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by caeril 5y ago
I'm not sure, but since we've already crossed the Rubicon of denying free association and ability to conduct business on the basis of arbitrary medical status, there's no longer any reason we can't deny the right to purc
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by caeril 5y ago
> Assuming your diet (and thus your caloric intake) stayed exactly the same Correct, but how many fat people are going to "reward" their efforts with a 450kcal treat? Answer: Most.
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by caeril 5y ago
Golf? CDC should include billiards, bowling, and darts if their standard for "exercise" is that low.
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by caeril 5y ago
> is that it’s ultimately a high tech pyramid scheme, solving few problems that it didn’t create on it’s own While you are correct in that most things borne of the blockchain space are scams, it's important to understand that it&#x2
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by caeril 5y ago
The idea of countries going to war over rational self-interest or actual tangible threats is an outdated notion. We pick our enemies along ideological and secular-religionist lines, and the continued existence (and god forbid, even flourish
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by caeril 5y ago
Counterpoint: alcohol is one of the best drugs on the planet for anyone on the spectrum of introversion to crippling social anxiety. In all my (many) years, I have found no better path to becoming socially acceptable (even likable) to neuro
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by caeril 5y ago
Nuclear weapons are 100% irrelevant to a potential civil war in the United States. It's not North vs. South, it's Red vs Blue, and the physical boundaries are impossible to define - the ideologues are far too evenly distributed. E
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by caeril 5y ago
There's been a lot of this, though. HN used to be firmly anti-FBI/CIA and pro-Assange. Something flipped that around such that the FBI and CIA are Real American Heroes and Assange is some sort of Russian asset. The NSA is still a
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by caeril 5y ago
> Simply telling people to do so has proven fairly ineffective. We've already normalized instituting authoritarian measures over this pandemic. Given the Rubicon we've already crossed, there's absolutely no moral reason
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by caeril 5y ago
Right. And the political process being what it is, it sounds great that you need to have pull with the city council or county government to do what you'd like with your property. I'm sure we all look forward to a world in which bu
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by caeril 5y ago
Land Value Taxes are an immediate nonstarter for anyone who cares about the environment or conservation. Imagine wanting to start an urban community garden and make your city a nicer place to live, but the taxes are prohibitive because you
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by caeril 5y ago
> pulled of the completely absurd task of putting a man on the moon and then returning him safely to earth, in less than a decade At a congressional allocation level, this was all pork, too. The vast majority of this project went to poli
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by caeril 5y ago
You may be missing my point, here. From the Wikipedia article posted: "Fellow press outlets The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal stated that they could not verify the data provided by the New York Post in
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by caeril 5y ago
I can't tell if this is a troll or not. HN is explicitly anti-political, but it's difficult to resist the bait. Dang, if you have an issue here, please consider the obvious bait, predicated on lies. There was a coordinated campaig
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by caeril 5y ago
We could never be absolutely sure, due to the true Heisenbug nature of the behavior, but after tons of code audits and the observation after reverse proxy traffic analysis that it only occurred on processing by the non-ECC hosts, and neve
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by caeril 5y ago
It escapes . . . as a gas . . . in an already highly pressurized environment . . . that is already containing a large amount of high-pressure hydrogen sulfide that cannot escape as it is? I'm pressing X to doubt.
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by caeril 5y ago
No personal experience other than a slightly different experience running production services (involving money!) on another box without ECC DRAM (to save money!) and experiencing random permission flags flips and actual balance/amount
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by caeril 5y ago
> (and he was white in case you're wondering) What's been most shocking about the media coverage over this matter, and the incessant, unfounded claims of "white supremacy" on the part of Mr. Rittenhouse, is that witho
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by caeril 5y ago
There's still a lot of unfounded blank-slatism and autism (in the sense of inability to empathize) in our educated society, and proudly on display here on HN. It's effectively impossible to get someone with an IQ of 130 to have em
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by caeril 5y ago
Not really sure why this is downvoted. We now know for a fact that comprehensive population vaccination is not sufficient to reduce the R0-value of the infection below 1, so the "protect others" rationalization is entirely invalid
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by caeril 5y ago
> having grandparents that are in good health and helping find food or care for children Maybe, certainly since the advent of nuclear families. But our much longer genetic lineage selects around tribes, such that direct grandparents&#x27
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by caeril 5y ago
> these smaller independent journalists and commenters go against the reality that media companies want you to believe you live in. For an example from this specific case, compare the actual unedited testimony of Gaige Grosskreutz, who a
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by caeril 5y ago
This is not true, at all. The current crop of vaccines are roughly 95% non-sterilizing. It IS true that they reduce net transmission, but the literature is clear that the reason is almost exclusively due to how they shorten the duration of
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by caeril 5y ago
In the US, that would result in severe disparate impact on non-Asian minorities, because Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans are currently the least-vaccinated groups. Not really politically viable until these numbers equalize.
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by caeril 5y ago
We'll probably see that trend tick up again soon. Maybe you haven't been paying attention to the political climate, but there is a huge push to increase the living standards of 6 billion people up to the level of the 1 billion c
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by caeril 5y ago
Our very first production civilian reactors went from no design and bare land to production in about 4.5 years. Modern engineering, siting, and construction is tied up with regulatory approval processes, safety protocols, diversity and incl
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by caeril 5y ago
It's not about "will", it's about ability. The fed funds rate is technically disconnected from, but highly correlated to, the TSY yield curve, particularly at the short end. Our current sovereign debt-to-GDP ratio does n
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by caeril 5y ago
ok. > 1) The rent data you cite is for new leases. Since new leases only represent a fraction of total leases The vast, vast plurality of residential leases are for 12 months - and the vast majority are for 6, 12, or 18 months. So no,
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by caeril 5y ago
> giving up big city qol What does this even mean? Living in a sterile 600 sq ft box filled with IKEA furniture emitting VOCs? Hearing sirens all through the night? Stepping over needles and human poop on the sidewalk en route to the CVS
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by caeril 5y ago
Except, no. Two important considerations: 1. The vaccine is extraordinarily effective at mitigating risk of hospitalization and death. 2. No current COVID vaccines are sterilizing. Vaccination confers only marginal reduction in ability to c

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