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721.
by bigfudge 5y ago
This is different to hating tiltok though. Ponzi schemes actually hurt real people when they collapse. I think it’s reason able to think that pointing out the emperor’s lack of clothes is public spirited.
722.
by bigfudge 5y ago
HK was always going g to be returned to the Chinese. It took 20 years for the charade to end, but the situation is different to Taiwan.
723.
by bigfudge 5y ago
Generous/humane immigration system.
724.
by bigfudge 5y ago
Relative To the numbers of people depressed, very few people kill themselves so I can’t see that this is a counter argument.
725.
by bigfudge 5y ago
Missed this so late reply, but there are a bunch of papers concluding both personal and social harms are higher for alcohol and I think also nicotine Results: Alcohol, heroin and crack emerged as the most harmful drugs (overall weighted har
726.
by bigfudge 5y ago
But both could be true: agencies getting weaker but corporations becoming more instrumental in rule breaking and accepting fines as cost of business. Perhaps the behaviour is getting worse?
727.
by bigfudge 5y ago
Can you Eli5 why buy at ask is the wrong thing to do if you want to buy shares? What is the alternative? Do you mean you should wait/ time buying based on price?
728.
by bigfudge 5y ago
I'm not disagreeing with the possibility, but this seems like a speculation on a possible risk. I can think of lots of reasons why this might not happen too... but the privacy invasion is happening now and is a direct threat to our pub
729.
by bigfudge 5y ago
Except like pipenv it is dog slow and totally inscrutable when dependencies clash.
730.
by bigfudge 5y ago
You would likely get something faster and nicer to use too, but you can’t just do it once ... you need to keep moving because otherwise the team shrinks and you lose the expertise to make even smaller changes. That stagnation is what kills
731.
by bigfudge 5y ago
I think it’s probably both. The api and db querying are dog slow too.
732.
by bigfudge 5y ago
perhaps also aerodynamics relative to a big generator blob right at the top?
733.
by bigfudge 6y ago
No I wasn’t suggesting that. However in black populations in the UK at least smoking weed is more ‘normal’ than it is in white populations. By normal I mean accepted and not deviant, not necessarily to imply higher consumption.
734.
by bigfudge 6y ago
It seems like it’s quite widely known that US police shoot everyone at a higher rather than any developed country. You can google those stats as well as anyone. That’s evidence for ‘brutality’, not excluding the possibility that they may al
735.
by bigfudge 6y ago
The thing is, it can be true that the police are both generally brutal and racist. In fact that seems the most likely thing given my limited observations of US policing.
736.
by bigfudge 6y ago
If black Americans smoke weed rather than alcohol then yes, they take different drugs. Weed is criminalised far in excess of any justification based on personal or social harms. It just seems normal to drink, in a rational drug policy it wo
737.
by bigfudge 6y ago
You can on the btr3 k through the fiio app so my guess would be yes.
738.
by bigfudge 6y ago
It would require a major iOS re-write though. Designing for e-ink is a really different paradigm, both statically and in relation to UX interactions. I just returned an onyx boox note because although the hardware was quite nice, the UI was
739.
by bigfudge 6y ago
Funnily enough, I just came across a study of ecstasy use in Mormon kids who didn’t take alcohol or other drugs... not sure if they were staying up all night raving but my prior is not. Apparently they didn’t suffer the same cognitive defi
740.
by bigfudge 6y ago
> We already know the LD-50 of mushrooms is 17kg of fresh mushroom for an average size human lol. Curious as to how we know... has anyone ever OD'd on psylocibin?
741.
by bigfudge 6y ago
We don't have rigorous experimental data on alcohol or nicotine either.
742.
by bigfudge 6y ago
>probably because they're not "fun." You've been doing it wrong ;-) I'm not sure I've ever laughed so much or felt so connected to people. Just thinking about it is making me nostalgic.
743.
by bigfudge 6y ago
> There are molecule combinations out there which can cause instant parkinson’s disease Is this real or exaggeration for effect? It sounds implausible...
744.
by bigfudge 6y ago
The thing is, it's not at all clear this was caused by psychedelics, so much as psychedelics and the lifestyle that goes with it shape the sort of dysfunction we observe. If they had been in the midwestern USA would they also be dysfun
745.
by bigfudge 6y ago
>they screened 1000 patients to come up with the study population of 59 Note that while not ideal this is completely normal for any early stage drug trial. Most drugs get licenced based on data in which the trials would have excluded 90%
746.
by bigfudge 6y ago
> and the few large differences to do exist (e.g. GM foods) are pseudo-scientific excuses for defending local industry that would otherwise find it hard to compete for social reasons This is simply not true. The US industrial meat produc
747.
by bigfudge 6y ago
Moving to Europe is culturally very different though. Despite the language barrier, I feel a lot more at home in France and Germany than the US (I'm British). If the US feels so foreign to me I'm sure most European countries would
748.
by bigfudge 6y ago
They could. But there are also large potential benefits from state funded basic science, which all of these startups depend on, incidentally. Musk, Bezos et al are doing cool stuff, but they are basically parasitic on a system which provide
749.
by bigfudge 6y ago
That’s because people live in communities and families, even in the US. People are not just economic optimising units.
750.
by bigfudge 6y ago
That assumes assaults in the US are reported the same way. Murders probably are because there is a body. I doubt I her crime is given the weird incentives in the US system.

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