Grapefruit Is One of the Weirdest Fruits on the Planet.
If you have a drug with 10 percent bioavailability, for example, the drugmakers, assuming you have intact cytochrome P450s, will prescribe you 10 times the amount of the drug you actually need, because so little will actually make it to your bloodstream. But in the presence of grapefruit, without those cytochrome P450s, you’re not getting 10 percent of that drug. You’re getting 100 percent. You’re overdosing.
Open Access Publication: Catalogue of Policies to Combat Antisemitism.
Can Differential Privacy Save the Census?
Differential privacy disentangles harms that can arise from the statistical teachings of the dataset about the population as a whole from the harms that could come to an individual by choosing to join or not join the dataset.
How clothing and climate change kickstarted agriculture.
The pattern of clothing in Aboriginal Australia can challenge a number of cherished theories about the origin of clothing. For one, routine Aboriginal nakedness implies that humans didn’t invent clothes due to some inherent sense of modesty. Neither, as hunter-gatherers, did we need clothes for the sake of appearance. (…) Australian evidence, or absence of evidence, is likewise pertinent to the origins of agriculture. It’s no coincidence that neither textile clothing nor agriculture featured in the traditional Aboriginal lifestyles. A link between textile clothing and early agriculture can answer many unresolved questions about the transition to agriculture.
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hyperscript is an experimental scripting language designed for the web, inspired by HyperTalk.
The Facebook Oversight Board is itself an Information Operation.
By merging mass surveillance, psychographic profiling, and micro-targeted advertising, Facebook has created a platform that not only enables profit-making from the theft and exploitation of personal data, but also allows your data to be used in ways that take your power away as a citizen and a voter, and gives that power to corporations and political campaigns. The consequences of this business model will continue to mount as long as accountability lags.
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The harmful ableist language you unknowingly use.
This kind of ‘ableist’ language is omnipresent in conversation: making a “dumb” choice, turning a “blind eye” to a problem, acting “crazy”, calling a boss “psychopathic”, having a “bipolar” day. And, for the most part, people who utter these phrases aren’t intending to hurt anyone – more commonly, they don’t have any idea they’re engaging in anything hurtful at all.
The way you make a large world without storing much data is by having some code generate it for you.
Bash is great, but when it comes to writing scripts, people usually choose a more convenient programming language. JavaScript is a perfect choice, but standard Node.js library requires additional hassle before using. The zx package provides useful wrappers around child_process, escapes arguments and gives sensible defaults.
Legalizing Gay Marriage in Crusader Kings III with Ghidra.
Now while the game does allow the player to reform a variety of medieval cultures to be accepting of same-sex couples, as of CK3 version 1.3.1 it currently does not allow a reformer to permit same-sex marriage. That should be fine though; that’s what mods are for!