetu fgnegf fbzr cyna naq gura gur cybg guernq vf nonaqbarq.
But despite this I still consider it one of my favorite stories.