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by briHass 5y ago
> At least in the US, the government is paying vast and unsustainable sums of money to prop up a failing and inefficient form of transportation. Even though that is clearly an opinion-based statement, it's objectively wrong. The vas
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by briHass 5y ago
Careful there; this is typically when the sob stories start about how one is NOT "upper middle class" when making $150K (more than double the median household income), because they live in expensive areas, etc. One saw a similar o
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by briHass 5y ago
As a tall guy, I've always assumed that there is a reason most good male dancers I can think of are average height or shorter. Tall people just don't have the right body proportions and/or fluidity of movement. There's j
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by briHass 5y ago
Nobody likes their first taste of black coffee or unsweetened grapefruit, either. The bitter tastes are definitely acquired, and tend to be liked by men more than women.
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by briHass 5y ago
I'm gonna need a cite for that 90% figure. Here's a study that compared bicep muscles and the largest quadricep muscle. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8477683/ Women were only 52% as strong as the men in the
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by briHass 5y ago
Yeah, but much like housing shortages, the classic cases of 'pharma bros' (Shkreli, et. al) is due in large part to the government. He, specifically, was able to jack prices because his company owned the patents (gov issued and co
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by briHass 5y ago
I assume you're taking a swipe at Team Red, but do remember that the recent TCJA had a provision that removed the ability to deduct state/local (SALT) taxes from your Federal taxes due, above a certain amount. One could consider t
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by briHass 5y ago
A similar issue can get developers in trouble with dates, specifically the YYYY-MM-DD for a given event. In C# for instance, there used to only be the DateTime, which stored a date AND a time, which was set to 00:00:00. It was on you to kno
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by briHass 5y ago
Of course, one also has to consider the leakage of methane that occurs with all the residential natural gas distribution, which is significant. Methane being 25x the greenhouse potential of CO2 means there's a lot of hidden environment
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by briHass 5y ago
> I'd be surprised if this works in practice because the String processing in C# is surely going to keep making Heap objects ? The new Span<T>, specifically Span<char>, stuff allows you to slice and read strings without
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by briHass 5y ago
> .Net async/await come with gotchas. What are the gotchas? The only snags I see with async/await are when developers don't know what they're doing and try to force async methods to be synchronous with .Result. If you
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by briHass 5y ago
1.2 acres seems too small to be practical. My suburban plot is larger than that, and I'm guessing the 1.2 is 'optimistic'; it's probably less than 1 acre that can actually support much of anything (i.e. not wet.) It&#x27
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by briHass 5y ago
It's been my favorite for a while as well. I like the simplicity and the ease that you can figure out what's going on. I don't need the ability to save libraries and sophisticated variable sets; that just makes the UI clutter
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by briHass 5y ago
It'll be interesting to see how this performs vs. the offering in Azure: Azure Functions. AF was very, very slow (especially cold) early on, but it seems much better now. Still not ideal, however, and I wonder if Lambda will be faster.
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by briHass 5y ago
But in that specific example (Wolfram on both podcasts), Carrol asked questions that clearly demonstrated a deep understanding of not only the subject matter (he is a theoretical physicist comfortable with advanced mathematics after all), b
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by briHass 5y ago
I hate to admit it, but I tend to agree. In my opinion, Lex has actually gotten worse as he has done more interviews. Now, he seems to feel comfortable taking up huge chunks of the conversation with incoherent non-sequiturs. He tends to do
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by briHass 5y ago
I would wager the amphetamine doses given in those 2 examples were quite different than what is typically prescribed by (responsible) Drs treating ADHD today. In Eden's case, it mentions that he was actually using Dexamyl[1], which is
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by briHass 5y ago
That's a strange technicality to get hung up on. "Hallucinogens" are perhaps a broad class of psychotropic drugs, of which dissociative anesthetics are a part. A laptop is still a computer. From Wikipedia's definition:
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by briHass 5y ago
The storage of the secret on the server side isn't really relevant to the major wins that TOTP provides. A well-done implementation stops keyloggers and shoulder surfers, and for many people that aren't using password managers, it
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by briHass 5y ago
There is still a side benefit to the workers that must work on-site: the white-collar work that can be done at home no longer needlessly clogs the roadways with cars every arbitrary 'rush hour'. Many of my blue-collar friends love
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by briHass 5y ago
Why not? Is everyone that works for the government supposed to hold exactly the same opinions and political leanings? If a staffer in a Republican area of the US donated to BLM and was fired, would there be a different reaction?
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by briHass 5y ago
It was more than 2K. States tapped into the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, which added up to 600/week to existing unemployment rates, as long as your job loss was 'covid related'. In PA, for example, many were rece
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by briHass 5y ago
Yeah, I can't think of many reasons why an executor would need the passwords of the deceased. Banks and other financial institutions have a protocol for this: send them the death cert, and they distribute to beneficiaries or as directe
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by briHass 5y ago
In fairness, I believe Costco (and Sams Club) allow you to use the pharmacy without having a membership. Unfortunately for me, no Costcos are close enough to make that worthwhile.
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by briHass 5y ago
>I'm concerned that Mark Cuban is capitalizing on people's lack of understanding about how insurance works and how easy it can be to look up drug prices (use your insurance company's website or just pick up the phone and c
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by briHass 5y ago
'Pay for their medical bills' quickly becomes a slippery slope. Healthy, fit individuals don't much like covering the medical bills of the obese and diabetic (type 2) people, for whom the costs of care vastly exceed those tha
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by briHass 5y ago
I don't think the SSRI effects are the primary goal. The appeal of esketamine is its rapid effect, the same thing being sought with DXM+bupropion (AXS-05). Studies with naltrexone and ketamine reduced the antidepressive effect, so mayb
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by briHass 5y ago
See also, Nuedexta, which is used to treat pseudobulbar affect (PBA.) I agree with GP. If ketamine works for depression, there's no reason to think similar effects wouldn't occur with DXM. I've always found the 'next day
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by briHass 5y ago
I agree. He's said similar things before on his podcast, and I have little reason to not believe him. People seem to forget that he had an ownership stake in the UFC, which sold for over 4 billion dollars. Also, an ownership stake in O
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by briHass 5y ago
Don't forget cofounder (that still is a big deal here on HN, right?) of a supplement company (Onnit) that was acquired by Unilever.

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