achenatx

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by achenatx 5y ago
its actually roblox
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by achenatx 5y ago
change in genetics is not really evolution, it is just mutations. Evolution is environmental selection of advantageous mutations.
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by achenatx 5y ago
I personally try to collect nothing. I essentially "collect" two things 1) stocks 2) personal digital photos Every material thing you own can weigh you down. I try to make sure I use everything I own vs owning things just for the
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by achenatx 5y ago
actually you used to be able to use poker chips like cash as this article describes and explains why it is no longer allowed. If you try to bring in chips received from other people the casino can choose to not pay you out as the article de
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by achenatx 5y ago
flew into jfk last week. Got in a taxi, driver didnt want to turn the meter on. Tried to tell me it was $80 instead of the $52 fixed rate + tolls etc. I managed to pay $65, but I had to pay in cash. the same thing happened on the way back,
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by achenatx 5y ago
You cant really tell from the genetics. You can chop and insert any arbitrary sequence into RNA/DNA. Instead what they do is look at the animal population in the region for highly related or identical versions. If it was natural transm
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by achenatx 5y ago
I think his own experiences are valid for him, but he definitely generalizes to everyone: 1) I have never once felt loneliness. I dont get close to people at work and never have. 2) adrenaline - Im definitely not addicted to adrenaline. Im
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by achenatx 5y ago
we are drowning in demand as we have manual processes. Multiple times our CEO (cofounder) has threatened to quit because the demand is too much and she has had a hard time finding people that can do the job. We had to put a minimum order si
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by achenatx 5y ago
that data uses "congestion" which is the ratio of the worst traffic time to the best traffic time. If you look at average commute times austin is way down on the list.
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by achenatx 5y ago
homesteads are capped at 10% increase in valuation. City budgets are capped at 3.5% without a vote. The largest share of property taxes is actually school districts which run roughly 50% of the property tax in austin. The city is 25% and th
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by achenatx 5y ago
because you are wrong.. when you own shares in a company you are entitled to the cash flow of the company. Over time the price trends towards the future cash flow of the company. In the short term the price can be anything, but if a company
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by achenatx 5y ago
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/suicide-mortality/... https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_pop... I didnt bother to run any kind of correlation, but ey
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by achenatx 5y ago
The increase in people increases the relationships and amount of communication geometrically. The increase in levels is like a game of telephone and reduces the fidelity of the message/strategy/goal from executive down to line lev
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by achenatx 5y ago
a play on USSR
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by achenatx 5y ago
the irony is that SF is 1) not representative of the united states 2) is progressive to the point of following the european ideal
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by achenatx 5y ago
we burn the generated fuel and cycle the carbon again. The fuel essentially acts like a battery. You would have to use renewable energy to power the capture.
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by achenatx 5y ago
There is no such thing as "fair". There is only what two sides in a transaction can agree to and what is legal. In this case apple is not a monopoly, epic has many other avenues to sell their product. I personally dont like the ap
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by achenatx 5y ago
I use a mac because mac os X is much more stable, doesnt have a registry, has a *nix shell, doesnt seem to accumulate random stuff over time that slows the computer down to a crawl, and time machine is amazing. I have used it multiple times
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by achenatx 5y ago
you dont live in a failing economy or one where the govt intervention prevents the free flow of money. 1)chinese were able to smuggle money out of china 2)venezuelans are using it in lieu of their failed currency 3) criminals are using it t
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by achenatx 5y ago
As an employee at a dot com I despised unlimited PTO. I would rarely take PTO, working through all major holidays etc while others took months off. The hardest working most dedicated people will get punished by an unlimited PTO policy. As a
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by achenatx 5y ago
Ive been trying to get the marketing team to always include a std deviation with averages. Average alone is simply not useful, standard deviation is a simple way to essentially include percentiles. They regularly compare experiments to the
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by achenatx 5y ago
60-80 million china 20 million russia 8 million germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide#:~:text=After%20study... .
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by achenatx 5y ago
I agree the death rate for children under 12 is probably very low. It could be as low as .01%. I specifically wrote the rate is lower for younger people. We will get a better idea of the death rate in children under 12 this year. As far as
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by achenatx 5y ago
I agree with your last statement, but that is 20/20 hindsight. The media played up reinfections tremendously last year and even though there was no data, I think it impacted politicians/public health policy makers to err on the si
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by achenatx 5y ago
bacteria mostly need to be replicating to spread mutations as well. There are mechanisms for bacteria to uptake dna in the environment and incorporate it (e.g. antibiotic resistance). But without replication of the bacteria the resistance w
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by achenatx 5y ago
Ive suspected all along the massive media push that "natural infection only generates immunity for 90 days" or "6 months" or whatever would turn out to be false. The media played up anecdotes of reinfections but there wa
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by achenatx 5y ago
I agree that the public health messaging has quite a number of statements that may not be true. But they may not be false either. Instead of lies, scientists are erring on the side of caution for what they do know. I agree that sanctimoniou
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by achenatx 5y ago
in the olden days dumb people just died and didnt reproduce. We have overcome a lot of natural selection so there are likely many more dumb people than in the past. We all share the same reality that you have a .5% chance of dying from covi
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by achenatx 5y ago
Early epidemiology is showing better immunity from natural infection. A receptor binding domain is the place the on the virus that the virus uses to bind to cells. However antibodies can bind to any part of the virus causing the virus parti
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by achenatx 5y ago
chickenpox has a death rate of .001% Covid has a death rate of .5% (higher for older people, lower for younger) flu has a death rate of .1% and you dont see people having flu parties..

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