DaveZale

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by DaveZale 11mo ago
9/10 on the bullshit meter. okay.... Okay! I've done my share of algorithmic fitting of far simpler lab spectral data to be convinced that "trying to hard to find something" can result in convenient delusions. Still,
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by DaveZale 11mo ago
oh, "after the lights go out" - got it! I was taking that literally. Post-apocalypse?
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there are infinite buddha worlds in even a raindrop. No kidding. These are very old ideas. Just read translations of the old Zen masters. Or better yet, translations of translations. The translators will reveal that sometimes small erro
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by DaveZale 11mo ago
"My books don’t rely on the good will of algorithms or tech billionaires; they’ll still be readable long after the lights have gone out." :-)
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so it doesn't absorb but it emits? If I get the gist
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by DaveZale 11mo ago
that is really interesting! About a decade ago, I worked on a coca cola flavoring. The recipe that I located involved eight essential oils, so I formulated them in a certain "vehicle" and submitted it to a tasting panel. The sc
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by DaveZale 11mo ago
Well a sure component of test scores reflects test taking skills. Years ago, I purchased a book of a series of IQ tests, and my numerical result increased with every test. Another component is confidence. And another is ability. It is s
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by DaveZale 11mo ago
canaries in a botmine! Thanks for the nice writing and examples. In one way or another, much of the AI is geared for addiction. The Big Money is in addictions, those are the ultimate customers. Your essay reads a little like a good old
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by DaveZale 11mo ago
But wait! Zuckerberg has 15 AI friends to help cure you of your obsession for solitude and independence /s But seriously, the market values of these companies is trillions of dollars. Hijacking our attention spans means big money for
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by DaveZale 11mo ago
no paywall https://phys.org/news/2025-11-refined-breast-reveals.html looking forward to some seal cheese in the future
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by DaveZale 11mo ago
maybe just the probiotic microbes, which beneficially alter the gut microbiome?
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Kimchi's Immune System Benefits(nature.com)
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by DaveZale 11mo ago
Wouldn't it be cool if a .org could be established and funded by older wealthier folks that directly provides mortgages to the young, without the greedy bankers involved? Sometimes when I was earning free crypto on coinbase in exchang
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by DaveZale 11mo ago
A figure floated around a decade or two ago: 75% of wealth was in the hands of the age 55+ crowd. That makes sense for the reasons you mentioned. It all changes hands within a few decades though. Nobody lives forever.
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brave
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by DaveZale 11mo ago
My experience over a few decades and several home ownerships is that debt plays an outsized role. You are paying a bank first with your mortgage payment, and that csn be 80-90% of your housing cost, which is partially defrayed by a tax wri
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by DaveZale 11mo ago
banality of hypocrisy?
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by DaveZale 11mo ago
Galantamine has similar effects to nictonine without the nervousness, and lasts hours longer. It is nootropic, cognition enhancing with few side effects. It's a natural product, so here in the US, it falls into the dietary supplement
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by DaveZale 11mo ago
Have you tried galantamine? It's abig hit for the "lucid dreaming" crowd. Sometimes also sold formulated with theanine (brand name lucidamine) and OTC
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by DaveZale 11mo ago
there are blockers for webcrawlers. A few dozen were supplied by my neocities.org account, but I had to uncomment them
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by DaveZale 11mo ago
what category of "evil online business ploy" do you have in mind? I see dozens of them daily with even brief, casual browsing. Also known as "monetization" ;-) But it's not just online that I find these ploys. In
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by DaveZale 11mo ago
https://www.newshosting.com/usenet/is-usenet-dead/
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the culprit is toxoplasma. A third or so of US citizens have it in their brains.
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by DaveZale 11mo ago
Eerie parallels to tobacco smoking just a few decades ago. It's a public health problem but those in charge of the bureaucracy at the highest levels choose to obsess over rare vaccine side effects and the use of tylenol during circumc
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by DaveZale 11mo ago
We had Molycorp 15 years ago being run by a Canadian magnet company. It could have worked out, but the engineers were clueless about process scale up and sourcing the acids required for refining, which, they said, were being consumed by th
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by DaveZale 11mo ago
great diy website! bookmarked
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by DaveZale 11mo ago
I still click on my lolli app every day to get up to a few dozen free satoshis every day. More rewards are available with some purchases, or by testing or downloading games there. No time for that lately but I'll circle back eventuall
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by DaveZale 11mo ago
PQQ is another "maybe" vitamin. It participates oxidation and reduction and is found in trace amounts in whiskey (it leaches from the charred oak) and other foods, and often formulated together with coQ10. PQQ was almost declared
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by DaveZale 11mo ago
okay, true for him Also, he'll have all the money, so of course, we won't need any. He'll supply us all with daily food rations and multicultural sex bots to keep us happy? And free ketamine!
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by DaveZale 11mo ago
This remind me of Vonnegut's story about how future humans evolve to have smaller brains. It's nice creative writing. Ummm... it is creative writing, right?

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