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by aedron 7y ago
In the subcontinent most clinics are commission salesmen for pharmaceutical companies. They have a deal with them that every prescription should include the company's products (painkillers, antibiotics), and they get a commission. Sale
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by aedron 7y ago
From my personal observations, I don't think coke is quite comparable to heroin. Heroin takes over a person's life in a much more scary way than coke. Heroin becomes the number one thing every day, before food, family, or any othe
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by aedron 7y ago
The essay is remarkably prescient. Brooks dared to predict that thirty years later, software would still be created by programmers sitting in front of editors, painstakingly typing up code branches for all of the scenarios a given program i
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by aedron 7y ago
Does anyone have experience trying to do this kind of thing with LibGDX? LibGDX is a layer on top of OpenGL (lwjgl actually), and used a lot for game development. It is based on Java, and is able to package the application for Android, iOS,
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by aedron 7y ago
The Amiga was made by a Silicon Valley startup, bought by stodgy old Commodore out of Pennsylvania. Commodore simply milked the magic but was not able to support and develop the franchise.
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by aedron 7y ago
Sounds like a sour PC user with a 386 and EGA. ;-)
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by aedron 7y ago
The Amiga broke my heart. In some sense I will never get over it. At ages 12 to 18 I was a programmer on the Amiga, a music composer, digital image artist, I scoured BBS's, and so much more. I got together with groups of other people (
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by aedron 7y ago
This article goes to great alarmist lengths, past the point of being deceiving. Just the very first line: > One of the world’s most widely traded virtual currencies faces renewed doubts about its stability [...] Tether is nothing in te
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by aedron 7y ago
If Tesla is selling cars at or below cost in order to increase the quoted numbers, that is obviously a very bad place to be for Tesla. Someone upthread quoted that half the cars were sold in the last ten days of Q1, after a big price drop.
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by aedron 7y ago
I used to dismiss this view, because it seems so impropable that an arbitrary digital asset would be able to fill a role like gold. But it does seem to be happening, and I am coming around to the idea. What is gold after all but a commonly
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by aedron 8y ago
> "football" [...] "drinking with friends" [...] videogames One of these is not like the others.
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by aedron 8y ago
I'm no expert, but isn't paranoia one of the most significant, if not the primary, characteristic of psychosis? If cannabis triggers one, I'd say the 'strong' link is well warranted.
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by aedron 8y ago
Apologies for repeating myself from elsewhere in this thread, but the 'paranoid from the weed' effect is extremely well known among smokers. I feel the need to stress this, coming from someone who has had more experience with weed
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by aedron 8y ago
Paranoia from weed is a well-known phenomenon among smokers, and was so even long before clinical discussions about the effect became common. I'm surprised how defensive some (usually liberal-leaning) people become when the connection
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by aedron 8y ago
It's about perception. But the trend is what it is: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...
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by aedron 8y ago
Well that one is easy: Get a girlfriend, like each other enough that you move in together, have a child. Boom, your most attractive option is now a decent, steady and slowly increasing pay check every month.
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by aedron 8y ago
For what it's worth, in two years our Google Home has only 'misfired' once, and that was when someone on TV said 'Hey Google'. It is in the living room and sees heavy use by a family of five.
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by aedron 8y ago
I don't like that you are equating this with any other car accident. Uber made a vehicle that can zoom around the roads unassisted. You can't just put something like that out there and disclaim responsibility by assuming that some
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by aedron 8y ago
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=facebook
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by aedron 8y ago
Personally, one of the reasons I have a little more hope for Google is the ownership structure. Larry and Sergei made some very controversial decisions when they went public with Google, in spite of severe pushback from investors, which tal
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by aedron 8y ago
You can buy trace mineral drops, which contain a fair amount of lithium, as well as magnesium and other trace minerals. The most common ones are based on de-salted mineral deposits from the great salt lake. No idea if this is the best suppl
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by aedron 8y ago
An important part of choosing a car is ergonomics. I like to rest my arms on the door and middle console armrests while driving, but my brand new (expensive) SUV, bought sight unseen, comes just short of being able to do this, which bothers
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by aedron 8y ago
I would be interested in a comparison to 'total' fasting, i.e. abstaining from both solid food and liquid. This is the most commonly practiced religious practice (and so has a thousand year history). It would be interesting to kno
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by aedron 8y ago
Yeah, microservices and event sourcing go hand in hand. Each microservice maintains its own database, with a model that is tailored to its own domain. This is called a projection, to illustrate that it is really the service's own view
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by aedron 8y ago
I lived out several years of my youth at 1200 baud. The word "U.S. Robotics" was like porn to me.
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by aedron 8y ago
Yet going by the article, Google's response is more sales people and better training of their sales people. Good luck with that.
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by aedron 8y ago
'By Way of Deception', written years ago by a former high ranking Mossad officer, made it seem like American government institutions in NY and Washington were crawling with Israeli intelligence, some acknowledged, many not. The bo
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by aedron 8y ago
> But then publicly the USA point fingers at Huawei or Chinese government from doing the same. The only thing remarkable about this is the mechanism: Mainstream media mouthpiecing these viewpoints. Surely, they know better. But they ar
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by aedron 8y ago
"Again, Ben gets stuck. This time, a European has to use nearly a full tank of air pulling Ben out by his ankles." I could see why they would be hesitant to use him.
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by aedron 8y ago
He did get stuck a few times trying to swim in.

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