AlbertCory

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by AlbertCory 2y ago
There are lots of other opinions in this thread that it's a false thing to say. It implies that the theory is respectable just by listing it. The fact that someone said something ridiculous is not worth mentioning. I don't know wh
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
I guess you don't want to read anything by actual military people, then. Dehumanizing the enemy is a requirement for those folks.
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
OK. All you see when you hit Threads is what YOU said. Not what the person above you said.
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
> I take it you're being purposefully obtuse No, but you're being purposefully hyper-sensitive. If you're replying to someone higher, you should hit Reply on that comment. Not on someone lower down.
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
This seems ideologically rather than evidence-driven. Smokers used to claim that it suppressed their appetites. Not being a smoker, or obese, I wouldn't know. But it seems plausible as a (partial) cause.
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
Who's "they"?
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
This is in no way to defend smoking. I've never smoked, and good riddance to it. However: Amidst all the talk about the causes of obesity, surely "not smoking anymore" is in there somewhere?
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
> Porter, who had initially polled well, lost decisively in the primary, coming in third, with just fifteen per cent of the vote. She was running against Adam Schiff, who had much broader name recognition. It also didn't help that s
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
Amen. You could look at the Acropolis and be unimpressed, too. That says more about you than the building.
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
It's called "beauty." If you don't have an eye for it, well, that's your taste. You aren't going to convince anyone with utilitarian arguments, any more than "those shoes are uncomfortable!" will conv
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
The authorities could always bring over some other ones, if that's really what they want. In any case, the drive to mate is pretty powerful. I would think a female in heat would swim back to the mainland if that was the only way to fin
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
I have kinda mixed feelings on this. Protecting an endangered species against human hunting, habitat reduction, or other unnatural dangers makes total sense. But what's unnatural about grizzlies? Were they introduced onto the island by
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
I should have mentioned that sometimes afterwards, some solution drips out of your nose when you incline your head forward. Super-embarrassing.
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
I think the grizzlies will take care of that on their own. Either some bears from the island will swim to the mainland, or vice versa. Note: don't ask for a link on that. I just suspect animals prefer not to mate with their siblings.
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
That's it exactly for me. Squirt bottle seems more effective than Neti pot, just because there's some force in the water. You DO need the powder, though; otherwise the water burns like hell.
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
This sounds science-y. In fact, I use NeilMed, a commercial saline & bicarb powder together with distilled water, and I know from past exchanges on HN that lots of others here do, too. My own doctor said it was fine and lots of her pati
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
Whenever some theme gets broad advertising, I get suspicious. "Helps boost the immune system!" -- WTF does that mean? "Probiotics for gut health!" -- yeah, right. Get back to me in 10 years when you have some actual evid
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
How is Vancouver "controlled"? The grizzlies can obviously swim back to the mainland if they don't like it. > we almost drove to extinction In the Lower 48, yes. Not in Canada and Alaska.
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
I'm sure, but the question is, do the populations intersect? Looking at the map, I see three Provincial Parks up in the north, plus towns and roads. That will mean vacationers will encounter them. Whereas on Kodiak, there is nothing on
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
I've been up REAL close to grizzlies, on Kodiak Island [1]. However, that has a population of 13,000 [2], whereas Vancouver has 840,000, according to that article. That means on Kodiak, the bears have the land mostly to themselves, and
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
The only solution to CYA is a written policy: this is the criteria for when we Code Three, and only then. "Why didn't this incident get Code Three?" "Because it didn't meet the criteria." You'll still get
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
Point us to a "real" communist country, either existing or in the past.
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
Great, thanks. Taking over from Judge Gilstrap the Darth Vader role.
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
Well, legal matters are a different kettle of fish, as it were. They tend to be a little touchy about what you say in public.
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
It used to be the Eastern District of Texas, with Justice Rodney Gilstrap. I never went to Marshall or Tyler, but I knew a lot of people who did. They're small towns. I don't know when it shifted to the Western District. Waco
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
> Passion can't win them all. If you do the numbers, yes it can. There are a lot of people who could do this searching.
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
I was a "technical advisor" in Google's patent lit dep't. Searching prior art was my favorite thing to do, but not the whole job by any means. (If you're wondering: my least favorite task was finding the sections
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
There are, in fact, startups working on using AI for legal matters. I know one of the principals in one personally. I don't know if they're tackling this issue, though.
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
At Google we did a comparison of many, many "patent search" firms: giving them all the same task. Unfortunately I couldn't tell you the results even if I remembered them (which I don't). Most were garbage but a couple we
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by AlbertCory 2y ago
That's because it's not published, plus a conclusion without any supporting data and methodology is pretty worthless.

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