Pharmakon

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by Pharmakon 8y ago
An advertising platform that makes their money selling and targeting ads owns a video platform funded by advertising, but the purpose of the service is speech and not ads? Hm. I see some obvious holes in that line of thought. I feel that th
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
So... eggs and honey are slippery slopes. Really. And vegans wonder why the public at large won’t engage with them?
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
I stand massively corrected on all fronts, thanks!
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
There's nothing inherently dangerous about choosing to ride a bicycle. It becomes dangerous to ride a bicycle when operators of ~4000lb machines choose to not operate them safely around others. Nonsense. The injury rate on bikes dwar
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Too cool. Hey, could these bearings be used in something like a water wheel or windmill? I realize the technology isn’t there yet, but if it could then really you’d could have lowered maintenance costs, slightly increased efficiency, and pr
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
So when you talk about what pisses you off when your life isn't even in danger? That's psychotic to me. It's so completely control freak irrational that you get angry over people who don't follow rules intended for auto
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Why? If they’re not fertilized eggs then the other option is letting them rot (or watch as mama chicken eats them, because contrary to our weird fantasies about the nature of nature, it is rough out there). Besides, it’s not theft, it’s a
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
How much would such a coating reduce the efficiency of the panel though? I’m seriously asking btw, I don’t know the answer or very much about PV panels.
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
There is one other factor here along with the cost of pilot training, and that is maintenance. The F-22 (like the B-2 and F-117) was originally a beast to maintain. The RAM coatings had to be reapplied with extreme precision, along with RAM
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
I’m at the point where dishonest discussions about “free speech” online are a non-starter (Having had an illuminating exchange on this very site two days ago). It’s not as though these anonymous chats matter in the slightest, they’re had i
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
In 2019, you might as well restrict those guilty of wrongthink to standing on soapboxes and distributing pamphlets. Putting aside the hysterical Orwellian reference, the world would be a better place if everyone from ISIS to Nazis had to
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Proof Finds That All Change Is a Mix of Order and Randomness(quantamagazine.org)
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
First you say that “monopoly isn’t important” and then go on to claim: Due to network effects, effective competition can't exist. And >Nothing about being dominant in a market or network effects directly implies a monopoly. In 20
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
What claim is there to rebut? A 15 second google shows the top social media sites based off monthly active users. Tell me an equivalent, viable platform to rival Facebook/Instagram that doesn't share the same political values. I
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Not about an analogy, it’s just illustrating the point that market share and monopoly are not synonyms. As to a social network being effective in direct proportion to the number of users, it would really depend on what you want to use it fo
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Having the biggest audience and being monopolistic are not the same thing. Heinz Ketchup is the utterly dominant brand of ketchup in America by an order of magnitude. They sell more ketchup than every other brand combined in the U.S. and
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
No matter how much the definition of monopoly is twisted, I’m sorry, but FaceBook isn’t one. Having the biggest audience and being monopolistic are not the same thing. I’ve never used FaceBook yet here we are talking through a similar mediu
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Right, the issue though isn’t if it’s technically possible, but that it would somehow be advantageous compared to a missile. I grant that it can be done, I’m still unsure as to why . Nonetheless I appreciate your analysis!
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
It’s a very emotional subject for a lot of people, and while like you I see ersatz products as a good choice for people who would otherwise engage in the real thing, I also know that it’s a hard position to promulgate. For one, there isn’t
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
What the hell is wrong with people? Two factors are at play here, although “wrong with people” may be overly harsh and is certainly unhelpful. First, a lot of people, myself included, think that prohibition of prostitution is a bad idea.
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
There will never be a legal market for underage girls, slaves, etc. Some markets just shouldn’t exist, but demand clearly exists for them. Drugs are easy because the black market is so much worse than legalization, but that’s not the case h
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
The effects of a beam of light strong enough to push a satellite into a rapidly decaying orbit would bloom like mad through the atmosphere, and create very detectable thermal effects. It would be detectable in a number of wavelengths for a
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Let me get this straight, a missile is easy to track, but a giant mirror reflecting a load of sunlight that would have to be LoS to the satellite wouldn’t be? Not to mention that bombing the mirror would be a lot easier than shooting down t
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
The issue of sex work seems only tangentially related to human trafficking. Prostitution should be legal (and regulated), but human trafficking really shouldn’t be.
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
There seems to be significant overlap between the two populations. SV “Stoics” are not the most loveable or even tolerable folks, and it’s not a shock that they draw a degree of scorn, mockery and ire. Where I think that reaction goes wrong
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Trauma generally involves either violence, or the credible threat of violence. The three greatest factors underlying trauma are the fear of imminnat death or grievous injury, and/or the loss of control and resulting sense of helplessne
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
You’re going in circles here. You define democracy in nebulous terms that have little or no bearing on any self-styled democracy since Ancient Greece. If that’s your standard for democracy, then of course the whole world falls short and thi
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Microsoft is one of the more loathed companies for what they’ve already done, never mind what they do now. I’m not sure where you’re getting “minimal scrutiny” from, except as another attempt to mitigate an understandable reaction to Google
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
I’m pretty sure that if Apple had Google’s privacy-busting business model they’d be loathed too. If as a bonus they also worked on drones with the Pentagon you’d have even more hate. As it stands I’m yet to see an Apple article here that is
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
That’s not what I’m saying. Rather it’s a problem that “democratic” is largely an unhelpful term which obscures rather than reveals anything about a political system.

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