HarryHirsch

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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Yes, gluconeogenesis is a metabolic pathway, but it wouldn't be satisfactory to rely on in, just as it wouldn't be fun to live without spices. (Also, how do you manage to have sex with someone on their ketopaleo diet? Send them in
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Why would anyone do such a thing? The poor canned pork shoulder! Fats provide energy and keep the stomach full for a long time, nevermind the flavour in the fat. People should eat more carbohydrates and fat and less protein, to give their l
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
You can't divorce the law that's on the books from the organs that enforce it. Any legal theorist will tell you that. Any lawyer will tell you that, and if you were ever involved in serious litigation you know.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
The law is unevenly enforced. My wife is currently dealing with a disruptive student from a wealthy family background. It's a chemistry class, you can't endanger your fellow students. Ordinarily, one would throw the kid out of the
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
In real life it looks like this: https://www.foxnews.com/us/massachusetts-parents-sue-school-... A kid living in a wealthy Boston suburb used AI for his essay (that much is not in doubt) and the family is now suing the
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
You mean model collapse, because schoolchildren will soon base their writing on the awful AI slop they have read online? That's fearsome, actually. We are seeing this with Grammarly already, where instead of a nuance Grammarly picks th
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
The article is surprisingly balanced and sympathetic, the headline doesn't do it justice. It puts forth an interesting thesis: autistic people are let down by the authorities and as a consequence feel justifiably threatened by them. Su
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Yes, because there's a good chance that the Senate will become Republican this round, and the marihuana legislation will get stuck there. The Democrats will say "but we tried", the Republicans will score points with their cli
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
The thing with cats is that people think they have a cat problem when in fact they have a rodent problem that the cats keep in check. Then they go, eradicate the cats, and wonder where the rats and mice come from. It's called the &qu
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
You can always sell used equipment. There is a thriving market for that.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
The incidence for hemosiderosis is somewhere around 1:500 or somesuch. What's underappreciated is anemia due to frequent blood donations. If you give blood regularly and feel off, it's worth getting a lab test for ferritin/TI
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Capital equipment is also a durable asset, but it is productive. Sick of stumbling over hundred homeless whenever I go shopping, and then there's the knock-on effects of people not being able to take jobs because of the excessive costs
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Homeowner's and car insurance came up for renewal this July with said increases. No, we did not have any claims or adverse factors that might have caused the increase. We live in a low-crime city, and are not at risk for wildfire, floo
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
What if inflation was really way above 10 %? Car insurance went up 20 %, homeowners insurance 10 %, canned tomato nearly doubled in price, and don't ask about cat food. The government figure of 2.4 % is just not credible.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
It's slightly more sinister than that. If you had to be a member of a Nazi organization to get ahead or get the government off your back because you might be viewed as politically unreliable the SS was a common choice. Members would do
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
It was the great success of the Allied firebombing campaign that inflicted suburbia on the United States. US construction is just as flammable but fire is less likely to spread when the houses are farther apart. (Let's rephrase the suc
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
in every case they have their bomb squad disarm and remove it They would do that, the pencil detonators the Allies used to disrupt rescue and firefighting efforts after a carpet-bombing run become ever more touchy as time wears on. A bomb
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Meanwhile at New Mexico Highlands University a janitor loses his life over a chemical spill: https://www.lasvegasoptic.com/news/community/chemical-concer... There had been longstanding concerns about fumes in the
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
That does not make the slightest amount of sense - Starlink is a US goverment asset, it's Brilliant Pebbles, the dishes are geolocated, a dish knows if it's moving or standing still because it needs to receive from the right satel
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
That's the theory, and the practice is that there's a serious undersupply of entry-level housing. There's simply not enough housing of type 3 BR, up to 1500 sqft being built, and the existing stock is deteriorating. People wi
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
There is, however, in any market a small number of big players, all politically connected, who will conspire against newcomers building new units. A couple years ago stories about that "historic laundromat" in SF were making the r
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
That, and people who were born this century have no idea about the immensity of housing inflation. In 2007, a 1-BR apartment in Hanover, NH was USD 750. With official inflation at 3 % that would be now something like USD 1325. Good luck f
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Let's talk about how the lack of universal healthcare in US makes founding a company a risky endeavour, even with Obamacare. Can't give labour a break, employees need to be shackled to their job through employer-provided healthcar
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
The greater concern is lithium batteries catching fire while they are being charged. NYC seems to have a problem with dubious e-bikes already. If a few hundred or thousand battery controllers become compromised and the battery pack is charg
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
This hack is the best argument against network-connected electric vehicles that there is. Imagine the same, but with tens of thousands of Teslas.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Experienced drivers have a mental model of other drivers - when you see someone driving slowly and erratically you know to keep at a distance, that fellow is going to hit the brakes suddenly or make an unexpected turn. Waymos on the other h
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
You can't. It's meaningless. If the government tells you you have rights, but there's no practical way to claim those rights, then you have no rights and the government is lying in your face.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
There's a German proverb that goes like "a butcher will only eat sausage he has made himself". Now you know the background.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Meanwhile in Alabama the only recourse you have against a landowner who rents you something not habitable is to move out. American law generally is very bad at compelling a party to uphold a contract.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
The problem with "I don't know" is that it's really not culturally appropiate to say! Americans are supposed to be rugged, resourceful individualists and asking for help is frowned on because it shows weakness. Can'

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