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by agency 5y ago
I've heard similar accounts of MDMA losing effectiveness with folks who have used regularly for extended periods of time. I haven't experienced it myself but I try to wait at least 8-12 weeks between uses. I have a theory that for
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by agency 5y ago
I think it's too late, much like cryptographers lamenting the word "crypto", but I see where they're coming from. I have thought it is unfortunate that the popular conception of "the algorithm" is actually a re
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by agency 5y ago
Any fish users know what the state of vim emulation is like? I know it has some support, and zsh’s is by no means great, but it was better enough last time I checked (at least a few years ago) to prevent me from switching. I really mostly w
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by agency 5y ago
"Fun" fact: Seattle is 20 miles (as the crow flies) from Naval Base Kitsap which is the home port for all of the pacific fleet of Trident ballistic missile submarines.
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by agency 5y ago
As an American in my 30s I have literally never been asked nor heard anyone else asked “Do you drive?”
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by agency 5y ago
> In a 2014 interview on The Adam Carolla Show, the actor Michael Ironside, who read the novel as a youth, said that he asked Verhoeven, who grew up in the German-occupied Netherlands, "Why are you doing a right-wing fascist movie?&
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by agency 5y ago
https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
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by agency 5y ago
the L in slapp stands for lawsuit
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by agency 5y ago
Germany, for one: (PDF warning) https://rd-alliance.org/sites/default/files/cc0-analysis-kre... > With regard to the transferability and the waiving of the copyright the German copyright law can be conside
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by agency 5y ago
Imagine if Americans were held to the same standard with respect to the American invasion and occupation of Iraq.
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by agency 5y ago
I've noticed this a lot at home. I live in western WA and am lucky to have, on a clear day, a pretty breathtaking view of Mt. Rainier. But pictures never do justice to the sense of scale you get in person. It looks enormous on the hori
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by agency 5y ago
Also, though our culture prizes it highly I think "being famous" is probably in many ways very weird and bad and seems to drive many people insane. I don't think I could handle it and would not wish it on an enemy.
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by agency 5y ago
I think about this a lot when I occasionally go to the movies. I remember going as a kid and maybe you'd have a slideshow of low-budget local ads for a dentist's office or whatever until the movie started and then have some previe
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by agency 5y ago
It looks like by default s2n-quic uses this TLS implementation, which is not based on the ring crate (though it is written in C) https://github.com/aws/s2n-tls
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by agency 5y ago
Why don't they just make the whole plane out of the same material as the black box?
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by agency 5y ago
This is kind of a tangent but I recently watched Wolf Warrior, an over-the-top Chinese military action movie that is also basically wall-to-wall propaganda for the PLA (not that this military-entertainment complex stuff is unique to China o
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Ask HN: Is Gmail spam out of control for everyone else too?
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by agency 5y ago
hah I did something similar at a small startup working out of a big live/work loft when they ran out of key fobs to give us. You'd buzz our unit which would call a Twilio number which sent a message to the super secure "front
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by agency 5y ago
There's a really wonderful talk that I've recommended to almost everyone I've ever worked with called Simple Made Easy[1] by Rich Hickey. I also struggled to explain why I hated state so much. You can talk about races with sh
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by agency 5y ago
As an alternative there's always Matt Levine's "Certificate of Dumb Investment" proposal: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-09-24/earnin... 1. Anyone can invest all they want
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by agency 5y ago
+1 though I disagree about Gimp. Tried to use it recently too and found the UI to be as much of a mess as Inkscape. All I wanted to do with Inkscape was open an SVG and change the color of one of the paths and re-export it and I could not m
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by agency 5y ago
Right and there are no other exogenous factors that could impact Russia's desire to export fertilizer, like an ongoing global pandemic wreaking havoc on supply chains. It must be biological weapons.
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by agency 5y ago
I remember reading about this a long time ago at [1]. They had a panel come up with the essential message they want to communicate which I found really interesting and chilling: > This place is a message… and part of a system of messages
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by agency 5y ago
I just upgraded to a pair of AirPods Pro after my old AirPods were slowly losing battery life until they can barely get through a single podcast ep. It was pretty cool and eerie putting them in for the first time and having the noise cancel
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by agency 5y ago
Who is better situated to respond to a pandemic than the state? What is the alternative?
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by agency 5y ago
I'm also a frequent modafinil user (maybe 4/7 days a week) and luckily haven't experienced side effects. I also drink tons of water throughout the day so that could definitely be a factor.
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by agency 5y ago
From this article: https://news.bloombergtax.com/financial-accounting/sec-rejec... > U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, offer no rules for reporting the value of digital assets. Nonbinding guida
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by agency 5y ago
It's also an interesting reflection on the historical moment we've find ourselves in. I'm sure the records of normal/daily life have been steadily increasing even before the computer age as earlier technologies made it c
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by agency 5y ago
One strategy that was on my mind today: Whenever you're writing an API start on the "consumer" side. If you had the perfect version of this interface, what would the code that's using it look like? I find that if I start
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by agency 5y ago
The battery life is wild. Watched a full length movie on a 14” M1 the other day and checked the battery… 95%

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