The traditional LW solution to this is that you precommit once and for all to this: Whenever I find myself in a situation where I wish that I had committed to acting in accordance with a rule R I will act in accordance with R.
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Pay iff you would pay $1000 to avoid learning of your death the last week of your life. If you don’t pay the oracle only shows up when you are about to die anyway.
The same thing that you want to maximize in the long run.
In swedish it is pyromani.
Unknown. It is probably not purely genetic, because the heredity is less than for a lot of personality stuff. People do change, but trying to change or push somebody to change tends to fail.
The spikes make the place worse for the intended users than it would be if the designers just ignored the homeless in this place and build a better place for them nearby.
Yes. The question was meant as a reply to your last question. The point is that it isn’t a bad word per se, but it is still annoying at best if you run around using it a lot in all contexts.
Is the word ‘gay’ profanity?
Both your description and the title sound like clickbait. Would you mind adding one sentence saying what the linked thing is about?
And this schedule will also drive you stark raving mad.
Shift work, especially work where you have to be up at night sometimes but not always, is associated with heart attacks, weight gain and several different psychiatric conditions that involve being miserable and unproductive etc.
If you want to change your sleep schedule without getting jet lagged you should shift your wake up time by no more than 10 minutes per day. So shifting one hour should take almost a week, four hours the better part of a month.
What happens if you try to go to bed just ten minutes earlier each day than you did the day before, using an alarm clock? What about ten minutes later?
The difference is that food workers are what is known as superspreaders.
If you go around sneezing in a restaurant kitchen you will infect hundreds of costumers . Whereas if you go around sneezing in your office you will at worst infect a few dozen coworkers.
How sure are you that the outcome would be as predicted? My Y is about 10, but my X is undefined because I’d rather they didn’t get it.
No. As long as the open threads keep expiring and being replaced they will ‘die’ some time before their expiration date. Having them last a whole week leaves at least a couple of days in which discussions can be started, and then a few more days for each subthread to play out before everyone moves on.
I didn’t downvote, but one possibility is that they prefer that the meta thread is posted by the first person to post in it rather than at the same time as the open thread. In that case they only downvoted the TLP because the thread was empty/clutter.
we share 99% of our genes with a chimpanzee
99% of our genes have a chimp equivalent and vice versa
95% of our genes with a random human
In 95% of something or other of their genome two random humans have the exact same allele. In the other 5% they are no more similar than a human and a chimp are in the 99% that are shared between the species.
and 50% of our genes with a sibling
Of the loci where humanity have different alleles two whole siblings have identical alleles. This is a theoretical number for average siblings in a population with no inbreeding or any population structure, actual siblings tend to be much more similar.
No, that’s a clade or a monophyletic taxon. Most species are clades, but as solipsist points out not all species are necessarily clades, and most clades are not species.
Feminists, antiracists etc. Often something like intersectional something or other. They don’t have a name that most of them are happy with, which is why a name that was just a joke about them ‘fighting for social justice’ stuck.
Find somebody else who is in the same situation and study together.
If you think that the land will be more valuable in a few decades, that is an argument for wanting to own it. If your solar adventures can pay for just the interest on what you bought the land for, then you have the upside of land speculation without the downside.