LyndsySimon

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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
Beats me. It’s been a couple of years since I flew from there, but they had a “secure area” and a metal detector, but no one was ever manning it. In fact, the first time I flew from there to Memphis, I checked a handgun in my luggage. They
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
To put it a slightly different way: existing technology is such that it is not profitable for them to be deployed at scale. I expect supersonic travel will eventually supplant our existing infrastructure (at least for long routes), but it&#
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
> Boarding closes somewhere between 30-15mins before the flight, if you travel without luggage I’m pretty sure it should be possible to be at the airport around 45 mins before the flight and still make it, especially in an all business c
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
> somehow I doubt very many companies are going to give you that time off and pay for your trans-Atlantic trip on the Queen Mary 2. Honestly, I'd guess that depends on your job function, whether you can work effectively remotely, an
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
I've come across these videos on TikTok many times - Stella has a much larger apparent vocabulary than "I need attention" and "food". From memory, there's another video out there somewhere of her pressing &quo
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
Based on my own experience at local government meetings, I don’t think the knowledge is all in one place. The meeting I’m thinking of was the city council advocating extending a tax that was due to expire. They had a presentation deck full
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
It was clear based on the Chinese response much earlier that it was spreading widely. > At what point would you say CDC started taking it seriously? I’ll let you know.
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
I'm spitballing, but here goes. A) Your neighbor's laptop is partially compromised, and part of what is obtained is a list of APs with which it has been associated. B) Your phone has TikTok installed, and part of what is obtained
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
That's... actually an interesting thought experiment. Let's say the US "bans" TikTok. Younger users around the country then install various VPN clients and learn a bit about security. This in turns leads to an overall mo
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
I’d think large skylights in the public spaces could help a great deal with that issue.
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
It’s been considered, and if memory serves, implemented a few times. I want to say someone put a ship full of migrant workers in international waters off the coast of California a few years ago. The concept is usually known as “seasteading”
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
You can, it’s just very poorly documented. You have to run a modded server. NukkitX looks the most promising to me long-term, but I’ve not been able to make it work reasonably well yet. ElementZero is far more opaque in terms of finding&#x2
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
My response to that is to assert that most of the negative impact of the opiate crisis is due to the fact that people become addicted to them and are then unable to obtain them through legal means, which effectively forces them into crimina
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
For what it's worth, I think you're at least mostly correct - I would also expect legalization to lead to increased usage, at least in the short term. I'm just the type of person who challenges those sorts of expectations, in
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
> the sort of Coopers Colour Code style thinking. ... and now you've got all of us gun nuts paying attention :)
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
Do you have evidence to support the idea that more people would become heroin users if it were available through legal means?
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
"Sleeps 35", not "35 rooms" - I'm talking about a "lodge", where there are usually multiple bedrooms with multiple beds per room. It's not a hotel situation but it's roughly analogous to the OBX
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
> the accept rate is about 10% after multiple rounds of review/revision This is part of what I'm driving at here - "accepted for publication in this journal" is not the same as "peer reviewed". Broadly speak
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
My instinct is that stereoscopic vision is a big part of facial awareness. Simply moving it to 3D with virtual avatars wouldn't be enough, though - I think it's probably more about consciously imperceptible social cues. If those c
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
When the "Zoom bombing" trend hit the news, I expected that would be the beginning of the end for the company. They were having security issues due to an integral part of their platform's implementation at the same time that
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
My own feelings echo this. I've been working remotely for several years. I changed jobs in March, right at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic really impacting daily life. As a result I've never met any of my colleagues in pers
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
> After adjustment for age, sex, and chronic treatment with corticosteroids and/or immunosuppressants [...] Interestingly, I didn't see from the summary that they were controlling for the conditions for which individuals were b
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
Out of curiosity, do you happen to have handy the proportion of papers submitted for publication that do not pass peer review? I've worked in the scientific publishing field (though, admittedly, as a lay person) and remain generally un
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
How does outsourcing the decision to the SPLC/ADL “assure fair enforcement”?
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
I vaguely remember seeing that he’d endorsed Trump in 2016, which surprised me because it hadn’t been long at the time since I recalled him advocating completely abstaining from the political system. I’ve not kept up with him, but it seemed
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
Stefan Molyneux, not Peter. I’m sadden a bit to see him banned, but haven’t kept up with him in years. He was big in AnCap circles for a while but was a bit “out there” even in that group. He always struck me as somewhat unstable, so I gues
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
> The article was about people who were accused of beliefs they didn't hold, so this example is different. Is it? I may be misremembering, but my impression was that Eich was pushed out because people interpreted his political donat
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
I’m seeing rumblings of this in some circles. They were not talking about “doxxing” in retaliation, though - they were talking about literally hunting them down. I’m not old enough to have experienced when this sort of thing happened histor
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
This one appears to have a USB-C port. Is it usable for charging?
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
This is the "initial quality" survey. Reliability isn't really part of that.

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