SailingSperm

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by SailingSperm 5y ago
Science has proven you can very effectively stop the spread of a virus or other pathogen in livestock by culling the herd/flock. Should we follow that science with ourselves? Or maybe is there ethical and philosophical ponderances left
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by SailingSperm 5y ago
A compliance officer is a theoretical example role (that was meant to be easy to draw parallels to) of a person tasked with checking compliance of some form. (Eg. that you're Isolating / no visitors, no contraband, your telescreen
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by SailingSperm 5y ago
It's the real and perceived threat of resistance. Do you think 'compliance officers' would be more willing/confident going door to door in a society that is armed or disarmed? A different approach might have been a used
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by SailingSperm 5y ago
The evolutionary process is the same... 1) A population of virus or biotics has genetic diversity and mutations through generations when reproducing. 2) Some pressure is put on its survival (antibiotics, vaccines). 3) Those in the populatio
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by SailingSperm 5y ago
Nice looking tool! though personally don't like installing extensions requiring these permissions. Kinda surprised Chrome's newish feature of tab list/search doesn't even do some ultra basic fuzzy search!
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by SailingSperm 5y ago
>as always the real elephant in the room is that inflation is not bad per se, except for those whose wages don't grow as much as the inflation. ...Inflation affects savings too. So it doesn't matter that ones salary may increas
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by SailingSperm 5y ago
We're going to have to work through some tough decisions as a society with this kind of technology developing... The likelihood in the coming years of child exploitation images being generated using similar techniques as posted here, I
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by SailingSperm 5y ago
It's still apart of youtubes guidelines. [1] YouTube doesn't allow content that spreads medical misinformation that contradicts local health authorities’ or the World Health Organization’s (WHO) medical information about COVID-19.
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by SailingSperm 5y ago
The thing also with the vaccines and ivermectin possibly causing an issue for big phrama vaccines is that - The COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson have all received an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the
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by SailingSperm 5y ago
Wide spread use of an effective prophylactic would help a lot in reducing case numbers and spread. This is about using a multifaceted approach to get covid under control. Wearing a mask or socially distancing today wont protect you in 6mont
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by SailingSperm 5y ago
I think you're coming to a strange conclusion in what you've said...Ivermectin is out of patent - far less money can be made from it. US pharmaceutical company Merck – one of the manufacturers of patent-free Ivermectin actively di
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by SailingSperm 5y ago
The link you provided still stands behind the main claim... - "We retract the part of our article that relied on the data from Dr. Elgazzar’s study. But the broader point stands: There’s strong evidence of ivermectin’s efficacy in trea
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by SailingSperm 5y ago
For some balance -- [1]excerpts from abstract " Background: Repurposed medicines may have a role against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The antiparasitic ivermectin, with antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties, has now been tested in numer
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by SailingSperm 5y ago
Yeah, while it's disheartening to see that this research may have been fabricated a sizable amount, it also appears that places that may have leant on this information to justify using ivermectin look to now have a strong correlation b
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by SailingSperm 5y ago
These would also trade like other crypto - 24/7, 365.
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by SailingSperm 5y ago
The thing is, to put oneself in a position where they're able to get $100/hr takes a lot of early sacrifice. So it's a false equivalence to say they'd be happy to work for 100/hr rather than 11 - but because 100 isn
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by SailingSperm 5y ago
I find the Monty Hall problem becomes intuitive when scaled. 100 doors, 1 car, 99 goats. Pick a door. All doors open (with goats except 1) ... Do you think you picked the 1/100 door with the car, or that it's the other only one le
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by SailingSperm 5y ago
The thing is though that most all of these crypto lending platforms only offer over collateralized loans, so the risk of them being screwed over by lack of payment from the person taking the loan is negligible. Meaning If I want to lend $10
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by SailingSperm 6y ago
The ingredients list / packaging should say something like dried fruiting body... or if you're getting the rubbish = myceliated grain or mycelial biomass. The reddit link provided by NalNezumi is very good. Here's just anot
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by SailingSperm 6y ago
Hericium erinaceus (Lion's mane mushroom) has isolates called Hericenones and Erinacine that promote nerve growth factor synthesis and a lot of other Neurohealth benifits being found to do with the compounds the fungi produces. The inf
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by SailingSperm 6y ago
You're just describing levels of privacy. Head's of state can of course have private discussions, where only the contents of conversation is private - but the fact the conversations took place are not private. Compare that to Anon
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by SailingSperm 6y ago
30 mins for FINAL international settlement of arbitrary $ amounts between $0.001 - $100B IS fast - and the uptime for the BTC network is 100% since inception ~2011. If you're really wanting to compare apples to apples - For traditional
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by SailingSperm 6y ago
Privacy encapsulates anonymity. Who you are talking to should be just as private as the contents of the message. Anonymity aids privacy.
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by SailingSperm 6y ago
This should bring into question even more Signal's implementation of using real phone numbers for accounts. It is NOT privacy focused. Even if this 'hackability' is an issue only with the security of the phone/hardware -
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by SailingSperm 6y ago
It's not, and doesn't work. Firstly, it'll just get turned into something else (by spending/buying with it) that holds value and is sought after/tradable/fungible - Eg. Alcohol, gold, drugs, x_equiptment. Plus,
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Coronavirus testing using binary search method
5 points by SailingSperm 6y ago|4 comments
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by SailingSperm 7y ago
Reminds me of this - The Library of Babel. https://libraryofbabel.info/ Pages and pages of permutations of characters that contains every lyric that's existed, every novel, every poem, every word you've said to yo
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by SailingSperm 7y ago
For anyone interested in some more novel ways of reducing video bandwidth with neural networks using foveated rendering to 'recreate/generate' the high res frames client side. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e
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by SailingSperm 7y ago
So does this mean "using facial recog. tech on video footage taken in a public area (post capture)" OR "only banning integrated video + face recog. tech"... Hardly seems likely they'd ban all video cameras; So send
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by SailingSperm 7y ago
This startup is stacking concrete blocks as a 'battery' https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surpris...

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