Nursie

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811.
by Nursie 2y ago
It's not progress if it's just exploiting something people associate with high-tech medical magic, but that isn't contributing to the literature or sum of human knowledge, merely to the bank-accounts of the cowboys running th
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by Nursie 2y ago
Seems unlikely, far more likely that it has built upon the history of actual research, than the exploitative practices of those clinics that latch on and sell snake-oil.
813.
by Nursie 2y ago
> So are stem cells a 'real' thing now? Always were a real possibility and under active research but the unregulated treatments you read about in Mexico, Thailand etc were probably snake-oil rather than targeted, effective medi
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by Nursie 2y ago
And in New Zealand you may credit Pearse - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pearse
815.
by Nursie 2y ago
Except 99 times out of 100 it was an attempt at an unnecessary, scammy upsell to a high margin cable, when the cheap one would and did do just as well. People frequently did try to claim you would get deeper reds and better blacks and all
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by Nursie 2y ago
I don't want to downplay your feelings there, but under Trump 2.0 it has become clearer to those of us in allied nations that things are not as they were, and that even long-term friends can now be insulted and thrown under the bus. I
817.
by Nursie 2y ago
Fair enough, thanks :) I imagine France is now starting to polish everything up more fervently as well, after Macron's speech about putting the nation onto a wartime economy last week, and there are other nations now talking about want
818.
by Nursie 2y ago
Are they? I'm not especially up on this stuff, but I haven't seen much about their nuclear arsenal lately. It's not that I doubt you - it would be entirely consistent with their general move to throwing their weight around, s
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by Nursie 2y ago
> we now have 3 countries with the ability to erase entire cities or make the world functionally uninhabitable by humans If we're talking the Russia, the US and China then they certainly have the largest arsenals, but there's a
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by Nursie 2y ago
That doesn’t answer the question really, does it? What proportion of users use paid apps? I can easily find those figures on App Store revenue you gave, and on the proportion of paid apps in the app stores (5% on iOS, less for Android), but
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by Nursie 2y ago
It’s also been used as a self-justification by the likes of Sam Bankman-Fried, who exemplifies the qualities I mentioned above. It’s clearly a very flexible philosophy that “smart people” can use to justify pretty much whatever, and given t
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by Nursie 2y ago
I think the amount of money that is creamed off for this service is disproportionate, and the amount of benefit to wider society a case of diminishing returns. Allocation of capital, market liquidity etc are useful, but the size of the fina
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by Nursie 2y ago
I’m not sure that’s true either. See for example “effective altruism”, which turns out to have been neither, but more of a self-deluded justification for insane greed, coupled with a god complex.
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by Nursie 2y ago
Sure, I can’t deny they make money, I’d really like to know what the actual statistics are. Besides, we weren’t really talking about lawmakers - the claim was things would get cheaper for you. My point is that for some of us they could not.
825.
by Nursie 2y ago
> For a start, everything would become much cheaper for you. People say this, but of all the apps I have on my phone, I'm not sure I actually paid for any. Browser, smart-device controllers, a few games, streaming services (that I p
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by Nursie 2y ago
Australia doesn't have credit scores. There are still credit bureaus, and things like defaults, judgements, etc are recorded, and when you apply for credit this is checked. However there are crucial differences to a score system like t
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by Nursie 2y ago
I ran one for quite a while back in the netbook days - snowleopard worked quite well on the first Atom eeepc. Back then macos was a bit of a revelation - coming from Windows or Linux where the first thing you did after installing the OS was
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by Nursie 2y ago
> We are experiencing a global assault on truth Perhaps, but from where I'm sitting the effects seem to be much more pronounced in the US than (say) here in Australia or in the UK. Americans seem to have gone for it in a big way. Of
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by Nursie 2y ago
They are massively popular here in Australia, and I've not heard of any issues with quality or safety. They are held to the same standards as everyone else.
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by Nursie 2y ago
They don't sell the seagull here in Australia, but the entry level Dolphin retails at about US $1000 less than this new EV. With this not due to start production for two years, it does look like they're well behind the game and un
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by Nursie 2y ago
> Romania, who had their election forcibly cancelled because the EU Well that’s wrong for a start. The election was cancelled by the Romanian constitutional court, not the EU.
832.
by Nursie 2y ago
Where mainstream economics is imprecise and frequently inaccurate, and credited with predictive powers it simply doesn't possess, it is at least an attempt to study economic reality. 'Austrian' economics is more akin to a rel
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by Nursie 2y ago
Not really, growth in the UK has effectively stalled since 2008, quite a few years before Brexit. I’m sure Brexit hasn’t helped, but it seems that the economic stewardship of the coalition and post-coalition governments was also lacking. I
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by Nursie 2y ago
You could be describing a lot of languages.
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by Nursie 2y ago
Wow, what a ridiculous load of tripe. Java classes are no more enabling of shit code than any other language. Idiots can and do “vomit” code into pre-canned structures built for them in any language.
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by Nursie 2y ago
I think that has yet to be demonstrated, frankly.
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by Nursie 2y ago
I absolutely see the nefarious, selfish, profit-driven side to Apple locking their phones down. But proponents of opening it up need to realise that the status quo is a real, practical benefit to a portion of society as well. By all means,
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by Nursie 2y ago
> Or we don't, and then have no one to blame but ourselves if it blows up in our faces. Actually we have scammers to blame, this is pure victim-blaming on your part. I find it pretty awful when this sort of attitude is displayed tow
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by Nursie 2y ago
Yes, but at least one avenue of attack is cut off by using a walled-garden phone. The problem is scammers. We have a lot of vulnerable people in this world, saying “well obviously they’re too stupid to participate in modern society” isn’t r
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by Nursie 2y ago
> You mums problem is not the phone. Her problem is random strangers being able to "talk her into" whatever. You're right, the problem is not her phone, because she has an iphone. > It is sad when aging parents no long

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