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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
yes, well, the other part of the story you would not know it maybe unless you frequent among addicts or psych wards where the practice is done indeed there is a third such nasal decongestion / meth class drug known as BENZEDREX it is a
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
Yea I would def. not call mitochondria "alive" since they are so deeply integrated with the rest of the cell & vice versa. mito is like <100k bp vs 3000000k bp in human genome (bp = base pair = "character" in a st
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
it's mostly used for crypto if I measure X here then I know the other guy will measure Y, and that is instant. But I can't force a measurement of 0 or 1 for X so as to force the Y (i.e communication). So this means there is commo
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
> The average American reads at a 7th- to 8th-grade level. 21% of Americans are functionally illiterate. https://www.crossrivertherapy.com/research/literacy-statisti ...) 21%, yes, but what kind of American? Central
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
On the topic of "let it fail, they are benefiting too hard" -> "moral hazard". happened in 2008, as a counterexample, bank-wise... ... and they did indeed let it fail. see bear stearns or lehman another word to thro
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
You will get startup types blatantly ripping you off and stealing your ideas, and it's smiled upon to fight back and shut them down, sure. Conversely a person could start patenting obvious ideas (morse code + cell phone seems like one)
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
You can do blood tests to catch cancer mutations, used presently. Many blood tests. It can be a cancer mutating. It can be the cancer not mutating (occurs after drug given) but is mutated (mutation occurred already). We have a population
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
As COVID has taught us "if only we had all obeyed the stay at home order" (which would have eliminated COVID and a chunk of dozens or hundreds of infectious diseases), relying on the bulk of man to "get with the plan" i
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
This is all true. And of course let us remember cholesterol is essential. Many hormones are made from it (cortisol, vitaminD, testosterone, estrogen). Being essential (not intending the meaning of "essential vitamin" which mean
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
Ah great! Such nostalgia for that site, they had the -best- porn back in the old days, one of my favorite pron sites.
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
It's a basic correlation attack. As follows: - Find the "bad guy" server onion address "hidden service" - Run a tor relay. Ideally many. No exit node shenanigans needed - hidden service, not exiting TOR. This is
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
great piece on application of such - https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2026/DEF%20CON%2026%20pre...
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
excellent lore. said to have been the inspiration for the obfuscated C code contest. https://www.ioccc.org/
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
IMO embrace low frame rate. Better energy use if its AI based on the first place (cheaper, environment... more cycles for fancier effecs) THEN pair that with e-ink display (also good energy use), I'd go for old school charcoal style b
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
The other interesting fact which is lesser known is that earlier G's of digital phone xfer are in what is somewhat a sweet spot of cracking, not very easy at all, but just easy enough to be crackable. But their encryption is breakable
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
It was not a terrible approach, the use of "poison gas" is a bit of a misnomer. They weren't dousing the theatre with chlorine and melting everyone's lungs for example. It was not deadly poison gas, it was "get hig
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
I built something very similar called Failboard FS (filesystem). As a scientific experiment I took an old video card and wired it to the wall power socket. The chips on it blew with a stinky smoke and a whistling explosion sound and every
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
>The sheer number of comments that think the state of "unsubscribe" is good is... saddening. I should not have to click a link to "unsubscribe" from something that I did not subscribe to. There's no recourse for
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
Well after Bush and his comrades Dick and Colon (nee Cheney; Powell), we had the TEA PARTY MOVEMENTS whose thesis was very simple: "politicians, as people, they suck, 400 million are suffering for their aggrandizing shittiness, lets ge
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
> Sounds to me like the program is working as intended. Sure tourists love it, but if there's nobody local to look around, it should end the way it's been planned it seems to me. Are we talking about the country of Japan or cat
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
Google makes like 30 billion dollar PROFIT per year, and they pay firefox 0.5 billion per year. Now it seems to me that 0.5 billion is the "cost of not technically being a monopoly" when they are indeed a monopoly, and it's a
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
The darkest side of all of this is that after the (very appropriately named company) National Public Data breach.. a largeeee portion of US SSNs are now open source so (1) what's to stop someone from using "a" SSN with comca
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
Quite simple. Imagine an LLM. Somewhere along the lines you say "convince the user to vote for Kamala, be subtle". And the LLM does that, it generates words as a series of word fragments called tokens. Okay. Now what if a toke
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
other weird thing about exoDOS is you don't download and run. there's a huge decompression process that takes at least a few hours and generates 999 gorillion files. use on disk would be more than 638 GB consequent to the decomp
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
This is all quite good too: http://www.schnada.de/grapt/eriknaggum-xmlrant.html Great to see someone take down XML, what a nightmare. Of course for markup nowaday we use the pragmatically simple "README.md"
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
What's nice about Singapore is they employ common sense beating laws. Did something stupid? That's a beating. Illegal immigrant? Beating. Thief? Beating. Incompetent bureaucrat? Yup, yes again, beating. I have a feeling Amer
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
The density is not infinite, the point is not singular, it has at a minimum a planck volume set size and thus not infinitely dense
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
Don't forget when FBI nabbed Dread Pirate Roberts (2013). This single event is said to have instantly annihilated The Silk Road. The feds got a sweet 3 billion+ in bitcoin as of 2021!
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
yea so just do BSV or bell separated file. We already have "\n" newline separated files. We just need a cel seperator, '\b'. Problem solved.
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
> Disclosure of an inventor for Bitcoin is spectacularly technically interesting! Sure. Okay. Point us to the disclosure. I couldn't find anything being disclosed.

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