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by c3534l 9y ago
This whole thing seems like the justice system struggling to punish someone for doing something that wasn't illegal, finding something else to pin him with (and he was guilty of it, sure), then basing sentencing on that other crime, bu
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by c3534l 9y ago
This makes sense and it's good for the courts to step in on this. The point of the law is clearly that there's a limit to how much the government can take from a person which is fair and just. There needs to be a rational-thinking
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by c3534l 9y ago
Are you sure they aren't being denied paid breaks? I thought being denied breaks was illegal, but some states let employers force employees to punch out first. You could argue against that, but it makes sense in jobs where the end pr
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by c3534l 9y ago
I mean, it's been identified as aircraft by pilots nearby. And it has the ability to disguise itself from radar. That's all you really need to conclude spy plane. I know that people had made sightings of previous US planes before
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by c3534l 9y ago
My political comments are some of my most popular ones I've made. I think it's more about saying something that's actually constructive or different. I think also the fact that hackernews is not ideologically segmented has to
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by c3534l 9y ago
> I believe it is true because otherwise the movie maker would be sued like crazy if it was a lie. That's a truly terrible standard of evidence. The fact that a documentary maker hasn't been sued isn't evidence of anything
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by c3534l 9y ago
I don't know what any of that means, but that is quite the impressive title. It really sticks to the back of your throat.
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by c3534l 9y ago
The author is lamenting short attention spans, something people have been complaining about since the advent of radio at least. The author can read and write perfectly well, he just finds reading book boring. Conflating interest with litera
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by c3534l 9y ago
> You can likely get an antidepressant effect out of Esketamine in the same way that you can get an antidepressant effect out of psychdelics like LSD-25 & Psilocin. LSD and magic mushrooms modulate serotonin, so the antidepressant ef
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by c3534l 9y ago
Yeah, they basically torture rats to test antidepressants. It's really upsetting.
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by c3534l 9y ago
Part of the point of CBT is recognize when you're engaging in rationalization behaviors so you can prevent it. CBT is meant to increase your awareness of what you're doing in your life to cause you harm and misery and to help you
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by c3534l 9y ago
Why not make it illegal to make randomness a component of games entirely? Ban the possession of dice. Make it illegal to be rewarded with in-game content just for doing well. Games should be like movies. The idea of manipulating people with
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by c3534l 9y ago
Because doing controlled trials is how you come about that knowledge. Otherwise you're just guessing. You can guess something is safe, but until you try it for real in a systematic way, that's all it is, a guess. That's not k
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by c3534l 9y ago
If you knew it was effective what's the point of the research? The research is what's used to demonstrate efficacy. The FDA requires research because it cannot be known if a drug is safe and effective without research. They don&#x
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by c3534l 9y ago
That would be the best thing to do IMO, but the problem is politics. Congress loves wasting money on toys that kill people, but when it comes to things that saves lives and advance science, all of a sudden budgets are tight or we need a new
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by c3534l 9y ago
The actual cost of developing a successful drug includes failed candidates. If you knew what chemicals would be effective medicines from the start, you wouldn't need to do research.
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by c3534l 9y ago
The problem is that in medicine, it's rarely the engineering that's valuable, it's knowing if it's safe and effective. I can see why that would rub people the wrong way, but it's also worrying that people were presc
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by c3534l 9y ago
> For almost 100 years, despite their huge potential in war, chemical and biological weapons have seen almost zero development because of the strict enforcement of the Geneva convention. So, according to Wikipedia America continued its b
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by c3534l 9y ago
You mean like Khan Academy? MS Paint. Seriously.
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by c3534l 9y ago
It's also super cheap to do as far as medical studies go.
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by c3534l 9y ago
I remember hearing about a study where they placed placards on top of cabinets and such in the operating room. When a person said they had a near-death experience during surgery and saw themselves from above, the experimenters asked them wh
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by c3534l 9y ago
Dr. Phil?
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by c3534l 9y ago
So you're telling me that SimCity isn't really reticulating splines during loading?
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by c3534l 9y ago
This is recent, but this has been the belief/data for years: https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/18/health/cte-concussion-repeate... CTE is almost by definition not concussion-related. The effects of concus
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by c3534l 9y ago
I'm getting sick of telling people this: CTE is not correlated with the number of concussive injuries.
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by c3534l 9y ago
I've thought this would be a good way to write video games, but most engines don't support the sort of functional programming that would make this pleasant to use, so I wind up creating events which solve similar kinds of problems
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by c3534l 9y ago
What we think the government should have the power to do based on a common understanding of it's basic legal principles is very different from the actual, literal power that a person and institution has. If someone is doing something a
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by c3534l 9y ago
The world isn't short of homicidal maniacs. All that is needed is a perverse ideological motivation and a single person could, theoretically, cause unprecedented harm.
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by c3534l 9y ago
Farming is all mechanized these days. Farmers have to deal with OS and firmware updates on their tractors.
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by c3534l 9y ago
Well, you're at least 40. I immediately thought they were ranking armed, non-projectile fighting.

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