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by calibas 4y ago
Can we stop calling this stuff "Web3"?
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by calibas 4y ago
I looked up the carrier for my most recent spam calls using lookify.io: 1. PEERLESS NETWORK OF OHIO 2. PEERLESS NETWORK OF FLORIDA 3. PEERLESS NETWORK OF CALIFORNIA 4. PEERLESS NETWORK OF CALIFORNIA Nothing from Twilio, but Peerless Network
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by calibas 4y ago
I'm not making fentanyl a scapegoat, just look at the US drug overdose statistics, especially the huge jump around 2020. Fentanyl is eclipsing every other opioid, synthetic or otherwise. It alone is responsible for what is quickly beco
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by calibas 4y ago
If the manufacturers and regulators were more concerned with human lives than making money, they would have quietly buried the research. It may have entered the illegal market eventually, but there wouldn't be factories producing large
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by calibas 4y ago
Yes, most of the fentanyl that's abused comes from illegal sources. However, like cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin, I put some of the responsibility on the people who created it and promoted its use in the first place. It's nai
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by calibas 4y ago
The human nose is an extremely sensitive chemical detector, and should not be dismissed. It's effective down to a fraction of parts per trillion for certain chemicals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odor_detection
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by calibas 4y ago
Oh boy, the pharmaceutical companies can sell a new product to help solve the mess that one of their previous products created. An opioid that's more potent, more addictive, and more deadly than heroin should never have gone to market
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by calibas 4y ago
That gives you an estimate of the quantity of VOCs, but tells you nothing of their toxicity. You can have a VOC that's extremely toxic at low concentrations, and a VOC sensor would read barely above baseline.
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by calibas 4y ago
The general consensus between actual users seemed to be that the fumes were obviously toxic and you should avoid breathing them in. However, there were always people who denied this, and I've never seen a manufacturer warn users about
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by calibas 4y ago
> Imply without data that 90% of a mailing list works for Google... Not what the article says. Here's the exact statement: "most of the people on that mailing list work either for or with Google" > and further imply tha
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by calibas 4y ago
ChatGPT is somewhat bigoted because the training data is somewhat bigoted. AI isn't just going to magically erase the cultural norms of the past few thousand years. It's a product of human beings, not some unbiased observer. OpenA
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by calibas 4y ago
Actually around 17% of the human population.
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by calibas 4y ago
Fact #1: It's so easy to produce large quantities of good quality cannabis if you know what you're doing. Just need sunshine, water, soil, and fertilizer, no need to spend much money at all. Fact #2: The thing that made cannabis e
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by calibas 4y ago
He's talking about religious hubris, not an actual demon.
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by calibas 4y ago
I've tried this at home, and quickly realized the costs of the lights and electricity don't make this approach very practical. I've been wondering how they overcame this in the larger commercial setups, turns out they never d
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by calibas 4y ago
Some good reading on Wells Fargo: https://www.theroot.com/ghetto-loans-for-mud-people-17908695... And a little story from my own experience. I was completely broke, and they slapped me with a big fine for not having enough
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by calibas 4y ago
I've been told that after Drupal 8, they decided that mandatory nightmarish upgrades every few years was not a good idea and introduced much better backwards compatibility. They lost half the community during the D7 to D8 transition, m
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by calibas 4y ago
Isn't that because they're legally required to?
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by calibas 4y ago
It's simple, everybody participates in the global economy (unlike basketball), so shifts in how markets work have far-reaching effects. I'm not convinced that switching to less transparent systems is in the best interest of your a
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by calibas 4y ago
> Sure, but first off I never claimed they "make stock trading more open and visible" that was you putting words in my mouth. My whole comment was that they make stock trading the opposite of "open and visible", then
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by calibas 4y ago
Please, give me your "alternative explanation" about how dark pools make stock trading more open and visible.
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by calibas 4y ago
> Ideally, the stock market should be an open, visible and free agency for the population to invest in and gain returns from supporting publicly traded businesses. Now that trading is moving to "dark pools", things seem to be m
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by calibas 4y ago
"php" == 0 That evaluates to true if you're using PHP prior to v8.0.0. A good example of why you almost always want to use strict comparisons (===).
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by calibas 4y ago
According to my browser's history, March 31st, 2022 was the last time maps.google.com didn't perform a redirect.
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by calibas 4y ago
localtoday.news copied the article from here: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/san-francisco-police-seek-pe... Which copied the article from here: https://www.engadget.com/san-francisco-police-seek-permi
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by calibas 4y ago
I was wondering what the risk is, from Wikipedia: > The swallowing of small magnets such as neodymium magnetic spheres can result in intestinal injury requiring surgery. The magnets attract each other through the walls of the stomach and
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by calibas 4y ago
That's a good argument for not letting the signup page leak information.
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by calibas 4y ago
According to a different official government site, it's $1.2 T on National Defense... https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function
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by calibas 4y ago
Except that even when BPA is removed, plastics still produce chemicals with estrogenic activity. https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1476-06...
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by calibas 4y ago
This article ignores two of the biggest suspects in the mystery. First, plastics leach endocrine disrupting chemicals that mimic estrogen into our food and drink. https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186&#x2

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