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by buffington 2y ago
Honest question from someone who isn't an expert: why would they need to encrypt that data on my machine? If the concern is that someone might gain access to my computer and see unencrypted things, what about all of the other things on
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by buffington 2y ago
This is tricky. It feels like it's an obvious conflict of interest. But if the researchers are free to do real science, no strings attached, this seems like a good thing. Even with no strings attached, it's hard to trust PMI. Imag
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by buffington 2y ago
Weird, because in another comment, you said: > it's literally the same thing. anyone who claims otherwise is uninformed. That they are chemically different is a fact, but their physical effects have also been proven to be different
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by buffington 2y ago
Adderall has been significantly beneficial in my life, for which I'm grateful, but yeah. There are problems, both with the drug, and with how easily[1] it's prescribed. That anyone has ever said the drugs are benign is insane. I&#
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by buffington 2y ago
It's so weird to me that people use Adderall recreationally. It's as "recreational" in my mind as functional shoes are. I usually need them, but they're usually not what makes an activity fun. How is crushing up Add
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by buffington 2y ago
There is a difference. Adderall is a combo of amphetamine and dextroamphetamine, while "meth" is typically mostly methamphetamine (with other "enhancements" or impurities). They are chemically different. While Adderall i
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by buffington 2y ago
> what is the point of re-starting this now I've gone through the hardest part of getting off it? For me, the point of re-starting would be because I have ADHD. I've had to jump through the same stupid hoops, even going without
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by buffington 2y ago
I’m currently renting a new Ford F-150 ICE truck and all of its UI is controlled through the enormous touch screen. There are physical buttons too, but they’re just remote inputs to the central UI. It also has a video display behind the ste
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by buffington 2y ago
It's fair to say that I introduced the idea of "race" into this conversation. That wasn't a fair assumption for me to make. The only thing it says about me, however, is that I've seen a lot of anti immigration argum
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by buffington 2y ago
Are you saying immigration caused you to spend $800k for US based health care, as a Canadian? No appeals to thought exercises either. You're the authority on this. Tell HN how this isn't just some convoluted xenophobic rant.
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by buffington 2y ago
Shop around? In the US, that's not really a thing. Your choices are very much restricted by the health insurance you have. Some health insurance plans are better. Mine is pretty good by US standards, and it still has all sorts of restr
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by buffington 2y ago
This describes me pretty well. With a team in place to clear the path and keep me working on the correct big problem, I can move mountains. Without that team I just find or invent big problems to solve. With a good team, results are almost
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by buffington 2y ago
My brother and a cousin both worked at different rental car companies, and I can assure you - they are not well maintained. My cousin worked at Enterprise, and he said they'd buy fleets of cars, run them until they had any failure, t
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by buffington 2y ago
With the super charger network in the United States, renting a Tesla isn't all that bad of an idea. I've taken very long trips in my Model 3, with a lot of unplanned wandering, so I know it's possible. That's not to say
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by buffington 2y ago
My household of 5 adults maxes out a gigabit connection routinely. Streaming video, cloud based gaming, video calls, downloading game updates, backing things up to cloud storage. It adds up. I anticipate some might argue "that's n
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by buffington 2y ago
UTOPIA frustrates me. I live in a part of Utah where Xfinity is the only gigabit option. Despite a huge number of the UTOPIA providers claiming to serve my area, none of them actually do. My home is in a stupid weird bandwidth dead zone, wi
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by buffington 2y ago
Can you point to any evidence of these "under the table agreements" or is that speculation?
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by buffington 2y ago
I'm not the GP, but I can tell you how I felt: WTF. The Tesla Supercharger network is by the far the best thing about the car. There was a period of time when I was doing some very long trips in my Model 3 - dozens of cross country tri
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by buffington 2y ago
Kind of in the same boat. The car I own is rock solid, and the one mobile repair I needed was done within hours of me having put in the request. The guy also repaired something else he spotted, which I appreciated, but it got me thinking ab
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by buffington 2y ago
I bought a used Tesla before things got crazy during the pandemic, and for a while there was certain my next car would again be a Tesla. Lately though, despite knowing it's not 100% rational, I simply can't. If Musk were out of th
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by buffington 2y ago
Who said it was a resignation of protest? The GP did it for themselves.
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by buffington 2y ago
United States. Every 6 months, mandatory courses exactly as GP described. If you refuse, you don't have a job. This is so absolutely normal for most tech and finance companies, and has been for years, that I'm utterly astonished t
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by buffington 2y ago
Assuming the controls are the same as the Model 3, you can use the lever on the steering column to shift into neutral. It's not a mechanical solution, but it is doable without using the touchscreen. Edit: just out of curiosity I went t
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by buffington 2y ago
I have the original manuals describing how to rip using a radial arm saw. The blade is set at the level of your stomach and mere inches away from a spinning blade as you walk a sheet of plywood along it. There are so many ways for that situ
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by buffington 2y ago
I wrote a programming book back when tech books were a thing you had to go physically buy from a physical store (more than 20 years ago now). The publisher sent advanced royalties, which was money that was mine, free and clear (it wasn&#x27
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by buffington 3y ago
I lost my dad to cancer. I was very much furious with cancer while being well aware of the irrationality of feeling that way. Still am, and it's been a few years. It's easy to be furious at cancer, and the pure random destructive
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by buffington 3y ago
And if the satellites were represented as panda bear emojis?
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by buffington 3y ago
I wonder if a fine for not paying an entry fee counts as a debt...
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by buffington 3y ago
Not all of us do, bro.
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by buffington 3y ago
Do you happen to still have that email? I'd like to search my inbox for anything similar, and would love some snippets to search for. Edit: I asked this before the parent commenter included the contents of the email. Thanks parent comm

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