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by bonesss 9y ago
Have any chemicals been ingested accidentally since 1940? Sure! Are trained chemists with PhDs in the subject working with complex synthesis and dangerous chemicals in the habit, from 1929 to present day, of putting those things in their m
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by bonesss 9y ago
It sounds unreasonable. That said, the idea that your "life" has any role in this whatsoever is also unreasonable. Copyright should last X years. If the author dies, X is still X, and if the author lives then X is still X. This
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by bonesss 9y ago
I'd also challenge the idea of an active scientist "getting things in his mouth" or ingesting new chemical compounds for the heck of it (at doses almost legendarily small compared to most drugs etc)... Knowing that the compou
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> nobody in the world at the time knew how long LSD trips last And no one knew that losing the ability to read/understand time is a pretty common psychedelic side effect.
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> Now it's time for Google to lock users in and milk them. I don't think Google is remotely at that point, and from their competitive perspective they're still winning by letting their open-standards-straw reach all the wa
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by bonesss 9y ago
Yeah, industry and gov :) The vast majority of dialog between governments and citizens is kinda boring with occasional exception handling. Think tax handling... The exceptions are demanding, and require expertise, and looots of time, but
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by bonesss 9y ago
So I have a startup in France, and you think my FooBars will make a mint, so you invest. I get $1000 from you, and convert that to Euros to do business. Turns out my FooBars are not good, and I can't get a business license in France.
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by bonesss 9y ago
Paranoia implies delusion, but just because delusion has some anchor in reality doesn't mean that there aren't delusional aspects to it. " Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean that they're not after you &
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> Putting in Content ID ensured that Google stopped being sued by every major copyright holder and their mother I think it's also important to remember that YouTube wants to be a LOT more than just a place for cute kitty videos. Vi
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> ...age is a major factor in health Tangential, but: I read a fascinating book about ageing and death from a doctor who worked with such things. My big takeway, from a systems perspective, was that we generally don't die because
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by bonesss 9y ago
In general, from the perspective of a dev in a MS-shop, AWS gives you a bit more 'responsibility' for infrastructure than Azure, but that level of control lets you get further in practice sooner. Azure has a lot of great things go
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> I hold no illusions that we'd approach government automation with even the rigor that the space shuttle software was afforded. I can't see any reason why my an application for a spot in school should have anything like the ri
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by bonesss 9y ago
> Running your own hardware is a major IT effort. Kubernetes is just a part of that effort. For Enterprise nerds VMWare has also just launched a Kubernetes service, so the #1 Enterprise VM supplier just added k8s on-prem for everyone who
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by bonesss 9y ago
> Github needs a way to limit control to a directory or file in a repo. Monolithic version control systems tend to do this very well. In my head a distributed system like GIT really needs awesome and integrated sub-module features to mak
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by bonesss 9y ago
> ...the problem that no one has seemed to solve is the local editing for a draft document for someone who understands markdown but not git. .bat or .sh files? :) A decade ago I was transitioning a small dev shop to Subversion, and daily
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I agree with your premise, but don't understand your conclusion... > Non-developers ought to be able to make 'commits' with git and pull requests without even realizing that git is the underlying tool. Absolutely. By why
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> We have repos for everything, and use issues for things most people would write an email about. I really like this. When it comes to productivity in the enterprise I'm quite fascinated by the intersections of communication immedia
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> why would a highly qualified person without any preference towards civic duty subject themselves to all of this when they have their pick of jobs? Well, all other things being equal they wouldn't. We cannot infer that those who a
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> Why? Because everyone loves to believe the worst about the government, so it's easy to sell voters on the necessity of a shitload of burdensome rules. There's also a fundamental difference between you being cavalier with y
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> Atlassian already plays well with Github and other services. So you can have your cake and eat it too. This is really the benefit of Atlassians wide product funnel at the top. JIRA might be the Worst Thing Ever, but it can be config
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> The DSM-5 criteria for Major Depressive Disorder are extremely broad. You're making a justified/not justified appeal to the scope of diagnosis, not that diagnosis exists/does not exist on the basis of "reasons&q
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Show me the infinity He-3 and Mega-Billions in platinum I can make in an exclusive environment mankind is obligated to conquer on the timeline of a few short hundred years and I will show you some Multi-Billionaires willing to invest heav
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Respectfully: the entire mental health profession and the DSM-5 explicitly disagree with your belief. Conflating depression with "being sad" is to misunderstand what depression is, what sadness is, and how we qualify depression d
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You want to put a delicate-cable factory on an airplane and figure out how to shape all materials from start to finish in 30-second bursts while also compensating for turbulence, additional Gs on ascend, flight adjustments, and proper stowi
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We can make [oxygen from moon rocks]( https://phys.org/news/2009-08-scientists-oxygen-moon.html ). There is [water on the moon]( https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Mini-RF/multimedia/featur.
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A giant radio telescope on the 'dark side' of the moon to let us peer into the depths of time without interference from the noisy monkeys in unit 3a ;) Ships, structures, and anything heavy that we could avoid pulling out of earth
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> “It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom.” -- Bill Hicks
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Along the same lines: > 1. Spike the drug supply with a slow acting poison. Lots of poisons to choose from to make this work. No there aren't. Drugs are super strong, concentrated, and great at being drugs. They have varied and va
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Yeah. Generalizing, naturally, but "exposure therapy" is an approach of getting people past phobias and trauma that involves lots of small steps in controlled environments, and it's not recommended in all cases or for all co
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We have an intuitive understanding of impacts that don't reflect the reality of the risks... Boxers wear gloves to protect hands, not heads, and those big pillows mean harder hits mean more brain damage. Bareknuckle boxing is better f

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