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I'm a vegan so experienced bean eater. There are a couple things I found that help, but they do come at a cost of flavor or texture:

Soak and rinse, but the soak water should be boiling when the dry beans go in.

Alkaline. Sodium Carbonate (baking soda) or calcium hydroxide (lime) work. Throw away the cooking water. This has to be done carefully, as too much of either can give the food a mineral taste and/or dissolve the beans entirely.

Fermentation also works. Lactic acid (like kimchee or pickles) helps a little. Koji (either added or grown on the beans themselves) helps a lot. Both will have a big impact on the flavor and what the beans will be good for in the end.

It seems like if the content is this hollow and useless, it shouldn't matter if it was a human or spambot posting it.

A lot of these problems are already managed by nurses or clinic assistants. It's pretty rare to get a lot of face to face time with an actual M.D. Certainly this is true the more you look at poorer communities.

Resources on wild pig management usually recommend trapping or baiting rather than trying to shoot them. Shooting at them with a semi-auto while they are fleeing is a particularly cruel way to address the problem, as you're not making clean kills in this sort of situation.

There's clearly a sweet spot in the amount of entropy/unpredictability that is "interesting". Otherwise observing white noise would be the most interesting thing imaginable.

I don't know the details, but probably you would want to seek unpredictability in a higher level representation of the observed state. White noise is highly unpredictable per pixel, but will get a very predictable representation after a layer or two of featurization if the features are trained/designed for real world observations.

Career focused culture has destroyed a large amount of social cohesion. If machines do more work, humans can go back to community building. Type A personalities that demand social mobility can play politics to see who leads their respective tribe. The rest of us can spend the time learning about the world, developing engaging hobbies, reading philosophy and experiencing great works of art. Maybe just focus on a personal spirituality and/or self-actualization.

There is so much humans should be doing to make our brief existence a little more happy and fulfilling. Little of this has to do about contributing labor.

It's worth considering how old the US version of democracy is, and how many systems came after.

Americans have a deep reverence for their personal brand, but it's worth considering they don't install their government model on countries they conquer. Japan, Iraq, Germany, etc are all Parliamentary.

Fungi make up one of three primary kingdoms of multicellular life. Mushrooms and other fungus have a variety of flavors already, and some of them are quite meat-like. Given fungus cells are more similar to animal than they are plant, it is possible that they can be selectively bred or engineered to taste more meat-like.

I wouldn't be too dismissive of the potential here.

Anyone visiting wine country north of SF can visit a vineyard and tasting room that is/was tied to their family. It is almost a little museum with various artifacts from the family.

The wine is also decent, and many bottles are quite affordable. They make a lot of Italian grape varietals that are a little hard to find elsewhere.

I don't really understand why iron is being considered over aluminum. Is aluminum production from ore too complex compared to iron? I would have to imagine burning metallic aluminum produces much more energy per gram.

> I think this is pretty cool. Maybe I’ll buy some McDonalds today too.

Plenty of people will have plenty of issues with a major corporation. But it's worth pointing out that McDonald's is one of the most prominent fast food chains which has no problem with animal abuse in terms of products from horribly treated livestock animals. They have trouble even making their french fries livestock-torture free .

Maybe this issue doesn't personally matter to you, but it does create a huge problem for a company that does something so shamelessly unethical.

It's very hard to take this essay seriously. Mostly because it so completely dances around the obvious purpose of a "superstore" that it is hard to connect this described experience much at all to what people actually do in such a store.

This essay kind of describes this sort of store as one would describe a walk through the woods. But the purpose of a walk in the woods is so distinct from the purpose of shopping that no comparison can be made.

It's popular to connect The Plague to mid 20th century fascism. The message is actually much deeper and more broad than that specific point in time of Western history.

> Maybe really low/no interest loans for first time home buyers so they can at least get into the market.

One big reason homes are priced so high in places like the USA is because home loans are already government subsidized. When people think of what they can afford, they look at their net monthly mortgage payment less the income tax break. And prices seem to rise to meet whatever monthly payment buyers can afford.

> LLMs is the confident hallucination of incorrect facts

This is a very common feature of delirium in people. Chatting with an LLM seems a lot like what it would be to talk to a clever person with encyclopedic knowledge, who is just waking up from anaesthesia or is sleep talking.