chordalkeyboard

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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> corporations have free will disagree. corporations have no will at all. a corporation is a liability-limiting legal structure, it is merely a social convention that is designed to shield ownership from the liability associated with the
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> I really believe that with that attitude, we'll never be "ready" for driverless cars. no great loss there.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> overdosing on protein long term will mess up your body in number of ways 1g protein per pound of lean bodyweight is not an 'overdose' and has no ill effects, long term or otherwise. the rest of your comment is good advice.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> What physician is saying no to preventative medicine paid for by the consumer? its more common than you think; and many professionals resent the idea that its anything resembling a 'free market' where a 'consumer' (
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> We have enough uranium to last for millions of years at current consumption levels this is because we don't use very much nuclear power. There is currently enough known uranium reserves to provide 2 years of global energy producti
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
they claim to have controlled for that. you may share my skepticism of the accuracy of such a claim.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
do you have a link or reference to the paper or talk, please?
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
AAA will also print them themselves and mail them to members upon request.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> El Salvador switched from wire transfers to BTC because the president wanted to. The country switched to using BTC as legal tender because it was already being used as local currency because the people were using it for payments due to
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
Perhaps the leak was not by a justice and they could hold a member of the staff to account.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
not really, El Salvador switched from wire transfers to BTC exactly because the fees were lower .
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
Western Union being free is the outlier here.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
what you're missing is that Bitcoin is still a prototype. The intent was for it to be decentralized but people are still trying to achieve that, and once it became popular, it became overrun with scams and get-rich-quick schemes.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> A modern heat pump can give 3-5 kWh of heat using 1 kWh of electricity. At lower temperatures the modern heat pumps cannot attain this COP, which is why they are working on heat pumps that work at lower temperatures.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
cosmic ray induced mutation
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
while literacy is an advantage, its hardly unfair.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
you need a farm manager with experience managing operations of this size, in this region, with this crop. good luck finding one who is trustworthy. aforesaid manager is also a person who would be essential if and when you choose to sell thi
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> The whole concept of using poisonous chemicals to alter your brain state was and still is very alien to me. I just don't get it. Willingly disrupt your body's functions on a cellular level hoping for something good, while all
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
well the gp's point is that it literally is not 'just as easy' because the space of possible passwords increases greatly with each character, such that 'dog' is much, much easier to bruteforce than 'doggie12&
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
short passwords are still a security weakness even when properly stored because the time necessary to brute force them is relatively low.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
there is also a disconnect between password requirements and automatically generated passwords, where often the auto-generated password contains prohibited characters.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
I gave up drinking in my early twenties, not because I chose to, but because I was forced to. I replaced it with drinking in my mid-20s.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
see also The Philosophy and Physics of Cormac McCarthy with Patrick O'Connor https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hermitix/id1437997652?...
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> The people storing popsicles don't necessarily need to have anything to do with the people who dream of someday unthawing them. Generally speaking the thing they have in common is the funding required to do the cryonic enterprise.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> My understanding is that no one has been (intentionally, carefully) thawed after being vitrified using "modern" techniques, so we really don't know what condition a body would be in after unthawing using current technolo
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization - Part 1 https://youtu.be/vxkg_klE5Xw
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
amortize that cost over the population that is covered; perhaps discount the services utilized by residents who pre-pay and charge a premium for those who pay on the spot.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> Despite the multi-century head start that banks had, the percentage of people in the world with a smartphone has already exceeded the percentage of people with a bank account, and is rising at a faster rate. There’s no reason why every
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries There are more than enough apocalypses to go around even if the optimists are right about this one.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
if they weren't different then why would the bond need to be converted from one to the other?

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